Percepción social de la salinización del agua para uso doméstico en Puerto Madero, Chiapas, México

Iris Barrios Ramos, Alejandro Espinoza Tenorio, M. Azahara Mesa Jurado, Cristian Tovilla Hernández and Manuel Mendoza Carranza

Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 2021, vol. 21, issue 01

Abstract: [ES] La salinización del agua potable en la zona costera representa una creciente preocupación de la seguridad hídrica. Nuestro objetivo fue explorar, a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas, la percepción de la salinización del agua para uso doméstico en Puerto Madero, México, una comunidad fronteriza con altos niveles de migración, y contrastarla con datos cuantitativos de salinidad. La población de esta localidad costera depende sustancialmente de pozos artesanales sin monitoreo gubernamental. Aunque no se encontraron pozos que puedan catalogarse como salinos, los resultados evidencian que los pozos artesanos que presentan valores extremos de concentración de sólidos disueltos tienen incidencia en la salud humana. [EN] The salinization of drinking water in the coastal zone is a growing concern for water security. Our objective was to know the perception of water salinization for domestic use through semi-structured interviews in Puerto Madero, Mexico, a border community with high levels of migration, and then to contrast it with quantitative salinity data. The population of this coastal locality depends substantially on artisan wells without government monitoring. Although no wells were classified as saline, results show that artisan wells that present extreme values of dissolved-solid concentration have impact in human health conditions.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.329135

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