"compounded by the impacts of climate change" is newspeak for
due to government corruption and incompetency.
Posted on 02/27/2024 3:32:41 AM PST by Sam77
Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days.
Gomez, who lives in Mexico City’s Tlalpan district, doesn’t have a big storage tank so can’t get water truck deliveries — there’s simply nowhere to store it. Instead, he and his family eke out what they can buy and store.
When they wash themselves, they capture the runoff to flush the toilet. It’s hard, he told CNN. “We need water, it’s essential for everything.”
Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”
Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.
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“Mexico City is well inland from both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.”
In the 70’s, we built a pipeline that crossed Alaska. Building a couple of desalination facilities off-shore and piping the water inland should be no big deal. Technology and manpower is already there.
Maybe we should just invade, seize the damn place, add a few states, crush the drug czars, and make that place livable.
They don’t need to worry that much. If need be
President Biden will ship in water by the plane
loan and keep our bottle water companies busy.
Only Mexicans can build a city on and over a lake until it runs out of water.
Great so then all 20 million who live in the Mexico city metro area will make their way to America.
One nice thing about living near the Great Lakes. The weather may suck during the winter months, but there is plenty of fresh water available.
Mexico City is phenomenal. Well worth a visit.
Corruption......................
I guess this explains why so many “americans” love to vacation and spend their money in that third world, America-hating, outhouse.
No problem...just come on up to the USA. Gold pours from our faucets.
Idiots.
Mexico City was built on a lake...and they’re out of water. Explain that to me.
From what I have read in the past, LA sucked Owen’s Lake dry over 100 years ago.Now casting it’s covetous eyes on other fresh water supplies.
Much like Tulsa OK. It grabbed off the water rights to many rivers and lakes in Oklahoma over 100 years ago and has been looking at other sources. The Arkansas river is said to be too salty for their needs.
[...what are you going to do?]
Historically they hacked out someone’s heart with a rock dagger.
So, because NO one gets a bill for the water, there is no reason to conserve.
IF everyone was charged for water, then there would be a reason to fix the infrastructure and not let it drain into the ground.
The oxalotyl, a deep lake locked salamander is extinct in its only range in Mexico city. It has been bred in captivity in numbers far greater than ever existed in the wild. The ignorant Senator Marco Rubio is bent on protecting this rare and endangered species by banning all possession of the animal in private hands. Such genius deserves recognition.
“a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.”
a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure.
THERE! Fixed it.
"compounded by the impacts of climate change" is newspeak for
due to government corruption and incompetency.
still sucking the water from owens valley, and from the sac river delta too
Surely it’s not Mexico’s sub-90 median IQ.
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