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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to look at how water management reflects patriarchal considerations or gender biases that inflict a penalty upon Mexican women and enumerates recommendations that can both ameliorate water management across Mexico. Design/methodology/approach: Peer-reviewed scholarly materials, carefully vetted for empirical worth, for the clarity and soundness of their research methodologies, and for their capacity to account for confounding or complicating factors, are reviewed. Special attention is given to studies, found in academic databases such as EBSCOHost, conducted in the years 2013–2018. Findings: The Mexican state has finally made some progress in recognizing the hurdles women face in attaining educational equality, but there is not yet the universal application and comity that would ensure appropriate levels of representation in all communities. Mexico will have to do more to compel local actors to give greater credence to the voices of women. Research limitations/implications: There is a need for further primary research to more comprehensively capture what actions women are taking to carve out a large policy-making space for themselves in a country that has only quite recently begun to realize the contributions women can make to forward-looking water governance policy. Originality/value: The uneasy confluence between water governance and gender within the Mexican context is an area of growing concern to those interested in how water management systems and protocols shape broader social justice and equality developments across Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to design a model to improve drinking water management in Iztapalapa, Mexico City from the perspective of managers and users of the service. Design/methodology/approach: The research question was what elements should an integrated drinking water management model contain to improve drinking water management in Iztapalapa, Mexico City? The research design involved a mixed approach under document analysis, application of semi -structured interviews to four managers of drinking water and measuring perceived service quality and user satisfaction in 360 service users. It included concurrent validity and confirmatory factor analysis. Findings: The integral drinking water management model is a multidimensional factorially confirmed construct, qualitatively conformed by nine management dimensions, four of perceived quality and three of service satisfaction from home users. Originality/value: The study fills the gap of little research on drinking water from the perspective of managers and users of the service in a valid and reliable way in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, as no similar research has proposed an integral drinking water management model with the variables used in this research. The model can be applied by following the recommendations to improve water management, which contemplates Mexico's levels of government to reform the regulations that fragments the management, and taking the budget into profitable activities that support the infrastructure and new water harvesting projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the management of air pollution in Mexico and strategies that have been considered to correct the issues, including potential future directions to further improve air quality for Mexico's environment and people.Design/methodology/approach Different serious academic databases were searched for material regarding the issue of air pollution in Mexico, such as Scopus and Social Science Citation Index. Regional concern was an important factor that was considered in this review. Material was considered based on its recency, academic importance and veracity. The studies selected mainly ranged from the mid-1990s to 2018.Findings Air pollution in Mexico has been a primary issue for the country's administration and that of Mexico's North American neighbour, the USA. It has contributed significantly to climate change and has had detrimental effects on both the environment and on the health of Mexican citizens in various ways. While efforts to ameliorate the situation have been relatively strong, it is hoped that ongoing cooperation between Mexico, the USA and Canada will influence the development of stricter emissions standards.Originality/value This paper considers current circumstances and whether enough has been done to mitigate Mexico's significant air pollution problem. It also considers several recommendations made by commentators as to potential future directions to rectify the issues, as no similar review has been made for a developing Country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the measures taken by both the federal government of Mexico and its municipalities in relation to the country’s urban water supply and its management to improve it.Design/methodology/approach The PRISMA guidelines were chosen as the framework for this systematic review of the available literature on urban water supply in Mexico, considering the most important and relevant legal and institutional considerations. They were paired with critical qualitative review. Overall, 21 main documents, between 2000 and 2016, were acceptable for inclusion.Findings The review closes by proposing that the approach, at present, is excessively rigid, and that greater flexibility would permit municipalities to identify more suitable means of managing their own water supplies with minimal support from the federal government.Originality/value Several research articles have been written about the general nature of Mexico’s urban water supply and management at present. However, no attempt has been made to synthesise the evidence and arguments made in this significant body of research. Thus, the key purpose of this review is to do that with the intention of proposing a shift in the country’s approach to urban water management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The supply of water to rural areas has historically provided the Mexican government with a significant challenge. Years of uncertainty in relation to responsibility for water supply, as well as geographical differences across the country and a division between rural and urban areas, explain this phenomenon. I have reviewed in this paper a substantial proportion of the literature on this topic, the reasons behind its nature, and the solutions to the problem in Mexico, as my main aim. The key conclusion is that while improvements in rural water supply in Mexico have been made, further work is required for equality in its supply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A scenario of land use was projected in the basin of river Metztitlan to 2025 using Markov chains-cellular automata. A generated map for 2007 Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 images and SPOT 5 and 6 images for 2013 was applied. The irrigation agriculture, the unwatered agriculture and the forest will experience a decrease in surface. The uses of urban land, scrub and eroded scrub show a surface increase. The odds of permanence show that urban use poses no threat to the forest with 1,7%. A positive rate of deforestation for woody surface (1,42%) was recorded. For further modeling it is highly recommended to consider socioeconomic and biophysical variables to explain in more detail the processes that could either limit or enhance land use change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A temporal analysis (2007-2013) of the dynamics of change in vegetation cover and land use in the river basin Metztitlán, Hidalgo, Mexico was carried out in order to update their status. A generated map for 2007 with Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 images and SPOT 5 and 6 images for 2013 were used. The results show that the areas used for agricultural irrigation and unwatered land decreased by 34,8 and 25,6 %, respectively. The analysis of changes indicates that urban use and water bodies increased 305,3 and 82,4 %, respectively. It is recommended to move the use of images of medium spatial resolution (Landsat), to the use of high-resolution images (SPOT) if the intention is to evaluate in detail the changes occurring in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the research was to evaluate the vigor roselle crop (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) using rhizobacteria of Pseudomonas fluorences under conditions of stress caused by copper sulfate (CuSO4), as an alternative for the phytoremediation of soils contaminated with wastewater. The experiment was conducted at the facilities of Campus Montecillo in the Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico. Seeds of two cultivars of jamaica (cv. Creole and cv. Spider) inoculated with cells of six bacterial strains (M83, M67, M88, L168, M82_A and M82_C), which were planted and grown in a greenhouse to determine: stem length (SL), root length (RL), dry root biomass (DRB), chlorophyll content (CHC), number of leaves (NL), stem diameter (SD) and radical volume (RV). The implemented experimental design was completely random blocks with a factorial arrangement (4 x 2 x 2 x 2). The concentrations of CuSO4 used in the sowing were 10-2 molar concentration (M) for the cv. Creole and 10-6 M for the cv. Spider. The type of soil was decisive because it caused significant differences in most of the variables evaluated, except in the RL, DRB and RV. Inoculation with bacterial strains caused inhibition in the growth of SD in the cv. Spider at 80 days after sowing (das). The strains that promoted the plant growth of roselle were M83, M67 and M82 used in both cultivars. It is concluded that the roselle plants had no negative effects due to the stress condition caused by CuSO4. In general, the cultivar that had a greater tolerance to CuSO4 was cv. Creole, therefore, could be considered as an alternative for phytoremediation of soils contaminated with wastewater. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]