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Freshwater Resources in the Yucatan Peninsula
Freshwater Resources in the Yucatan Peninsula
Pages 6-12
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What is certain is that these flooded cave systems play an important role as conduits for freshwater traveling from the jungle interior to the Caribbean Sea, making them the critical link between every major ecosystem in the region. Along the way they are used 1 Sam Meacham is the founder of CINDAQ (Centro Investigador del Sistema Acuifero de Quintana Roo)
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The majority of the local population lives without the benefit of proper sewage treatment or storm sewers. Inadequately built septic tanks leach raw sewage directly into the freshwater aquifer.
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. At this deeper level and at a distance of five kilometers from the coast, hydrologists have measured flow of salt water moving inland.
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The three largest underwater cave systems in the world: Sistema Ox Bel Ha, Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich, and Sistema Dos Ojos, all exist within 25 kilometers (15 miles) of each other (Gulden 2005)
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Until 1998, Ox Bel Ha lay unexplored below the surface and would have remained so if it were not for a dedicated group of cave diving explorers seeking to find out what lay below. Without exploration efforts, an otherwise unknown natural wonder would have gone unnoticed.
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Urban development in this area has a direct effect on the freshwater resources and the ecosystems that Ox Bel Ha passes under including an internationally protected wildlife reserve. Without the maps that cave divers make, there would be no concern.
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The Hydrogeology and Contamination Potential of Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico, Geofiscia Internacialonal, v.
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