Team:Tec-Monterrey/Human Practices

Human Practices
Introduction
Monterrey
Chiapas
Integrated
World
Prototype
Introduction
The principles of universality and indivisibility under which human rights are grounded, establish that protection and fundamental rights must be guaranteed for all beings regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, or income. Today the rights to life and health of agricultural communities, children, farmworkers, animals and many other vulnerable groups are abused by our excessive reliance on pesticides. There is overwhelming evidence that the use of pesticides in agricultural production and industrial waste have major impact on water quality due to its runoff towards canals, streams, rivers and lakes. Protection from the exposure to dangerous substances is neither a privilege, nor charity, this is why we emphasize transition to safer and healthier models of agricultural production and waste treatment. This requires adequate approaching to the problem.

Monitoring data from pesticides and heavy metals can represent a big problem especially in developing countries, due to the cost of analysis and the need to sample at important times of the year. Developing countries often have difficulty carrying out analysis due to impure reagents, inappropriate facilities and financial barriers. It is imperative to find new techniques to reduce costs and increase reliability of the procedures. We’ll briefly describe the activities, meetings and experiences that built the foundation of our Human Practices.
Developing the Action Plan
Chiapas and Tabasco are the homes to the largest indigenous populations in Mexico, these communities have economies primarily based on the cultivation of corn, coffee, mangos, and beans. A member of our team had been reading Chiapas’ local newspaper for a while and told us something that concerned us all. Hydrological pollution has been present in Southern Mexico due to the incorrect management of urban, industrial, and agrochemical waste. These problematics have been announced with the death of fish, birds and manatees in a very short period of time. Furthermore, at least 200 people have been reported to have lacerations and wounds on their skin due to exposure of lead and cadmium.

After discussing and pondering the effects of the environmental problematic, we decided to approach stakeholders and the communities affected. A member of our team, Sofía, lived in Chiapas for a very long period of time. She had the first contact with governmental and non-governmental organizations, she travelled to Chiapas with one purpose; to develop the action plan to assess the severity of the problem.
Meeting with the Citizen Council of Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Sofía attended a meeting with people from Cecropia, an organization that takes care of global problems at a local scale, Concretos Modernos del Sur, a cement factory and the Environmental and Public Spaces Commission. Discussing the severity of the problem, they agreed Cecropia would gladly provide coordinates of locations reported to have dangerous concentrations of hazardous compounds such as heavy metals, nitrates, and phosphates.

Figure 1: Sofía at Café de Chiapas with Juan Carlos Franco and Nancy (CECROPIA), Fernando Ochoa Guillén (Concretos Modernos del Sur), and a representant of the Environmental and Public Spaces Commission.

Counseling and logistics planning with National Commission of Protected Natural Areas
Sofía spoke with Adrián Méndez Barrera, the Regional Director of Southern Frontier, Istmo and South Pacific, and José Velázquez Martínez Director of the Risk Management unit. They got organized about the sample gathering and the logistics of the journey. After two weeks, they had planned the trip was going to take place on the last week of july.

Figure 2: Sofía with Biol. Adrián Mendez Barrera, Regional Director of CONANP.

Sofía and José Velázquez Martínez were in contact for two months, gathering information about the coordinates that were going to be analyzed and the best way to make the trip. They set the dates, times and roads for the journey to be efficient and as productive as possible. We must say that without the priceless help of CONANP, nothing would have been possible. Everyone was willing to help and they were happy we had the initiative to assess the environmental problem the community was facing.


Figure 3: Sofía with Eng. José Velázquez, Director of the Risk Management unit.


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The Journey
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Integrated Human Practices
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Water Samples From The World
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Prototype
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References
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