Climate Change, Water, and the Future of San Miguel
We recently spoke extensively with Fabián Trejo, Technical Advisor in Tourism and Climate Change for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ, by its acronym in German), a federal enterprise that directly supports the German Government’s objectives specifically related to international cooperation for sustainable development. Over the last several years, Trejo and GIZ have been working in San Miguel de Allende through their initiative – Adaptur, which seeks to promote natural solutions for climate change adaptation in the tourism sector.
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Our Water Crisis Affects Us All: Finding Out You’ve Developed Dental Fluorosis From Drinking Contaminated Water in San Miguel
Dafne is 25 years old and has lived in San Miguel de Allende her whole life. For Dafne, drinking tap water was common practice until the age of ten, when her family started buying bottled water for their drinking water needs. But by then, it was already too late. Dafne approached a dentist who confirmed her suspicions: she has dental fluorosis – the irreversible staining of teeth from excessive exposure to fluoride in her drinking water for all those years.
While a major part of our focus at Caminos de Agua has been on helping rural communities gain access to clean water, the water crisis affecting our region is increasingly not just limited to these outlying areas. That is why we have decided to launch our new Urban Education Initiative this fall to help residents, especially those in highly-impacted neighborhoods, better understand and navigate this growing threat.
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San Miguel’s Growing Water Crisis – What It Means To You
All this month, we will be bringing you a different face of the urban side of our water crisis through the lens of the people who live here in San Miguel – highlighting their opinions, worries, struggles, and their victories.
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It Affects Us All: The Urban Side Of Our Water Crisis
At Caminos de Agua, we’ve written to you many times to talk about the water crisis in our region and its devastating impacts on rural communities. But, because the crisis is increasingly affecting cities like San Miguel de Allende, it’s clear to us that the time has come to also really focus on educating residents about the current and future risks as well as what can be done on both personal and on community levels to assure the future of our finite water resources. We simply cannot ignore the urban side of our water crisis any longer.
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