Marina Herrera-Pantoja Queretaro Water Commission. Querétaro Av. 5 de Febrero No. 35, Col. Las Campanas CP 76010 México hpmarina@yahoo.com Abstract The Central and northern regions of Mexico receive less than 20% of Mexico’s precipitation, however they contain 77% of the population and generate 87% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country (INEGI, 2005). […]

Carlos Patino-Gomez; Javier Aparicio-Mijares; Jorge Hidalgo-Toledo; Ivette Reza-Garcia; Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Mexico Carlos_patino@tlaloc.imta.mx japaricio@tlaloc.imta.mx jhidalgo@tlaloc.imta.mx ivette_reza@tlaloc.imta.mx   Abstract The Lerma-Chapala basin, concentrating about 10% of the population of the country and be responsible for generating 10% of gross domestic product, represents a strategic region for the development of Mexico. This basin is characterized […]

Carlos Patiño-Gómez, Polioptro Martínez-Austria, Javier Aparicio-Mijares Ivette Reza-García, Héctor Sanvicente-Sánchez Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Mexico Carlos_patino@tlaloc.imta.mx   polioptro@tlaloc.imta.mx japaricio@tlaloc.imta.mx   ivette_reza@tlaloc.imta.mx   hsanvice@tlaloc.imta.mx   Abstract Assessing water scarcity requires modeling both water availability and water use. Determination of natural water availability on a large spatial scale is an essential prerequisite to understand and to mitigate economic and […]

BALWOIS 2004 Ohrid, Macedonia, 25-29 May 2004   INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PACKAGE FOR SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY Jose A. Raynal-Villasenor, Jadir Solis-Montero Civil Engineering Department, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla 72820 Cholula, Puebla, MEXICO jadirsolis@msn.com   The interactive computer package comprises a number of very common hydrological analyses: computation of infiltration, flood routing through reservoirs and river channels, […]