Water resources in Mexico : scarcity, degradation, stress, conflicts, management, and policy

Contents List of Figures IX List of Tables XVII Acknowledgments XXI Permissions and Credits XXIII Preface 1 Estela Morales Campos Introduction 3 1 Water Resources in Mexico: A Conceptual Introduction 5 Úrsula Oswald Spring and Ignacio Sánchez Cohen Part I Hydrological Processes and Management of Basins 19 2 Mexico’s Water Challenges for the 21st Century 21 Felipe I. Arreguín Cortés, Mario López Pérez and Humberto Marengo Mogollón 3 Integrated Water Management in Hydrological Basins: Multidisciplinary and Multi-Institutionality as an Action Paradigm 39 Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Gabriel Díaz Padilla and José Luís González Barrios 4 Analysis of Weather Time Series for Decision-making in Mexico 51 Gabriel Díaz Padilla, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen and Rafael Alberto Guajardo Panes 5 Coastal Aquifers of Sonora: Hydrogeological Analysis Maintaining a Sustainable Equilibrium 73 Miguel Rangel Medina, Rogelio Monreal Saavedra and Christopher Watts 6 Preliminary Investigation of Groundwater and Surface Water Geochemistry in Campeche and Southern Quintana Roo 87 Eugene Perry, Guadalupe Velazquez Oliman and Niklas Wagner v vi Contents Part II Water Use, Availability and Alternative Sources 99 7 Environmental Monitoring and Crop Water Demand 101 Jaime Garatuza Payán, Julio Cesar Rodríguez and Christopher J. Watts 8 Advances in Geomatics and Geospatial Technology for Solving the Water Problem in Mexico 111 Felipe Omar Tapia Silva 9 Water Use for Agriculture in Mexico 129 Enrique Palacios Vélez and Enrique Mejia Saez 10 Social Problems with the Agricultural Use of Urban Wastewater 145 Francisco Peña 11 Effects of Land Use in the Hydrology of Montane Catchments in Central-eastern Mexico 155 Lyssette E. Muñoz Villers, Miguel Equihua, Conrado Tobón and Francisco J. Gutiérrez Mendieta 12 Impact of Land Use Changes in the Surface Hydrodynamics of a Water-harvesting Basin 167 José Luis González Barrios, Jean-Pierre Vandervaere, Luc Descroix, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Eduardo Chávez Ramírez and Guillermo González Cervantes 13 Evapotranspiration in the Upper and Middle Nazas River Basins 177 Eduardo Chávez Ramírez, Guillermo González Cervantes, José Luis González Barrios and Alejandro López Dzul Part III Water Quality, Pollution and Health 187 14 Potable Water Use from Aquifers Connected to Irrigation of Residual Water 189 Juana Enriqueta Cortés Muñoz and César Guillermo Calderón Mólgora 15 Evaluation of the Pollution of Hydrological River Basins: Priorities and Needs 201 Anne M. Hansen and Carlos Corzo Juárez 16 Water Quality in the State of Aguascalientes and its Effects on the Population’s Health 217 Francisco Javier Avelar González, Elsa Marcela Ramírez López, Ma. Consolación Martínez Saldaña, Alma Lilián Guerrero Barrera, Fernando Jaramillo Juárez and José Luís Reyes Sánchez 17 Potable Water Pollution with Heavy Metals, Arsenic, and Fluorides and Chronic Kidney Disease in Infant Population of Aguascalientes 231 Laura Arreola Mendoza, Luz María Del Razo, Olivier Barbier, M. Consolación Martínez Saldaña, Francisco Javier Avelar González, Fernando Jaramillo Juárez and José L. Reyes Sánchez 18 Environmental Study on Cadmium in Groundwater in Yucatan 239 Julia Pacheco Avila, Armando Cabrera Sansores, Manuel Barcelo Quintal, Ligia Alcocer Can and Mercy Pacheco Perera Contents vii 19 Fish and Macroinvertebrates as Freshwater Ecosystem Bioindicators in Mexico: Current State and Perspectives 251 Catherine Mathuriau, Norman Mercado Silva, John Lyons and Luis Manuel Martínez Rivera 20 Configuration of a Hydrocarbon Contamination Plume and Restoration of a Site near Reynosa, Tamaulipas 263 Salvador Israel de la Garza González and Raúl Herrera Mendoza 21 Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in Surface Water and Their Degradation by Advanced Oxidation Process with Ozone 279 Ramiro Vallejo Rodríguez and Alberto López López 22 Biodegradation of a Reactive Red Azo Dye in an Upflow Anaerobic Bioreactor 299 Linda González and Eleazar Escamilla Silva Part IV Social Effects, Conflicts and Hydrodiplomacy 317 23 Water Security, Conflicts and Hydrodiplomacy 319 Úrsula Oswald Spring 24 Distribution of Surface Water of the Rio Bravo between Mexico and the United States 339 Vicente Germán Soto and José Luis Escobedo Sagaz 25 Determining Spaces for Intervention in a Coastal Basin 351 Antonina Galván Fernández 26 Social Intervention as a Practice of Translation: Sustainability and Processes of Community Knowledge 367 Claudia Rocío González Pérez and Antonina Galván Fernández 27 The Governance Crisis in Urban Water Management in Mexico 379 David Barkin 28 The Growth of Water Demand in Mexico City and the Over-exploitation of its Aquifers 395 Jorge A. Morales Novelo and Lilia Rodríguez Tapia Part V Public Policy, Institutions and Legal Aspects 407 29 Reflections on the Magdalena River Master Plan in Mexico City 409 Arsenio Ernesto González Reynoso and Itzkuauhtli Zamora Saenz 30 Assessment of a Water Utility Agency: A Multidisciplinary Approach 421 Alejandra Martín Domínguez, Víctor Javier Bourguett Ortiz, Flor Virginia Cruz Gutiérrez, Miguel Ángel Mejía González, Víctor Hugo Alcocer Yamanaka, Juan Maldonado Silvestre, Gustavo Armando Ortíz Rendón, Petronilo Cortés Mejía, Arturo González Herrera, Martín Piña Soberanis, Ma. de Lourdes Rivera Huerta, Leticia Montellano Palacios, Carlos Eduardo Mariano Romero and Velitchko Georguiev Tzatchkov viii Contents 31 Water Pollution from Agriculture: Policy Challenges in a Case Study of Guanajuato 435 Rosario Pérez Espejo 32 Urban Water Management: From a Vicious Circle to Public Participation, Self-sufficiency and Sustainability 449 Nicolás Pineda Pablos and Alejandro Salazar Adams 33 Institutional Barriers for Effective Water Governance in Mexico: Study of the Central Gulf Hydrological Administrative Region X 457 Judith Domínguez Serrano Concluding Remarks 473 34 Concluding Remarks 475 Úrsula Oswald Spring Abbreviations 491 Biographies 497 Index 509