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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: A Precious Liquid | |
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| Welcome to the Paradise of La Purificacion | |
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| Choosing a Research Site | |
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| Discovering an Anthropological Puzzle | |
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| Global Water Scarcity | |
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| Focus of the Book | |
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| On the Edge of a Water Crisis | |
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| The World's Water Crisis | |
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| Mexico's Water Crisis | |
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| Troubled Waters in the United States | |
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| New Visions of Water | |
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| Anthropological Perspectives on Drinking Water | |
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| Water Quality | |
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| Water Quantity | |
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| Water Distribution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| "The Soul of a Pueblo": Local Water History | |
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| A Hidden History | |
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| Northern Acolhuacan: An Indigenous Heritage | |
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| Spanish Conquest and Colonization | |
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| Mexican Independence | |
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| Revolution and Expanded Surface Water Rights | |
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| Petitioning for Water | |
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| Water Distribution | |
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| Cargos and Surface Water | |
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| Developing Groundwater Supplies | |
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| A Hidden Drinking Water Project | |
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| Out in the Open | |
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| Reorganizing the Cargos | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Leveling the Water: The Power of Civil and Religious Cargos | |
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| Pumps and Pipes | |
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| Searching for Equity in an Uneven Geography | |
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| The Cargo System and Leveling | |
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| Water Control and Cargos | |
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| Civil Cargos | |
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| Ejido Cargos | |
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| Religious Cargos | |
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| Other Cargos | |
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| Cargo Elections | |
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| How Is This Leveling? | |
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| "It's Our Custom": Water Rights and Obligations | |
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| Requesting Access to Water | |
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| Categories of Water Consumption | |
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| Drinking Water Contracts | |
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| Water Fees | |
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| Water and Cooperation | |
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| Mayordomia Obligations and Water | |
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| The Cemetery and Cooperation | |
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| Debt and Debtors | |
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| Shutting Off Water | |
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| Cooperation | |
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| "Everything Is the Responsibility of the Woman": Gender and Water Management | |
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| Women and Water in La Purificacion | |
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| Carmen's Household | |
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| Women's Water Interests | |
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| Gender, Water, and Religious Cargo Service | |
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| Electing Women to the Drinking Water Committee | |
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| What Does Gender Mean to Water Management? | |
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| "We are Suffering from Water": Health and Resource Scarcity | |
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| Don't Drink the Water? | |
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| Local Perceptions of Water Quality | |
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| What is Suffering from Water? | |
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| Suffering and Social Inequality | |
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| "Not a Drop to Drink": Responding to a Water Shortage | |
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| First Day of the Water Shortage | |
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| Second Day of the Water Shortage | |
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| Resolving the Crisis | |
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| Conclusion: Water-Related Suffering | |
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| Searching for Equity: Critical Reflections on Emerging Global Water Issues | |
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| An Essential Resource | |
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| Dublin Principle No. 1 | |
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| Participation | |
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| Dublin Principle No. 2 | |
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| Gender | |
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| Dublin Principle No. 3 | |
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| Economics | |
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| Dublin Principle No. 4 | |
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| Final Thoughts: Culture Matters | |
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| Glossary of Spanish Terms | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |