Veronica Herrera

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A couple embrace in a squatters village in Mexico City on June 25, 2012. Residents of the neighborhood were living without running water and with little electricity and were subject to frequent flooding from rainstorms. (John Moore/Getty Images)

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Lead poisoning, low water pressure and contamination of water sources are widespread problems in Mexican cities. Aging, decaying infrastructure is the problem — in some cities, water infrastructure is more than 70 years old.

In my book, “Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico,” I find that the real challenge of providing high-quality water is not a financial or technical one. Instead, politics are what hinder access to safe water in Mexico’s cities — and many of the same political issues also may be at work in U.S. cities.

Here’s how the politics of urban water access plays out, in three primary ways:

1) Maintaining water infrastructure = high financial cost and high political cost.…  Seguir leyendo »