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Mexico Water Wars: Farmers Take Over Avocado Orchards That Need Too Much Water
April 28th, 2024
Via Fast Company, an article on water conflicts between Mexican farmers and avocado growers—who are often sponsored by or pay protection money to drug cartels: As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in […]
Read more »Amid Water Crisis, Mexico City’s Metro System Is Sinking Unevenly
April 23rd, 2024
Via Undark, an article on Mexico City where – propelled by the draining of local aquifers – the city’s land is sinking. New research surveys the impact on the subways. WITH ITS EXPANSE of buildings and concrete, Mexico City may not look squishy — but it is. Ever since the Spanish conquistadors drained Lake Texcoco to […]
Read more »Mexico: 5 Dams Have Reached Zero Level, 23 Have Less Than 10 Percent
April 22nd, 2024
Via Mexico’s Milenio, a rather dire report on the status of Mexican dam levels: Of the 210 large dams in the country, five are completely dry , they have reached zero level of their storage capacity; while another 23 reservoirs are at less than 10 percent . According to the National Water Commission (Conagua), the total stored in the […]
Read more »‘Complete and Absolute Despair’ for Texas Farmers Over Reductions In Shared Water Supply with Mexico
April 20th, 2024
Via Fast Company, a report on how Mexico has only met 30% of its expected water delivery to Texas, due to its own drought conditions: Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for citrus and sugar as Mexican and U.S. officials try to resolve a dispute over a decades-old water treaty that supplies U.S. farmers with […]
Read more »Conserving Water In Monterrey, Mexico
April 16th, 2024
Via Aquatech, a look at how Mexican utility Servicios de Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey (SADM) is combatting water scarcity issues in Nuevo Leon through pressure regulation and increased real-time monitoring: Water scarcity issues in north Mexico Like much of northern Mexico, Nuevo Leon is suffering from drought conditions and water scarcity, caused by a […]
Read more »From Drought to Flood: Solutions for Extreme Climate Events in Monterrey, Mexico
April 2nd, 2024
Via Harvard Graduate School of Design, a look at Monterrey, Mexico and its plans to tackle extreme water events: In 2022 and 2023, Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest city, experienced a critical shortage of water and, like Cape Town in 2018, was close to a Day Zero of water provision. The emergency made international headlines, as the […]
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