Protecting a Sacred Gift: Water and Social Change in Mexico

by Whiteford, Scott

• ISBN13: 9781878367464
• ISBN10: 1878367463
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-11-30
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Water and Social Change in Mexico: An Introduction	1	(28)
Scott Whiteford
Roberto Melville
A Paradoxical Privatization: Challenges to Community-Managed Drinking Water Systems in the Valley of Mexico	29	(22)
Michael C. Ennis-McMillan
Impact of the Panuco River Irrigation Project on Ejidatario Farmers	51	(14)
Esteban Valtierra
Scott G. Witter
Moving In or Staying Out: Gender Dimensions of Water Markets	65	(22)
Rhodante Ahlers
The Transfer of Irrigation Districts: Dynamics of Gender Relations	87	(20)
Gabriela Monsalvo Velazquez
Emma Zapata Martelo
Pilar Alberti Manzanares
Managing Social Relations under the Transfer of Irrigation Management in the Michoacan Lowlands	107	(18)
Luz Nereida Perez Prado
Irrigated Agriculture on Ejidos: Complementarities with Off-Farm Economic Strategies	125	(18)
Stephanie Buechler
Local Power Structure and the Distribution of Irrigation Water in Coastal Guerrero	143	(8)
Taurino Hernandez M.
Supplying Water to the Cities: Mexico City's Thirst and Rural Water Rights	151	(12)
Claudia Cirelli
Water Supply Performance, Policy, and Politics on Mexico's Northern Border	163	(26)
Nicolas Pineda
¡Aguas! Historical Water Crisis in Oaxaca City, Mexico	189	(22)
M. Brian Riley
Arthur D. Murphy
Manuel Esparza
Different Managers, Same Problems: Public versus Private Management of Municipal Water Service in Monterrey	211	(20)
Vivienne Bennett
Decentralizing Water Policy on the U.S.-Mexico Border	231	(22)
Stephen P. Mumme
Christopher Brown
The Production of Water for Mexican Development	253	(12)
David Barkin
Acronyms	265	(2)
Contributors	267