Mexico: Drought hits water supply for 2.5 million

Don't fool with mother nature. Sorry how are we going to water the golf courses when the gringo is coming to play.Do not kidd yourself our watermanagement is also wastefull. We grow the wrong crops in many places in soil that requires to much watering. The south american indians could have given us lessons in agriculture. The next wars mayby will be over water.

We are not better off either! Just look at Texas!

Only 3% of water on Earth is freshwater and most of that is frozen. As it melts it will find its way to the oceans making it too salty for human consumption. We use roughly half of our electricity to move, treat, and heat water. Assuming viability, desalination through reverse osmosis will consume an even greater percentage of energy for additional treatment. Population is at 7-trillion and growing. With it, demand is increasing. Once the glaciers feeding fresh water to India and China finish melting (estimated before 2050), some 7 to 10 billion people will become refugees and despite for want of water. China is already mining fossil water (that's mile deep aquifer ground water that is not readily recharged) beyond pumping ability for agriculture. We use about 70% of our fresh water for growing food, 20% for industry and the residual 10% for human consumption in urban areas. If Mexico lacks drinking water, how will they feed their people? - All wars are over resources. Religion is merely the excuse used to influence the cannon fodder between those who control the resource and those who covet it.

The fools around the world had better get off their butts and start building de-salinization plants. The worlds water-supply has been disappearing for years ! Even the crooks in D.C. are going to get thirsty ::::::

this is happening here too, havent you people looked at the drought in Texas? Its happening closer to you than you think.when it happens to your area should we blame it on all the people on drugs or on all the people in L.A. or how about all the casinos and golf courses in Vegas. you people amaze me with the mean stupid comments you make.

comeing to a neighbor hood near u laugh at the mexicans but its comeing here soon

Thanks to Global Warming Water is going to be more valuable than Oil or Gold!

It's going to become like Africa, the people with no water to drink, sad. There will be organizations to help them, Churches, et. and then there own people to do something about it.

Droughts are nothing new. Idiots who want to live or farm where there is not a reliable source of water should not be surprised. Perhaps attention to history would help.

Mexico, Texas and China are in a drought, U.S. is next

In this day of modern technology we can't figure out how to get water from one point to another?Pretty sad......

soon water will be much more valuable than oil, such a shame drilling practices in usa are destroying ours

Mexicans have absolutely NOTHING to be thankful this year. SUCKS FOR THEM

There is a lot of people who dismiss the scientists who are claiming a global warming problem is underway, but if they are right, changing weather patterns will have a significant impact on water and food supplies. Those are basic necessities for life and their absence or shortage can lead to skyrocketing prices at best, or, at worse, to wars.

I have been attempting or trying or better still beating my Head against the Mexican Burocrats for 10 yrs. on every level to build water treatment plants in many cities and states all over Mexico. I hit a dead end because it seems they wanted my technology and equipment but didnt want to pay for it. What is really F.U. is most of the cities had gov grants to help them build the necessary plants as needed in the most desolate counties-puebla's ...They would not even turn loose of a small portion of the money to even do a market anylasis construction consultation with blueprints, working diagrams and finished water gpm of clean water, which they All so desperately need. Being that most of the cities Public water utilities commission I spoke with were almost out of clean/potable water while dumping their raw sewage into the rivers, lakes, streams, creeks and holding ponds constructed outside of town.
MEXICO HAS A MAJOR WATER PROBLEM BUT TOO STUPID AND GREEDY TO ADDRESS THAT LIFE OR DEATH ISSUE. DUE TO THE FACT THAT IN EVERY CITY FROM THE MAYOR, ENGINEERS, UTILITY COMMISH, ON DOWN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND ARE TOO BUSY STEALING THE MONEY. ITS A CLASSIC CASE OF THE RICH STEALING FROM THE POOR, SO THEY CAN SATISFY THEIR OWN GREEDY WANTS & DESIRES.
THIS IS ALL THE TRUTH...VERDAD!!!
below is a list of just a few of the towns I spoke with, interviewed with made proposals too and spent many many waisted hours trips and MY own money to do my best to help those people solve a Major problem.
the entire state of Jalisco
Arandis [ George Mayor in charge of total corruption & surrounding puebla's
Manuel De Blado [From the Mayor on down] raw stinking sewage in the canals and holding ponds. One entire lake is nothing but run off sewage.
Cueramaro [Jesus Soto] corrupt mayor
Cialo
C.D. Victoria }CORRUPT THROUGHOUT{
San Luis Potosi "Grupo de Agua" the whole lot are CROOKS
San Luis de la Paz...all under the same Grupo de Auga
and the list goes on and on
10 long years of my life money and diligent effort went into a MEXICAN
DRY WELL
...for NADA...NOTHING
Wake up, cause you gonna be dirty and thirsty and NO crops one of these days...REAL SOON!!!

Great, another reason for illegals to sneak across the border - to get a drink of water...

Here comes the next wave of visitors that never leave.

During the recent heatwave I understand Mexico was sending electricity as far north as Dallas to keep our AC running. Now we can't figure out a way (or be willing) to help them. Great realtions. Should make for ever better understanding between neighbors.

Did you think it was just Texas that was affected?

thank god there is an abundant supply of corona, carta blanca, and tecate though