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Water Resources in Mexico

Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Úrsula Oswald Spring

    1. Centro Regional de Investigaciones, Multidisciplinarias (CRIM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  • Multidisciplinary and multi-institutional orientation with regional focus on Mexico
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace (HSHES, volume 7)

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Water Resources in Mexico: A Conceptual Introduction

    • Úrsula Oswald Spring, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen
    Pages 3-17

  3. Hydrological Processes and Management of Basins

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Mexico’s Water Challenges for the 21st Century

      • Felipe I. ArreguÍn Cortés, Mario LÓpez Pérez, Humberto Marengo MogollÓn
      Pages 21-38

    3. Integrated Water Management in Hydrological Basins:Multidisciplinary and Multi-Institutionality as an Action Paradigm

      • Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, úrsula Oswald Spring, Gabriel Díaz Padilla, José Luís González Barrios
      Pages 39-49

    4. Analysis of Weather Time Series for Decision-making in Mexico

      • Gabriel Díaz Padilla, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Rafael Alberto Guajardo Panes
      Pages 51-71

    5. Coastal Aquifers of Sonora: Hydrogeological Analysis Maintaining a Sustainable Equilibrium

      • Miguel Rangel Medina, Rogelio Monreal Saavedra, Christopher Watts
      Pages 73-85

    6. Preliminary Investigation of Groundwater and Surface Water Geochemistry in Campeche and Southern Quintana Roo

      • Eugene Perry, Guadalupe Velazquez Oliman, Niklas Wagner
      Pages 87-97

  4. Water Use, Availability and Alternative Sources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-100
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    2. Environmental Monitoring and Crop Water Demand

      • Jaime Garatuza Payán, Julio Cesar Rodríguez, Christopher J. Watts
      Pages 101-110

    3. Advances in Geomatics and Geospatial Technology for Solving the Water Problem in Mexico

      • Felipe Omar Tapia Silva
      Pages 111-127

    4. Water Use for Agriculture in Mexico

      • Enrique Palacios Vélez, Enrique Mejia Saez
      Pages 129-143

    5. Social Problems with the Agricultural Use of Urban Wastewater

      • Francisco Peña
      Pages 145-154

    6. Effects of Land Use in the Hydrology of Montane Catchments in Central-eastern Mexico

      • Lyssette E. Muñoz Villers, Miguel Equihua, Conrado Tobón, Francisco J. Gutiérrez Mendieta
      Pages 155-166

    7. Impact of Land Use Changes in the Surface Hydrodynamics of a Water-harvesting Basin

      • José Luis González Barrios, Jean-Pierre Vandervaere, Luc Descroix, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Eduardo Chávez Ramírez, Guillermo González Cervantes
      Pages 167-176

    8. Evapotranspiration in the Upper and Middle Nazas River Basins

      • Eduardo Chávez Ramírez, Guillermo González Cervantes, José Luis González Barrios, Alejandro López Dzul
      Pages 177-185

  5. Water Quality, Pollution and Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-188
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    2. Potable Water Use from Aquifers Connected to Irrigation of Residual Water

      • Juana Enriqueta Cortés Muñoz, César Guillermo Calderón Mólgora
      Pages 189-200

    3. Evaluation of the Pollution of Hydrological River Basins:Priorities and Needs

      • Anne M. Hansen, Carlos Corzo Juárez
      Pages 201-215

    4. Water Quality in the State of Aguascalientes and its Effects on the Population’s Health

      • Francisco Javier Avelar González, Elsa Marcela Ramírez López, Ma. Consolación Martínez Saldaña, Alma Lilián Guerrero Barrera, Fernando Jaramillo Juárez, José Luís Reyes Sánchez
      Pages 217-229
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Water resources in Mexico are threatened by scarcity, pollution and climate change. In two decades water consumption doubled, producing water stress in dry seasons and semi-arid and arid regions. Water stress rises due to physical and economic stress. In seven parts a multidisciplinary team analyzes hydrological processes in basins and their interaction with climate, soil and biota. Competing water use in agriculture, industry and domestic needs require savings, decontamination processes and desalination to satisfy the growing demand. Water quality affects health and ecosystems. This creates conflicts and cooperation that may be enhanced by public policy, institution building and social organization.

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  • Centro Regional de Investigaciones, Multidisciplinarias (CRIM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Úrsula Oswald Spring

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