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Programs and Projects

Study of the Mexican Basins

Lead Agency

Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean 

The Center is an initiative of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, FEMSA Foundation, and the Inter-American Development Bank with the objective of creating a platform that contributes to the sustainable management of water in countries located in Latin America and the Caribbean through the improvement of management and use of water, the reduction of effects on the environment in the regional ecosystems through investigation projects, technological development, consulting, and curricular and continuous educational programs.

Partner

  • Tecnológico de Monterrey
This is a private university, a leader in Latin America comprised of a system of a university of multi-campuses with 33 campuses in Mexico and a Virtual University with headquarters in Mexico and Latin America; it also has representative offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. It has 93,642 students and employs 8,200 professors.

Country/Region

Mexico

Objectives

Identify the opportunity areas that contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of water, being considered the basin as a system in which its factors and variables interact in a complex manner.

The specific objectives are:
  1. Procure the sustainability of the hydrologic basins in Mexico through the promotion of conservation and investigation of water resources.
  2. Construct a current and precise diagnosis of the necessities of each basin in the country.
  3. Support the design of conservation and restoration projects of the basins that have been prioritized according to the diagnoses.
  4. Gather support from public, private, and social sectors to achieve these goals.

Description of the Project

A pilot diagnosis shall be construed based upon the analysis of the different components of a basin: meteorology, attributes of the captation area, characterizations of the different uses, sources of pollution, treatment systems, etcetera, and the interrelationship between these components.

The analysis consists of:
  1. Compilation and processing of the information.
  2. Reconnaissance tour.
  3. Complementary monitoring of the water’s quality in the tributaries and main currents.
  4. Evaluation document and action plan of the basin.