MexicoCity is one of the largest cities in the world, yet it is running out of water. It's a slow-motion disaster decades in the making, caused by a litany of issues including human-induced climate change. Residents are deeply concerned ab...
Water issues in Mexico City have been severe during the last years due to population increase, forcing external water sources to meet water demands. This research aims to evaluate the evolution of water vulnerability in the sixteen municipalities of Mexico City in the years 2005, 2010, and 2015...
boasts of having improved Mexico City's besieged water department as mayor from 2018 to 2023. But the opposition has dared her to publicly drink the water brought by tanker trucks, which the city says is potable.
In turn, this paper will first examine how Mexico City is securing its water resources by focusing on the Programme of Sustainable Water Management in Mexico City for 2007鈥 2012. Moreover, the Mexican government is realizing that issues of water security are closely linked to food and energy ...
(Supplementary Table5). These cities also face several socioeconomic and environmental issues such as poverty, rapid population growth, and overextraction and pollution of groundwater25,26, which will further affect the achievement of SDG1No Poverty, SDG3Good Health and Well-being, SDG10Reduced ...
In the Metropolitan Valley of Mexico City (MVMC) located in the high plateau of Mexico City and on former lakes, the dry out policies during the last 300 years have been counterproductive, causing scarcity, pollution, health and environmental problems, subsidence and water conflicts, particularly ...
and GM&B). The first was a preliminary water resilience workshop that focused on discussing current water related shocks and stresses faced by the city, and the interdependencies of urban water systems. The second workshop focused on discussing water governance related issues in the city and what...
Assessment of vulnerability to water shortage in the municipalities of Mexico City Water issues in Mexico City have been severe during the last years due to population increase, forcing external water sources to meet water demands. This r... AR Huerta-Vergara,S Arciniega-Esparza,A Pedrozo-Acua,...
Compacts are formal agreement between states concerning the use of water in rivers or streams, which flow across state boundaries. The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission's authority under state law includes negotiating compact issues with other states. ...
When accelerating water scarcities and pollution in and around urban centers are superimposed on issues like continuing urbanization, lack of investment funds for constructing and maintaining water infrastructures, high public debts, inefficient resources allocation processes, inadequate management capacities, ...