The Metropolitan District of Quito and Environmental Health Corporation Life for Quito manage the 25% tax on income donated by the inhabitants of the capital and destined for environmental projects such as the recovery of the river Machángara, adequacy of parks and recreation Itchimbía in the park, purchase of Metropolitan Park, among others.

We have to konw that the contamination is not only in Quito, we dont know what city is more contaminated, it could be Quito or Guayaquil, Cuenca or Riomamba, Esmeraldas or Manabi.

The river discharge Machángara receives 70% of the wastewater from the city, recovery began to run with the adequacy of the first stage of a linear park called the cycle path as the Olympic champion 'Jefferson Perez' and the construction of collectors will put the sewage in order to prevent further contamination. In Cuenca, the public enterprise Municipal Telecommunications, Water and Wastewater (Phase) initiated a project to recover the waters of the rivers crossing the city (Yanuncay Tomebamba Machángara and Tarqui). Among the requirements were the treatment of wastewater to return to the environment pollution free waters and scenic beauty of the rivers. Since 1983, studies were conducted and receivers were built on the banks of rivers and streams that carry the sewage treatment plant stage, functioning since 1999 and has a projected ten years. In addition, plans were implemented recycling industrial liquid waste so that they are not dumped into sewers. The project of the Programme Council (COPO), which is supported by the European Community in Cuenca, started in 2003 and will last four years, with an investment of 14 million euros to promote projects aimed at poverty reduction by improving of the living conditions of people in the basin of Paute, controlling the misuse of water and soil erosion, to prevent accidents like that of Josephine, in 1993. (LGA)