Resumen:
Water is a valuable natural resource for life, but the poor management is making it scarce. This lack of care has created a series of social and technical problems, including the difficulties to distribute it to individual homes, particularly in Mexico. In order to solve such problems, it is necessary to find alternatives for its harvesting, care, distribution and use; allowing to reduce social stress, as well as allowing for a better water stewardship. One option is using Biomimicry and design as tools to find innovative, sustainable solutions. The conclusions of this current research project show how two different Mexican plants of notable importance, in economic and even gastronomical terms, had been analyzed through the eyes of the Biomimicry in order to extrapolate possible solutions of water harvesting and distribution. The aim of this paper is to discuss the results of such analyses.
Descripción:
Population growth has put a considerable pressure upon Mexico’s water supply, diminishing it in some regions of the country. The study of Biomimicry has less than 15 years of study, as a discipline aimed to analyses and study natural systems to emulate its characteristics and translate them into designs that can solve needs in a sustainable way. Using the latter to solve the former, it can be said that a possible way to harvest water from the environment to help the water supply; is using as inspiration of the way in which some plants native from Mexico’s dry regions obtain water from the environment in an efficient manner. This is possible since these plants have evolved to extract water micro particles and keep them in their inner reservoirs.
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