March 1st, 2011
San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Workshop on climate risk and water security in the Americas
1) José Luis Meza Trejo (CNA, BCS)
- Baja California hast the 4th lowest availability of water in Mexico
- Water use is, mainly, for agriculture (80%) and urban 15% purposes
- Seawater desalinization is a possible solution.
2) Roberto Molina (CEA, Sonora)
- Plan Nacional Hídrico: 8 objectives (climate change effect)
- International cooperation
- Network for hydrometeorological monitoring
- Water is used for agriculture (70%) and public (14%).
3) Chuck Cullom (Central Arizona Project)
- Water supply, reliability and shortage
- utilization modeling process
tree ring data, > 1,000 years
- agriculture is higher user.
4) Brian Luckman (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)
- South American Studies
Flowing water, river flow
- snow packs, last century
- Rio Nazas (Mexico) vulnerability as an example
- documentation, observations/modeling, scales.
5) Mariana Concha (DGA, Chile)
- 1960-2000 (40 years) rainfall decrease
- Likely to decrease during next 100 years (at least 50%)
- Use: 78% agriculture, 12% industry, 6% drinking water
- Strategic plan 2010-2015: better management, desalinization
- Water quality studies and climate change.
6) Carolina Vera (UBA, Argentina)
- La Plata basin, 5th largest population area in the world
- Last century, high variability
- Claris project: Europe-South America
- Studies 2010-2040: electricity, demand y production
7) Synara Brock (Univ. Matto Grosso)
- 170 million inhabitants, Amazon
- Shared rivers between several countries
- Laws on climate change issues.