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This symposium hosted by Harvard GSD will bring together policy makers, scholars, and activists to discuss how lack and abundance of water, contaminated and privatized as well as communal, has altered both Mexican cities and rural areas.
This symposium hosted by Harvard GSD will bring together policy makers, scholars, and activists to discuss how lack and abundance of water, contaminated and privatized as well as communal, has altered both Mexican cities and rural areas. In many ways, water is synonymous with Mexican identity — the rise of Tenochtitlán was possible because of the control of water and the Mexican Revolution was as much a battle for land as it was for access to the resource that would water post-revolutionary lands. More recently battles over water on the U.S. – Mexico border are potential previews of how water scarcity might alter relations with our closest ally. But what does water scarcity, restoration, as well as flooding and drought mean in a Mexican context?
From historians to hydrologists to border analysts and architects, each will share their perspectives and examine how control of water has shaped and will continue to shape the future of the nation, its citizens, and its neighbors.
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Contact: events@gsd.harvard.edu