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

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.

List of contents

Part I: Hydrological processes, management of basins and their interaction with climate, soil and biota.- Part 2: Uses of water, availability and alternative sources.- Part 3: Quality of water, pollution and health.- Part 4: Social effects, conflicts and hydro-diplomacy.- Part 5: Public policy, institutions and legal aspects.

About the author

Úrsula Oswald Spring, Professor at UNAM-CRIM, xi co; first UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on sustainability, development, gender, disaster, poverty and colla borates with pea sants.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Úrsul Oswald Spring (Editor), Úrsula Oswald Spring (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2014
• EAN: 9783642271304
• ISBN: 978-3-642-27130-4
• No. of pages: 530
• Dimensions: 193 mm x 29 mm x 260 mm
• Weight: 1168 g
• Illustrations: XXX, 530 p.
• Series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace; Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; B, Water, Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Science, Earth Sciences, Hydrology, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Hydrology/Water Resources, Physical geography, Hydrogeology, Soil conservation, Soil Science, Agricultural science, Sedimentology & pedology, Soil Science & Conservation, Physical geography & topography