Fonte: El Periplo Sustentable; Núm. 46 (2024): Número cuarenta y seis; 244 - 261
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Resumo: This research addresses the incidence of drinking water consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic. Puerto Vallarta is one of the most important beach destinations in the Mexican Pacific, currently the production of water and its consumption are almost in equilibrium. The objective of this research is to determine and analyze the consumption of drinking water before and during the health crisis, which allows establishing the sufficiency of its supply. The research is based on a descriptive quantitative analysis of primary sources, making a projection of the population by the method of potential regression for 2019, hotel occupancy rates and determining consumption and demand for water in Puerto Vallarta. The results show that the consumption analyzed with respect to a typical year, although the pandemic caused by COVID-19 represented a significant decrease in consumption patterns in users of hotel services with respect to the year 2019, with a variation of -27.85%. But for domestic consumption, despite the sanitary restrictions, it increased with a variation of 2.11%. Puerto Vallarta, being a beach destination, has a warm and safe climate for the development of sun and beach activities, which has generated a greater increase in tourists in recent years. Consequently, the greater the increase in tourists, is equivalent to greater demand for hotel infrastructure, this leads to a greater demand for basic services. With this increase in drinking water consumption, with the same production capacity, it would be causing water stress.
