Author: José Luis Castro RuizPublisher:
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Category : Water utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Institutional Context of Water Provision in Mexico's Northern Border Cities
Author: José Luis Castro RuizPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Divided Waters
Author: Helen M. IngramPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816515646
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Explains the nature of water development and utilization on the U.S.-Mexico border, using the border city of Nogales as its focus in delineating the social, economic, political, and institutional problems that stand in the way of effective management, and arguing for the development of a more integrated and participatory approach to managing binational water resources.
Water Availability and Management in Mexico
Author: Elena María Otazo-SánchezPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303024962X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
This book presents several complex case studies related to water management and planning in the context of pollution, growing demands, and global climate change in Mexico, but which are also relevant for other countries in Latin America. These concerns are of critical importance for policymakers who are coping with multiple conflicting interests. Water availability in Mexico is polarized, with abundant rainfall and large rivers in the south, and desert-like conditions in the north. The central region, which is the most industrialized, is overpopulated. Mexico City pours millions of cubic meters of “blackwater” into the northern valley daily and receives its clean water from the south. To address these unsustainable conditions, the world's 4th biggest water treatment plant went into operation in 2018. The water infrastructure and governance must satisfy the demands of all sectors, including agricultural, urban, and economic activities. At the same time, water resources are affected by drought, and climate change puts constraints on the supply. As such, regulation and monitoring are important when it comes to adherence to agreed plans and priorities. The book is divided into four sections. 1: Water Availability discusses quantitative aspects, such as supply, methods of calculation, and fracking. 2: Water Quality highlights pollution risks and diagnosis of water resources. 3: Water Allocation examines the sectoral demands and vulnerability due to unsustainable irrigation. 4: Water Governance and Management focuses on laws, urban rules, national parks, planning, and integrated water resources management, among other topics. The chapters include illustrative case studies in Mexico, such as basins, cities, reservoirs, and aquifers, water supply demand assessment, planning, and management.
Water Policy in Mexico
Author: Hilda R. Guerrero García RojasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319761153
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Mexico is currently facing severe problems with water availability, wastage and contamination. The most contaminated and over-exploited water resources are concentrated in the most populated areas of the country, where water is scarcer and its quality makes it unsuitable for a variety of uses, including human consumption. At the same time it is indisputable that water quality is a determining factor in public health and ecosystems. The significant growth in population and industry results in a high demand for water, along with contaminating discharges, few of which are treated – and the impact upon the ecosystems is evident. This book addresses all these topics in a single volume, taking into account the challenges presented by the economic, institutional and environmental considerations in Mexico’s water policy framework.
The U.S.-Mexican Border Environment
Author: Suzanne MichelPublisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN: 0925613401
Category : Sustainable development
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Thickening Civil Society
Author: Daniel M. SabetPublisher:
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Category : Civil society
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Mexico City's Water Supply
Author: The Joint Academies Committee on the Mexico City Water SupplyPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309587948
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book addresses the technical, health, regulatory, and social aspects of ground water withdrawals, water use, and water quality in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, and makes recommendations to improve the balance of water supply, water demand, and water conservation. The study came about through a nongovernmental partnership between the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council and the Mexican Academies of Science and Engineering. The book will contain a Spanish-language translation of the complete English text.
Protecting a Sacred Gift
Author: Scott WhitefordPublisher: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of Cali
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Protecting a Sacred Gift makes a strong case that culture, gender, place, politics, and history shape Mexico's water resources policy, management strategies, and, ultimately, its physical and cultural landscapes. This edited volume presents diverse disciplinary approaches - anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science, sociology, and women's studies - all of which converge on theoretical and substantive interest in equity, public participation, and power associated with water. Indeed, the editors make the bold claim that water resources management must go far beyond technological innovation and economic efficiency to include 'visions of fairness in access, protection of the least privileged, engagement of stakeholders in all phases of distribution and maintenance, and a view of development that is sustainable.'
Thirst for Reform? Private Sector Participation in Providing Mexico City's Water Supply
Author: Maria Ana ZuluagaPublisher:
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Languages : en
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August 2001 In the early 1990s Mexico City's Federal District (the D.F.) initiated a series of service contracts with four operators in the private sector--each to be implemented in three stages over ten years. The idea was to introduce competitive pressures and to find out if a "gradualist" approach would reduce social and political opposition to private sector involvement and would allow the government to address pricing problems and strengthen regulatory arrangements. The case in Mexico City offered an opportunity to observe the advantages and disadvantages of gradualist reform. Unfortunately Haggarty, Brook, and Zuluaga find that the long-term nature of an incremental approach does not match well with the generally shorter-term horizons of elected politicians. Difficult decisions in implementation are left to later years, which pushes potentially unpopular actions onto the shoulders of future administrations, while allowing the current government to claim credit for instituting reform. The reform planned--and implemented--was not designed to tackle the city's most serious water problems, including overconsumption and waste. And reform did little to change residential consumers' incentives to conserve water. Overexploitation of the aquifer has been a problem since at least the 1930s. Mexico City is built on a series of drained lakebeds, and the land is soft and prone to settling, or subsiding, as the aquifer is depleted. Several areas of the city center have sunk by over two meters in the past decade alone. And by virtue of its location and elevation, the city's alternative water sources are expensive. The need for change is stark, but the power to undertake reform to tackle broad problems of resource management in the city and surrounding areas lies outside the jurisdiction of the D.F. with the federal government. Such external funding of major supply projects weakens the incentives for conservation. Reform reduced the increasing rate of overexploitation of the aquifer, but partly by simply failing to meet demand. Reform to provide more equitable and sustainable water delivery must focus on improving the efficiency of operations, on substantially reforming the way water resources are priced and allocated, and on the design, management, and pricing of wastewater services. Federal subsidies for new production must be reduced, prices for system operators and consumers must rise, and more must be invested in the treatment and storage of wastewater--all of which requires strong political leadership. This paper--a product of Regulation and Competition Policy, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to analyze institutional issues in regulated infrastructure. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project "Institutions, Politics, and Contracts: Private Sector Participation in Urban Water Supply" (RPO 681-87). The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
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