Mexico + H2O = Challenges, Reckonings, and Opportunities

A collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the David Rockefeller Center Center for Latin American Studies, and the Department of History of Science.

Conference, March 23-34, 2023

 

“Mexico + H2O: Challenges, Reckonings, and Opportunities” brought 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 shared their perspectives and examined how control of water has shaped and will continue to shape the future of the nation, its citizens, and its neighbors.

 

Learn more here. 

Watch the recording here. 

Listen to the podcast “Thinking about water” here.