2016. Adapting to risk and perpetuating poverty: household's strategies for managing flood risk and water scarcity in Mexico City. Environmental Science and Policy 66:324-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.06.006Eakin, H., Lerner, A.M., Manuel-Navarrete, D., Hernandez Aguilar,...
Mexico City: What has happened? Tenochtitlan was situated on an island in a valley with countless lakes. Since the appearance of the Spanish conquistadors, the city has developed bit by bit without good water management while the lakes were constantly being drained. ...
Water Resources in Mexico: Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy This chapter analyses water management in Mexico in the context of global environmental change (GEC) and dual environmental and social vulnerability. The research questions are as follows: How can Mexico ...
【Para.8】Several cities have now reached “day zero” – the point of critical water scarcity when supplies run out. 【Para.9】More than half of Mexico is suffering from drought, and the national water authority, Conagua, declared a state of emergency in four northern states. Jarring side...
national hydrological model to quantify sub-basin-level river depletion, finding high-to-severe levels of irrigation scarcity in 30% of sub-basins in the western United States, with cattle-feed crops—alfalfa and other hay—being the largest water consumers in 57% of the region’s sub-basins....
Water scarcity occurs when there are insufficient freshwater resources to meet the human and environmental demands of a certain area. Given the challenges of population growth, profligate use, growing pollution, and global warming, many countries and maj
In this work, we estimate urban evaporative consumptive use (urban ECU) in three cities in a semiarid region experiencing water scarcity: El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the United States and Ciudad Ju谩rez, Chihuahua, in Mexico. Urban ECU includes vegetation and bare soil ...
New Mexico's water user communities have used shortage-sharing agreements since before New Mexico's 1907 constituent water code, which instituted the doctrine of prior appropriation, and the passage of the State's Active Water Resources Management (AWRM). These agreements have their roots in pre-...
The study also proposes an alternative option of adjusting the development plan through redefining the boundary of the BTH megalopolis by excluding part of cities in Hebei. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of the effect of water scarcity on urban development and thus ...
Mexico and the United States are no exception, especially considering that the border between the two countries is located in an area not only characterized by drought and low rainfall, but also by the growth of the population living on both sides and the impacts of industrial development ...