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Government water commission map in Mexico shows 96 overexploited aquifers, which are bodies of rock
that holds groundwater. Seawater has polluted 17 others because of too much pumping, while the flow
of toxic or polluted water is spreading fast. According to the World Health Organization [WHO].
Mexican children are contracting digestive diseases due to poor water storage. Mexico City, built
eight centuries ago atop vast lagoons, cannot adequately supply water for its 22 million
inhabitants. Like many cities in the world, less than half of the city's waste is treated. The rest
sinks into underground lakes or flows toward the Gulf of Mexico, tuming rivers into sewers. This
presents an extremely difficult prospect for Mexico's future. The Mexican National Water Commission
lists some 35 cities that may shrink dramatically unless more water can be found. A forced
evacuation from parched cities seems far-fetched, and no one suggests it will happen next week, but
it can affect Mexico's future.
Much of the water that Mexico depends upon is the same water that is badly needed in Califomia.
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. One forecast is that Corpus Christi, Texas [population: 277, 454]
will run out of
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