[rovenstinez]

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.

[vpintheak]

I’m afraid the change it will bring about is more illegals into the USA.

[Jonty30]

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.

[woodbutcher1963]

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.

[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.