Competencia y crisis hídrica: el caso de Morelia, Michoacán, México. 1940-1980

This article examines competition for water in the context of water crisis and scarcity. In the municipality of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, disputes and centralization of water control intensified significantly between the 1940s and 1980s. The water crisis reconfigured the power relationship between state and territory, creating strong competition between users in rural and socially marginalized contexts. Through the analysis of state archive sources, it is possible to analyze the role played by water, since it was a determining element within the productive process of key sectors and in the development of population centers, both urban and rural. Having water or not determined the success of some and the failure of others, with Morelia being the scene where an institutionalized policy of dispossession was manifested.