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during the execution of planning programs or private projects (Galán et al. 2012;
CONANP 2015). These valuations will communicate the necessary information
in a language understood by residents and tourists encouraging interest to maintain these services and respect spatial planning guidelines.
4. Diffusion of innovative forms of household and agricultural techniques with
wise water management will provide a sustainable approach for Guadalupe
Valley viticulture. Constructed wetlands have been used as an ecological friendly
technique to treat wastewater for decades all around the world especially for
small communities and remote places; however, the sustainable application of
these systems is quite challenging (Wu et al. 2015). This technique if properly
managed can yield a valuable conservation tool for its harnessing and cleansing
properties. Constructed wetlands have been primarily utilized to treat wastewater,
but they can be managed for other functions as well. They can be used to receive
crop runoff, mitigate groundwater contamination from fertilizers, pesticides,
heavy metals, and treated wastewater (Haberl 1999). They provide habitat for
waterfowl and other animals and increase plant diversity richness. A constructed
wetland surrounded by a riparian buffer zone will significantly slow down introduction of contaminants into the water and prevents erosion and crop runoff
especially from agriculture plots on steep slopes, which we readily find in
Guadalupe Valley viticulture practices. All of these agricultural techniques combined with conservation tillage, a type of no tillage technique, will significantly
ease the daily challenges faced by reduced water resources such as poor soils,
soil compaction, soil water infiltration, low soil moisture, and minimal recharge
of the water table.
5. A new larger scale for regional planning. Agricultural land-use in the Guadalupe
Valley is dwindling and eventually will be lost. Tourism and recreation for
masses and dense country housing has gained and is transforming the landscape.
Acceptance of such reality turns our efforts towards a larger scale plan. The
watershed has other terrains apt for agriculture, and if treated water from Tijuana
is going to be vast, these lands could be irrigated and become agricultural lands.
But for now, the planning, with the lessons learned, could establish agriculture
Fig. 9.4 Illustrates a map in a larger scale, where new developed country housing, eno-gastro
tourism, and wine industry are shown, and the neighborhood valleys are kept as irrigated agricultural land as a result of incoming water from Tijuana’s water treatment plant
I. Espejel et al.
during the execution of planning programs or private projects (Galán et al. 2012;
CONANP 2015). These valuations will communicate the necessary information
in a language understood by residents and tourists encouraging interest to maintain these services and respect spatial planning guidelines.
4. Diffusion of innovative forms of household and agricultural techniques with
wise water management will provide a sustainable approach for Guadalupe
Valley viticulture. Constructed wetlands have been used as an ecological friendly
technique to treat wastewater for decades all around the world especially for
small communities and remote places; however, the sustainable application of
these systems is quite challenging (Wu et al. 2015). This technique if properly
managed can yield a valuable conservation tool for its harnessing and cleansing
properties. Constructed wetlands have been primarily utilized to treat wastewater,
but they can be managed for other functions as well. They can be used to receive
crop runoff, mitigate groundwater contamination from fertilizers, pesticides,
heavy metals, and treated wastewater (Haberl 1999). They provide habitat for
waterfowl and other animals and increase plant diversity richness. A constructed
wetland surrounded by a riparian buffer zone will significantly slow down introduction of contaminants into the water and prevents erosion and crop runoff
especially from agriculture plots on steep slopes, which we readily find in
Guadalupe Valley viticulture practices. All of these agricultural techniques combined with conservation tillage, a type of no tillage technique, will significantly
ease the daily challenges faced by reduced water resources such as poor soils,
soil compaction, soil water infiltration, low soil moisture, and minimal recharge
of the water table.
5. A new larger scale for regional planning. Agricultural land-use in the Guadalupe
Valley is dwindling and eventually will be lost. Tourism and recreation for
masses and dense country housing has gained and is transforming the landscape.
Acceptance of such reality turns our efforts towards a larger scale plan. The
watershed has other terrains apt for agriculture, and if treated water from Tijuana
is going to be vast, these lands could be irrigated and become agricultural lands.
But for now, the planning, with the lessons learned, could establish agriculture
Fig. 9.4 Illustrates a map in a larger scale, where new developed country housing, eno-gastro
tourism, and wine industry are shown, and the neighborhood valleys are kept as irrigated agricultural land as a result of incoming water from Tijuana’s water treatment plant
I. Espejel et al.