Mexico City’s water crisis: serious concern as tap runs dry

ABC News’ Matt Rivers reports on the dwindling clean water supply in one of the world’s largest cities, forcing many residents to resort to drastic measures to obtain the water they need to survive.

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[Jeffrey-hkfq]

🤔No mention of the Coca Cola bottle companies draining the water supplies 💦🥤

[Poth]

Lack of rain fall, cartels, Coca Cola, corrupt politicians, etc. It's not looking good for Mexico and the other countries that are going to experience a water crisis soon.

[urbexdavegamingchanell]

A cocacola company should be closed and be charged with ecological disaster easy as that

[daledupont]

It's ironic that a city built in the middle of a lake, by a people who used the lake as a floating garden, is now dry.

[m-cwer]

They need to address the leaking pipes in the city. 30 percent of water daily is lost due to poor pipes.

[Yilver]

There really isn’t a water problem. It’s an infrastructures problem….in Mexico City.

[richiemochi]

People wonder why ancient cities are abandoned. City water runs dry when it's too expensive or they don't build enough aqueducts.

[MilesTegg-jqnn]

The Colorado river problem. Mexico is showing us our future.

[sferris]

This serves as an example for all countries and people. All countries need to invest more in infrastructure.

[gatheist]

I’m so distracted by the fact that they’re talking about how hot it is, while the people living there are dressed in hoodies and long sleeves.

[johnnylafayette]

So how many bottling companies are getting rich from your suffering

[CoffeeBreakHQ]

Imagine having 22 million people possibly going dry and NOT having a plan. Latin America in a nutshell.

[balebanksful]

Thank you for broadcasting this information.

[Vxvx]

One solution is to put some kind of covering on top of the water reservoir to reduce water evaporation from the sun. The covering can be floating solar panel that generate electricity, or just some cheap covering.

[huswsimonbla]

Just like in southern Europe. The pipes leak a big percentage of the water, so it never reaches the people and then suddenly there is a draught.

[treehuggerdeluxe]

We're beginning to see why every large empire eventually fails. In every system it is balance that allows it to keep the machine moving fluidly. When things fall out of balance, the entire system fails.

[ladyDee]

My mom recycles her water too and she doesn't live in Mexico but in the US. Thankful for my mother

[jsundberg]

how can we be telling people to keep having children when these crisis will keep getting worst!!!!

[alexvarela]

I used live in Mexico. The infrastructure of drainage that they have is very old. They don’t maintain it and the very little money that they have either the political people robs them or use it to build stupid things like the Maya train, the airport, the list goes on and on. This is not only a Mexico City problem look up the water crisis in Monterrey NL Mexico. Look up the water crisis in Tamaulipas Mexico. You may think that the recent storm named Alberto would make people mad but it did the opposite they were happy. Rivers were full, areas that didn’t have water were full they did not care about the damage that was done because they had water. What really pisses me off is that they don’t maintain the pipes, people have leaking pipes and they don’t care, they don’t educate people on the importance of water, politicians rob money to use it from themselves, they build stupid things, they install 6 inch pipes on a road and call it “a major improvement” and the politicians take the money instead of investing. People don’t recycle the water it’s just a whole list problems that dates back decades ago. It’s not only a Mexican city problem it’s a national problem in Mexico. If we here in the United States don’t fix our water issues this is us next time. Some people think “well why should I fix this pipe let me have the government fix it” when in reality it should be the people not the government fixing our own pipes of our houses. Some Mexican people don’t fell the crisis because they have water at home so they could careless. As of right-now I don’t see them making any changes to the situation any time soon. Oh and the new president never spoke about the water crisis when she was campaigning.

[Droppin_Deuces_On_Ya]

Not climate change but human mismanagement