Resumen

TOMIC RIVERA, Claudia  y  GONZALEZ SANTANA, Octavio Martín. Federation, municipality, and ejido: jurisdictional conflicts regarding wastewater management in León, Guanajuato, 1930-1950. Carta econ. reg. [online]. 2021, vol.33, n.127, pp.55-72.  Epub 27-Sep-2024. ISSN 2683-2852.  https://doi.org/10.32870/cer.v0i127.7811.

Daniel Newcomer (2002) argues that post-revolutionary governments demonstrated the state of Guanajuato capacity building in infrastructure works (such as the drinking water and sewerage network) that changed the face of León, once a Catholic strong-hold of regional elites, those who remained opposed to the regime. The narrative about the modernization of the city located in the heart of the Bajío, according to Newcomer, hides the use of state violence to impose its projects on the heirs to Synarchism. Without neglecting these considerations, we explore other edges of the construction of the city’s sewerage and the use of wastewater discharges in an agricultural area adjacent to León. The conflicts caused by agricultural reuse of wastewater in the Plan de Ayala ejido led to a heated debate regarding the competence of the federal and local authorities to manage this type of water and to resolve the tensions between the elites and the peasants; they also debated the property rights of the water resource. In this sense, an institutional approach allows us to identify the gaps in the regulatory framework, as well as the organizational arrangements, which gave rise to different perspectives about decision making on the management water sewage.

Palabras llave : wastewater; jurisdictional conflict; federal power; ejido; municipality; León; Guanajuato.

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