Looking inside the Blackbox : Cuenca's water metabolism
Malo Larrea, Antonio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Santillán, Vinicio (Universidad Católica de Cuenca (Equador). Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Transferencia de Tecnología)
Torracchi-Carrasco, Esteban (Universidad Católica de Cuenca (Equador))

Data:	2022
Resum:	The socio-ecological metabolism of the water connects concepts that emerge out of the complexity of ecosystems, linking endosomatic processes that are indispensable for society while forming different hierarchic levels and relations among as well as aligning to their particularities. The consumptive uses of Cuenca city in their different categories and social metabolism both at rural and urban levels were assessed, inquiring about diverse typologies of the city's water. Water Metabolic Rates (WMR) were calculated for each one of the consumptives' uses gauged in liters per hour of human activity. Our results indicate that farming and industrial uses of water were highly inefficient. Linked to farms, both consumption of water and metabolic rates were higher in the rural areas. While paid work showed higher metabolic rates than households. Rural households evidenced a greater use of water and higher metabolic rates than urban households as water use combines human consumption and family farming. This research determined the water metabolism of the socio-ecological system in the canton of Cuenca, Ecuador through different dimensions of water metabolism. Formulating a system of flows and uses of water that were metabolized by different hierarchy levels of diverse consumptive uses within the aforementioned canton, as a tool to implement policies that guarantee water access and ecological metabolism, linking social dynamics within ecosystems.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Contrato de beca 127-2012. Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicat a:	PloS one, Vol. 17, Issue 9 (September 2022) , art. e0273629, ISSN 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273629
PMID: 36137084

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