An answer to the environmental crisis?

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By: Helena Prentis

In a talk today at the BUAP Carlos Eduardo Tapia Camino, the director of Grupo Indico and Tree House Store, assured his audience that by current estimates the planet will run out of drinking water by 2030.

Discussing the dire situation of water in Mexico, he stated that 72% of water is contaminated, drawing upon the fact that the river Atoyac in Puebla is the third most polluted river in Mexico, and technically considered as dead, meaning that it contains no oxygen.

Considering this, Camino has come up with a solution to ‘regenerate’ rivers, a program which has seen great success in both the Medellín river in Colombia and the Rimac river in Peru. He outlined his three step program, by which he aims not only to vastly improve the environmental crisis in general, but also to promote a more ecological mindset in the Mexican population.

Firstly through the promotion of awareness of the environmental situation, he hopes to create a more conscientious public; secondly he wishes to enforce the law, highlighting the fact that of the 28 water purification facilitates in Puebla, only 5 are functioning properly; and finally he wishes to find businesses to support his scheme.

According to Camino, with this three step scheme a river can be regenerated in a matter of weeks; vastly improving both the environment and people’s every day lives.

Camino’s talk was part of the program of the 2016 Forum of Sustainability put on by the BUAP Foundation in collaboration with the Mexican Society of Environmental Engineering and the Institute of Renewable Energies.