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Conservar cuencas es clave para garantizar el abasto de agua en México, advierte Pronatura
Pronatura México sostiene que la seguridad hídrica depende de la conservación de cuencas, bosques y humedales. La organización plantea cinco acciones para fortalecer la gestión del agua frente al crecimiento urbano y el cambio climático.
Por Gabriela Díaz | Reportera
La conservación de bosques, humedales y cuencas hidrográficas será determinante para garantizar el abastecimiento de agua en las próximas décadas, aun cuando se amplíe la infraestructura hidráulica del país, advirtió Pronatura México, organización dedicada a la conservación de la biodiversidad y al desarrollo de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza.
La organización señaló que el crecimiento urbano, el cambio climático y el deterioro de los ecosistemas han incrementado la presión sobre las fuentes de abastecimiento, por lo que considera indispensable incorporar la protección del territorio como un componente central de las políticas públicas y de las estrategias empresariales relacionadas con el agua.
De acuerdo con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), cerca de 4 mil millones de personas viven bajo condiciones de estrés hídrico severo durante al menos un mes al año, una situación que podría agravarse conforme aumente la urbanización hacia 2050.
La infraestructura hídrica comienza en las cuencas
Pronatura México sostiene que la seguridad hídrica no depende únicamente de presas, acueductos o plantas de tratamiento, sino también de la capacidad de las cuencas para captar lluvia, infiltrar agua al subsuelo y regular los efectos de inundaciones y sequías.
Bosques, humedales, ríos y suelos saludables funcionan como infraestructura natural que permite mantener la disponibilidad del recurso y fortalecer el funcionamiento de los sistemas de abastecimiento.
La organización considera que la pérdida de estos ecosistemas reduce la capacidad de las ciudades para enfrentar periodos de escasez y fenómenos climáticos extremos.
Cinco factores para fortalecer la seguridad hídrica
Como parte de su análisis, Pronatura México identifica cinco elementos que considera esenciales para mejorar la gestión del agua:
- Incorporar la conservación de cuencas como parte de la infraestructura hídrica.
- Incrementar la inversión en soluciones basadas en la naturaleza.
- Impulsar esquemas de corresponsabilidad entre comunidades, gobiernos y empresas.
- Planificar de manera conjunta la atención de sequías e inundaciones.
- Fortalecer el monitoreo científico para evaluar el impacto de las acciones de restauración.
La organización refiere que la inversión mundial en soluciones basadas en la naturaleza para la seguridad hídrica alcanzó 49 mil millones de dólares en 2025, el doble de lo registrado una década antes, según datos de The Nature Conservancy.
Estos recursos han permitido desarrollar mil 645 proyectos relacionados con restauración forestal, manejo de cuencas y conservación de ecosistemas destinados a proteger fuentes de agua potable y reducir riesgos por inundaciones.
Empresas participan en proyectos de conservación
Pronatura México señala que en el país ya operan mecanismos de cofinanciamiento en los que participan empresas como P&G, Nestlé y Walmart, mediante inversiones dirigidas a obras de conservación de suelo y agua.
Estas acciones buscan disminuir la erosión, retener escurrimientos e incrementar la infiltración del agua hacia los acuíferos, al tiempo que vinculan las metas corporativas de gestión del recurso con las necesidades ambientales de cada región.
Tecnología para medir resultados
La organización también considera indispensable utilizar herramientas científicas para evaluar la efectividad de los proyectos de restauración.
Entre los instrumentos utilizados se encuentran estaciones meteorológicas, imágenes satelitales, drones e indicadores hidrológicos que permiten medir cambios en la cobertura vegetal, la humedad del suelo, la calidad del agua y la capacidad de infiltración.
Como ejemplo, cita el Humedal de Rayón, ubicado en el Estado de México, una infraestructura con capacidad para tratar 40 litros de agua residual por segundo, que reproduce procesos naturales para depurar el agua y favorecer su aprovechamiento.
La conservación complementa la infraestructura hidráulica
Pronatura México concluye que México requerirá ampliar y modernizar presas, plantas de tratamiento, acueductos y redes de distribución para responder a la creciente demanda de agua.
Sin embargo, sostiene que estas inversiones serán insuficientes si las cuencas que abastecen al sistema continúan deteriorándose, por lo que plantea integrar la conservación de bosques, humedales y suelos dentro de la planeación hídrica para fortalecer la disponibilidad del recurso y aumentar la resiliencia frente al cambio climático. –sn–
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Returning land to tribes is a step towards justice and #sustainability, say #Wabanaki, #EnvironmentalActivists
by Emily Weyrauch, December 1, 2020
"Last month, the Elliotsville Foundation gave back 735 acres to the #PenobscotNation, a parcel of land that connects two Penobscot-held land plots. While this return of land is a significant milestone in terms of the work of conservation groups in Maine, it also reflects a larger shift in thinking about land ownership, from property and caretaking toward #IndigenousStewardship.
"Before European settlers arrived, the land in Maine was stewarded by the Wabanaki people—a confederacy of five nations including Penobscot, #Passamaquoddy, #Maliseet, #Mikmaq and #Abenaki.
"Early treaties between Indigenous tribes and settlers were signed, but not upheld. Early Maine court cases set the precedent for #LandTheft. The state legally prohibited treaty obligations from being published in its constitution. Ever since the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act, the state government has significantly limited tribes’ sovereignty and access to ancestral lands. Now, the Maine legislature is preparing to take up a bill that would make 22 law changes to the 1980 act to promote Wabanaki sovereignty and correct the impacts of the 40-year-old piece of legislation that placed Wabanaki people in a separate category from other federally-recognized tribes.
"Currently, a vast majority—90 percent—of land in Maine is privately owned, unlike in states like Nevada, Utah and Idaho, where the vast majority of land is owned by the U.S. government. Less than one percent of Maine land is owned by #Wabanaki people.
"To many Indigenous people, the legacy of white-led conservation groups in Maine and nationwide represents a failure of true environmental stewardship.
"'Across the country, land conservation groups and land trusts participated in depopulating, cutting off Indigenous access to certain lands and resources,' said Dr. Darren Ranco, associate professor of Anthropology and coordinator of Native American Research at the University of Maine.
"Dr. Ranco said that the history of environmental protection in the U.S. starts in the 19th century and focuses on two movements: conservation and preservation.
" 'On the one hand, you have people saying, ‘You want to use the public lands wisely’ — and that often led to extreme forms of exploitation through oil and gas contracts. The other side of it was, ‘Let’s just keep it wild and preserve it as-is, as a wild space,' " said Dr. Ranco, who is a member of the Penobscot Nation. 'Ironically, both of those approaches in the 19th century sought to displace Indigenous people.'
" 'A lot of the [conservation] practices in the past actually marginalized native people, and didn’t allow for their voice to be heard, and discouraged their voices,' said Suzanne Greenlaw, a #Maliseet forestry scientist and PhD student at the University of Maine.
" 'The native approach is very much in the center—we do harvest, but we harvest in a sustainable way that actually forms a relationship with the resource,” said Greenlaw, who conducts research on the sustainable harvesting of sweetgrass by Indigenous people.
"In fact, the way that Indigenous people understand land is markedly different from western ideas of ownership.
" 'The idea of private property puts us in this framing where the land, the water, and the air, and the animals, and everything else—all our relations—are meant to serve us, they are things below us, things to dominate and control and take ownership over,' said Lokotah Sanborn, a Penobscot activist.
" 'For us, it would be absurd to say ‘I own my grandmother,’ or ‘I own my cousin,’ or ‘I own my brother.’ You don’t talk about things like that. And so when we’re talking about land ownership, it’s that same idea —these are our relations, these are things that hold a lot of significance to us,' said Sanborn.
"While the planet’s Indigenous people make up less than five percent of the global population, they manage 25 percent of its land and support 80 percent of global biodiversity, research shows.
" 'We’ve been led down this path toward climate catastrophe and the extinction of millions of species, all to drive #ExtractiveIndustries,' said Sanborn. 'If we wish to reverse these things, we need to give land back into the hands of Indigenous peoples and to respect our ability to protect those lands,' said Sanborn.
"This growing recognition of Wabanaki #stewardship is part of the mission of First Light, a group that serves to connect Wabanaki people with conservation organizations who seek to expand Wabanaki access to land. Currently, 50 organizations are participating, including #MaineAudubon and #TheNatureConservancy.
"Lucas St. Clair, president of the Elliotsville Foundation, participated in First Light’s year-long educational program before fulfilling a request by #JohnBanks, Natural Resources Director for the Penobscot Nation, to return the 735-acre property to the Penobscot Nation. This comes four years after the foundation gave 87,500 acres of land to the federal government for the establishment of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. St. Clair said the foundation currently holds 35,000 acres of land.
" 'In the grand scheme of things, this is not a lot of land,' said St. Clair, about the foundation’s recent transfer of 735 acres. 'It was more about justice, relationship-building and awareness.'
" 'You see this move toward Indigenous knowledge and practices of management and conservation that have existed for hundreds of years, and this possibility with land conservation groups and Wabanaki people having a more central role in understanding and managing the lands is coming to the fore,' said Dr. Ranco.
"And while organizations undergo the learning and transformational processes that precede giving back land, and as the legislature and courts are taking up questions of Wabanaki sovereignty and stewardship, people are working on the ground everyday to re-imagine relationships with land.
"Alivia Moore, a Penobscot community organizer with the #EasternWoodlands #Rematriation collective, said that a crucial part of the work of expanding Indigenous access to land in Maine is recognizing and restoring the history of matriarchal Indigenous societies.
" 'To restore land to Indigenous #matriarchies is to make sure that everybody has what they need on and from the earth. There’s enough for everyone,' said Moore
"With #EasternWoodlandsRematriation, Indigenous people are growing their connections to #RegenerativeFoodSystems. Whereas cultural use agreements are more formal ways Indigenous people can access resources from the private land of people and organizations, Moore said other relationships can form and strengthen even informally.
"Years ago, a white farmer offered land to Indigenous women to use for farming to restore their connection to the land. That has been an ongoing relationship that became one of mutual exchange of information and resources, shared learning and shared meals, said Moore.
"The movement to give land back to Indigenous stewardship is not confined to a single organization, legal battle, or project. For Indigenous people—and a growing number of environmental organizations—it is a step toward justice and a sustainable future.
"'Land back is not just about righting past wrongs. The point of land back is that it’s the future, if we wish to adequately address and avoid further global devastation from climate change,' said Sanborn."
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