MY BOOK
Rosario Sanchez, PHD
Dr. Rosario Sanchez Flores is a Senior Research Scientist at the Texas Water Resources Institute at Texas A&M University and Associate Graduate Faculty of the Water Management and Hydrological Sciences Program. She is Co-Chair of the Transboundary Aquifers Commission of the International Association of Hydrogeologists and Director of the Permanent Forum of Binational Waters. She is the PI of the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act program for the state of Texas, and she leads the transboundary groundwater research team with 25 years of academic and work experience on transboundary issues between Mexico and the United States.
Water is naturally a common resource. It is shared. However, the geopolitical borders between countries make it a strategic resource, and in the case of Mexico and the United States, an element of discord where complexes are manifested and the future is compromised.
This book reviews the Mexico-United States relationship from a water perspective, but using analogies to associate knowledge with daily life. A chronic, after-dinner relief that seeks to reach a common understanding of our relationship with water both on the border and beyond it. It addresses the myths, the wounds, the deceptions, the masked impudence, the immaturity, the emergencies. Our role as citizens, our responsibility as human beings in everyday language, which delves into the questions that we all have, but which we delegate their answers to at the speed of the inertia in which we grew up, live and consume.
In the face of growing water scarcity and the challenges of climate change, the shared waters of our borders will be proof of that neighborhood so close that it is almost toxic and so far that it is incomprehensible.
