SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 7. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Noble Hall of the Cabildo de Tenerife hosted this Monday the presentation of the book ‘Notes on water and society in Tenerife’, by the recently deceased engineer and researcher Adolfo Hoyos-Limón Gil.
“We are facing a didactic work that collects part of the recent history of our island, which has to do with something as decisive in Tenerife’s economy as water,” said the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín.
Pedro Martín pointed out “the exceptional importance of having a document that not only talks about exploitation and delivery of water but also about the imprint it has left on our economy and social relations.” And, he said, it is “important because if water is fundamental anywhere in the world, in Tenerife it plays a special role in fixing the population and determines power relations and drives economic development.”
The Minister for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina, stressed that “Adolfo Hoyos managed to leave his mark on the work he left behind”, and stressed that although he did not have the opportunity to meet him personally, “during the editing period of the book I have been able to share many of its virtues with people who did know him”, and assured that he was “fascinated by the warmth, affection and affection with which they referred to the author”.
The presentation table of the volume also had the presence of Carlos Acevedo Ríos, vice president of the Insular Chamber of Waters of Tenerife, Emilio Grande de Azpeitia, former dean of the Demarcation of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the College of Civil Engineers, Canals and Ports (CICCP) and José D. Fernández Bethencourt who acted as presenter of the book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adolfo Hoyos Limón Gil was a Civil Engineer, Canals and Ports and an economist. His initial technical training was complemented with economic training, as the basis for a meticulous analysis of what was within his reach in his professional and personal career, first as a private consultant, then as a public official, followed by his managerial and political stage as general director of Water and Roads of the Government of the Canary Islands, and advisor to the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife.
He was dean and deputy dean of the College of Civil Engineers, Canals and Ports (CICCP), and his contribution to synthesis was important with the publication (1987, in two parts) of his work ‘Bases for the establishment of a Water policy for the Canary Islands ‘, with which the provincial demarcation of the CICCP began the series of publications ‘Cuadernos’.
His tasks as a more conventional researcher in hydrology and socioeconomics were soon accompanied by a meticulous and in-depth analysis of the historical, sociological and legal process of water, especially groundwater, in the Canary Islands.
Until the last moment, he continued these tasks and had prepared a work to disseminate his last reflections (‘Agua y Sociedad en Tenerife’), which he intended to present when his sudden death occurred (July 5, 2021).
