Dams, taps running dry in northern Mexico amid historic water shortages
Monterrey, Mexico Reuters Her elderly neighbour is hard of hearing so Maria Luisa Robles, a convenience store worker in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, shouted the question a second time: Have you run out of water? She had – and it wasn’t just her. The taps across this working-class neighbourhood of Sierra Ventana dried […]
Water inequality: As taps run dry, Mexican drought fuels anger over access
DIANA BAPTISTA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how strict rationing has left millions of Monterrey residents without tap water for hours or days at a time, fuelling long-standing anger over water concessions that favour big companies…