Discrepancies in access to water largely prevail in urban contexts. Mexico City poses as one big archetype of inequalities, including inequalities in access to water. The most basic resource for human survival, water, is unevenly...
moreDiscrepancies in access to water largely prevail in urban contexts. Mexico City poses as one big archetype of inequalities, including inequalities in access to water. The most basic resource for human survival, water, is unevenly distributed amongst its inhabitants. Inequality poses a big hindrance to sustainability, negatively influencing other social, economic and environmental aspects. An unfair distribution of resources deepens other sorts of inequalities, unfolds social conflicts and deprives several social groups from a dignified life. The current water policies have been insufficient to tackle this problem, as the main guidelines for water management have been oriented towards solving technical problems. There is a considerable need to expand the social dimension of public policies that incorporate solid evidence that embrace the complexity and multidimensionality of water. While the use of evidence for policymaking is an emerging practice in Mexico, there are ongoing efforts for expanding it. Orienting new policies to solve the social dimension seems like a colossal enterprise but the findings suggest that better, spatially targeted policies are a possible alternative, and can be attained by building a more prominent interface between evidence and policymaking.
