Impact of the Pesticides in the Environment and Public Health: The Case of Yucatan, Mexico

Abstract

Actually, it is important the water conservation to prevent high impact on the public health, as well as the application of the environmental regulations, especially when there is a high fragility for water pollution in the ecosystem, particularly in developing countries. Throughout the world, there are rules and regulations that indicate the Maximum Permitted Limits of organochlorine pesticides (OCP) residues in water, which must be monitored so that the water quality does not exceed these limits, however, in Mexico and developing countries it is not met, and have high impacts on the human health and the environment.