Mexico It’s one of the Latin American countries with the greatest water stressapproximately 83% of the national territory suffers from drought and the Agriculture consumes 76% of the waterto change this situation Intel allied with Kilimo the Nuup to go technology to this industry that generates savings in water use.
Ana Paula Gamboaspecialist in Industry Technology for Intelexplained that the technology company has several goals in relation to water, energy, greenhouse emissions and waste.
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Among them stands out Net Positive Watera initiative with which It is intended that all the water consumed by Intel in its operations be returned to the environment through recovery with treatment plants and/or recovery of basins.
Only two countries in Latin America have reached this goal of Net Positive Water, Costa Rica and Mexico, some others are the United States and India and we are seeking to expand this impact that the region has,” he explained in a conference.
Gamboa accepted that the above was possible thanks to various initiatives, in particular one to reduce the agricultural impact in the Lerma River basin in Guadalajara for which they had Agriculture y Nuup as allies.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Intel is supporting Kilimo and Nuup to make agricultural producers reduce their levels of water consumption without this impacting their crops.
The above is possible because Agriculture account offers through a mobile application algorithms to determine when and how much to water depending on the type of crop and other environmental factors. While Nuup helps producers modernize their irrigation methods, something important considering that the 90% of the irrigation units in the country are by gravity and they are only 40 percent efficient.
This project was planned for a period of three years with specific goals for each year and hopefully it can continue once it ends in 2025,” explained the director of the Regenera Bajío program in Nuup, Esther Camacho.
Paola Floresclimate adaptation manager for Mexico in Agricultureexplained that in these almost two years that the project has been operating, they have supported six producers who have 110 hectares, resulting in 5 thousand cubic meters of water savings per hectare on average.
The latter means that he managed to avoid the extraction of that amount of agua of the basin Lerma River.
What we achieved is equivalent to providing water to two thousand people for a year, which is a lot,” he highlighted.
Additionally, producers who participate in the program can obtain up to 8 thousand dollars annually as an incentive for having good practices and generating water savings.
Camacho added that generating savings in water consumption also generates a decrease in electrical energy consumption, so it has an even greater impact.
Both the representative of Nuup like Agriculture They agreed that one of the main challenges in this project was to change the culture of the producers because it is a modernization process that requires learning, investment and maintenance.
ABOUT MEXICO AND WATER
- 83% of the territory suffers from drought
- Agriculture in Mexico consumes 76% of the water
- 90% of the irrigation units in the country are by gravity
- Approved metrics in the sector are needed
- Technique costs an average of 5 thousand dollars per hectare
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2024-05-29 23:47:25