Hell on Earth
But heat likewise eliminates. In 2019 there were at least 8 deaths in Mexicali related to heats; in 2020, they were 83.
“People cannot live with those temperatures, that is, people die”, Zavala stated, “although they are used to the heat, even small increases break the threshold for the human body to survive.”
On Aug. 14, 2020, Mexicali signed up 122 degrees Fahrenheit, climaxing of 121 that dated from August 1981.
Froilán Meza Rivera, an experienced reporter and author from northern Mexico, sought advice from the archives of the Secretariat of Hydraulic Resources. It appears that in July 1966, in Riíto, a Mexicali neighborhood, a thermometer reached an unmatched figure of 140 degrees Fahrenheit. And that was its limitation: the mercury increased to the leading and might not determine anymore.
It would be the greatest figure in the world: according to the World Meteorological Organization, the greatest taped temperature level is 134 degrees Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913, in California’s Death Valley.
The area is exposed to the worst possible circumstances in regards to an environment emergency situation, according to Roberto Sánchez Rodríguez, a scholastic from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. “Governments have mismanaged resources, and that is why there is less water available,” he stated.
The narcos likewise fish
Since 1993, the fishing area of the Cucapá has actually been consisted of in the Upper Gulf of California and the Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve, which has an area of 2.3 million acres. This safeguarded location was produced to protect the plants and animals, such as the vaquita cetaceans and the totoaba, which are at the verge of termination.
“We abide by the rules, we know that species have to be protected because we are an Indigenous people, we use the nets and equipment that the government asks of us and we do not go out when it’s not our turn,” stated Rubén Flores, captain of a panga, a boat utilized for conventional fishing.
An earthquake in 2010 likewise impacted fishing. “It left us huge cracks that got bigger, and that doesn’t allow us to fish like before,” stated Hilda Hurtado Valenzuela, 68, president of the Sociedad Cooperativa Pueblo Indígena Cucapá, among the associations that groups together individuals who are still fishing.
“Now the ocean currents enter where the old banks of the river used to be, they damage it and we are left without part of our territory,” stated Hurtado, who stated she was born upon the banks of the Colorado River.
