Interaçoes review 1, 2007, Brazil

Interaçoes, revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local, No 1 - Março 2007, 95- 112 pp.
Geopolitic of water in Mexico. The opposition between hydropolitic and the socio-politic conflict. The new faces of the social struggles.
Felipe de Alba

Abstract
After the population’s changes that were a lived in the last decades in Mexico City, and the changes in Mexican politic administration of the years 1990, the decadence of the life conditions and of public services has increased. Mexico metropolitan area is now days a geopolitical laboratory that seems to stamp the discussion about the national politic agenda. A new modality of social protests appears progressively in the metropolis, and particularly, protests that have a relation with the problem of the water. These protests, different in their modality, are changing the social structure, the urban form and the politic relations. In its all, they are showings of new politics actors in scene that break ancient hegemonies and generate news customer’s spaces. In this work, it discusses the conflictive administration about the water that constitutes a pragmatic conjuncture of several slides: between the metropolitan governance, the same form of the conflict or about a true catastrophe in the next decades. The author has an explicative model of these principal tendencies about the conflict in the biggest metropolis of Latin America.
Keywords: Hydropolicy; the politic of water; decisive crisis; Mexico metropolitan area