Mexico City’s water crisis: serious concern as tap runs dry 

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

So how many bottling companies are getting rich from your suffering

Not climate change but human mismanagement

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.

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.

This is a serious problem.

Thank you for broadcasting this information.

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.

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

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

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

But the earth is 70% water lol

22 million people whoa!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Funny, when Mexico City is literally built on a lake

Dont worry the US will send 500$ billion

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

Ask the cartels for money to bring water.

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

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

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.

Oh wait, there is a whole lot of rain coming to Mexico, must be global warming 😂😂

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

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

What an incompetent and illegitimate government

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

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

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

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!?!?!?

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.

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!

Ima start selling tap water in Mexico

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.

Prayers to all these people. May the rains come soon. Hopefully this hurricane season brings relief

The world is falling apart

Yeah now they’ll try to steal our emergency water supply next 😂

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

Blame Texas

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

Me watching this after playing with water balloons all day

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😢

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

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

They were supposed to pay for trumps wall !!! 😂😂😂😂

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

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

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

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

Who needs water when you have tequila!

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

Amazon deforestation also accounts for this

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.

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

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

Prayers for all of the affected human beings! May God Bless them and soluciinalize their difficulties!

150 million people breeding more homeless

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.

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

Where is the CARTEL? SHOULD BUY WATER IN CHINA ITS FLOODING THERE😂😂😂😂

A city built in a high desert basin is running out of water! Omg, how could this be happening...

Ive got an idea, why not dig more reservoirs?

Not to mention the cartels have a bad habbit of illegally connecting pipes to people who pay for their water.

This entire world is fckd.

stop having kids

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.

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

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.

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

STOP over populating. enough is enough

meanwhile coca cola is king

Stop with the climate change bs

They're complaining about the heat, but they're wearing clothing for autumn weather. Then they'll need a drink because they're too hot! Then their water levels will drop even further! It's survival, don't be stupid!

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

"BRAWONDO...it's got electrolytes !"""

Today is July 7 ... just checked Mexico City's forecast for 1 week and literally showed its gonna rain for a week straight . hope that helps.

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

Mad max

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

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

Climate propaganda.

Stop having all those damn babies 😒

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

Water is Life

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.

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…..