ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: In 2013 the mexican federal government launched the National Program Against Drought (PRONACOSE, in Spanish), which consists in the attention, monitoring, prevention and mitigation of this recurrent phenomenon. As an integral part of PRONACOSE, Programs of Preventive and Mitigation Drought Measures (PPMDM) for each of the 26 Basin Councils in the country were made. Thus, this paper presents the main results derived from the formulation of PPMDM of the Rio Balsas Basin Council (RBBC). It presents, firstly, a brief description of the Balsas river basin; then exposes the main impact of past droughts in the area of this hydrological basin; continues describing the analysis of current vulnerability to drought in the basin; and finally, presents the series of measures that were defined under the RBBC to deal with future events of drought in three ways: before the phenomenon happens (strategic measures), at the beginning (tactical measures), and when it is already present (emergency measures).
