Abstract

The public institutions have the duty to promote that the persons take part in active, conscious, informed form organized in the capture of decisions and the execution of actions tending to protect the water and improving his administration. There has been demonstrated that the current crisis in the management of the water resources is caused by deficiencies in the governability of the resource and affects principally the natural environment and the poorest. For treating itself about the most essential resource for the life, the persons need updated and pertinent information that motivates and involves them in the defense and conservation of the same one. Because of it in this article the use of the water is analyzed from the Latin-American reality, to come to the concrete situation of Costa Rica, in order to contribute orientations and affect in an integral managing in the national level, in such a way that a balance sheet is achieved between the conservation, the priorities of supply, the decrease of the poverty and the economic growth. It is important bear in mind that with the climate change, recognizes the lack of sweet water as the environmental problem more important, among other things because it is conceived as an inexhaustible resource, with the erroneous conception of which it can be used, be exploited, be commercialized and even be damaged without major negative consequences for any form of life in the Earth.

Keywords: water resource; integral management; climate change; Latin America; Costa Rica