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ROLLAND, Louise  y  VEGA CARDENAS, Yenny. Mexican management of water. Polis [online]. 2010, vol.6, n.2, pp.155-188. ISSN 2594-0686.

At the beginning of the present millennium, the Mexican government declared water issues as an issue of national interest. In absolute terms, though, the country is not in lack of water; rather, it is the inequality in the distribution of the resource over the territory, it's pollution and lack of hydraulic infrastructure maintenance that are responsible for this shortage. The authors propose to view this situation through the influence that the socioeconomic context of the country and its level of international dependence had on the public policy elaboration and the adoption of governance models. Traditionally, water was considered as a common good, its management was entrusted for a long time to public agencies responsible of overseeing for general interest. However, since 1992, new governance models based on administrative decentralization, decision-making democratization, but also resource privatization, were incited by the economic international organizations.

Palabras llave : water management; decentralization; democratization and water privatization.

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