Expert rules out water shortages due to the dry season in Yucatan [Video]

According to data from the company Odiser Empresarial, which controls water levels in Mérida, we are now 1.40 meters above average sea level, reported Juan Vázquez Montalvo, meteorologist at the Autonomous University of Yucatán and hydrometeorological consultant.

“The data is the pressure of the aquifer, which is the height of the groundwater, about the mean sea level, and the groundwater moves from higher pressures far from the coast to lower pressures near the coast.”

“This value is calculated by subtracting the elevation of the land concerning sea level minus the height of the water body,” explained the specialist.

It is expected that these pressures are higher in the interior of the State and lower on the coast because the water comes from the interior of the State and goes to the sea, he said. He stressed that this is how underground water moves and you can imagine how much water …