Proposal of a water management sustainability index for the 969 sub-basins of Mexico

Cervantes-Jiménez, Mónica; Díaz-Delgado, Carlos; González-Sosa, Enrique; Albores, Miguel Ángel Gómez; Mastachi-Loza, Carlos Alberto

doi:10.1080/17445647.2020.1763486

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“…Numerous studies have proposed different water sustainability indicators, such as Cai et al (2002), Sandoval-Solis et al (2011), Linhoss and Ballweber (2015), Juwana et al (2016) and Cervantes-Jiménez et al (2020). Cai et al (2002) used a distancebased mathematical programming model.…”

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“…Juwana et al (2016) considered three dimensions: water use, conservation, governance and policy to measure the sustainability of three water catchments in Indonesia. Cervantes-Jiménez et al (2020) developed a sustainable water management index and applied it to measure the sustainability of 969 sub-basins in Mexico and considered the three traditional dimensions of sustainability: environmental, social, economic and also an institutional dimension. All these works considered associated elements that capture the quantity and quality of water resources in their analyses.…”

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A fuzzy-DEA water sustainability index: an application in European Union water risk hotspots

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The current global freshwater crisis threatens the present and future supply of water as a resource for humans. The scarcity of drinking water and the dependence of the food industry on water-intensive supply chains require the urgent development of strategies to analyze and guarantee the water sustainability of countries. This study proposes a fuzzy-data envelopment analysis composite index that measures, from a benchmarking approach, water sustainability by simultaneously considering capacity and resilience, and captures the uncertainty associated with time series variations in three scenarios: pessimistic, indifferent and optimistic. We present and apply an index based on five indicators of capacity and five indicators of resilience in ten European Union countries water risk hotspots. The results in terms of capacity presented a higher variability due to the strong growth in the exploitation of water resources in Greece, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. The most sustainable countries in terms of capacity were Bulgaria and Estonia in a pessimistic and an indifferent scenario and France and Bulgaria in an optimistic scenario. In terms of resilience, Belgium and Portugal were the most sustainable countries. When considering capacity and resilience together, some countries such as Bulgaria and Estonia lost positions in the ranking, with Belgium occupying the first position. Some countries, such as Bulgaria, could see the sustainability of their water resources compromised in a scenario of economic development if they do not improve their governance and water productivity constraints.

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A fuzzy-DEA water sustainability index: an application in European Union water risk hotspots

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“…These same regions are characterized by a rainfall pattern that concentrates the rainy season in a few months, leading to occasional urban floods as well. Therefore, currently, watersheds with urban areas that have overexploited aquifers, polluted surface waters, and lack of integrated water management, are facing Water 2023, 15, 3477 2 of 22 a severe water crisis [3]. Consequently, managing water resources sustainably becomes a cornerstone.…”

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Design of a Bioretention System with Water Reuse for Urban Agriculture through a Daily Water Balance

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Salinas Tapia

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The present work proposes the use of green infrastructure (GI) called sustainable urban agriculture drainage systems with water reuse (SUADS-WR) to manage percolated water sustainably in urban agricultural areas (f.i. golf courses). The substrate of the system is commonly used in golf courses and includes a subsurface reservoir for water that exceeds the edaphic zone. Data obtained from a lysimeter, installed in a golf course in Spain, are used to validate the methods employed in developing hydro-informatics tools based on daily water balance, which estimates the water requirement for crops, reservoir height, and capacity for unused water reuse. Reference evapotranspiration can be estimated using the Penman–Monteith or Hargreaves–Samani method. The results were compared with experimental data, revealing that the estimated irrigation depths were lower than the supplied ones and that the estimated percolation was consistent with the measured field drainage. The applicability of the proposed methods for determining the reservoir height and irrigation depth for any type of crop in urban agricultural areas is confirmed. With the implementation of SUADS-WR, the harvested water depth can cover more than 38% of the annual water demand for the crop and utilize leached fertilizers, thus preventing pollution of the receiving surface water body or groundwater.

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Incorporating aquatic biodiversity into sustainability index for hydrographic sub-basins: a multi-criteria stakeholder assessment approach in the Upper Paraná River

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do Couto,

Bailly

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Hydrobiologia

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Sustainable development assessments in hydrographic sub-basins are powerful tools used to guide stakeholders. However, there remains a gap in incorporating new indicators (e.g., biodiversity indicators) into sustainability indexes, which have generally underestimated the environmental dimension. We propose an update to these indexes by incorporating biodiversity data on hydrographic sub-basins. Our goal was to introduce a new ecological sustainability index for hydrographic sub-basins (ESI-sb) that utilizes aquatic ecological indicators. We selected 16 indicators and aggregated them into four sustainability dimensions: economic, social, eco-environmental and negative environmental. We used a multi-criteria analysis based on the analysis hierarchy process (AHP) method to catch stakeholders' importance level of each indicator. The ESI-sb was calculated using the weighted average between the sub-indexes that represent the dimensions. Finally, we applied Gi* statistics to identify the ecological sustainability hotspots and coldspots regions, and the results showed in the Serra do Mar region, the southern region, and the Federal District had high ecological sustainability values; meanwhile, the hydrographic sub-basins that formed the coldspot clusters were located in the western region of the Upper Paraná River basin. The incorporation of aquatic biodiversity data into the index represents an innovation in sustainability indexes recently proposed to hydrographic sub-basins. Graphical abstract

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Proposal of a water management sustainability index for the 969 sub-basins of Mexico

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

A fuzzy-DEA water sustainability index: an application in European Union water risk hotspots

A fuzzy-DEA water sustainability index: an application in European Union water risk hotspots

Design of a Bioretention System with Water Reuse for Urban Agriculture through a Daily Water Balance

Incorporating aquatic biodiversity into sustainability index for hydrographic sub-basins: a multi-criteria stakeholder assessment approach in the Upper Paraná River

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