{"id":35839,"date":"2015-02-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wearewater.org\/insights\/water-the-most-appreciated-asset-on-board-in-progress\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T08:44:29","slug":"water-the-most-appreciated-asset-on-board-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"waw_insight","link":"https:\/\/www.wearewater.org\/en-in\/insights\/water-the-most-appreciated-asset-on-board-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, the most appreciated asset on board"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El paso de los meridiano de la India coincidi\u00f3 con un fallo en la potabilizadora de agua a bordo del We Are Water<\/em> (ver el v\u00eddeo<\/a> de Willy Garc\u00eda a bordo del We Are Water<\/em>). \u201cHoy mismo hemos tenido un problema con la potabilizadora, la m\u00e1quina que hace agua dulce, y durante una hora y media, que es lo que hemos tardado en encontrar la aver\u00eda, hemos estado un poco angustiados<\/em> \u2013 explic\u00f3 Willy Garc\u00eda<\/strong> por email \u2013 Si se te rompe el tim\u00f3n o el palo te tienes que retirar de la regata, pero si te quedas sin potabilizadora tienes un problema grave<\/em>\u201d. La potabilizadora (ver el v\u00eddeo<\/a> de Cali Sanmart\u00ed y Carlos Pich) es la \u00fanica fuente de agua potable a bordo y hay que tener en cuenta que en un velero de regata oce\u00e1nica el agua no se necesita s\u00f3lo para beber sino para comer, ya que la comida liofilizada necesita agua para rehidratarse.<\/p>\n

\"El<\/p>\n

La aver\u00eda de la potabilizadora se dio en una zona distante, unas 1.600 millas n\u00e1uticas del puerto m\u00e1s cercano, que era el de la ciudad australiana de Freemantle. La colonia cient\u00edfica de las islas Kerguelen se encontraba unas 600 millas al sudoeste del We Are Water<\/em>, pero estaba situado dentro de la zona de exclusi\u00f3n de la regata, la zona de peligro de hielo flotante, y esto hubiera supuesto el abandono de la regata por descalificaci\u00f3n. En el mejor de los casos, si la potabilizadora hubiera fallado y Bruno y Willy Garc\u00eda hubieran decidido arrumbar a las islas Kerguelen, hubieran tenido que navegar dos d\u00edas sin beber ni una gota de agua.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

La importancia de cada gota<\/h2><\/div>

Esta situaci\u00f3n muestra la importancia que adquiere la gesti\u00f3n del agua en un velero de regatas oce\u00e1nicas. Estos barcos no transportan agua almacenada, ya que esto supondr\u00eda un peso adicional, inviable para la competitividad del barco. Significar\u00eda adem\u00e1s un problema de almacenamiento a bordo de un barco de unos interiores espartanos, en los que cada cent\u00edmetro de espacio tiene una misi\u00f3n muy espec\u00edfica. La potabilizadora (o desalinizadora) se vuelve la fuente de vida del barco; una fuente de la que brota un exiguo chorro de agua del que no se debe escapar ni una gota.<\/p>\n

\u201cEstamos totalmente acostumbrados a abrir el grifo en casa o ir al s\u00faper a comprar agua, y a bordo te das cuenta de su importancia y de la importancia del mensaje que llevamos alrededor del mundo<\/em>\u201d, afirm\u00f3 Willy Garc\u00eda en la videoconferencia.<\/p>\n

Mientras esto ocurr\u00eda, m\u00e1s de 3.600 millas al norte, en el estado de Andhra Pradesh, en el centro de la India, los agricultores estaban pendientes de cu\u00e1ndo va a regresar el monz\u00f3n de verano; los cultivos de los que viven sus familias y millones de personas dependen de ellos.<\/p>\n

All\u00ed tambi\u00e9n el agua se gestiona gota a gota. En los proyectos en los que la Fundaci\u00f3n We Are Water colabora con la Fundaci\u00f3n Vicente Ferrer, el agua es el bien m\u00e1s preciado, un don de la naturaleza que se recoge en peque\u00f1os embalses, se hace llegar mediante pozos y bombas a los agricultores, y se distribuye en los cultivos mediante regad\u00edos por goteo. Tambi\u00e9n es vital aprovechar cada cent\u00edmetro c\u00fabico de agua, que se pierda lo m\u00ednimo por evaporaci\u00f3n y que cada gota llegue a las ra\u00edces de las plantas.<\/p>\n

\"El<\/p>\n

Bruno y Willy podr\u00edan navegar sedientos hasta un puerto, pero una vez all\u00ed acabar\u00edan sus penurias. En muchas zonas del mundo, el agua, que normalmente las mujeres se encargan de conseguir, est\u00e1 a varios kil\u00f3metros, y este agua cada vez escasea m\u00e1s. Y el agua es el eje vertebrador de los territorios pobres, la soluci\u00f3n para evitar el desarraigo de los peque\u00f1os agricultores y ganaderos que se ven obligados a emigrar a los tugurios de las grandes ciudades.<\/p>\n

El problema con la desalinizadora del We Are Water<\/em> invita a otra reflexi\u00f3n: el consumo. En un velero de regata oce\u00e1nica, el consumo diario de un navegante se sit\u00faa sobre los 2,5 litros, aproximadamente la mitad de lo que consume un habitante de Hindeysa, en Etiop\u00eda, y \u00a1unos 150 litros menos que lo que consume un europeo medio!<\/p>\n

El We Are Water contin\u00faa su ruta hacia el este y el pasado 12 de febrero doblaron el cabo australiano de Leeuwin, el segunda gran cabo del recorrido, y anteayer cruzaron el meridiano del proyecto de Filipinas<\/a>, donde la Fundaci\u00f3n trabaja con World Vision para rehabilitar los sistemas de agua y saneamiento de los afectados por el tif\u00f3n Haiyan. El mensaje sigue dando la vuelta al mundo.<\/p>\n

Recuerda que puedes seguir la evoluci\u00f3n de la baliza Argo que lanzaron Bruno y Willy Garc\u00eda en la p\u00e1gina de la baliza del We Are Water<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Sobre la Fundaci\u00f3n We Are Water<\/h2><\/div>

La Fundaci\u00f3n We Are Water, impulsada por la empresa Roca, tiene como objetivos, por un lado, sensibilizar a la poblaci\u00f3n en general y a las administraciones sobre la necesidad de fomentar una nueva cultura del agua en el mundo y, por otro, paliar los efectos negativos relacionados con la falta de recursos h\u00eddricos, mediante el desarrollo de proyectos de cooperaci\u00f3n y ayuda junto a diversas organizaciones como Educaci\u00f3n Sin Fronteras, Fundaci\u00f3n Vicente Ferrer, Interm\u00f3n Oxfam y Unicef.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":15007,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-35839","waw_insight","type-waw_insight","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWater, the most appreciated asset on board - We Are Water<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wearewater.org\/en-in\/insights\/water-the-most-appreciated-asset-on-board-in-progress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Water, the most appreciated asset on board - 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