Water Resources in Mexico: Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Water Resources in Mexico: A Conceptual Introduction....Pages 3-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Mexico’s Water Challenges for the 21st Century....Pages 21-38
Integrated Water Management in Hydrological Basins:Multidisciplinary and Multi-Institutionality as an Action Paradigm....Pages 39-49
Analysis of Weather Time Series for Decision-making in Mexico....Pages 51-71
Coastal Aquifers of Sonora: Hydrogeological Analysis Maintaining a Sustainable Equilibrium....Pages 73-85
Preliminary Investigation of Groundwater and Surface Water Geochemistry in Campeche and Southern Quintana Roo....Pages 87-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-100
Environmental Monitoring and Crop Water Demand....Pages 101-110
Advances in Geomatics and Geospatial Technology for Solving the Water Problem in Mexico....Pages 111-127
Water Use for Agriculture in Mexico....Pages 129-143
Social Problems with the Agricultural Use of Urban Wastewater....Pages 145-154
Effects of Land Use in the Hydrology of Montane Catchments in Central-eastern Mexico....Pages 155-166
Impact of Land Use Changes in the Surface Hydrodynamics of a Water-harvesting Basin....Pages 167-176
Evapotranspiration in the Upper and Middle Nazas River Basins....Pages 177-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-188
Potable Water Use from Aquifers Connected to Irrigation of Residual Water....Pages 189-200
Evaluation of the Pollution of Hydrological River Basins:Priorities and Needs....Pages 201-215
Water Quality in the State of Aguascalientes and its Effects on the Population’s Health....Pages 217-229
Potable Water Pollution with Heavy Metals, Arsenic, and Fluorides and Chronic Kidney Disease in Infant Population of Aguascalientes....Pages 231-238
Environmental Study on Cadmium in Groundwater in Yucatan....Pages 239-249
Fish and Macroinvertebrates as Freshwater Ecosystem Bioindicators in Mexico: Current State and Perspectives....Pages 251-261
Configuration of a Hydrocarbon Contamination Plume and Restoration of a Site near Reynosa, Tamaulipas....Pages 263-278
Front Matter....Pages 187-188
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Surface Water and Their Degradation by Advanced Oxidation Process with Ozone....Pages 279-297
Biodegradation of a Reactive Red Azo Dye in an Upflow Anaerobic Bioreactor....Pages 299-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Water Security, Conflicts and Hydrodiplomacy....Pages 319-337
Distribution of Surface Water of the Rio Bravo between Mexico and the United States....Pages 339-350
Determining Spaces for Intervention in a Coastal Basin....Pages 351-366
Social Intervention as a Practice of Translation: Sustainability and Processes of Community Knowledge....Pages 367-377
The Governance Crisis in Urban Water Management in Mexico....Pages 379-393
The Growth of Water Demand in Mexico City and the Over-exploitation of its Aquifers....Pages 395-406
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Reflections on the Magdalena River Master Plan in Mexico City....Pages 409-419
Assessment of a Water Utility Agency: A Multidisciplinary Approach....Pages 421-434
Water Pollution from Agriculture: Policy Challenges in a Case Study of Guanajuato....Pages 435-448
Urban Water Management: From a Vicious Circle to Public Participation, Self-sufficiency and Sustainability....Pages 449-456
Institutional Barriers for Effective Water Governance in Mexico: Study of the Central Gulf Hydrological Administrative Region X....Pages 457-472
Concluding Remarks....Pages 473-490
Back Matter....Pages 491-528