One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water

Yahoo news ^ | 27 February 2024 | Laura Paddison

[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.

[Antoninus]

I live in Mexico. I post in Mexico. This IS a frequent topic of table conversations in restaurants. People are concerned. Our news sources suggest over 80% leakage in a system that is broken. NO ONE in Mexico gets a water bill. There are a LOT of things to fix. They have pumped water out of all surrounding lakes and it is getting real bleak. This hopefully will bring about changes.

I was in Mexico DF for a month in the late 80's. It was not long after a big quake and the water service to the house I was staying in was intermittent. For days at a time, there was no running water at all, and if you wanted some, you had to hoof it down to the community spigot and wait in line. So the routine for using the toilet was to have a full bucket next ready to flush, then once flushed, refill the bucket at the community spigot.

I went 9 days without shower/bath during that stretch. All of us smelled pretty ripe by the time the water came back on in earnest.

[the_Watchman]

This Twitter from the WEF suggests that water is the NEXT crisis that will be used to bring people into blind compliance.

https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1708082741370139037

This tweet is not recent!