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-hk4fq]

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

[@Joe-ti7qd]

At least it was used for drinking

[@dkg_gdk]

lets talk about the crops of avocados run by the cartels

[@dollimelaine]

@@user-qr7ee2cp4y research it.

[@sandracl8757]

@@Joe-ti7qd Diabetes has become a severe problem there now. Since Cola Cola has full access to the water and residents do not, people drink Coke instead. It's a horrible situation.

[@sidewalkid]

No need to be antisemitic

[@Poth1223]

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.

[@The_Quaalude]

Good

[@chengvang2126]

… no no no no, wasteful use and overpopulation the average person uses 100-175 gallons of water a day, over 100,000 gallons a year … this world, that specific geographical area (especially a dry area like California and Mexico) was never made to sustain tens to hundreds of millions of people using 100,000 gallon of water a year

[@The_Quaalude]

@anitamiller7960 cool

[@brandonn.1275]

@anitamiller7960 dude's a troll. They don't really have a life beyond getting a rise out of people

[@jibh1987]

United States is corrupt too you idiot they’re called lobbyist and and corporations so if you haven’t done your research shut up 🤫🤐

[@urbexdavegamingchanell]

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

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

I was just thinking about that!!!

[@itwasaliens]

But we need to keep the private profits flowing.

[@carlzune6626]

Maybe just maybe, we should drink less coca cola, for them to reduce their consumption...

[@thestarisalie]

Na, the drug cartels keeping mexico down so corruption can rule need ro be closed. But then how will mexicans make money.

[@ezmfmon3y882]

Sh*t up 🙄🤣

[@daledupont3772]

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.

[@lilpinakeit4190]

After colonizers came in the picture

[@tsrmmercy836]

@@lilpinakeit4190 And totally not because of irrational human behavior and wasteful habits.

[@swaggery]

@@lilpinakeit4190 It's mostly because the powers at the time wanted to build there at all costs because it's the geographic centre of the region. Much more important for power projection when you need to walk everywhere. You can't blame the Spanish for wanting to continue to develop the most developed area. And it's not like moving the city would have made much sense until the 1900s sometime as Mexico didn't really focus on foreign affairs that much, and when they started to they mostly just dealt with the USA.

[@hkm8375]

​@@tsrmmercy836 it is, the white devils brought the plague with them

[@hkm8375]

​@whiteprivilege912 like saying black people were better off in chains then being free shooting at each other

[@m-cw7er]

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

[@dwen5065]

Doesn’t matter. They use a lot of groundwater and all the leaky pipes just recharge the groundwater. Not energy efficient, but overall water loss is very little.

[@isocarboxazid]

With what money?

[@SeanOHanlon]

​@@dwen5065 Tell us you don't know the first thing about hydrogeology and water management without using those words.

[@raybar7360]

@@isocarboxazid bienestar?.....no massive tax privileged for televisa, Banamex, grupo carso, grupo salinas....maybe special taxes for the foreigners who are enjoining the weakness of the peso....huevos?

[@isocarboxazid]

@@raybar7360 Lol, the MAJORITY OF MEXICANS don't pay taxes in THEIR OWN country, and you think foreigners are going to? LMAO, crack smoking goodness.

[@richiemochi]

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

[@dealerhealer3673]

Water and food should be a global problem but we can't work together to save our butt's

[@beatrix-ec1xf]

This!​@@dealerhealer3673

[@Fido-vm9zi]

​@@dealerhealer3673I was just thinking the same thing!

[@Yilver499]

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

[@emmerfarro]

I live in Oregon and I disagree. My friend's and family's wells disagree. The 60 year old dogwood and 100 year old western red cedar trees that died over the last 2 years in our yard disagree, too.

[@Yilver499]

@@emmerfarro Oregon is not in Mexico City. I never said that droughts didn’t exist in other parts of the world. There are places where water is running out clearly and obviously.

[@Howtofewithlove]

@@Yilver499 It is clearly a waterproblem

[@Califamilymanprepper]

Is he talking about heat with a sweater on

[@LazyStory]

Did you come to that conclusion after you read the title with "water crisis"?

[@pipes6414]

22 million people whoa!

[@sophia.lb95]

8 million in city proper 22 million in the metropolis area and 37 million people in the Mexico City Megalopolis

[@duckling4393]

It's because these people produce kids like 🪳🪳🪳

[@notyou000]

Lol they know how any are their but not how many cross wth

[@gatheist6716]

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.

[@toxic.forest]

Sun protection

[@meh4770]

It’s all relative. Mexico City is cool compared to other Mexican and Southern US cities.

[@gatheist6716]

@@meh4770 that’s very interesting. Thanks!

[@ryan5758]

It doesn’t actually get that hot. Its summer and it’s 75 degrees all week

[@RailWayBandit]

You never heard about sun protection and skin cancer?

[@MilesTegg-jq5nn]

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

[@copyprint-fz2hb]

if you live in a DESERT ?

[@everythingisfine9988]

​@@copyprint-fz2hb or a place with polluted water (Flint Michigan)

[@sidewalkid]

​@@copyprint-fz2hbColorado River provides water for a good chunk of states in the west coast

[@michaelpowell7120]

And Lake Powell is dry like your mind, commie.

[@EricUnderwood-v2x]

​@@copyprint-fz2hb...And build 200 Golf Courses/ Soccer Fields...in my opinion Utah should be sued for unsustainable building practices

[@sferris33]

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

[@seankingwell3692]

Such a shame not a single dessert hardy tree planted along this lake, they are cutting grass and overgrazing so its just baking in the direct sun and blowing with the wind, humans love to make deserts and pretend that gardening is some silly hobby really don't understand the meaning of life.

[@seankingwell3692]

what they need to do is PLANT and stop destroying plants that animals can graze on. Parks should be grazed not mowed. Where are the trees along this lake? Water for swimming pools but not for trees? This is how Babylon falls. People are not "infrastructuring" their way out of a conundrum that goes against nature. The solution is so simple its insane how people can't see it. Its a solution that grows in time, people crave instant gratification through political promise and big building projects. That model of modernity is what put the world into this mess. People will build great things again, but we have to get back to the source we literally don't have enough plant life YET to balance weather animals insects of us humans, WE HUMANS are the only animal that can garden and plant the earth and help her restore with the ingenuity it takes to innovate solutions. We can't be putting the cart before the horse, the horse must pull the cart. Our innovations need to work with the flow, not trying to create flow it cannot. The world needs more trees, nations near the equator are letting the entire world down not planting trees and expecting salvation or imagined karmatic debt from white northerners. Plant the land where you stand.

[@azureavocado5195]

Nope. Too busy breeding, killing and chasing money.

[@MrEbizio]

the water is there the last government made the water private to companies.

[@supme7558]

No you kust dont build citys i. Desert with no water

[@johnnylafayette]

So how many bottling companies are getting rich from your suffering

[@michaelpowell7120]

Jose Cuervo El Jimador, Amatitán, Jalisco. Don Julio Mexico, La Primavera Jalisco. Tequila Herradura, Amatitán, Jalisco, an award-winning Mexican Tequila brand. Tequila Ocho, Arandas, Jalisco. El Patrón Tequila, Jalisco.

[@melovetorun]

@@michaelpowell7120Coca-Cola

[@jaygee6738]

That's the American way. Profit for few, eff the rest of yawl

[@ddoppster]

Those quantities have to be miniscule compared to other agricultural and commercial uses. Curtailing and conserving are good, when done in balance to their need and overuse

[@teresashinkansen9402]

I don't understand that reasoning. Most of the soda is consumed by the Mexicans themselves, only a fraction of it is exported but now the companies that make those products are the evil ones? Shouldn't they be the ones that should stop consuming the product so they don't have that issue in the first place? They would consume the same amount of water anyway, in fact it might be more because it wont be only for drinking but also washing and other things.

[@CoffeeBreakHQ]

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

[@sandracl8757]

It already happened to Cape Town South Africa. In 2018 they were on the brink of “day zero”. ( Running out of water).

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

​@whiteprivilege912numbers that you pull out of your butt don't really count for anything. Do you really think no one knows how to use the internet accurately?

[@jasono.1629]

3rd world country problems

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

@whiteprivilege912 your numbers are rectum generated

[@mr.fluffy770]

@@jasono.1629yes, because the US has solved their homelessness…. Quick question have you watched the U S presidential debate??? The world 🌎 is laughing 🤣

[@balebanksful]

Thank you for broadcasting this information.

[@revanknight7316]

FAKE NEWS you're stupid

[@Vxvx22]

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.

[@Droppin_Deuces_On_Ya]

Not climate change but human mismanagement

[@secretagentcat]

keep coping, its coming and its real. spend time with the ppl important to you

[@Price-lq8oc]

​@secretagentcat we need invest in solyndra solar panels

[@gooser__43]

Socialism

[@EganTM]

It’s a drought.

[@kansasgoldilocks]

It's both. Too many people, mismanagement, and lack of rain perpetuated by rising global temperatures.

[@20alexvarela]

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.

[@TheMexicoBear]

Since many voted for a socialist, I'd say they're about to get what they voted for. SHITBAUM 2024!!!

[@TheMexicoBear]

Sheinbaum will let the country down and continue the policies of her n@rk0 predecessor.

[@Shadowx157]

Stupid is as stupid does, later when they cry about running out of water they'll say 'how did this happen'

[@hugosalcedo5371]

Man!! This should be a top comment, everything you say is 100% true and I also do not see them fixing it any time soon, people in charge have no idea what they are doing, they are going to end up starving the Mexican ppl in the near future. I really fear for Mexico!

[@alejandroc7357]

El paso in west texas had invested money into having a close looped system where they re use all their water. They get 8 inches of rain for the entire year. Its very possible to do when people are pushed to do it

[@glendanielson9006]

This is a serious problem.

[@jsundberg5542]

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

[@FtheCCSD]

What if the people who were to solve humanity's crises were aborted or never born?

[@elizabethr4107]

Precisely. But they keep having kids especially in Mexico

[@tomarasmith4459]

​@@FtheCCSDThe resolution to the problem is less people and to use less resources. Unwanted children are nurtured and educated most of the time.

[@pohanahawaii]

​@FtheCCSD: 🏜 Not a good enough excuse because it's the people who are here now that are creating the problems. To fix something, one must do so at the source. Let's be real. Do you treat lung cancer by smoking more? If you're dumb, lazy, unmotivated, are your kids going to be Einstein?

[@jacobclark89]

Thank you for understanding the problem , you can't change what you don't acknowledge , and for some reason people are having a hard time acknowledging the obvious 😮

[@chinookvalley]

Same thing is happening in Colorado. Yes, we get rain, but with so many people overpopulating the SW the water is unable to make back into the aquafer. Wildlife is thirsting to death, their habitats are dying from drought, yet people from other states are moving here to escape their own overpopulation problems making the problems worse for ALL life. We are using recycled sewer water where possible. The heat is cooking everything with no answer in sight.

[@Larry-dt7kz]

Slo Mo Joe sent you an extra 10 million! Well someone did! Joey could not run a lemonade stand.

[@azureavocado5195]

Why do humans insist on breeding themselves and this planet to death.

[@MichaelMoore-rc7ch]

T rump going to fix it with deregulation and high flow faucets HE IS A GENIUS, JUST ASK HIM. ​@@Larry-dt7kz

[@treehuggerdeluxe5598]

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.

[@belamoure]

Right on the nail's head. No other explanation we are now in the phase of stock breaking resources (water, food next then meat) and the fall will be swift irremediable and general. No more tourists. Back to medieval times with armed gangs like in Port-au-Prince.

[@tomsimpson5317]

The world is falling apart

[@felixf4378]

@anitamiller7960It’s not that. It’s that people are so spoiled nowadays including myself. We wear our clothes once and then it’s straight into the washer. We shower for 30 mins, everyday. We flushed our toilet every time we pee even if it’s only a little bit. We just waste so much water because it feels unlimited. Even if it’s recycled a lot of is lost in the process.

[@TakeMeHome7]

Mad max

[@crschannel4938]

Now it's the water wars

[@calipdis2]

Every City has a limit of habitants, when that is broken this happens. We must be in equilibrium with nature and right now we arent

[@DallasTechie]

Mexico is the largest consumer of soda drinks in the world. Soda makers have a part in this.

[@hunterbiden6913]

Soda is poisonous, slow killer

[@sammyp9514]

Mexico City is in a horrible location. It is sinking and running out of water …

[@raybar7360]

they are locust.....

[@hkm8375]

Like the west and east coast and Florida, all roting away into the ocean

[@sammyp9514]

@@hkm8375 but they keep doing beach restoration projects in FL. It’s so ridiculous. That whole state is gonna get wiped out one day, not that I want that, but the overdevelopment and lack of planning almost ensures it will happen.

[@mdb1239]

It's SIMPLE build desalination plants and pipe the water into Mexico City. This what Israel has done and because it has, it can share fresh water with its parched neighbors. Mexico is BLESSED with thousands of miles of ocean. God had made humans incredibly smart and capable -- and the solution is easy.

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Indeed. I agree.

[@Jon-qu2jg]

Mexico City is far from the ocean and at a high elevation

[@mdb1239]

@@Jon-qu2jg I think it is a couple hundred miles. The US/Russia pump gas and oil hundreds of miles now. Israel has no problem sharing water who are hundreds of miles away.

[@darith770]

God, indeed. God said, "I have given you every plant with seeds on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seeds. This will be your food." Genesis 1:29 go plant-based, everyone!

[@mdb1239]

@@darith770 Humans after the FLOOD and salvation: Genesis 9:3:: ""Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything."" I think either is fine.

[@midwest_carpenter]

Just ask United States to send them some. We take care of everyone on earth but our own so why not...

[@kuatliocelotl1]

What an incompetent and illegitimate government

[@SinCity4o1]

Dont worry the US will send 500$ billion

[@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.

[@Dro-m7p]

There's no water down there because Coco Cola down there making it all soda

[@azureavocado5195]

And who is drinking the Coke? These same people

[@brianN9955]

Yea they got people addicted to Cocacola

[@stebel78]

@@brianN9955 they got uneducated people to become even more uneducated. Sugar loaded crap is more popular than water..

[@Cableguy5770]

Literally wasting 40% of their water but its a climate issue.....got it

[@HerpDerpNV]

Political agendas never rest. It is like the meltdowns on Reddit where the mentally unstable 16 year olds think their greatest risk in life is "global warning" or "climate change" depending on what propaganda outlet they decide to copy/paste.

[@markmazzucca5062]

Where does Coke get water from to make it's soda?

[@bluntedvegas702]

Yeah....all of Mexicos problems are due to Coca-Cola and the U.S....take zero responsibility. "Rondo...it has electrolytes" - Idiocracy

[@bluntedvegas702]

Brawndo has what plants crave...it's got electrolytes!!!

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Who cares? That's still being drank. This is a climate issue. I know science isn't popular but the truth is what it is.

[@sidewalkid]

No reason to be anti semetic

[@brtecson]

@@sidewalkid wtf

[@ChetHanks-eh1md]

Ask the Cartel to fix it. They have all the money.

[@suntzu94]

We need Americans to buy more drugs to help find the water crises in Mexico, it's a win-win situation

[@pablovillegas7907]

😂😂😂

[@ericcastillo1332]

Here's an irony for you!! I live in South Texas where it's hot and dry !😮 when I go for walks In the park in the morning , I find bottles of water scattered about some are full and some are partially filled, I see this situation on a daily basis , I use the water to rinse my hands I give it to my pets and plants I do the best I can! There is a basketball court there and the kids are alarmingly wasteful with their drinks , there are times when we get little to no rain for months on end😢

[@jacqueslee2592]

Religion and ignorance are the reason why. Many people are ignorant of environmental issues and believe that the earth is infinite in resources due to religious brainwashing. The older Americans think the same way and are wasting gallons of waters everyday. I see American boomers always washing their cars and watering the grass for 5 hours straight, throwing water away. This is why there is also no water in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. Imagine 50 millions of older Americans doing the same due to their sick mentality brainwashed by their politics and false Christian evangelicalism.

[@CaesarBro]

It’s shocking that a physicist president elect would lie like that being well aware of the laws of physics. Oh wait, she’s left science and gone into the dark depths of poli-science.

[@simonsatanssnakelikeson7743]

What can be done? Come to America!! Biden gotcha, baby!

[@cmunoz810]

What!?!?! But how can this be? They just had tropical storm alberto that dropped 5 years' worth of rain in two days!!!! Were did that water go!?!?!?

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

Funny, when Mexico City is literally built on a lake

[@ivanbasso3027]

Stop with the climate change bs

[@NashHinton]

Why? You scared?

[@JD-cd5sq]

This entire world is fckd.

[@anderander5662]

Too many people

[@cocoxtina8366]

Tell them to stop reproducing! LOL

[@pumpkingirl4229]

Karma for ruining our Beautiful California South Bay Beaches.. 😞

[@SethLewis-tj4dn]

With all the drugs an human trafficking. Money theyve made.they can buy water

[@adrianrobledo2607]

Yes because you're regular citizen is the one doing that…

[@j_4150-]

"Human caused climate change" 😂

[@factchecker6674]

Maybe the Cartel can solve the problem, don’t they run the country?

[@ramon1327]

@anitamiller7960yeah but then it’s taxed like a mf. Most people will still by through dealers since it will be most expensive the legal route anyways. Therefore cartel will still thrive. Also they’re not totally dependent on the US, they distribute all over the world.

[@brianN9955]

Because someone is Mexican does not mean they are the Cartel 😂😂😂😂👎👎

[@brianN9955]

​@anitamiller7960that would be impossible the FDA ? And also there would be more homeless.

[@brianN9955]

@anitamiller7960 that's the worst idea ever. there will be people doing drugs everywhere. not good idea

[@vgcf86]

good

[@swingcity7]

Make Coca-Cola pay 💰 Edit: wait. Did the Mexican people who negotiated this deal know this would happen?

[@debrariat6884]

STOP over populating. enough is enough

[@Predictbauer]

Depopulate yourself.

[@Blahcvgfg]

Mexicans won’t listen.

[@Hiiamsamm]

So we just tell people to stop having sex?

[@andrewc.2952]

Could you imagine how gorgeous the cities in Mexico could be if all the cartel money was pulled from them and used for the people of Mexico? It breaks my heart. Such a grand country in dire need of proper support, better infrastructure, and so much more.

[@ladyDee4539]

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

[@alexarzamendi9475]

Imagine "recycling" gray water in the US. Lol, lmao even 😂😂

[@onlyinamerica4916]

​@alexarzamendi9475 You've never learned about US water treatment plants have you?

[@ElChapitoh]

Meanwhile politicians in the US are arguing about who can golf better.

[@megaflux7144]

mexico is NOT our problem. stupid.

[@vlong5710]

This isn’t our problem 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@sutilak4700]

This could've been California as well if not for disastrous atmospheric river filling dams. Wake up people :( Hope Mexico will find a way to fight this crisis

[@robertbilton4073]

Don’t blame just the climate. Population has exploded and no new infer structure. Tree huggers need to make their minds up I thought we were all going to be under water by now.

[@danielmartin531]

They are all about "forced population reduction" now 🙄.

[@georgiavela5276]

Thing is, the Mexico City water problem goes back centuries, as does air pollution in the city.

[@Beavereaver]

People are so so so gullible. Our planet is 70% water 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ we have nuclear power and desalination technology. Mexico has a tropical climate, it rains 6 months out of the year there. When are you people going to stop being so gullible.

[@joaminow6943]

Put 25 million people in a place that has resource and infrastructure capacity for 5 million - what do think is going to happen? On no wait- just blame climate change.

[@LadieKadie]

💯

[@55magicponies]

Nailed it!!!

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Any reason but science.

[@thorgodofhammers1556]

This isn't happening in just mexico, you dingle berries. All the way down past Guatemala. Even the small towns that have rivers going through them all have the bodies of water drying up. Maybe none of you comprehend this because you all live in a small bubble with irrigation water, sprinkler systems, and green lawns but this is the reality of life and what is happening. Ive been to Guatemala and parts of mexico this year and its horrible. Same thing can be said for farmers here in Washington state. They are shutting off the water for irrigation from the farmers because their isnt much to go around and the seasons are getting more and more dry.

[@BobSacamano666]

​@@thorgodofhammers1556some people really are dangus and will go through great lengths to defend large corporations that don't care about them.

[@TahoeJones]

Climate propaganda.

[@KvG-q1f]

Stop having all those damn babies 😒

[@azureavocado5195]

Reproductive responsibility is a term that human beings are averse to. And yet it is the solution to deliver them from all of their self-imposed issues.

[@willplayz3598]

Facts I’ve been saying this forever! Quit having so many fucking kids, makes life worse by taking more resources

[@milanimorales2645]

Unfortunately the cartels are most likely to figure this issue out before the government does. They go for the most profitable business. They sold drugs then turned around and opened drug treatment facilities. Their facilities are actually more successful than the facilities in the U.S. because people are not allowed to just walk out if they experience withdrawls. Now that water is running low, those same cartels will figure out a way to get water to the locals. As long as they are making money.

[@timreeves6296]

Nothing to do with the billions of gallons in water for avocados then

[@onlyinamerica4916]

70 gallons per avocado that's not that much is it..I mean people have to have their guacamole and Avocado toast their not savages for christ sake

[@GodBlezzAmerica]

@@onlyinamerica4916man when people bring up avocados I think of my Mexican grandma who got mad on raising prices lmao we eat it daily and when it became trendy with the toast prices skyrocketed

[@danielmartin531]

​@anitamiller7960 steak and avocados 😋😋😋😋 Now I'm hungry.

[@onlyinamerica4916]

@anitamiller7960 I'm not sure but I think not giving cattle water would be illegal but I suppose it could be tried...

[@belamoure]

It was a problem when I lived there from 1980 o 1984. Mexico had water pipes sucking out water 70 miles from her perimeter. But every morning people showere cars, houses entrances etc from the dust falling from the soup ooops sky. Inertia, difficulty of the whole issue, lack of political will and today is better to live than tomorrow. No solution in sight except rationing and repressive rules, but it won't happen. This is a lost case like Bangkok. Both are slowly sucking up their phreatic water reservoirs and sink without end lower. Sad.

[@Paiadakine]

Ask the cartels for money to bring water.

[@NovaJaye]

Over half of a century ago was a movie which also mentions building settling in Mexico City due to over use of ground water.

[@henrygruspe4794]

Back in the Philippines in 1970’s while I was growing up My mom’s was telling me About what their elders Told them that there will be a time that drinking water will run out

[@serg320]

But the earth is 70% water lol

[@matclairoux]

Over 97 percent of the earth's water is found in the oceans as salt water. You may say filter it but no, not the answer.

[@hunterbiden6913]

Fear agenda

[@matclairoux]

@@hunterbiden6913 You're the only one talking about fear.

[@dcDOC19]

It feels like WE as a species have enough water but WE mismanage this precious commodity..

[@MoneyMan28]

150 million people breeding more homeless

[@QaliPoppy1661]

@MoneyMan28 That’s a US problem. Those homeless you see on the streets of Mexico are people from other countries.

[@MoneyMan28]

@@QaliPoppy1661 millions keep crossing the border, One child policy

[@sahkmatow]

💯

[@Joe-ti7qd]

​@QaliPoppy1661 it's global. You don't get out much I take it.

[@ksrawat88]

😂

[@davidretondo2871]

Not climate change , bad management and change!. Who doesn't know mother nature likes to rearrange?!😊

[@Aaron-i6t]

Water is Life

[@zenithproject817]

It’s their government control the water control the people just like the “Rango” movie

[@mattsmelley5569]

Stop having kids!

[@sahkmatow]

💯

[@Joe-ti7qd]

I'm doing my part

[@sophia.lb95]

oCorrection stop allowing pepsico and coke into Mexico

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

@peacenow42 Yep, the OG white supremacist has 12 children

[@The_Blessed_Cowboy]

Climate has been an issue since the begining of time! People became the problem when they decided to settle and stopped migrating.

[@tradingblueforgreen963]

That’s 3 months ago and the season changed and it has rained everyday for last 2 weeks and no signs of stopping!

[@everythingisfine9988]

1 step forward 🌧️ 10 steps back 🏜️ The desert is going to eventually win

[@frenchonion4595]

They still need to fix there water pipes and cut down on population. That aquifer is still going to lose more than it gains as the years go by thats why it keeps sinking.

[@hommie422]

Ive got an idea, why not dig more reservoirs?

[@17hom1]

Well the Mexican president doesn’t want to acknowledge the crisis he’s just a joke !

[@MistyMcLane]

The taps there do run dry sometimes, it’s a very controversial topic over there though.

[@sashabootcher888]

Lol why not criminalize Coca Cola and all these water bottle companies like nestle??

[@lenordbrazil9580]

I wont be moving there

[@raybar7360]

thank god

[@MoiraWillenov]

@@raybar7360 Righto!

[@darith770]

@@raybar7360 God said, "I have given you every plant with seeds on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seeds. This will be your food." Genesis 1:29 go plant based!

[@raybar7360]

@@darith770 dont block me....stop the propaganda....live your faith and stop making others hate it

[@TheMexicoBear]

Good! Avoid Venezuela 2.0.

[@paulsaragosa371]

Godspeed to thy wisdom and knowledge of thy whole world thy entirely time ⏲️

[@juniormedrano3662]

Yet here in the U.S we have massive pools in our back yards, water pollution at an all time high and we aren’t grateful for what we have.

[@user-es4ew4qr4y]

We are actually slowly running out of water also but no one cares. We will be like them guaranteed

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

True. I immigrated from the U.S. to Mexico 18 months ago. We have running water only until 9AM, you must capture it in a tank on your roof or in bottles, then it 's turned off for the rest of the day. I get up at 6AM (even though I don't have to), to get a shower.

[@sandracl8757]

Ignorance is bliss

[@firstlast8258]

​@@sandracl8757not always

[@adventuresofguamboy5471]

thet are fine,they believe soda is medicine,they can have coke for everything

[@90loneeagle]

ABC News, Give the new president a chance to settle to her new role, Don’t start pointing out negatives about Mexico at large, here in the US we can do better in preparing ourselves for wildfires, Look at the mess that happened in Hawaii after the volcanos, the volcano caught EVERYBODY with their pants down, and for a Country that is a super power, that is very sad. So Calm down…..

[@StellaSable4891]

You thought the wars for oil were bad. Just wait til the wars for water begin

[@justayoutuber1906]

And we in the US are polluting our drinking water with fracking. When will we ever learn?

[@dawn21stcentury]

When we're dead.

[@everythingisfine9988]

Fracking doesn't have to be that bad. Regulation can clean it up. Most of the pollution we're seeing these days is industry dumping directly into rivers

[@danielmartin531]

​@@everythingisfine9988notice that last part seems conveniently ignored by these days??? CO2 will end us all but water that causes cancer and turns the frogs ghey isn't worth mentioning.

[@supme7558]

Why would you even water in the hot of the day duh that all evaporates water at night duh

[@lydiawaffleman1497]

Let them worry about themselves United States isn't responsible for them

[@srgtwigpusha]

Get someone from Dubai on it. they'll make rain for days.

[@cerpas60]

They dont have clouds seeding like the USA..!

[@normannoriega9557]

What is Mexico government doing for there country?

[@SirStarGazer00]

"Their"

[@poppystars9005]

Selling drugs.

[@mollygiovanna1095]

No pride in their own country. No care for their own countrymen.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

@@mollygiovanna1095 Like the U.S. cares for their citizens? What about all the native American people on reservations with no running water? This is a global problem.

[@mollygiovanna1095]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school how do you know I’m American? and if Mexico is better than the us then why is the boarder so crowed with people trying to get in?

[@mocker2325]

Soon they will be telling prophecies of the Lisan al Gaib.

[@BlackandBlessed100]

People live in Mexico City have dangerously low levels of water Please be Mindful ❤

[@Meatinskull]

That’s what happens when you ignore issues happening for decades. Their own fault

[@michaelpowell7120]

Filtered Urine for Felons

[@jacqueslee2592]

Religion and ignorance are the reason why. Many people are ignorant of environmental issues and believe that the earth is infinite in resources due to religious brainwashing. The older Americans think the same way and are wasting gallons of waters everyday. I see American boomers always washing their cars and watering the grass for 5 hours straight, throwing water away. This is why there is also no water in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. Imagine 50 millions of older Americans doing the same due to their sick mentality brainwashed by their politics and false Christian evangelicalism.

[@symmetrycemetery8201]

In México we’ve been recycling and saving water since I can remember and it’s still not enough because of infrastructure issues and lack of planning

[@YaThinKnow]

Turn water fountains into rain storage captures, and filter water into the city supply. Add more fountains that only display at night, then store just enough for public display, but main purpose is to capture water, and filter it into the city system. Every roof should be a capture system for all water stressed cities! I’m in LaLaLand and the water problem in the southwest is about to get really ugly!

[@popcycleism]

Amazon deforestation also accounts for this

[@MrXcluzive1ne]

Imagine living on a planet 70 percent water and where ur living barely surviving on any

[@g0lddustt29]

yeah just go drink salt water if you're thirsty. you moron. im sure it'll work out well

[@ShariHoldal]

A lot of Mexican people claim to be poor but they are not.

[@jhernandez3107]

Two oceans near by, pump salt water to new reservoir, use fresh water for essentials n salt water for everything else

[@onlyinamerica4916]

But the ENVIRONMENT!!!!!...The econazis won't like that

[@suntzu94]

That's a brilliant idea, please show us how it's done since you sound like a leading expert in this topic

[@GratefulOutlook]

The world is going to go through some very turbulent times.

[@seekeroftruth1484]

Prayers for lots of rain there now! 🌨️💧💦🌧️🌈