Título
Water resource management in hydrological basins: the case of Mexico
Autor
HUMBERTO SILVA HIDALGO
IGNACIO MARTIN
MARIA TERESA ALARCON HERRERA
ALFREDO GRANADOS OLIVAS
Nivel de Acceso
Acceso Abierto
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Resumen o descripción
Integrated water resource management (IWRM) has been recently incorporated to the Mexican
national water policies through the National Waters Law. The objective of this document is to identify the
area of opportunity for the development of mathematical models that would facilitate the instrumentation
of IWRM at a national level. The legal, institutional and normative frameworks were analyzed for this
purpose, as were the social participation mechanisms foreseen since the modification of the National
Waters Law in the year 2004. It is concluded that in Mexico there exist the legal, institutional, normative
and social participation conditions necessary for the management of water resources. They must be
used to define a general work frame for the development, construction and instrumentation of
mathematical basin models. In addition, there is a series of local water distribution procedures known by
the water users that are compatible with the current norms addressing the determination of water
availability. This constitutes a niche for research, since it is possible to develop a general model for the
analysis of water distribution or river/dam system operation that is acceptable to the users without
compromising science. Similar processes are being performed in other countries as in Mexico, and so
the results of this study can be very useful.
Fecha de publicación
2008
Tipo de publicación
Memoria de congreso
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