Subsystems explain the lack of water supply in El Pericón, community of Guerrero, Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.24850/j-tyca-14-05-10Keywords:
Water supply, lack of water, subsystems, disorganization, water tradeAbstract
The objective was to know the causes of the lack of water supply in the El Pericón community, municipality of Tecoanapa, located in the Costa Chica region of the southeast of the state of Guerrero; Mexico, through an analysis with subsystems.
A mixed methodology was used, on the one side, with the qualitative one, semi-structured interviews were carried out with key informants and citizens; on the other side, with the quantitative one a survey was applied.
With the results, it was found that there is disorganization to direct water issues, there is not interest about the water supply, water is a business for citizens who have wells and for resellers who sell it in other communities. The results also show that 98 % of those surveyed consider that there is a water shortage in the community; however, according to data from the Climatological Station 00012053, of the National Water Commission, National Meteorological Service, the average annual rainfall in the area is 1 200.9 mm (Conagua & SMN, 2022).
It is concluded that the social subsystems, political-administrative and cultural are the ones that best describe that the shortage of water in the community is due to the lack of community organization, the lack of application of actions by the governments and the water operation system. As well as consumption habits. The technological and economic subsystems also explain that there is a shortage of water, on the one side due to the lack of maintenance of the water distribution networks and on the other, due to the water trade.
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