Part 1. Mexican Water Policy as Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Lessons Learned -- Chapter 2. Mexican Water Sector: A Brief Review of Its History -- Part 2. Sectorial issues -- Chapter 3. Effects of Water Availability and Policy Changes for Irrigated Agriculture -- Chapter 4. Mexico, The Water Stress: Challenges and Opportunities in Wastewater Treatment and Reuse -- Chapter 5. Industrial Water Use in Mexico: Analysis of Efficiencies Using Water Price Elasticity -- Chapter 6. Water Utilities: Is Their Sustained Financial Efficiency Achievable? – The Mexican Case -- Part 3. Institutional issues -- Chapter 7. Water Price Policy, Its Institutional Role as Economic Instrument for Water Management -- Chapter 8. River Basin Organization, The Best Path Towards Integrated Water Resources Management? -- Chapter 9. Payments for Environmental Services: Between Forest Resources Management and Institutional Building -- Chapter 10. Water management instruments in the National Waters Law -- Chapter 11. Indigenous People and The Right to Water -- Part 4. International Water Issues -- Chapter 12. From The Abundance of Waters to the Scarcity of Studies: Contemplating Hydropolitics in Mexico-Guatemala and Mexico-Belize Borders -- Chapter 13. The U.S. Mexico Border: Institutional Weaknesses in Meeting the Growing Demand for Water -- Part 5. Present and Future Challenges -- Chapter 14. Climate Change and Vulnerability of Water Resources in Mexico: Challenges for Basin Management -- Chapter 15. Science and technology for Integrated Water Resources Management in Mexico.Mexico is currently facing severe problems with water availability, wastage and contamination. The most contaminated and over-exploited water resources are concentrated in the most populated areas of the country, where water is scarcer and its quality makes it unsuitable for a variety of uses, including human consumption. At the same time it is indisputable that water quality is a determining factor in public health and ecosystems. The significant growth in population and industry results in a high demand for water, along with contaminating discharges, few of which are treated – and the impact upon the ecosystems is evident. This book addresses all these topics in a single volume, taking into account the challenges presented by the economic, institutional and environmental considerations in Mexico’s water policy framework.