One year after the pandemic COVID 19: how are the water resources? [Spanish]

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this work is to analyze the current state of water resources, a year having elapsed since the state of emergency generated by the COVID 19 pandemic was decreed, developing the following aspects, water resources before the pandemic, measures implemented during the pandemic, methodology for assessing environmental impacts and impacts of the measures implemented during the pandemic on water resources. The methodology set out by Conesa (1997) was taken as a basis, from which five criteria were selected, specifically, nature, intensity, extension, moment and synergy, and these were applied to the five most restrictive measures implemented during the COVID 19 pandemic, obtaining as results that the measure with the highest score is the temporary closure of borders with 100 and the measure with the lowest score is wearing a mask with 38.75. While the total score is 356.25, which translates into a moderate impact on water resources.