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Article: Barriers and bridges: managing water in the U.S.-Mexican border region.
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- Environment
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Borders have traditionally served as moats delineating territory and setting boundaries for national economies and political jurisdictions. But in today's context of globalization, borders function less as barriers than as bridges across chasms of separation, especially as more people and materials flow over them. International boundaries, a prime example of which is the border between the United States and Mexico, are increasingly becoming conduits of more intangible things--such as capital, electricity, ideas, pollution, and diseases. The transport of many of these things poses unique challenges to human health, environmental quality, and water supplies. Planing for a ...