State, economic power, and citizen mobilization in the construction of hydrosocial territories in La Laguna region, States of Durango, and Cohahuila, Mexico (in Spanish)
Creators
- 1. Centre for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City, Mexico
Description
The article adopts the notion of hydrosocial territories to analyse the impact of
concessions for water abstraction granted by the authorities to dairy businesses in
La Laguna region, which has allowed dairy entrepreneurs to maintain control of a
model of water abstraction that has significant environmental impacts, notably on the
depletion of the region’s Main Aquifer. In this context, a collective action movement is
demanding that the authorities take urgent measures to tackle the problem. However,
despite the fact that a socially-oriented federal government came to power in 2018, the
water authorities have continued to grant new concessions for water abstraction to the
region’s agribusnesses , while have also failed to incorporate the citizenry in the design
of environmental remediation programs, as is the case with the Healthy Water for La
Laguna project (2020). The article argues that civil society organizations are the main
agent promoting a sustainable use of water, while the authorities continue to favor the
interests of dairy bussinesses.
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