Water, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(4), P. 550 - 550
Published: Feb. 14, 2025
This study examines the critical water management crisis facing Río Turbio Basin (RTB) in Mexico’s Bajío region, Guanajuato. The RTB’s challenges are driven by a convergence of environmental degradation, industrial pollution, groundwater over-extraction, and fragmented governance structures. Intensified climate change, urban expansion, rising demands, these issues place basin’s long-term sustainability at serious risk. Employing qualitative approach, this research synthesizes insights from expert interviews stakeholder perspectives, highlighting social, economic, environmental, institutional dimensions crisis. Key findings point to lack collaboration among governmental bodies, industry, local communities, resulting escalating scarcity, economic vulnerability agriculture, social tensions over resource allocation. RTB exemplifies broader regional issues, where fragmentation absence strategic, basin-specific policies undermine sustainable practices. Without coordinated, multi-sectoral interventions, projections indicate worsening declines quality availability, with potentially irreversible effects on ecosystems public health. underscores need for integrated (IWRM) strategies, combining technological, regulatory, community-driven solutions address unique socio-environmental region.
Language: Английский