September 2007
by Edith Sosa

Since 2005 CEA has taken an active part in the Committee of Clean Beaches Cancún-Riviera Maya (CPLCRM), which is formed of institutions of federal, state and municipal government as well as organizations of civil society and private companies. It aims to promote sanitation of beaches, watersheds, groundwater, and associated bodies of water, to anticipate and correct pollution in order to protect and preserve the beaches of the zone, to respect native ecology, to raise the quality and living standards of the local population, all of which enhance the tourism attraction of the beaches.

Part of the benefit of this committee is the accomplishment in 2006 of the first State Forum of Scientific Research and Technological Development of "Quintana Roo's Hydrological System." With this effort we obtained the participation of 25 researchers to promote the inter-institutional, social and private links in the state, to define the scientific research needs of the state hydrological system, and to provide useful information to orient decision-makers in managing water policy in the state.

CEA had the opportunity to reveal the results of this event at the Third National Meeting of Clean Beaches, which was on June 6–8 in San José del Cabo, Baja California, in which, besides learning about the experiences of other committees of the Mexican republic, we took part in the Beach Certification Workshop. Certification is an instrument that benefits the tourism industry by publicity and the coastal aquatic ecosystem by emphasis on protection of the environment.

Click here for the October 6, 2007 Beach Clean-up Day schedule.

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