Community Water Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges for Mexico

Abstract

There are about 80 000 Community Water Boards (CWB) operating in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), showing that community management is an alternative to supply water and sanitation services, primarily in rural areas. In Mexico, this form of management is latent but has not been subject to a consolidated recognition. The descriptive documentary research analyzes community management models applied in LAC countries according to the categories described in the Triple-S Model (Sustainable Services at Scale), to interpret its structure according to the particularities of the different levels of government (local, regional and national) it is concluded with challenges and opportunities of a federal state, such as Mexico, for the implementation of community water management.Keywords: community water management in Latin America and the Caribbean, community water management in Mexico, community water management models Community-based Water Management and SanitationCommunity management of natural resources is the main object of study under the theory of communal resources or "commons" (Ostrom, 1990;Hess, 2008) and it is justified by the need to manage common property of a population subject to an action collective (Ostrom, 1990;Ray, 2014). Moreover, the interactions for collective action amongst stakeholders and the surrounding environment have been studied under an analytical framework called Social -Ecological Systems (SES) (Ostrom, 2009;Poteete, Janssen, & Ostrom, 2010); and Community-based management of water also has been analyzed as a management phenomenon described by authors such as Shaw and Thaitakoo (2010), Aguilar (2011) and the OECD (2013), among others. As an emergent www.ccsenet.org/jsd

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