Ethnolinguistic Divisions and Access to Clean Water in Mexico

Rivas, Marcela González

doi:10.1353/lar.2014.0025

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“…Only 54% of the world's population have access to water in their residence through a plumbing system. According to González Rivas (2014), this figure rises to 98% if we look only at developed countries but falls to 46% when considering only developing countries. It is also very unevenly distributed depending on the environment where the individual lives.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Studies on water have variously focused on water scarcity (Bennett & Lynch, 1990;White, 1998;González Rivas, 2014); water pollution (Pečar, 1981;White & Heckenberg, 2014;Barclay & Bartel, 2015;Eman, Kuhar & Meško, 2016), the privatisation of water (White, 2003;Whelan & White, 2005;Humar & Eman, 2017;Barclay & Bartel, 2015), and environmental justice issues (South & Brisman, 2013;Johnson, South & Walters, 2016). Discussions have also dealt with the issue of the quantity and quality of the water by relating these to the status of water as a tradeable commodity (Whelan & Willis, 2006;Whelan, 2009;Brisman et al, 2018), as well as non-economic consideration of the social and cultural value of water (Alston & Mason, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…González Rivas (2014) stresses that around four billion people or two-thirds of the world's population, for at least one month yearly, have to struggle with severe water shortages. The most affected countries are China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico and parts of the USA.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most affected countries are China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico and parts of the USA. These problems reflect compounding issues such as falling groundwater levels, lakes drying up, less water flowing in rivers, and water supplies for industry and farmers being threatened (Rivas 2014). Together these trends present a huge threat to freshwater reserves on the global level.…”

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“…And given the equipment and infrastructure necessary to convey clean water across distances and deliver it into households, it is certainly possible for governments to exclude certain people from access or to privilege others. For example, study of water access in the Mexico City metropolitan area revealed large variations between societal groups, variation that is attributed to differences in the political power of those groups (González Rivas, 2014). Unequal distribution of freshwater is also evident in Brasilia where indigenous people were forced to leave the land where their cattle daily drank water for decades before a private company bought the land, and in the case of the almost dried out Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Lake Chad in West Africa, the Ogallala Aquifer in the USA, and the Mexico City Aquifer (Tiha privatizacija vode, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Fresh water is a basic essential of life. It is fundamental to the wellbeing of humans, to ecosystems and to flora and fauna. It constitutes the lifeblood of many industries, from tourism to mining, agriculture to aquaculture. Activities and events that threaten the quantity and quality of fresh water therefore have major negative consequences for health, business success and national security. What is more, water is "one of the world's greatest renewable resources and is a natural monopoly essential to health and wellbeing" (Whelan & White, 2005, p. 135). In other words, clean safe water presents as a biological, social, economic, and spiritual necessity for contemporary society (Archer, 1998, p. 30).While essential to life, there are presently a number of threats to fresh water supply on a world scale. The scarcity of water is itself part of the problems. As this chapter demonstrates, water issues have a number of dimensions and from the point of view of human rights can be analysed in relation to notions of crime, criminality and social and ecological justice. Who owns and controls water, and how they do so, is of major concern.

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Ethnolinguistic Divisions and Access to Clean Water in Mexico

Cited by 7 publications

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