Mexico Water Crisis Can Only Get Worse
Mexico News Daily | Saturday, March 25, 2017
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 another 10.2 million lack basic sanitation infrastructure in their homes.
There are also significant geographical imbalances.
While León, Guanajuato, has an efficient and reliable water supply system despite being located in a dry zone of the country, other cities such as Acapulco, Guerrero and Mexico City have significant problems with water service and supply.
Twenty-nine million homes rely on water delivery services that range in frequency from daily to occasional. Furthermore, aging hydraulic infrastructure causes leaks of up to 40% of the country’s water supply, 80% of water that could be reused goes down the drain and municipal water suppliers have suffered budget cuts of up to 70%.
For these reasons, experts say that the situation in Mexico is critical and that debate must begin on the General Law on Water (Ley General de Aguas), which has been held up since 2012.
Pedro Moctezuma, coordinator of the Water Sustainability Program at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), believes that Conagua has mismanaged the resource and that civil society should be involved in the debate.
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