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May 11, 2024 · As Mexico City runs out of water, for many, the taps are already running dry. The stones around Bellas Artes are cracking and require frequent repair [Nick Hilden/Al Jazeera] Day Zero is...
5 days ago · Mexico City, once a water-rich valley that was drained to make way for a vast city, has a metropolitan population of 23 million, among the top 10 largest in the world and up from 15 million in 1990.
4 days ago · If the capital’s water network was already held together by a thread then, now “some parts of the system are falling apart,” said Manuel Perló Cohen, an urban planning researcher who studies Mexico City’s water system. “Mexico is the biggest market in the world for bottled water,” said Roberto Constantino Toto, who heads the ...
May 10, 2024 · The global press recently warned that as early as June 2024, Mexico City, home to 22 million people, could face “Day Zero”—the complete loss of fresh water at the taps. The situation on the...
May 9, 2024 · May 9, 2024. Updated on May. 9, 2024 · 3:00 AM EDT. By Tibisay Zea. Cracked earth lines the banks of the Villa Victoria Dam, the main water supply for Mexico City residents, on the outskirts of Toluca, Mexico, April 22, 2021. The mayor of Mexico City said Mexico’s drought was the worst in 30 years. Fernando Llano/AP.
1 day ago · Almost 40% of the country's dams are below 20% of capacity, and another 40% are between 20 and 50% full. Mexico City has been forced to reduce water supplies because the reservoirs that feed the ...
May 9, 2024 · Mexico City is parched. After abysmally low amounts of rainfall over the last few years, the reservoirs of the Cutzamala water system that supplies over 20 percent of the Mexican capital’s 22...
