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The study is intended to provide guidelines for the development of government policies and projects designed to bring about the most efficient use of Mexico's water resources. However, to date, their study has not been directed toward the growing problems of the northern Yucatn Peninsula which are discussed here.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>LeGrand suggested that man has inherited a harsh environment in carbonate terranes. In the case of the northern Yucatn Peninsula, the physical environment creates a set of hydrogeologic constraints to future economic and social development. Planning for intermediate and long-range land use on the peninsula must be related directly to the limited and fragile groundwater source. Continued contamination will make future aquifer management a difficult challenge for federal, state, and territorial agencies. We conclude that any strategy for long-range land use in the study area should include establishment of a regional aquifer-monitoring network for long-term measurements of key hydrogeologic parameters, including precipitation, evapotranspiration, water table elevations, and water quality. Information from this network would flow into a central facility for storage, interpretation, and analysis. At present the SRH is collecting some of these data. Expansion of the existing program to provide sound information for regional planning will greatly benefit present as well as future generations. If such a program is implemented, it will represent a model for regional planning in other tropical and subtropical karstic terrains.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1126\/science.186.4164.591","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,10,5]],"date-time":"2006-10-05T15:10:48Z","timestamp":1160061048000},"page":"591-595","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Hydrogeologic Constraints on Yucatn's Development"],"prefix":"10.1126","volume":"186","author":[{"given":"Donald O.","family":"Doehring","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of geology and geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01002. department of geography, State University of New York, Binghamton 13901"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joseph H.","family":"Butler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of geography, State University of New York, Binghamton 13901"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"221","reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_1","first-page":"323","year":"1973","unstructured":"Coordinados de Salud Publica en Estados y Territorios, Estadisticas Vitales Demographicas y de Recursos en la Republica Mexicana 1968-1973: 323 (1973).","journal-title":"Estadisticas Vitales Demographicas y de Recursos en la Republica Mexicana 1968-1973"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","unstructured":"Secretaria de Recursos Hidraulicos Generalidades del Distrito de Riego No. 48 Estado de Yucatan 1972 (1972)."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_1","unstructured":"Gobierno del Territorio de Quintana Roo Plan Desarrollo Integral 1971-1976 (1971)."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_1","first-page":"18","year":"1968","unstructured":"Committee on Water Quality Criteria, Water Quality Criteria--Public Water Supplies: 18 (1968).","journal-title":"Water Quality Criteria--Public Water Supplies"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_5_1","unstructured":"Drinking water standards U.S. Public Health Serv. 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