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Mexico City may be just months away from running of out water (www.cnn.com)
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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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[–] 10 points 2 years ago

Your statement is coming off bad because of the context.

The initial civilization built their civilization in the lake because it was a good idea. They kept the water in the lake and built giant floating farms to feed the population. If this had been maintained to the scale it was under the Aztecs, we would likely regards modern Mexico City as the premier canal City in the world.

The Spanish colonizers drained the lake because they didn't understand the system and chose to remake the area in the image of their homeland as much as possible.

We are now dealing with a post colonial nation that has significant infrastructure built in the area.

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