Mexico
Federal Department of Education - water conservation and coastal management
Beginning in 2000 with funding provided by Mexico’s Department of Public Education and its Inter-institutional Research Program for North America, and in conjunction with scholars from El Colegio de Mexico and professors at the School of Law at the University of British Columbia, Aquatic Resources has prepared a series of scholarly papers on water conservation issues on the coasts of North America. The papers were published by the University of Maine’s Ocean and Coastal Law Journal in August, 2005. |
United Nations Environment Program, Latin America - appropriate (waterless) sanitation and long term planning
ARC has partnered with the University of Guadalajara, Department of Studies for the Sustainable Development of the Coastal Zone, to develop an alternative, appropriate and ecologically based sanitation system as part of a restorative proposal for a sewage-polluted and water-hyacinth-covered fresh water lagoon. The United Nations Environment Program’s Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) has declared this the “model project” for the Latin America & Caribbean Region. Pilot funding has been provided by the GPA and other money is being sought. Beginning in the winter of 2005, ARC will lead efforts to develop this public alternative technology sanitation utility for the Pacific coastal villages of San Patricio and Melaque, Jalisco State. ARC is also assisting in the implementation of a proposal to create fresh and salt water ecological reserves and a long-term sustainable development plan for these communities and is working with Municipal and Federal goverments to develop and implement a plan to restore a fresh water lagoon that has received sewage for over 25 years.
ARC has partnered with the University of Guadalajara, Department of Studies for the Sustainable Development of the Coastal Zone, to develop an alternative, appropriate and ecologically based sanitation system as part of a restorative proposal for a sewage-polluted and water-hyacinth-covered fresh water lagoon. The United Nations Environment Program’s Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) has declared this the “model project” for the Latin America & Caribbean Region. Pilot funding has been provided by the GPA and other money is being sought. Beginning in the winter of 2005, ARC will lead efforts to develop this public alternative technology sanitation utility for the Pacific coastal villages of San Patricio and Melaque, Jalisco State. ARC is also assisting in the implementation of a proposal to create fresh and salt water ecological reserves and a long-term sustainable development plan for these communities and is working with Municipal and Federal goverments to develop and implement a plan to restore a fresh water lagoon that has received sewage for over 25 years.