Mexican National Water Plan: Organization and Preliminary Assessment
| Autor: | Fernando J. Gonzalez Villarreal |
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| Rok vydání: | 1973 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
education.field_of_study Resource (biology) business.industry Economic sector Population Environmental resource management Distribution (economics) Capital good Agrarian reform Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Water resources Balance of payments Development economics education business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 55:1008-1016 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8276 0002-9092 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/1238955 |
| Popis: | this resource increasingly difficult and constitutes a serious threat to the future welfare of the population. Although the average annual rainfall in the country is 780 millimeters per year, its distribution is very irregular since it is concentrated within a rainy season of a few months and much of it falls in areas that are only lightly populated. The location of population and economic development centers is inversely related to the availability of water, since the southeastern area, which accounts for only 7 percent of the total land area of the country, has 40 percent of the water resources and 8 percent of the population, while the central highlands and northern mesa have 60 percent of the population, comprise 50 percent of the national territory, and have only 12 percent of the resources just mentioned. Mexico has been overcoming obstacles to development, and the creation of an agricultural infrastructure has made it possible to maintain a high rate of economic growth. The revolutionary movement of 1910 began the agrarian reform and revindicated the nation's property rights over land and water. Multiple-use hydraulic works have been constructed throughout the country and have made it possible to satisfy vital needs for food and services. However, this development process has not brought an even distribution of progress among all the country's inhabitants, all its regions, or all sectors of the economy. In fact, there has been a noticeable and persistent tendency to unjust distribution of the benefits of economic growth. Furthermore, the necessity of importing capital goods for development needs has led to deficits in the balance of payments and a growing foreign debt. In order to achieve a balanced development of the economy, the present administration has established the following objectives |
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