En Colombia, la regulación del servicio público de acueducto, en sus componentes de inversiones, de operación y mantenimiento, se ha realizado por actividades y por métodos de eficiencia relativa. La actividad inicial se ha establecido en la captación; la final, en la distribución. Esa concepción excluye otras actividades que garantizarían mayores caudales y ofrecerían mejores condiciones para el suministro de agua en horizontes de largo plazo. Desde el diseño de investigación de ciencias (DSR), y la definición de artefactos, se abordarán soluciones introductorias, para contribuir a la comprensión de la complejidad de los sistemas de agua potable.

Within urban system, there are relationships between the constituent elements, which function through the consumption of matter and Energy imported from the environment. This study reviews from the systems theory approach the decisions focused on pressing the environment through the El Zapotillo dam in the second most important metropolis in Mexico. The Entropy-Homeostasis-Negentropy model is used. The results obtained show that the decisions for the water supply of the metropolis are limited to short-term negentropies, both in the functioning and in the configuration of the surrounding systems. In this way, it becomes urgent to specify systemic actions that promote the Integrated Management of Water Resources (IWRM).

This is a study about the experience of dwelling in the boundary of the metropolitan area in Guadalajara, Mexico, a place in which there have been various housing scenarios considered as progressive and rational with isomorphic traits, as it is the case of La Azucena. The aim of the article is to identify the hostile forces that peri-urban residents face and the impact that these anthropic forces may produce in the process of inhabiting those periurban areas. In this context, it was necessary to build an index of occupancy using the statistics application SPSS for obtaining a later georeference using the program ArcMap. Thus, it was obtained the Index of Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin and the sphericity test given by Barlett for these three established measurements: health, education and occupancy. In the conceptual precepts of the systems, there are some complex interactions based on the processes of peri-urban planning.