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- Title
Agua embotellada en México: de la privatización del suministro a la mercantilización de los recursos hídricos.
- Authors
Pacheco-Vega, Raúl
- Abstract
Recently, the human right to water paradigm has brought along heated debates with regards to the vital marketization. In an era when drinking water supply for human consumption is under serious threat due to climatic change, when the world debate is centered on topics of water (in) security, it comes as a surprise that bottled water consumption in Mexico has had such an exponential growth, given its position as one of the countries with the highest degree of water insecurity worldwide. In this article, I present an analysis of the process of privatization of water supply in Mexico, focusing specifically on the extraction, bottling and distribution of bottled water. Using the policy regime framework as an analytical tool, in the article I show that growing consumption of bottled water in Mexico is the result of the convergence of specific ideas with regard to tap water drinkability, a weakened institutional structure that yields against the enormous pressure of multinational bottled water supply companies, and the huge strength both marketing-wise and politically-wise that water bottling corporations are able to harness. The analysis presented here shows that academic discussions on privatization of water supply in Mexico have put aside the enormous growth of bottled water as a business, with the resulting marketization of water resources.
- Subjects
MEXICO; PRIVATIZATION; WATER supply; DRINKING water; HUMAN rights; CLIMATE change; BOTTLED water; BOTTLED water industry; MARKETING
- Publication
Espiral, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 63, p221
- ISSN
1665-0565
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.32870/espiral.v22i63.1671