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Geoforum xxx (2011) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Geoforum journal homepage: /lo cate/geoforum Innovating resource regimes: Water, wastewater, and the institutional dynamics of urban hydraulic reach in northwest Mexico Christopher A. Scott a,b,⇑, Nicolás Pineda Pablos c a School of Geography Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA b Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona, 803 E. 1st St., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA c Colegio de Sonora, Ave. Obregón No. 54, Zona Centro, Hermosillo, Son. 83000, Mexico a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The twin facets of urban hydraulic reach – cities’ appropriation of water from surrounding regions and irri- Received 23 March 2009 gation use of urban wastewater over a growing rural footprint – form an emerging global policy chal- Received in revised form 12 January 2011 lenge, especially as democratizing societies seek institutional means to address both urban growth and Available online xxxx water scarcity. A central concern of this paper is to demonstrate that policy regionalism, as a process- based understanding of institutions and decision-making, better explains the causes, forms, and out- Keywords: comes of hydraulic reach than do more structural approaches. Hermosillo, Mexico presents an unfolding Policy regionalism case of rural–urban tension