Making waves: Public health risks from arsenic in Mexico's water extraction practices.

In response to water scarcity in Mexico´s urban areas, authorities have implemented significant measures to increase water access, primarily by overexploiting groundwater resources. However, this approach has unintentionally worsened human exposure to groundwater arsenic consumption, which is part of a broader phenomenon known as environmental problem shifting. This paper examines the public health implications of arsenic contamination in Mexico's groundwater.

Corruption and conflicts as barriers to adaptive governance: Water governance in dryland systems in the Rio del Carmen watershed.

Water governance in the Rio del Carmen watershed has failed to achieve sustainable water use, generating social conflicts, water overexploitation, and grassland loss. This leaves it unable to adapt and learn, to reconcile different stakeholder perspectives and to adequately respond to uncertainty. Adaptive water governance regulates water access through flexible, inclusive and innovative institutions, increasing system adaptive capacity in the face of uncertainty.