Water Crisis Hits Boiling Point, Threatens Chaos from Tijuana to Tulum
Dire water crisis grips nation. Less H2O per person, drought hits cities hard. Experts warn of economic disaster, soaring food prices. Mexico lags neighbors; urgent fixes needed now.
Listen up! Mexico's got a Texas-sized thirst problem, and the well is running seriously DRY. Forget the cartels for a second, the real crisis bubbling up is a catastrophic lack of H2O, and it’s threatening to turn major cities into dust bowls and flush the country's economy right down the toilet.
Top eggheads are sounding the alarm, warning that the pressure is mounting faster than a shaken cerveza on Cinco de Mayo. Eduardo Vega López, a big brain coordinating sustainability at UNAM (that’s Mexico’s fancy university), laid it out cold: the country is facing a triple threat – less water to go around, everyone fighting over scraps for different uses, and a whole lotta people needing that agua just to keep the economy from flatlining.
