One Mexico City resident, Alejandro Gomez, told CNN that his family has been without proper running water for more than three months now.
Gomez’s family doesn’t have a storage tank for water, so water truck deliveries won’t be much help for them.
Christian Dominguez Sarmiento, an atmospheric researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, commented on the crisis.
A World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas report released in 2023 detailed the extent of water shortages across the world.
To support human populations, companies have expanded agriculture and livestock fields, which need water to support them.
The World Resources Insitute predicts that by 2050, nearly 1 billion people on the planet will be living under constant high water stress.
The Spanish saw the abundance of water standing in the way of the city’s development, which is ironic, given the city’s current situation.
The decision to destroy the lakebed and canals of the city has proven to have far-reaching consequences centuries later.