摘要: The present article describes the general panorama as for planning of the water resources that is implemented in Latin America. To come to it one comes to a conceptual frame that it allows to inform to the reader of the functioning and importance of the water resource in all the phases of its cycle and some basic elements for the management of the same one. The situations that particularly stimulate the problematic in this topic, are: the growth of the population and the economic development, constituted in factors of pressure on the natural resources and the environment, the expansion of the agricultural border, the deforestation, the mining industry, the industrialization and the urban development are constituted in the activities that generate the most significant environmental impacts on the environmental offer, these when they do not develop in a way according to the capacity of load of the ecosystems. And, each of …