Water rights and watershed management in Mexico. The Sonora river case

Authors

  • Nicolás Pineda Pablos El Colegio de Sonora
  • José Luis Moreno Vázquez El Colegio de Sonora
  • Alejandro Salazar Adams El Colegio de Sonora
  • América Nallely Lutz Ley Universidad de Arizona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v21i61.268

Keywords:

Water rights, watershed management, common pool resources, Sonora River, México

Abstract

This article analyzes the role of water rights in watershed management. The watershed is seen as a common pool resource where State intervention and the register of water rights might be used to constrain water tapping and avoid overexploitation. For this purpose, it reviews the ideas of watershed management and revises the Mexican legal framework for water rights. Then, it analyses a database of water rights in the Sonora River. At the end, findings are presented such as the disagreement between the principles devised by the legal framework and the practical implementation of water rights and that those are not used to undertake watershed management.

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Published

2014-09-01

How to Cite

Pineda Pablos, N., Moreno Vázquez, J. L., Salazar Adams, A., & Lutz Ley, A. N. (2014). Water rights and watershed management in Mexico. The Sonora river case. Espiral Estudios Sobre Estado Y Sociedad (eISSN: 2594-021X), 21(61), 191-225. https://doi.org/10.32870/eees.v21i61.268

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 61: Espiral 61 (september-december 2014)

Section

Sociedad

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