Abstract

PENA, Francisco  and  GRANADOS, Luis Enrique. Urban Archipelagos. The Water Transfer as a Device of Persistent Water Inequality in Mexico. Región y sociedad [online]. 2021, vol.33, e1439.  Epub Sep 20, 2021. ISSN 2448-4849.  https://doi.org/10.22198/rys2021/33/1439.

Objective: to expose the relationship between unequal access to water and transfer as one of the devices of power in Mexico. Methodology: as empirical references, two cases are presented and analyzed: the transfer of the Yaqui territory to the city of Hermosillo and the expansion of the water frontier in the Pánuco river basin as a supplier for the urban archipelago formed by the cities of Monterrey, San Luis Potosí and Querétaro. The main findings show that the transfer does not diminish, but creates greater water scarcity by deepening inequality in access to water. It does not improve water governance, but distorts it and makes it elitist. Value: the study proposes an interpretive framework to assess the cycle of transfers built in the most recent stage of Mexico. That is its scope. Conclusions: the environmental commercial model generates scenarios where the transfer means a round business, which rewards speculation and political cronyism, neglects environmental protection and accentuates social inequality in the analyzed cases.

Keywords : water transfer; hydric inequality; water scarcity; Yaqui territory; Pánuco River; Mexico.

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