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valobasha99 · Nowy Dołączył: 02 Gru 2023 Posty: 1

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the interactions of agricultural and livestock activities with the available fresh water are increasingly intensifying and, in this fight, the water resource is the most affected , since the availability of water for the sectors where these activities are concentrated are scarcer for a multitude of reasons that increase due to the worsening of the water situation in general. Clear examples were the droughts experienced by Argentina (Rio de la Plata Basin and southern Chile) and Brazil (Coast of Brazil and Amazon basin, Bolivia and Brazil) that profoundly impacted the amount of water for human consumption, irrigation or generation. of hydroelectric energy.

Although the title of this writing covers large-scale topics, and in fact it is very difficult to address them in a summary manner, they are the topics that are highly affected as a result of the interaction between them; influenced by the particular connotations of the region and in this case of Ecuador. It should be Special Data noted that, within Ecuador, it is also difficult to generalize management around the aforementioned issues, since the exact combination of: Mega biodiversity (four marked regions, Sierra, Costa, Amazonia and the Galapagos), the privileged location of the territory , the imposing Andes Mountains and other bio-geo-climatic elements that may escape me, generate a large number of microclimates and habitats that represent unique wildlife riches in the world and that make actions to manage water resources and agriculture are more specialized and particular.

In the case of Ecuador, both the effects of Climate Change (CC) and the consequences of the El Niño Phenomenon (El Niño Southern Oscillation ENSO - Niña) that modifies ocean temperatures and precipitation patterns, are felt much more strongly . through water , mainly due to its availability and the direct and collateral effects (overflowing of rivers, extreme rains, landslides, abandoned lands because they no longer support crops, etc.). All of this is intensified by the degradation of ecosystems, the change in land use and occupation , deficient conservation actions, but, above all, inconvenient consumption practices and habits, which, among many, is the unsustainable use of the fresh water available.

If it is also analyzed and considered that the phenomenon of uncontrolled urban spatial expansion, present in all large and medium-sized cities in the country, exceeds the population growth rate and that water consumption increases at higher levels than that of urban spatial expansion; It must be stated that everything is coming together so that the scenario in the medium and probably in the short term will be tragic in the topics that title this content.

From a local perspective where the causes - origin occur, the Metropolitan District of Quito (DMQ), territory that houses the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador, one of the most important metropolises in the LAC region due to its cultural connotation, environmental, political, tourist and administrative, FEEL in a lethal and exponential way the value that we do NOT give to water. This territory is made up of mega-diverse urban and rural areas , which include the Chocó Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve, and which also has a significant presence of agriculture, livestock and industrial production activities. The DMQ also identifies territorial dynamics associated with the urban-rural configuration, which exceed the administrative political limits through progressively more aggressive urban conurbation phenomena, factors that further violate the water resource.
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