Título

The Mexican environmental flow standard: scope, application and implementation

Autor

MARIA ANTONIETA GOMEZ BALANDRA

MARIA DEL PILAR SALDAÑA FABELA

MARICELA MARTINEZ JIMENEZ

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Licencia

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Materias

Flujos ambientales - (AUTOR) Modelos hidrológicos - (AUTOR) Normas técnicas - (AUTOR) BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA - (CTI)

Resumen o descripción

With the implementation of the Official Mexican Standard NOM-011-CONAGUA-2000, the water balance of 730 basins has been calculated and its water availability agreement is published. This rule points out to allocate water for the environment only as an annual volume since methods for estimating environmental flows were not standardized in the country. In this paper, an analysis of the environmental flow standard and examples of the suggested hydrological methods are presented. For its implementation, some steps are taking place, mainly establishing environmental water reserves and building capacities. In addition, environmental allocations are becoming a common practice for all water projects, as well as setting limits to hydrological alterations by hydroelectric dams. The standard promotes the use of technical integration tools to analyze the responses of ecosystems to changes in the flow regime and adaptive management under different scenarios of water use. Although the main steps have been taken, its implementation as mandatory rule will take time.

Editor

Scientific Research Publishing

Fecha de publicación

2014

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Recurso de información

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12013/2042

Formato

application/pdf

Fuente

Journal of Environmental Protection (2152-2219), 5(1)

Idioma

Español

Repositorio Orígen

Repositorio institucional del IMTA

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