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Water quality refers to those conditions that must be present in water in order for it to maintain a balanced ecosystem and to meet certain quality objectives. Human action constantly generates residues that influence the natural regime of…
Risks to water systems contemplate the impacts on the water cycle due to the effects of climate variability and human activities, especially those events that reduce flow and aquifier recharge, and therefore deregulate the natural behavior…
The base flow in rivers is contributed by the aquifers in contact and is what maintains the flow during the summer.
Refers to techniques for groundwater replenishment or augmentation groundwater stored in aquifers during wet periods to help improve the safety and sustainability of the water supply.
Floods are processes generated by the overflow of water bodies that generate occupation with water.
Associated with the increased use of fertilizers and pesticides, due to the intensification of agriculture, water sources suffer the consequences such as eutrophication, the generation of algal blooms, thermal pollution, increased sediment…
Erosion and sediment transport are natural and continuous processes.. In normal samounts, these processes are essential for ecosystems. However, imbalances in sediment transport cause significant deterioration of water bodies. Erosion cont…
ROI is an indicator that allows you to know how much money the company lost or gained with the investments made. It is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of diffe…
Land cover is the biophysical cover that is observed on the Earth's surface. (UNEP, FAO, 2005). Its proper identification and periodic evaluation of its changes allows the evaluation of the forms of occupation and the appropriation of the …
Land use comprises "the actions, activities and interventions that people carry out on a certain type of surface to produce, modify or maintain it" (FAO, 1997a; FAO / UNEP, 1999).
