El Salto Case Study

The municipality of El Salto is located in the central region of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. According to a 2010 census, the population reached 138,226 residents (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), 2010). The fertility rate reached a 2.4 which is slightly above the 2.1 replacement fertility rate (INEGI, 2010). In that same year, the census noted that there were approximately 32,230 houses in the region; however, only around 31,723 houses had electricity service, 26,499 had water service, and 31,235 of those houses had a sewage system (INEGI, 2010). The region of El Salto has slowly experienced an economic growth over the years, the largest form of employment consists of the first sector, individuals who work the land and extract raw materials, for example, agriculture and
For, it was set to limit the inspection of the industrial waste, since the drains in Guadalajara are mixed; therefore, even the domestic waste is industrial, due to the small workshops and car garages in the inner city and residential neighborhoods (Conant, 2009). Second, the CEAS estimated that the dam project would cost around $41 million U.S. dollars (International Rivers, n.d.). They claimed that the costs will be covered, 60 percent by the state government, and the remaining 40 percent from other federal sources (International Rivers, n.d.). Lastly, in 2001 the Santiago River had been considered an unsuitable source of water, thus, attempting to purify the water possess a threat to the public’s health, since the Santiago River receives wastewater from the industrial corridor of Guadalajara. The effluent, is directly coming from Jalisco’ urbanized regions, causing the El Salto falls and Santiago River to build a thick layer of white foam and a rotten eggs odor that make living in the region intolerable and a major health