The Implementation of IWRM/IRBM in Mexico City

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter examines how drivers and institutions at multiple levels of the river basin governance regime shape water-related challenges in the Metropolitan Valley of Mexico City (MVMC). It uncovers the causal links behind water challenges and the effectiveness of existing policy instruments. It reviews the relevant context of Mexican river basin governance and its main drivers, analyses the driving forces on the river basin from local to global level (see Sect. 7.2), explores how Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) actors and institutions at multiple levels address water challenges at the basin scale (see Sect. 7.3), analyses the instruments of IWRM/IRBM according to their mandates, their effect on actors’ behaviour given the drivers and their impacts on inclusive and sustainable water governance (see Sect. 7.4). Finally, the chapter summarizes the main empirical findings and considers how more appropriate instruments could be (re)designed for the Mexico City case study in relation to IWRM/IRBM (see Sect. 7.5).