Abstract

MARTINEZ OMANA, María Concepción  and  PADILLA ARROYO, Antonio. Actores e instituciones en el México posrevolucionario: Resistencia, luchas y apropiaciones de la política hídrica en el sur de la ciudad de México. Cuicuilco [online]. 2011, vol.18, n.51, pp.157-179. ISSN 0185-1659.

In the first half of the 20th century, in the framework of the construction of the Mexican State post-revolutionary, a public policy was the design and implementation of a water policy that was intended to ensure control, access and use of various bodies of water, including rivers, springs, to social sectors who lacked or were struggling to ensure the supply of this resource either complementing the agricultural allocation policy. This enabling disputes and conflicts for control and regulation of fluid between different social and political actors such as the federal Government, local governments, peoples, farming communities, residents of small towns and individuals. This text is considered the experience in the fight which fought some of these actors to ensure the supply and provision of water. Interest in this case is not only temporary duration but the very nature of the dispute engaged communities and peoples of the south of Mexico city and were part of the mexican State's land and water policy.

Keywords : water Policy; social conflicts; State post-revolutionary; control and water supplies.