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

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

Versión de la publicación

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application/pdf

Idioma

Inglés

Repositorio Orígen

Fuente de Objetos Científicos Open Access

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