The Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (MAG), in México, is experiencing scarcity and water over-exploitation. In addition, it suffers seasonal flooding that is inappropriately channeled, generating a strong negative environmental impact. These problems have their origin in the waterproofing of the urban area.

Many cities around the world have used deep injection wells to recover aquifers and remove surface water, but it requires certain geohydrological conditions for the implementation of these deep injection wells, such as more than 30 meters depth, significant surface runoff, acceptable water quality for infiltration, considerable depth in the groundwater levels and good subsurface permeability. All these conditions exist in the MAG or could be achieved without investment.

A diagnostic to explore the feasibility of a solution based on this technology is presented as a strategy to recover aquifers and reduce flooding. The first step was to identify, through map algebra, a suitable micro basin for this technology. Then, it was obtained the mean volume of runoff and a stratigraphic profile based on 19 standard penetration tests (SPT) was developed. With this data, a numerical simulation of injection wells deep in different dimensions was performed, providing recommendations for a solution based on these calculations.

The results show that both problems can be solved with this relatively simple and cheap technology, which supports the public health.