Environmental management of domiciliary public services: An appraisal for Cundinamarca province (Colombia)

Abstract

This article presents the current state of the home public services’ sector SSPPDD of the Cundinamarca department, considering only water supply, sewerage and solid waste management, considered decisive for the population’s quality of life, viewed mainly from hedge parameters and investment in providing these services. As a reference, the New Institutional Economics theory, considering that it is institutions that can make a difference for the benefit of the sector, the regulatory framework established by the Constitution of 1991, law 142 of 1994 for the social and administrative control of domestic public services, law 143 of 1994 basic procedures from collection to final disposal of wastes, among others. We conclude that it is crucial to involve all sectors of society in solving the problem of providing the SSPPDD mentioned, for example, through the formation of the Committees on Development and Social Control, which allows you to organize community participation for monitoring and control of the management of companies which provides the service, being private, mixed or official as Solidarity Funds and Redistribution of income in the case of Municipal Water Supply.