The Groundwater Management in the Mexico Megacity Peri-Urban Interface
Karen Ivon Ríos-Sánchez,
Silvia Chamizo-Checa,
Eric Galindo-Castillo
et al.
Abstract:Megacities boost peri-urban socioeconomic development but fulfill their high natural resource demands by overexploitation, yielding irreversible environmental damage in surroundings that turn into sacrifice zones. This study reports the effects on the Cuautitlán-Pachuca Valley, the Mexico City main expansion zone at the northeast of the metropolitan area on the Central Mexico plateau, the trend scenarios from 2020 to 2050, and the actions to mitigate the growing water demand that will worsen its aquifer overex… Show more
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