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- Title
Protecting Mexico City's water supply.
- Authors
Orellana, Claudia
- Abstract
The article focuses on the work undertaken by the Incalli Ixcahuicopa International Center for Sustainability and Training to protect Mexico City's water supply. The aim is to protect and rehabilitate forests which are seen as crucial for replenishing Mexico City's aquifers. The Sierra Nevada foothills of Mexico are the site of the Center. The Center was inaugurated on July 13, 2005. The Center is established by a collaboration between the Mexico State Government Ecology Secretariat, the United Nations Environment Program, and the Autonomous Metropolitan University (AMU). Sierra Nevada Research Program is an initiative by AMU to halt environmental degradation in this mountainous area for the past 9 years. The collaboration is effective in giving the AMU the mandate, funding, and infrastructure to take control of sustainable resource management in the region. The main responsibility of the Center will be to devise land-use strategies and zoning policies for the Mexico City basin and to implement projects on the ground. Other initiatives include: beekeeping for honey; teaching people to build adobe houses and setting up waste-processing cooperatives.
- Subjects
MEXICO City (Mexico); MEXICO; WATER supply; NATURAL resources; WATER utilities; LAND use; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; URBAN planning; BEEKEEPING; ENVIRONMENTAL protection
- Publication
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 2005, Vol 3, Issue 7, p353
- ISSN
1540-9295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3868576