DISCOURSES IN TEN SEGMENTS exposes the issues related to water management in Mexico and around the world through the scope of the civil unrest during the Fourth World Water Forum (WWF) that took place in Mexico City in 2006. That year, side by side with activists from around the world, the Mazahua, native peasants living next to the capital and dispossessed of their hydraulic resources, made their voices heard in protest against national and international policies on water. Through their accounts on the impacts of these policies on their daily lives, crucial questions about the status of water and the responsibility of protecting it are raised: Who owns water? What should be the government's role in protecting the resource and in making the right to water a right for all? How can citizens force policy makers take their responsibilities?Through all this, DISCOURSES IN TEN SEGMENTS raises questions about the discourse itself in bringing under the light ten key characters of the events surrounding the fourth WWF. Following the positions, interests and goals they are trying to reach, their declarations expose different forms of speeches on the water issue: activist, technocratic, judiciary oriented, academic, business oriented, etc. Also, by it's very form - ten short chapters with a variety of tones - DISCOURSES IN TEN SEGMENTS presents itself as an illustration of the multiform possibilities of discourse and the truth effects it tries to produce.
