Water Quality and Water Footprint in Southwest Buenos Aires

Case Chasicó and Monte Hermoso Province of Buenos Aires Argentina. The southwest of the province of Buenos Aires is characterized by a transitional temperate climate. Although it is not an arid region water has been a scarce commodity on several occasions. In particular the use of groundwater in two localities with different profiles is discussed. Chasicó is a small town with an agricultural and livestock tradition. Monte Hermoso is an urban locality devoted to tourism. This work proposes two tools within the Integrated Water Resources water quality and the Water Footprint. Finally a test is proposed to approximate the amount of water demanded in the area worked in Chasicó due to wheat cultivation applying a Normalized Water Differential Index that is expressed in a series of maps for the months of July August October and December 2017. Finally the results are compared with those of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.