... Nazas River Dam Groundwater pumping Agrarian reform ...

... Nazas River Dam Groundwater pumping Agrarian reform ...

...The Second Agrarian Reform The chapter tells the story of the controversial postrevolutionary revival of the Nazas River Dam project, the burgeoning growth of motorized groundwater pumping, and how both played an important role in the region’s tumultuous sociopolitical transformation...

... The chapter tells the story of the controversial postrevolutionary revival of the Nazas River Dam project, the burgeoning growth of motorized groundwater pumping, and how both played an important role in the region’s tumultuous sociopolitical transformation of the 1920s and 1930s. It describes...

... I. Madero, shortly before the Mexican Revolution to unite his fellow landowning, riverine Laguneros to lobby the government for a high dam on the Nazas River—a project President Díaz already supported. It then describes the longer-term historical ecology of the Laguna since the colonial period; how...

... The chapter depicts the work and life of técnicos and their employees and families—many of them ejidatarios (members of ejidos)—on the Nazas River Dam construction site from 1936 to 1946. It begins with the trials and tribulations of técnicos doing the preliminary reconnaissance work in hot...

... The chapter opens with the ill-fated effort by the “apostle of Mexican democracy,” Francisco I. Madero, shortly before the Mexican Revolution to unite his fellow landowning, riverine Laguneros to lobby the government for a high dam on the Nazas River—a project President Díaz already supported...