Water Policy in Mexico

1. Front Matter

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2. Mexican Water Policy As Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction and Lessons Learned

      • Hilda R. Guerrero García Rojas

      Pages 3-17

   3. Mexican Water Sector: A Brief Review of Its History

      • Hector Manuel Arias-Rojo, Roberto Fernando Salmón-Castelo

      Pages 19-51

3. Sectorial Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Effects of Water Availability and Policy Changes for Irrigated Agriculture

      • Antonio Yunez-Naude, Patricia C. Aguilar-Mendez

      Pages 55-74

   3. Mexico, the Water Stress: Challenges and Opportunities in Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

      • Luis Alberto Seguí Amórtegui, Gabriela Moeller-Chávez, Andrés De Andrés Mosquera

      Pages 75-87

   4. Industrial Water Use in Mexico: Analysis of Efficiencies Using Water Price Elasticity

      • Hilda R. Guerrero García Rojas, Faustino Gomez-Santiz, Erandi Maldonado-Villalpando

      Pages 89-113

   5. Water Utilities: Is Their Sustained Financial Efficiency Achievable? – The Mexican Case

      • Ricardo Sandoval-Minero

      Pages 115-134

4. Institutional Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Water Price Policy and Its Institutional Role as an Economic Instrument for Water Management

      • Hilda R. Guerrero García Rojas, Diego Garcia-Vega, Hugo Amador Herrera-Torres

      Pages 137-152

   3. River Basin Organization, the Best Path Towards Integrated Water Resources Management?

      • Jorge Arturo Hidalgo-Toledo, Cipriana Hernández-Arce, Sergio Vargas-Velázquez

      Pages 153-169

   4. Payments for Environmental Services: Between Forest Resource Management and Institutional Building

      • Ricardo Hernández-Murillo, Sazcha Marcelo Olivera-Villarroel

      Pages 171-185

   5. Water Management Instruments in the National Waters Law

      • Luis Enrique Ramos Bustillos, Gustavo A. Ortiz Rendón

      Pages 187-211

   6. Indigenous People and the Right to Water

      • Sergio Vargas-Velázquez

      Pages 213-234

5. International Water Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. From the Abundance of Waters to the Scarcity of Studies: Contemplating Hydropolitics in Mexico-Guatemala and Mexico-Belize Borders

      • Edith F. Kauffer

      Pages 237-262

   3. The US-Mexico Border: Institutional Weaknesses in Meeting the Growing Demand for Water

      • Vicente Sánchez Munguía

      Pages 263-279

6. Present and Future Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281

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   2. Climate Change and Vulnerability of Water Resources in Mexico: Challenges for Basin Management

      • Eduardo Ríos Patrón, Daniel Iura González Terrazas, Ignacio Daniel González Mora

      Pages 283-307

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.

• Mexico
• Water policy
• Environmental Policy
• Institutional Policy
• Water Economics

• Facultad de Economía, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo (UMSNH), Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico

  Hilda R. Guerrero García Rojas

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.

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