Mexico City's Water Supply
Title | Mexico City's Water Supply PDF eBook |
Author | The Joint Academies Committee on the Mexico City Water Supply |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 1995-05-22 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309587948 |
This book addresses the technical, health, regulatory, and social aspects of ground water withdrawals, water use, and water quality in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, and makes recommendations to improve the balance of water supply, water demand, and water conservation. The study came about through a nongovernmental partnership between the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council and the Mexican Academies of Science and Engineering. The book will contain a Spanish-language translation of the complete English text.
Mexico City's Water Supply
Title | Mexico City's Water Supply PDF eBook |
Author | Academia Nacional de Ingenieria, A.C. |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 1995-05-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309176379 |
This book addresses the technical, health, regulatory, and social aspects of ground water withdrawals, water use, and water quality in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, and makes recommendations to improve the balance of water supply, water demand, and water conservation. The study came about through a nongovernmental partnership between the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council and the Mexican Academies of Science and Engineering. The book will contain a Spanish-language translation of the complete English text.
Mexico City's Water Supply
Title | Mexico City's Water Supply PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 1995 |
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Thirst for Reform?
Title | Thirst for Reform? PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Haggarty |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Abastecimiento de agua - Mexico |
ISBN |
In the early 1990s Mexico City's Federal District (the D.F.) initiated a series of service contracts with four operators in the private sector, each to be implemented in three stages over ten years. The idea was to introduce competitive pressures and to find out if a "gradualist" aaproach would reduce social and political opposition to private sector involvement and would allow the government to address pricing problems and strengthen regulatory arrangements.
Thirst for Reform? Private Sector Participation in Providing Mexico City's Water Supply
Title | Thirst for Reform? Private Sector Participation in Providing Mexico City's Water Supply PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Maria Zuluaga |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 67 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
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Mexico City's Water Supply
Title | Mexico City's Water Supply PDF eBook |
Author | Academia Nacional de Ingenieria, A.C. |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 1995-06-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309052459 |
This book addresses the technical, health, regulatory, and social aspects of ground water withdrawals, water use, and water quality in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, and makes recommendations to improve the balance of water supply, water demand, and water conservation. The study came about through a nongovernmental partnership between the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council and the Mexican Academies of Science and Engineering. The book will contain a Spanish-language translation of the complete English text.
Thirsty Cities
Title | Thirsty Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Danilo J. Anton |
Publisher | IDRC |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1552501086 |
Many cities in Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a water crisis as sources become exhausted or degraded. Urbanization, deteriorating infrastructures with a lack of funds for repairs, and inadequate polices are conspiring to cause water shortages. People are becoming concentrated in megacities, such as Mexico City with a population of almost 23 million, that have outgrown their water-supply systems. Urban areas are increasingly incapable of supplying water and sewer systems for their populations. By the year 2020, more than 500 million inhabitants of Latin America (two-thirds of.