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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When you’re sitting next to an ocean, but don’t know how to distill fresh water from it, what are you going to do?
Bias done with a yahoo.
I’ve been there lots of times. It is one gigantic city. Flying in, you pass over miles and miles of suburbs before landing. I haven’t noticed that much sprawl anywhere else I’ve been.
Mexico City is well inland from both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
That’s what pipes are for.
If you can transport oil in pipes all across the country, there is no reason why water can’t be piped.
No Worries!
Just make a few DEI hires, at, say, $2 million a year, and everything will be just fine.
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’m afraid the change it will bring about is more illegals into the USA.
We studied the water crisis of Chennai, India, in environmental science a few years ago. Chennai is still there: everyone didn’t died of thirst.
Ever been to LA? You fly over sprawl for well over an hour before landing.
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Push for water desalination plants. Israel has got the price down to about $0.50/1000 litres. The infrastructure might cost billions, but the technological costs would balance things out in a few years.
Israel might even have it cheaper now because it’s been about 10 years since that figure was cited.
Hey! Where does Mexico City get off thinking they are Los Angeles????
The differences between Israel and Mexico are cultural and political. Israel is a Western democracy. There is some corruption to be sure but nowhere close to that in Mexico. There is criminal activity in Israel but the country is not dominated by the drug cartels.
Queue the “blame America” for this in 3, 2, 1........
As far as I’m concerned, it would be justifiable to go to war against the cartels, from the US border, down to Guatemala. You can tell which politicians are bought by the cartels by their arguments against that idea.
Water desalination? 321 million cubic miles of water available or 97% of all water on earth
And they will need pipes to transport the water. Modern metro utilities systems aren’t magic. They require components to work.
“When you’re sitting next to an ocean, but don’t know how to distill fresh water from it, what are you going to do?”
Blame Trump.
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