ABSTRACT

Various international organizations cite the need for water management to be organized on a ‘river basin scale’ and with a high degree of ‘public participation’. These terms are associated with the universal remedies for water management problems that have developed in Chapter 2. However, context matters, and policies and concepts face specifics of place (Kotzebue, 2012). There are opportunities and hurdles associated with placing a new concept into the processes of water management implementation activities and planning into another country than where it was developed (Chapter 2). In this chapter we will study how these principles were implemented in a Mexican case.