| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.2

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Por abajo del agua: sobreexplotación y agotamiento del acuífero de la Costa de Hermosillo, 1945–2005 [Under the Water: Overexploitation and Depletion of the Costa de Hermosillo Aquifer, 1945–2005]. By José Luis Moreno Vázquez. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2006. 507 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $35.00.

Geographer José Luis Moreno has written a masterpiece work on the history of the Costa de Hermosillo Aquifer in western Sonora, Mexico. It is a much-needed addition to the works on water history in the greater North American West, as well as to the literature on water in Mexico and Latin America. As an in-depth examination of an aquifer, it is up there with John Opie's Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land (Nebraska, 1993) about the massive aquifer below the central Great Plains. The Costa de Hermosillo Aquifer is not nearly as large as the Ogallala, but it has a similar regional importance, especially as Sonoran agriculture expanded into a globalized market. Farmers in this area, known as the Pacific Costal Plain, raise citrus and other fruits, grains, cotton, and vegetables for local, national, and international trade, and are dependent on the hundreds of wells that mine water from the aquifer to irrigate their crops.

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