Part 1. Mexican Water Policy as Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Lessons Learned -- Chapter 2. Mexican Water Sector: A Brief Review of Its History -- Part 2. Sectorial issues -- Chapter 3. Effects of Water Availability and Policy Changes for Irrigated Agriculture -- Chapter 4. Mexico, The Water Stress: Challenges and Opportunities in Wastewater Treatment and Reuse -- Chapter 5. Industrial Water Use in Mexico: Analysis of Efficiencies Using Water Price Elasticity -- Chapter 6. Water Utilities: Is Their Sustained Financial Efficiency Achievable? - The Mexican Case -- Part 3. Institutional issues -- Chapter 7. Water Price Policy, Its Institutional Role as Economic Instrument for Water Management -- Chapter 8. River Basin Organization, The Best Path Towards Integrated Water Resources Management? -- Chapter 9. Payments for Environmental Services: Between Forest Resources Management and Institutional Building -- Chapter 10. Water management instruments in the National Waters Law -- Chapter 11. Indigenous People and The Right to Water -- Part 4. International Water Issues -- Chapter 12. From The Abundance of Waters to the Scarcity of Studies: Contemplating Hydropolitics in Mexico-Guatemala and Mexico-Belize Borders -- Chapter 13. The U.S. Mexico Border: Institutional Weaknesses in Meeting the Growing Demand for Water -- Part 5. Present and Future Challenges -- Chapter 14. Climate Change and Vulnerability of Water Resources in Mexico: Challenges for Basin Management -- Chapter 15. Science and technology for Integrated Water Resources Management in Mexico.