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Mexico City may be just months away from running of out water (www.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, their ancestors fucked up 4-500 years ago. You can blame them all day long, rightfully so, but it does nothing to help remediate the current situation. It's like you're trying to place blame on the city's current leadership, what exactly do you propose be done?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I never said it has anything to do with current leadership. I said their ancestors shouldn't have made it on a lake. It's not like they would have known millions of people would be living there. It's was a halfhearted joke to warn potential city builders to not build a city in the middle of the lake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Living in the middle of a lake sounds pretty cool. 22 million people, less so.