Globalization, neoliberalism and the imperatives of economic rationality in the use of water resources in México

Abstract

In this paper we want to develop the idea that the accumulation by dispossession, in the perspective of D. Harvey, also extends to the way natural resources are exploited, in the case of water, through the privatization of this resource through political and economic strategies that are increasingly refined, with the help of supranational institutions the World Bank and the IMF, but also, with the essential collaboration of the State, which plays a key role in water policies aimed at the privatization of water resources globally, and in particular for the Mexican case.

Keywords

• Environmental crisis
• Water policy
• Water privatization.