Licenciatura en Administración y Gestión de Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas

Desarrollo sustentable
José Pérez rico
9ª
“Caso práctico "

Nancy Gabriela Arriaga González

Lizbeth Huerta Chimal
Luz Elena Ramírez López
José Julio Guevara Lucero
Juan Francisco Villegas García
07 de junio de 2020
Universidad Politécnica de Guanajuato
Introduction.

Throughout this week 5 of the calendar of activities of the subject of sustainable

development it was assigned to carry out an interesting task, to carry out a practical
case to determine the methodology of Plan, Do, Verify and Actual (PHVA).

The case carried out was that of the Colorado River, which is one of the most
important in the United States of America, since it supplies approximately 6 states,
livestock farms and important crops from the same country, however not only It is for
the USA but since the limits of the water that flow into the sea are not defined, they
are international in nature and must share water with other countries such as
Mexico.

Likewise, there is an interesting brief conclusion about this case.

Case.

The Colorado River flows 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) from the mountains of
central Colorado to the Mexican border and eventually to the Gulf of California
(Figure 14-11, p. 320).
For the past 50 years, this once free-flowing river has been domesticated by a
gigantic plumbing system consisting of (1) 14 dams and main reservoirs (Figure 14-
11), (2) hundreds of smaller dams and (3)) a network of aqueducts and canals that
supply water to farmers, ranchers and cities.

Today, this domesticated river provides (1) electricity (from hydroelectric plants in
major dams), (2) water for more than 25 million people in seven states, (3) water
used to produce around 15% of the products of the nation and livestock; and (4) a
multi-billion dollar recreational industry of rafting, boating, fishing, camping, and
hiking enjoyed by more than 15 million people per year.
Remove this domesticated river and (1) Las Vegas, Nevada, would be a desert area
for the most part uninhabited, (2) San Diego, California (which gets 70% of its water
from Colorado), could not bear its presence. in population, and (3) the Imperial
Valley of California (which grows a large portion of the nation's vegetables) would
consist primarily of cactus and mesquite plants.
However, three main problems are associated with the use of water from this river:
· The Colorado River Basin includes some of the driest land in the United States and
Mexico (Figure 14-7).
The legal covenants in 1922 and 1944 assigned more water to states in the
wpper river basin (Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico) and lower Mesin
(Arizona, Nevada, and California; Figure 14-11) and to Mexico than now it flows
through the river, even in years without drought.
Due to so many withdrawals, the river rarely reaches the Gulf of California.
Instead, it becomes a trickle that disappears in the Mexican desert or (in years of
drought) the Arizona desert.

This (1) threatens the survival of spawning species in the river, (2) destroys
estuaries that serve as a breeding ground for numerous aquatic species, and 0)
increases contamination of saltwater from aquifers near the coasts.

Legal battles are mounting over the limited amount of river water that can be
withdrawn and used by (1) entities, (2) famers, 3) ranchers, and (4) Native
Americans (who as primary owners of water rights data ) Since the mid-1880s,
we have the Law on your side and have been winning legal battles to withdraw
more water.)

Ecologists have mostly initiated unsuccessful attempts to keep the river wilder by
(1) not building as many large dams and (2) removing some of the existing
damage to help protect the river's ecological services (Figure 14-10).
Traditionally, about 80% of the water withdrawn from Colorado has been used to
irrigate crops and raise livestock because ranchers and farmers (after Americans)
came first and established legal rights to use a certain amount of water each year.

Large-scale use of water for agriculture was possible because the government (1)
paid for the dams and reservoirs and 2) under long-term contracts has supplied
water to many of the farmers and ranchers at a very low price.

This has led to inefficient use of irrigation water and the cultivation of crops such as
rior, cotton and alfalfa (for livestock feed) that need a lot of water.

Others are paying farmers to install less wasteful irrigation systems (Figure 14-18, p.
330)
so that more water is available for urban areas.

Improving overall irrigation efficiency by approximately 10-15% is estimated to

provide enough water to support projected urban growth in river-served areas by
2020. These controversies illustrate the problems that governments and people in
semi-arid regions with Río Ballena The systems fit as population and economic
growth place increasing demands on the limited supply of surface water.

Critical thinking

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of eliminating government subsidies

that they provide to US farmers, ranchers, and cities? USA Cheap water from the
Colorado River?

Pross

● It generates less pollution since the use of aquifers has been polluting them

● Reduction of the creation of dams as well.

● Under the term contracts that have been provided, many of the farmers and
ranchers have water at a very low price.
Cons

● Due to so many condrawals, the river rarely reaches the Gulf of California

● Threatens the survival of species that spawn in the river.

● It would destroy the estuaries that serve as nurseries for numerous aquatic
species.

● Increased contamination of salt water from aquifers near the coasts.

● It generates more legal battles over how much water can be taken out to be
distributed to cities, for farmers, ranchers, and Native Americans.

● These actions make inefficient use of irrigation water and growing crops, such as
rice, cotton and alfalfa (for livestock feed) that need a lot of water.

2. If the legal system allows it, list the following users in order of how much water you
would assign from the Colorado River: Explain the options

To plan:

a network of aqueducts and channels that supply water to farmers, taking into
account that there are a greater percentage of farmers, 25% of whom are farmers,
15% citizens, 15% are provided, in this way 100% of the water is not committed and
that it can feeding the animals the percentage was developed by the number of
people dedicated to these sections, they will have in proportion the water necessary
to avoid contaminating the rest

Do:

It is necessary to create the river pipes and avoid walking into the river as this
causes the deployment and the drought is reduced, the material to be used is non-
polluting wood or plastic.

sanction if necessary the following types of materials are used or have contact with
water: gasoline, oil and diesel, solvents, paints, varnishes, greases, medicines or the
remains of cures. They are highly toxic and persistent.

Check:

carry out a control either with a log and with the use of observation as the
management was developed and what changes are had as the purity, it is the
amount of sequence that is found to be used in proportions since it is not only a
population that is Enriches of it, keeping the surrounding areas clean to make the
most of the river.

what are the movements that affect and what are they used for as the community's
use to prevent it and what type of economic chain is Rio Colorado responsible for
being its first source of access to that river.

Observe and have control over the administration and cleaning of the river.

Act:

establish prevention measures such as posters, or limits to acquire water, already

used for irrigation and community establish a proportion considered for each
development chain

analyze the water quality and conditions of the same community or proximity to this
river at least twice a year, since it is the main one for various activities in the
community.

Do not allow actions such as bathing, washing, throwing materials into the river, this
is the main pollutant in the river and how waste is thrown into the water.

establishing a schedule and having a control of the use only for necessary activities
in this way you will have control, care and water and will not be affecting the
contaminants to animals, plants and even the soil and humans.

Conclusion.

Throughout this case study of the Colorado River, the situation can be analyzed and,
based on this, determine that there is no equity in the distribution of water. The
Colorado River must be understood as an international basin and should have
international rights, however, when coming from the United States, various conflicts
have been generated by sharing it with other countries.

One of the solutions to avoid these international conflicts involves a lot of work,
effort, money and so on, since we should return to the analysis of the relationship
that exists between land and water, since the geographical boundaries are mostly
not to say that all only talk about land, although at least so far water agreements
have emerged, a clear example is between Mexico and the US, which is that Mexico
gives the US certain cubic meters of water from the Rio Grande while the US must
give cubic meters of water to Mexico from the Colorado River a year.
Due to being a river that is divided into many parts, whether it be dam, irrigation
supply, city supply, and so on, it can be seen as a threat that contributes to future
climate change.

Within what is possible if it were in our hands, the amount of water indispensable to
each state would be assigned solely to carry out its activities and the dams would be
released, which often all they do is stop the free flow of water in your way to the sea.