Drinking water supply in the cities of Mexico: The case of the Metropolitan zone of Guadalajara
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https://doi.org/10.17561/at.v1i1.1035Abstract
The supply of drinking water in Mexico has followed the same pattern in the management of water resources that favors urban areas and industry, impacting on its zone of influence through the distant supply model, which does not include compensatory measures for the region where that resource is extracted.
The objective of this document is to analyze the management model in the supply and distribution of water and the relationship of the city of Guadalajara with their main sources of supply (From 1950 to 2005), which acted as a determinant in the transformation of the city to a great metropolis. Since the focus of the regional development policies that were implemented for the growth of the city from the water resources which had the region.
The historic process of the water supply of the city of Guadalajara now the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara (ZMG) was made based on the review of historical, bibliographic and hemerographic documents, as well as field research, with which it manages to build hydrological region of Guadalajara and the model of management and distribution of water in the ZMG, which has impacted the environment, not only in their area of influence but the region, committing their future development.
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