Postdoctoral researcher Norma Elizabeth Olvera Fuentes explained to El Economista, that to avoid the watere collapse in the metropolitan area of Mexico City (Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México ZMVM), changes in water consumption patterns with efficient public policies are needed.
The ZMVM has more than 22 million inhabitants, making it the second most populated megacity on the planet, behind only Sao Paulo in Brazil, but it could occupy first place by 2030 if the projections are met and its growth continues. In the metropolitan area, more water is withdrawn than is recharged to the aquifers.
During her participation in the seminar ‘Water for a sustainable city. Cycle Territorial transformations and water-climate crisis. Solutions from the interdisciplinary perspective’, organised by the University Programme for City Studies, Olvera Fuentes said:
“We can move towards this change, avoid water collapse and increase our resilience as a society to phenomena such as climate change, always based on science. It is up to us to take decisions and be concrete in our actions.”
