In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our
understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental
and technological history of water management in the emblematic
Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and
the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican
Revolution (1910-1940) engineers' distribution of water
paradoxically undermined land distribution. In so doing, he
highlights the intrinsic tension engineers faced between the urgent
need for water conservation and the imperative for development
during the contentious modernization of the Laguna's existing flood
irrigation method into one regulated by high dams, concrete-lined
canals, and motorized groundwater pumps. This tension generally
resolved in favor of development, which unintentionally diminished
and contaminated the water supply while deepening existing rural
social inequalities by dividing people into water haves and
have-nots, regardless of their access to land. By uncovering the
varied motivations behind the Mexican government's decision to use
invasive and damaging technologies despite knowing they were
ecologically unsustainable, Wolfe tells a cautionary tale of the
long-term consequences of short-sighted development policies.
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