This book addresses the following topics: the contemporary model for water management and
alternative approaches the socioeconomic framework water policy and institutions water use
for food purposes water-resources inventory and irrigation manifestations of welfare loss and
water prices change in dietary patterns and water security hydrological stress and pressures
on water availability groundwater management problems vulnerability and climate change water
demand of major crops gray water footprint and water pollution gray water footprint and
mining virtual water and food trade estimates of the water footprint of four key cereals
forage livestock and bottled drinks. It is the result of a cooperation between 16 researchers
from eleven Mexican academic institutions.
