Climate Change, Land Use/Land Cover Change, and Population Growth as Drivers of Groundwater Depletion in the Central Valleys, Oaxaca, Mexico

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dc.contributor.authorOjeda Olivares, Edwin Antonio
dc.contributor.authorSandoval Torres, Sadoth
dc.contributor.authorBelmonte-Jimenez, Salvador Isidro
dc.contributor.authorCampos Enriquez, Jose Oscar
dc.contributor.authorZignol, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorReygadas Langarica, Yunuen
dc.contributor.authorTiefenbacher, John
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-12T18:39:28Z
dc.date.available2021-07-12T18:39:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-05
dc.description.abstractGroundwater depletion is an important problem driven by population growth, land use and land cover (LULC) change, climate change, and other factors. Groundwater depletion generates water stress and encourages unstainable resource use. The aim of this study is to determine how population growth, LULC change, and climate change relate to groundwater depletion in the Alto Atoyac sub-basin, Oaxaca, Mexico. Twenty-five years of dry season water table data from 1984 to 2009 are analyzed to examine annual groundwater depletion. Kriging is used to interpolate the region’s groundwater levels in a geographic information system (GIS) from mapped point measurements. An analysis of remotely sensed data revealed patterns of LULC change during a 34-year (1986–2018) period, using a supervised, machine-learning classification algorithm to calculate the changes in LULC. This analysis is shown to have an 85% accuracy. A global circulation model (GFDL-CM3) and the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios were used to estimate the effects of climate change on the region’s groundwater. Estimates of evapotranspiration (using HELP3.5 code) and runoff (USDA-SCS-CN), were calculated. Since 1984, the region’s mean annual temperature has increased 1.79 °C and urban areas have increased at a rate of 2.3 km2/year. Population growth has increased water consumption by 97.93 × 10(6) m3/year. The volume of groundwater is shrinking at a rate of 284.34 × 106 m3/year, reflecting the extreme pressure on groundwater supply in the region. This research reveals the nature of the direct impacts that climate change, changing LULCs, and population growth have in the process of groundwater depletion.
dc.description.departmentGeography and Environmental Studies
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dc.format.extent25 pages
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dc.identifier.citationOjeda Olivares, E. A., Sandoval Torres, S., Belmonte-Jiménez, S., Campos Enríquez, J. O., Zignol, F., Reygadas, Y., Tiefenbacher, J. P. (2019). Climate change, land use/land cover change, and population growth as drivers of groundwater depletion in the Central Valleys, Oaxaca, Mexico. Remote Sensing, 11(11): 1290.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111290
dc.identifier.issn2072-4292
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/13840
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.rights.holder© 2019 The Authors.
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
dc.sourceRemote Sensing, 2019, Vol. 11, No. 11, Article 1290.
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectgroundwater depletion
dc.subjectland use and land cover change
dc.subjectpopulation growth
dc.subjectrunoff
dc.subjectevapotranspiration
dc.subjectwater recharge
dc.subjectGeography and Environmental Studies
dc.titleClimate Change, Land Use/Land Cover Change, and Population Growth as Drivers of Groundwater Depletion in the Central Valleys, Oaxaca, Mexico
dc.typeArticle

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