An environmental management information system for the basin of sagua la grande, Cuba

Abstract

This article is dedicated to describe the development of a system that provides to management of the Company of Water Resources in Villa Clara, essential information for decision making related to sanitation and water care in the country. The Environmental Information Management System (SisGIM) has been designed with the aim of supporting the management of the company in the qualitative and quantitative assessment of water resources of the basin of Sagua la Grande, province of Villa Clara, allowing them to display the results of historical data analysis taken from monitoring stations in the area. The implementation of this system is based mainly on management and evaluation of indicators and their integration with web technologies and geographic information systems for the representation of geographically referenced data. An infrastructure to manage this kind of Information System is presented and other cases of study are implemented to use it. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.