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Mexico City Water Crisis Essay

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The videos from this unit mention a lot of other countries that are going through similar situations due to the high number of populations. It really grabbed my attention to see that Mexico City is one of those cites as well. In the video “Crisis in Mexico’s MEGACITY” by the Daily Conversation YouTube channel, I was able to learn why Mexico is being hurt economically and environmentally due to the high number of population.
Mexico is a really unique city for several things, but mainly because it’s one of the largest cities, with 21.2 million residents. Also, because it’s the largest city without access to a body of water. Due to this, Mexico City is going through a water crisis. When Mexico City was initially created by the Aztecs, it was kind of like Venetia. They had canals and they had floating farms and houses. After the Spaniards took over, they got rid of all that. They filled up canals, destroyed their floating farms and drained all the water from the lake. They started building their own city in their own way. They starting …show more content…

The city has a really crazy climate due to the pollution, sometimes they have draughts and sometimes they are flooded. Their grand canal only works 30% of its capacity. Because of the way it was built to work with gravity, it’s not working like it should because the city is sinking. On top of that, many of the 8,000 miles of pipes that should deliver clean drinking water to the city are leaking, so only 40% of clean water arrives to the city. More than 20% of people in the city do not receive water. The only solution they have these people is to buy the water from big trucks that deliver their water but it’s really expensive. Just in Iztapala, they have 1,000 trucks driving about delivering water for 2 million people and it’s not enough. It takes about 1 to 5 days to get the water delivered and people end up short on money and cannot pay other bills or

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