Burgeoning investment heralds new Mexican wave

Increasing private sector involvement will benefit Mexico’s under-funded water infrastructure. However, the lack of a regulator remains a cause for concern. Leticia Lozano reports.

Even at the site where Mexico’s second city Guadalajara plans to build a cutting-edge Guggenheim art museum and promote itself as an international cultural hub, the smell of contaminated river water is almost overpowering, a reminder of Mexico’s inescapable water problems, which are in urgent need of attention.

Like most of Mexico, Guadalajara faces a profound water infrastructure ...

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