Mexico Water Crisis

Mexico City’s Water Crisis: Mexico City has been having a lot of water trouble over the past couple of years. Due to the large surge of people coming in to the city from all over Mexico. Many poor communities are lacking regular service of water; they lack access to any supply of water for human consumption. In the past, most of Mexico city’s water has been coming from nearby rivers and lakes. In the most recent times Mexico City has created different ways to get water to their citizens. That has caused a lot of money, time and effort being wasted due to the quality of water causing many of it’s citizens to get sick from contaminated water. Also, since the lack of rainfall has also caused Mexico City’s law makers to build dams on near by rivers
in order to get another way to get water for the city. Since of the lack of water being supplied to the city, many wealthier neighborhoods and industrial zones are will supplied, which many poorer districts are forced to suffer from the lack of water.
Also officials say that they 97 percent of Mexico cities population does get water pumped into their homes. In reality, poor communities only get water from a tanker that was previously used to transport hazardous chemicals. Also, the info structure of the water pipes is so bad that 40 percent of water is wasted due to leaks. Mexico City only has one waste water treatment plants which 94 percent of households in Mexico City are connected to sewage lines, and little of the waste water is treated. The waste water is supposedly supposed to be used for farming and animal use. That many citizens of Mexico City are not very much aware what is going on with their water system. That they really need to realize what is going on with their water supply and how the city is doing with their
water.
Gender, Class, and Water: In Monterrey Mexico, there had been a lot of protests about the access of water in homes.
Which many were caused by women due to them not being about do house work around the house that needs to be done. Also, since many of these women are housekeepers in very wealthy homes this had caused a lot of lost income for them. Also for them it was harder for the to get recognized since women have not adequately represented or addressed by formal political institutions such as political parties. As a result, the protest became a public voice of poor urban women. Also, many of these women didn’t get the same benefits as men. They didn’t receive protective gear against occupational hazards and health care or social security. Which caused collective bargaining not being able to work out with these women. Also, these women faced struggles at home as their wage income alters the traditional balance of power between spouses based on earnings. Yet, these women were able to overcome that they were able to improve their homes and neighborhoods. Like creating soup kitchens, block savings associations, and family-day care networks, as well as organizing protests for low income neighborhoods. Since many women were getting involved with these protests this lead way from the stereotype of women were only in the home for housework and taking care of the family. Since major cities in Latin America started becoming larger and large and with their concomitant growth was not
going with the same constant rate. This had caused a lot of anger for these women since these women were mostly part of that part of the home. How that water is a large part of the woman’s role in the house. When Monterrey had to do water rationing many of these women had to wait in line at the public fountain in order to get water for their households. They had to work around the water cuts. They would have to carry buckets of water to their homes and had to control the amount of water their family is used in their homes.
The Rio Grande: The Rio Grande is known for its muddy looking water and the different swirls of water that it comes together with. How it was many different currents that it contains within itself. It looks like it is going in two different directions. How that it goes all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico and eventually to the Atlantic sea. How it manly part of the countryside of Texas and that many people of Texas have not really seen its beauty that it brings to the state. The author was born near the Rio Grande. That ever since he was young he has known that his soul had hidden currents and that his soul had resembled the river and the way it flows.