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Title: | Territorial approach to increased energy consumption of water extraction from depletion of a Highlands Mexican aquifer | Authors: | CARLOS ROBERTO FONSECA ORTIZ CARLOS DIAZ DELGADO MARIA VICENTA ESTELLER ALBERICH |
Keywords: | depletion aquifer;valley toluca;motor-pump system;intensive exploitation;info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1 | Publisher: | Journal of Environmental Management | Description: | This work proposes a method to estimate increased energy consumption of pumping caused by a drawdown of groundwater level and the equivalent energy consumption of the motor-pump system in an aquifer under intensive exploitation. This method has been applied to the Valley of Toluca aquifer, located in the Mexican highlands, whose intensive exploitation is reflected in a decline in the groundwater level of between 0.10 and 1.6 m/year. Results provide a summary of energy consumption and a map of energy consumption isopleths showing the areas that are most susceptible to increases in energy consumption due to pumping. The proposed method can be used to estimate the effect of the intensive exploitation of the Valley of Toluca aquifer on the energy consumption of groundwater extraction. Finding reveals that, for the year 2006, groundwater extraction in the urban zone required 2.39 times more energy than the conditions observed 38 years earlier. In monetary terms, this reflects an increase of USD$ 3 million annually, according to 2005 energy production costs. | Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/58667 | Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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