Groundwater Mismanagement: Impacts on Society Due to a Response Lacking Geoethics in Mexico
Por:
Carrillo-Rivera J.J., Ouysse S., Hatch Kuri G.
Publicada:
1 ene 2021
Resumen:
Correct information dissemination on the best way the environment may be managed is seldom a practice reaching society. Public opinion is constructed by the media often neglecting scientific results. Furthermore, many enforced legal actions are based on words and concepts lacking an accepted sound definition. Regularly, words are used proposing kind of synonymous suggesting the integrity of the water supply is endangered of getting dry or having a saline-water inflow that would eventually make a city or agriculture water user to collapse. A lack of education or teaching on the actual functioning of groundwater is recurrently missing not only on the public domain but in the decision-making. Proper groundwater management is ignored in cases where sustainability should have been the core of the water policy. Environmental impacts are practically divorced from groundwater issues by well-established myths; developing strategies bring society away from proper land planning and social justice. The resulting application of terms as overexploitation, among others, is making Mexican small private groundwater users scared of using groundwater, abandoning agricultural practices that has resulted in increased immigration affecting them beyond the prevailing water market where groundwater efficient use is repeatedly invoked but is actual functioning is neglected. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Filiaciones:
Carrillo-Rivera J.J.:
Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico city, Mexico
Ouysse S.:
Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico city, Mexico
Hatch Kuri G.:
College of Geography, National Autonomous University of México, México City, Mexico
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