Water Resources in Mexico

Table of contents (34 chapters)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. 

   Chapter

   Pages 3-17

   Water Resources in Mexico: A Conceptual Introduction

   Úrsula Oswald Spring, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen

3. Hydrological Processes and Management of Basins

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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      Chapter

      Pages 21-38

      Mexico’s Water Challenges for the 21st Century

      Felipe I. ArreguÍn Cortés, Mario LÓpez Pérez, Humberto Marengo MogollÓn

   3. 

      Chapter

      Pages 39-49

      Integrated Water Management in Hydrological Basins:Multidisciplinary and Multi-Institutionality as an Action Paradigm

      Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, úrsula Oswald Spring, Gabriel Díaz Padilla…

   4. 

      Chapter

      Pages 51-71

      Analysis of Weather Time Series for Decision-making in Mexico

      Gabriel Díaz Padilla, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Rafael Alberto Guajardo Panes

   5. 

      Chapter

      Pages 73-85

      Coastal Aquifers of Sonora: Hydrogeological Analysis Maintaining a Sustainable Equilibrium

      Miguel Rangel Medina, Rogelio Monreal Saavedra, Christopher Watts

   6. 

      Chapter

      Pages 87-97

      Preliminary Investigation of Groundwater and Surface Water Geochemistry in Campeche and Southern Quintana Roo

      Eugene Perry, Guadalupe Velazquez Oliman, Niklas Wagner

4. Water Use, Availability and Alternative Sources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-100

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      Chapter

      Pages 101-110

      Environmental Monitoring and Crop Water Demand

      Jaime Garatuza Payán, Julio Cesar Rodríguez, Christopher J. Watts

   3. 

      Chapter

      Pages 111-127

      Advances in Geomatics and Geospatial Technology for Solving the Water Problem in Mexico

      Felipe Omar Tapia Silva

   4. 

      Chapter

      Pages 129-143

      Water Use for Agriculture in Mexico

      Enrique Palacios Vélez, Enrique Mejia Saez

   5. 

      Chapter

      Pages 145-154

      Social Problems with the Agricultural Use of Urban Wastewater

      Francisco Peña

   6. 

      Chapter

      Pages 155-166

      Effects of Land Use in the Hydrology of Montane Catchments in Central-eastern Mexico

      Lyssette E. Muñoz Villers, Miguel Equihua, Conrado Tobón…

   7. 

      Chapter

      Pages 167-176

      Impact of Land Use Changes in the Surface Hydrodynamics of a Water-harvesting Basin

      José Luis González Barrios, Jean-Pierre Vandervaere, Luc Descroix…

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      Chapter

      Pages 177-185

      Evapotranspiration in the Upper and Middle Nazas River Basins

      Eduardo Chávez Ramírez, Guillermo González Cervantes, José Luis González Barrios…

5. Water Quality, Pollution and Health

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-188

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   2. 

      Chapter

      Pages 189-200

      Potable Water Use from Aquifers Connected to Irrigation of Residual Water

      Juana Enriqueta Cortés Muñoz, César Guillermo Calderón Mólgora

   3. 

      Chapter

      Pages 201-215

      Evaluation of the Pollution of Hydrological River Basins:Priorities and Needs

      Anne M. Hansen, Carlos Corzo Juárez

   4. 

      Chapter

      Pages 217-229

      Water Quality in the State of Aguascalientes and its Effects on the Population’s Health

      Francisco Javier Avelar González, Elsa Marcela Ramírez López…

   5. 

      Chapter

      Pages 231-238

      Potable Water Pollution with Heavy Metals, Arsenic, and Fluorides and Chronic Kidney Disease in Infant Population of Aguascalientes

      Laura Arreola Mendoza, Luz María Del Razo, Olivier Barbier…

   6. 

      Chapter

      Pages 239-249

      Environmental Study on Cadmium in Groundwater in Yucatan

      Julia Pacheco Avila, Armando Cabrera Sansores, Manuel Barcelo Quintal…

   7. 

      Chapter

      Pages 251-261

      Fish and Macroinvertebrates as Freshwater Ecosystem Bioindicators in Mexico: Current State and Perspectives

      Catherine Mathuriau, Norman Mercado Silva, John Lyons, Luis Manuel Martínez Rivera

   8. 

      Chapter

      Pages 263-278

      Configuration of a Hydrocarbon Contamination Plume and Restoration of a Site near Reynosa, Tamaulipas

      Salvador Israel de la Garza González, Raúl Herrera Mendoza