If possible recharge the aquifersin Italy there has been experimentation with geospatial analysis models, through integrated geohydrological, geophysical, climatic topographic and infrastructure datawhich allow water to be transported, so that the cities do not flood due to rain.
Given the water crisis in San Luis Potosí, barely abated by recent rainfall, it is important to work on a project aimed at recharging the mantle in the metropolitan area, he warned The Sun of San Luis the researcher from the Faculty of Engineering of the Autonomous University of San Luis PotosíAbraham Cárdenas Tristán.
He pointed out that in 2023 and this year 2024, during his sabbatical year in Perugia, in the center of the Italian peninsula, he was at the Institute for Hydrogeological Protection of Italy, where all water issues in that country are handled.
There he currently works hand in hand with Italian researchers to whom he explained the situation – in terms of hydrology, orography and geography of the Mexican shoal, and raised the possibility of developing a project to recharge the water tables of the capital of Potosí.
The recharge project includes a variety of studies, such as studies of climate variability, knowledge of soil structure and rock typesthe hydrological analysis of the area to allow infiltration processes at a given time in certain places and specific spaces to capture the water and take it to the places where it can infiltrate.
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In the investigation, the structure of the Potosí subsoil was analyzed, with the idea of finding some alternatives to take advantage of the coming rain, so that water can infiltrate, “well Much of what reaches the city is wasted, as in the case of the San José dam. that when it is full it must open its floodgates to release the water without using it and it becomes contaminated as it passes through the Santiago River.”
He assured that This water can be redirected and used to be recharged in specific places“the idea is to look for alternatives that allow a strategic way to recharge the aquifer for the next urban development processes that the city will experience in the future.”
This model developed for conveying water to infiltration sites has allowed them to propose projects in countries such as: Saudi Arabia, Iran and South Africa; among other places, which are semi-desert areas and with them they have implemented various projects that make up a recharge model that they want to implement in San Luis Potosí and that could be fundamental.
