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January 27 2012 Siapa actions cause Jalisco's credit to be downgraded - www.informador.com.mx

January 27 2012 Lake Chapala 58% full 60 cms lost compared to August 2011 www.informador.com.mx

Jan 21 2012 Semarnat strenghens the rescue of Lake Chapala by donating 26 garbage trucks to lakeside municipalities (AIPROMADES) www.informador.com.mx

Simulación del comportamiento de la cuenca Lerma Chapala para el periodo 2009-2030(published date not known)

September 22 2011 -Lake Chapala record the lowest growth rate since 1900

June 2011 - Water in Jalisco meeting at Hotel Monte Carlo

01 June 2011 - Aqueduct requires urgent attention after two decades of operation: SIAPA www.informador.com.mx

27 May 2011 - Yes or No to the new aqueduct by Dr. Víctor Manuel García Díaz: "Mi opinión personal es: si las protestas que se han realizado y se van a realizar, no logran detener la construcción del nuevo acueducto, se debía proponer la segunda opción que propongo que es: que se convenga que el acueducto nuevo se construya bien sin los defectos del anterior y que se haga de la capacidad de transporte que dicen les corresponde, pero en el momento que se inaugure el nuevo acueducto, se cancele el viejo. " www.paginaquesiselee.com.mx


23 May, 2011: Chapala lost one meter 34 centimeters: In nearly seven months, Lake Chapala has lost one meter 34 centimeters.
The National Water Commission report found 64 percent of capacity. It is recalled that in the dry season last year fell just 77 centimeters. (By Ruth María Rodríguez Barba) www.notisistema.com


23 May 2011 Crónica De Una Marcha Anunciada el acueducto

www.paginaquesiselee.com.mx

 

Studies-Articles

ENTRE EL MANEJO COMUNITARIO Y GUBERNAMENTAL DEL AGUA EN LA CIÉNEGA DE CHAPALA, MICHOACÁN, MÉXICO (In English and Spanish)

2002 Lake Chapala and the Cienega aquifer:
Chemical evidence of hydraulic communication

Sept 2011 Jim Hansen (NASA) on Climate Change and Monarch Butterfly
Migration to Mexico

2010 - Aspectos socioeconómicos de la agricultura de riego en la Cuenca Lerma-Chapala - Socioeconomic aspects of irrigated agriculture in the Lerma-Chapala basin www.fenix.cmq.edu.mx

June 2011 - Problems in El Chante

09 June 2011 Pesticides and Invasive Species in the US
www.truth-out.org/pesticides-and-politics-americas-eco-war

07 Feb 2011: The paths of mercury in Chapala www.paginaquesiselee.com.mx

14 April 2010: 27% of women who consume fish from Lake Chapala has high concentrations of mercury in hair according to a study by the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), the Mexican Institute Water Technology (IMTA) and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. www.cronica.com.mx

11 Jan 2010 - Mt Sinai Published Study Methylmercury exposure in a subsistence fishing community in Lake Chapala, Mexico: an ecological approach.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

06 Sep 2009 Lake Chapala, contaminated with toxic metals to living organisms. The bed of this lake is contaminated by metals such as phosphorus, sulfur, fluorine and some solid waste from fertilizers and industrial and municipal discharges, according to a study conducted jointly by academics from the Universities of Guadalajara and Guanajuato.
www.lajornadajalisco.com.mx

2002 Environmental Crises in Lake Chapala and Supplying Water to
Guadalajara redalyc.uaemex.mx

Associations

Intermunicipal Association for the Protection of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Lake Chapala (AIPROMADES)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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