Mexico Water Crisis

Mexico City’s Water Crisis: Mexico City has been having a lot of water trouble over the past couple of years. Due to the large surge of people coming in to the city from all over Mexico. Many poor communities are lacking regular service of water; they lack access to any supply of water for human consumption. In the past, most of Mexico city’s water has been coming from nearby rivers and lakes. In the most recent times Mexico City has created different ways to get water to their citizens. That has caused a lot of money, time and effort being wasted due to the quality of water causing many of it’s citizens to get sick from contaminated water. Also, since the lack of rainfall has also caused Mexico City’s law makers to build dams on near by rivers
Also officials say that they 97 percent of Mexico cities population does get water pumped into their homes. In reality, poor communities only get water from a tanker that was previously used to transport hazardous chemicals. Also, the info structure of the water pipes is so bad that 40 percent of water is wasted due to leaks. Mexico City only has one waste water treatment plants which 94 percent of households in Mexico City are connected to sewage lines, and little of the waste water is treated. The waste water is supposedly supposed to be used for farming and animal use. That many citizens of Mexico City are not very much aware what is going on with their water system. That they really need to realize what is going on with their water supply and how the city is doing with their
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