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Mexico Environmental Issues

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Is mexico having any environmental issues? Well in mexico it is said in CIA World Fact Book “that the government considers the lack of clean water and deforestation national security issues”. So in Mexico some people receive water through some kind of pipes, but the water is insufficiently treated and not safe for human consumption. One reason is that less than 10 percent of the metro area’s sewage is treated and the rest flows in open canals, often washed up with rain that flood this bowl-shaped city, overwhelming many homes in poor neighborhoods. The 56% of Mexico's land is comprised of arid and semi-arid ecosystems with limited rainfall and 72% of that rainfall evaporates back into the atmosphere which also affects the water issues. So not only do people not get water. Extracting water from aquifers below is causing the ground to sink. …show more content…

She also talked about fixing the leaks in the whole system, increasing the use of recycled water, which can be used for bathing and recharging the aquifers and generally lowering consumption of water. Every day, the long lines of water tankers fill up at pumping stations, of 4,000 gallons on each truck, enough for two homes for about a week and It’s not an emergency or drought. This is normal practice in Mexico City. With a population of 22 million, it’s like filling a swimming pool with a teacup. Another thing their doing to help is work crews are shutting off the water supplies to this neighborhood so they can plug a leak a few hundred yards down the streets. The problem there is no big leaks, but rather thousands of small ones across miles and miles of underground piping which leads to Mexico City losing 1,000 liters of water per second through this

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