Water, the utmost resource becomes a nightmare.

Water the utmost resource becomes a nightmare. In 2007 80% of the southeastern state of Mexico Tabasco flooded, in 2008 and 2009 they flooded again. Climate change, deforestation and decades of corrupt and inefficient politics for the Grijalva Usumascinta River Basin management make water an enemy.—Anonymous

JOSE ROVIROSA AWARD 2010. Water, the utmost resource becomes a nightmare when not properly managed. In 2007 80% of the southeastern state of Tabasco in Mexico flooded 1,200,000 were affected, 350,000 families lost everything, 570,000 hectares of crops were damaged. In Chiapas, 20,000. However, in 2008 this flood problem in a lesser scale, repeats. Last and paradoxically, in 2009 the tabasqueño people suffered floods, droughts and fires. Climate change, deforestation, land-use change, the lack of an urbanization plan and decades of corrupt and inefficient politics for the use and management of the Grijalva Usumascinta basin, make water an enemy.—Adriana Camacho Torres