Abstract
Social scientists have taken an interest in the distinct components of federal water management policies, often following what government officials were already focusing on. More attention has been paid to recording water rights, the modification of all usage rates, especially domestic use, and the formation of entities for shared responsibility with users within water management e.g. with the establishment of the Consejos de Cuenca y Comités Técnicos de Aguas Subterráneas (Watershed Councils and Technical Committees for Subterranean Water). Other issues, such as that of reusing water in safe conditions and assessing the progress of watershed treatment, have remained in the background. Often current or trustworthy general information about these issues is lacking. This chapter assesses the agricultural reuse of urban wastewater, focusing on the case of the Valle del Mezquital in Hidalgo, but also analysing findings about other examples in the country, which are limited. It is this simultaneous assessment of irrigation with wastewater and the research on this phenomenon that has been conducted in Mexico by social scientists.
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Peña, F. (2012). Social Problems with the Agricultural Use of Urban Wastewater. In: Oswald Spring, Ú. (eds) Water Resources in Mexico. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05432-7_10
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