well we are going to talk about something
very everyday but is the basis of the
prosperity
the water nothing else that we can only
dispose of 1 percent of the water that
in the planet
let’s talk about us two
emblematic experiences and of a
project we are going to beginnings of
1900 grace of the angels is
growing very quickly and needed
bring water from another side so
Microsoft 1908 and other bases of the
hbo game to the city the angels already
for the year of 1913 he was ready and
bringing water but what is it
happened with this that for the year of
1926 the lake had dried zulia
they can not bring more water
this because the drought of the lake until the
date has brought consequences
and that is that the winds raise the dust and
these cases health problems are
Respiratory drugs could mainly
give up emphysema and cancer
what do they have to do to
mitigate the problem so use the
amount of water they will use in a
year for a population of 220 thousand
population
I believe those who came up with the project
they never thought that this would happen to us
we go now to Spain in 1988 and
of a transfer of the river tajo to the river
safe since the river basin safe
was close to the activity
agriculture and required water for
irrigation
well they thought that maybe he
will happen but what experience
we see that the environmental damage of
chopping river were devastating they are
irreversible and then also and not the
impoverishment of that area but that what
what happened to the one that received the ua
the growing industrial activity and
agrochemicals contaminated the safe river
and not only that
they did not have the water they expected and
today as demonstrations
they are there and people want to be
stop the transfer did not help
neither of the two
they also ask that these are not repeated
experiences
now let’s talk about a region of
here of the state the region of the high
finds the northeast is a region
where water is scarce and also good
vulnerable drought
however this region is very
important for the state of Jalisco that
we inhabit
why
nationwide one in five
liters of milk that we drink comes from
this region also one in five
kilograms of meat well from the region
of the highs and at the national level
six out of ten new ones that we consume
comes from that same region the region
of the tall represents the fourth part
of the gross domestic product the state of
Jalisco makes it very important but not
only that also be affected your
productivity can see impacts in the
price increase could be up
40 to 60 percent
this region is a bit of what we’re going
to talk about the project
here near the metropolitan area there are
a couple of rivers are already familiar
with them
the green club is on the left is
one of the cleanest rivers in the
country and therefore one of the most
coveted
also in santiago that originates in
chapala is one of the most
contaminated in the country and and well
it requires special attention
let’s talk about two areas
Guadalajara metropolitan lion in
half of the nineties
they raise their hands and ask for water to
their cities because of the great growth that
they are having especially the city of
lion and a very important growth
industrial and also there sits
almost half of the tannery exists
as an industry in the country but also
it’s a very polluting industry and
they discharge their waters into the river
cloudy that finally it is a
tributary of the lerma river and that arrives
in those conditions to chapala the
project that consists in building a
dam on the green river to store
water and through a transfer
Hence the city of Leon appears out
water from the highs to maintain that
growth on all that growth
industrial
but good that there are risks implies this
project or what consequences it would have or
how beneficial or not it is for everyone
we go to the decade of the fifties
when the water was insufficient
from their sources that they had and they
resorts to bring water from the lake of chapala
this project that we talked about and that we
affect effect will have for you and
for me for all of us we are going to
try to explain briefly in the
present the dependence that has
Guadalajara the metropolitan area of
lake of chapala is that from there
brings 60 percent of the water that is
consumed in the metropolitan area but
also in a drought scenario
that great source that means to lower
in its area of the lake of chapala good
I would be receiving water as it has already
happened at the beginning of this century a
time of crisis there are some will remember
so what do you need in the area
metropolitan of guadalajara is good
because there will be a reservation although it is not
as big as the one that size it
green to bring water also to the area
metropolitan
but what would happen in this scenario not
they have raised good lion would be
bringing water to your city
purified in a tube measured at
federico photo income and that day
both the return that has
and is water for Guadalajara is
literally practically true
because because the industry that is
installed and is not not equipped not
there are treatments to remove the
amount of metals that are deposited in
the lake of chapala those images of
colors that you see there are satellite
each color means a metal is
deposited there then before this
somewhat complicated scenario from the
organized society
we propose formed observatory
to attend to all this is
problematic we make citizens
obviously there are technical teams
specialized some we have gone
specializing in the course of
this time where we have made a
but integrally analysis of
what role plays in the water as an element
of weakness but also what role
it’s as important as an element
what can affect cancer health
above all and many other diseases
that appears with a water of that quality
then we have done to date
issued 80 and recommendations that
they divide into five strategic lines
the first would be to cancel that transfer
because we do not think it’s convenient for us
they take the water and use it
poison and back down to in
those conditions
ensure comprehensive management and this
integral management means that no
only see the water as projects
of civil work although I am a civil engineer
we should not see it all concrete companies
metal pipes and bring the water is a lot
more than that we also have to
protect recharge areas where
we have the most water in the
subsoil and that is very affected over
everything to the metropolitan area in general
in the state you have to protect those
recharge areas and finally we have
to offer to the lake of chapala because
we will be depending on him for many
years
more both in quality and quantity
good before this veto of water supply
the possibility of handling also arises
of an intelligent management because good
you have to remember that water is the basis
of prosperity and we should avoid
deterioration so much ecological social and
economic is in our hands
we all know that without water there is no life
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