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Divided Waters: Bridging the U.S.-Mexico Border

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Among all natural resource and environmental problems between the USA and Mexico, water has been probably the most troublesome, with ongoing historic contests over water supply becoming superseded by new controversies over water quality. Divided Waters analyzes the politics of water management along the U.S.-Mexico border, the use of the case of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora as a window at the problems and possibilities involved. The authors explore the water problems that Ambos Nogales shares with larger border communities—surface and groundwater contamination, inadequate and insecure supplies, inequitable distribution of resources, flooding, and endangered riparian habitats—making an allowance for both the physical characteristics of the water supply and the coping mechanisms of the individuals who make use of it. They review the existing confusion of laws, administrative practices, and political incentives, then recommend the design elements they imagine should be included before successful improvements can happen at both the institutional and the resource management levels.
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