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Two Nations, One Aquifer
July 28th, 2017
Via the Albuquerque Journal, an article on U.S. and Mexican management of the Mesilla Bolson aquifer: Deep underground, beneath the 18-foot steel wall that divides parts of the U.S. and Mexico border, the aquifer upon which both sides depend pays the barrier no mind. The water is there for the taking, first come, first served. […]
Read more »Mexico’s Water Crisis
March 26th, 2017
Via Mexico News Daily, a report on Mexico’s water crisis: Mexico is facing a water crisis that affects millions of people across the country and it’s only going to get worse in future, warns at least one expert. According to the National Water Commission (Conagua), 9 million people don’t have access to potable water and […]
Read more »Mexico: It’s Not Just Lead That’s Poisoning The Water… It’s Also Politics
March 4th, 2017
Via The Washington Post, a look at how politics hinder access to safe water in Mexico’s cities — and many of the same political issues also may be at work in U.S. cities: Lead poisoning, low water pressure and contamination of water sources are widespread problems in Mexican cities. Aging, decaying infrastructure is the problem — […]
Read more »Mexico City: Drinking Itself Into The Ground
March 2nd, 2017
Via CityMetric, an article on Mexico City: When the Aztecs founded the city of Tenochtitlán in the middle of a lake, they thought they were being incredibly clever. It was 1325, the height of the era of Mesoamerican tribes vying for supremacy in the narrowing strip between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Gulf, and […]
Read more »Mexico City: Parched and Sinking, Faces A Crisis
February 17th, 2017
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how climate change is threatening to push Mexico’s crowded capital toward a breaking point: On bad days, you can smell the stench from a mile away, drifting over a nowhere sprawl of highways and office parks. When the Grand Canal was completed, at the end of […]
Read more »The Trump Effect on U.S.-Mexico Water Talks
November 23rd, 2016
Via Politico, commentary on president-elect Donald Trump’s potential impact on a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River: Negotiators who’ve worked for years are pressing to finish a new water-sharing deal over the dwindling supplies from the Colorado River before president-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20 — or put at risk […]
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