{"id":12217,"date":"2024-11-14T18:52:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T18:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/14\/the-big-thirst\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:21:30","slug":"the-big-thirst","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/14\/the-big-thirst\/","title":{"rendered":"The big thirst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"caption has-small-font-size\">Water barrels dot the roofs of Iztapalapa, a marginalized community hard-hit by the water crisis in Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"intro news-subhead\">Researchers help drought-stricken Mexico City focus on a greener future <\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group alignright boxout has-light-warm-gray-background-color has-background is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Graduate students live and learn in Mexico<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark graduate students have played a significant role in the Mexico water and climate-change project, from conducting research and interviews for an online atlas and extended-reality (XR) platform to living in and learning from communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"arrow-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2024\/11\/14\/virtual-reality-real-life-consequences\/\">Meeting communities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>In the city\u2019s eastern borough of Iztapalapa, water trucks rumble up and down the twisting, hilly streets. Over the years, this tightly packed, socioeconomically marginalized <em>alcald\u00eda <\/em>of 2 million people has been hit hard by dwindling water supplies, and it\u2019s only getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents\u2019 taps run dry for days, even weeks. They rely on government-supplied water distributed by trucks. Often, the tankers arrive empty, or not at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without city water, families reuse what\u2019s left from washing laundry and dishes. Many spend one-fifth of their income on water, buying bottles or paying private companies for deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been watching those tanker trucks for a long time, over many decades. They\u2019re getting bigger and there\u2019s way more of them on the streets,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/timothy-downs\/\">Tim Downs<\/a>, a professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/sustainability-social-justice\/\">Department of Sustainability and Social Justice<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s an indication that more and more people don\u2019t have water coming into their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An environmental scientist and engineer with expertise in aquifers and watershed stewardship, Downs is principal investigator of a four-year interdisciplinary, community-engaged research project focused on the Mexico-Lerma-Cutzamala Hydrological Region, which provides water to some 28 million people in 200 metropolitan communities in and around Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re studying this region because it\u2019s an example of what\u2019s wrong with \u2018business-as-usual\u2019 development. The Mexico City basin has been overexploited for 50 years,\u201d he says. \u201cThis region is emblematic of the pressing environmental and social justice challenges that the world is facing under climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funded by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation\u2019s Partnerships for International Research and Education Program, the project involves a team of researchers from Clark\u2019s Department of Sustainability and Social Justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/geography\/\">Graduate School of Geography<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/schools\/becker-school-of-design-and-technology\/\">Becker School of Design &amp; Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleven faculty and over a dozen graduate students are applying their expertise in geographic information science (GIS), climatology, sustainability, community development, engineering, environmental policy, and interactive media design to help Mexico City and the Central Mexico region emerge from its long, devastating thirst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project combines the tools of GIS \u2014 remote sensing\/satellite data and digital maps \u2014 with system dynamics modeling, extended reality (XR) technology, and experiential educational experiences to help policymakers and the public understand the threats posed by climate change \u2014 both now and in the future \u2014 and how to mitigate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-day-zero-in-mexico-city-s-water-crisis\">Day Zero in Mexico City\u2019s water crisis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2023, the researchers have been collecting data and, according to Downs, \u201cco-creating knowledge-for-action\u201d with community stakeholders, municipal and federal governments, and peers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group alignright boxout has-light-warm-gray-background-color has-background is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-small-font-size\">Telling the story through film<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A crew of Clark student filmmakers traveled to Mexico City last summer to capture the stories and voices of those most impacted by climate change and water scarcity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"arrow-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2024\/10\/09\/its-easier-to-see-inherent-truth-in-a-documentary\/\">Capturing the \u2018inherent truth\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>Downs has spent several summers in Mexico connecting with the partners, at times being joined by other Clark researchers, including professors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/yelena-ogneva-himmelberger\/\">Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/morgan-ruelle\/\">Morgan Ruelle<\/a> and doctoral student Ravi Hanumantha from the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice; Geography Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/abby-frazier\/\">Abby Frazier<\/a>; and master\u2019s students from Sustainability and Social Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last spring, as Downs prepared to head to Mexico once again, CNN, <em>Scientific American<\/em>, and other media were reporting that Mexico City might hit \u201cDay Zero,\u201d when taps would run dry, that June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn many ways, Mexico City is already in a Day Zero scenario,\u201d he says. \u201cIt&#8217;s a matter of how extensive water scarcity becomes and how quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By drilling deeper for water,&nbsp;Mexico City has destabilized the ground, and is sinking&nbsp;into the compressible lake beds of the volcanic basin on which it sits, Downs says. Even with a vast aqueduct snaking through the region to supplement the water supply<em>,<\/em>&nbsp;the local groundwater is drying up. The city is pumping more and more from watersheds in the far west, with plans to triple such transfers by 2050. Valle de Bravo and other reservoirs tapped by the aqueduct are depleting rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water scarcity impacts agriculture and food, aquatic ecosystems, human health and livelihoods, and the economy. These \u201cimpact cascades,\u201d he says, are unevenly distributed across landscapes and populations, resulting in inequities and growing climate injustice, especially in marginalized areas like Iztapalapa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Affluent neighborhoods \u201chave much more secure access to water. But sooner than later, they are also going to be suffering water scarcity,\u201d Downs says. \u201cWill Mexico City\u2019s extreme water scarcity increase? Yes. Unless we all work together to do something truly transformative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide alignnone wp-image-64606 size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/Miravalle-team-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"Community members and Clark team in Miravalle\" class=\"wp-image-64606\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Clark faculty and students are working closely with a community team in Miravalle in southeastern Iztapalapa. Last summer, they gathered under a roof used for rainwater harvesting. From left, Oscar P\u00e9rez; Clark screen studies majors Angel Rojas \u201924 and Aidan Hilaire \u201925; Alejandro Guerra; Clark graduate students F\u00e1tima Oseida, Mattie Carroll, Mar\u00eda Salazar, M\u00f3nica Mu\u00f1oz Miranda, and Milagros Becerra Zambrano; Cecilia Lima Mirafuentes; Leydi Nayely S\u00e1nchez Lima; Kimberley Ju\u00e1rez S\u00e1nchez; Sofia Ju\u00e1rez S\u00e1nchez (toddler); Brian Gustavo Mart\u00ednez Trejo; Yulieth Anahi Cort\u00e9s M\u00e9ndez; and Clark Professor Tim Downs. <em>(Photo courtesy of Tim Downs)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-clark-connects-with-pilot-communities-and-youth\">Clark connects with pilot communities and youth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The region is poised to become a model for sustainability, Downs believes, if policymakers, communities, businesses, and universities collaborate to visualize alternative climate and development scenarios to reshape their collective future and alter their fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fall, he announced agreements with two communities that have joined the project, seeking to become models of sustainability: Miravalle in southeastern Iztapalapa, a municipality within Mexico City, and Valle de Bravo, a town west of the city. Surrounded by vacation homes in the state of Mexico, Valle de Bravo is a \u201cbellwether town\u201d in the water crisis, Downs says. It faces plummeting reservoir levels because of water transfers to Mexico City, high leakage (over 40 percent) due to aging pipes, and climate change impacts to the water cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot communities are involved in the collection, sharing, application, and archiving of data which, in turn, will be made available to them, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are owning it, and they\u2019re helping create it, to make it their resource,\u201d Downs says. \u201cThese are their data, not our data. We help analyze and interpret them, in service of a brighter future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-small-font-size\"><blockquote><p>\u201cWe want youth to be front and center, and actively involved because they are the ones with most at stake. They deserve a brighter, sustainable, climate-responsive future.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Each pilot community is launching a center for \u201cclimate change education, monitoring, research, and action,\u201d he says. Clark and its partners have donated air- and water-quality sensors to enhance experiential, research-based learning for pre-K through higher education, as well as 3D printers so that community partners can create more weather stations and print mosquito traps to trap vectors that carry the dengue pathogen; dengue fever, is on the rise, driven by a warming climate. Meanwhile, environmental science and policy major Mar\u00eda Salazar, M.S.\u201925, is creating a model to estimate just how much rainwater could be harvested by communities in the region, according to Downs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three M.S. students in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/graduate\/programs\/masters\/environmental-science-and-policy\/\">environmental science and policy<\/a> \u2014 Luke Trefry, Valeria Obregon Diaz, and Catalina Cuervo Maldonado \u2014 and a doctoral student in geography, Kwabena Antwi, who studies small-scale farming and climate change, will head to Mexico next spring to conduct research with the communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to use the project as a launch pad for co-creating long-term partnerships that offer unique learning opportunities for college students, from freshman year through graduate studies,\u201d Downs says. \u201cAs a \u2018liberal-arts-college-meets-research-university,\u2019 Clark brings a singular synergy to this educational experience \u2014 it is a distinctive signature of our work, and energizes our motto, \u2018<em>Challenge Convention. Change our World.\u2019 \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downs plans to connect young people in Miravalle and Valle de Bravo with those from Los Angeles and Worcester \u2014 specifically, youth from the Latino Education Institute (LEI), based at Worcester State University \u2014 to share stories about life under climate change, and hopeful visions of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With guidance from Sustainability and Social Justice professors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/nigel-brissett\/\">Nigel Brissett<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/eman-lasheen\/\">Eman Lasheen<\/a>, environmental science and policy major Josaphat Barcenas-Argueta, M.S. \u201925, is partnering with LEI to help develop a curriculum for the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want youth to be front and center, and actively involved,\u201d Downs says, \u201cbecause they are the ones with most at stake. 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