La guerra del agua: las graves secuelas de la crisis hídrica en Chile (El Mostrador)
Central and Southern Chile have already suffered, for decades, a tendency to lower rainfall amounts, up to 7% per decade at some points, which will probably remain. By 2050, water available in Chile will be reduced by one third in some regions, according to current models, which will extend the irrigation periods that are applied today and reduce more water-intensive crops, especially those without access to technological improvements.
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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of La Frontera. I hold a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Trento (Italy) and completed postdoctoral training at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. I have more than 20 years of experience in water resources research and have previously served as an Associate Researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 and as a member of the Earth Sciences Assessment Group of the Chilean National Research and Development Agency (ANID).
My research lies at the interface of hydrology, data science, and environmental sciences, with a particular focus on the use of gridded datasets and open-source tools to investigate droughts, extreme events, and water-related impacts of global change.
I work across spatial and temporal scales to improve the understanding of catchment-scale hydrological processes and to translate this knowledge into operational modelling, forecasting, and early-warning systems that support robust environmental decision-making.
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