Residents will gather Thursday at the State Government Plaza to demand strongerlegal protections for the state’s primary water source.
Organizers say they want officials to ban activities such as mining and large-scale housing developments that could threaten the supply, while allowing only traditional practices that have long coexisted with the environment.
“More than 80 percent of Baja California Sur’s population relies on water from our mountains, which receive up to 1,800 millimeters of rainfall each year,” organizers said in a statement. “These mountains are vital for recharging the aquifers that sustain communities across the southern part of the state.”
