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Water management is one of the concerns that companies must prioritize. The hydrocarbon industries are not the exception, they leave behind a high quantity of production water. This review presents some of the most important strategies used globally to avoid the strong effects on the environment and reuse this resource as much as possible. In addition, the importance of water management nationally and in the hydrocarbon, industry is analyzed. For this, 52 documents related to the disposal of production waters were taken into account. More than 80 % of these documents have been published in the last five years, with special emphasis on Colombian publications, although few are worldwide references since they seek to establish a specific panorama in the national territory. From the study, we have been able to conclude that in Colombia, reinjection stands out among the main water management strategies. Ecopetrol reused 111.3 million m3 of water in 2021, which is equivalent to 74 % of the total volume of operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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