Water Policy in Mexico

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.

Auteur

Hilda R. Guerrero García Rojas is a professor of economics & environment in the Facultad de Economia, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. She is among the leading water policy experts in Mexico and contributed to policy work in Mexico. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on "economic assessment of policy interventions in the water sector; industrial water demand in Mexico: econometric analysis and implications for water management policy." She worked for Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua (IMTA) and as a consultant, she has been collaborating with the World Bank, Colegio de México (COLMEX), OECD and with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Publication topics involving Guerrero include "Water pricing reforms in Mexico: The case of manufacturing sector"; "Applying water demand: Case for industrial use on Mexico"; "Water in Mexico: Impact of policy interventions in the sector"; "Water pricing reforms in Mexico: The case of the manufacturing sector", among others. Guerrero's areas of interest are natural resources and environmental economics, integrated water management (IWM), economic instruments applied to natural resources, water price and its reforms, applied economics, environmental economic valuation, micro-econometrics, climate change in water sector and economics of climate change.

Contenu

Part 1. Mexican Water Policy as Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction and Lessons Learned.- Chapter 2. Mexican Water Sector: A Brief Review of Its History.- Part 2. Sectorial issues.- Chapter 3. Effects of Water Availability and Policy Changes for Irrigated Agriculture.- Chapter 4. Mexico, The Water Stress: Challenges and Opportunities in Wastewater Treatment and Reuse.- Chapter 5. Industrial Water Use in Mexico: Analysis of Efficiencies Using Water Price Elasticity.- Chapter 6. Water Utilities: Is Their Sustained Financial Efficiency Achievable? - The Mexican Case.- Part 3. Institutional issues.- Chapter 7. Water Price Policy, Its Institutional Role as Economic Instrument for Water Management.- Chapter 8. River Basin Organization, The Best Path Towards Integrated Water Resources Management?.- Chapter 9. Payments for Environmental Services: Between Forest Resources Management and Institutional Building.- Chapter 10. Water management instruments in the National Waters Law.- Chapter 11. Indigenous People and The Right to Water.- Part 4. International Water Issues.- Chapter 12. From The Abundance of Waters to the Scarcity of Studies: Contemplating Hydropolitics in Mexico-Guatemala and Mexico-Belize Borders.- Chapter 13. The U.S. Mexico Border: Institutional Weaknesses in Meeting the Growing Demand for Water.- Part 5. Present and Future Challenges.- Chapter 14. Climate Change and Vulnerability of Water Resources in Mexico: Challenges for Basin Management.- Chapter 15. Science and technology for Integrated Water Resources Management in Mexico.