Mexico City is collapsing in on itself due to dangerous climate change. There is a severely high demand for water, especially during hot weathers or in the case of a drought so there is a constant need to drill deeper into the ground for more. The grounds that are being drilled are ancient clay lake beds and have begun to weaken and fall apart further, as a result from the drilling. Because of the heat, people will be in much greater need for water, placing additional stress to tap reservoirs and the clay lake beds. Climate change can easily be the end of this city, affecting millions of people. Even Mexico City’s chief of resilience officer, Arnoldo Kramer, said, “Climate change has become the biggest long-term threat to this city’s future. And that’s because it is linked to water, health, air pollution, traffic disruption from floods, housing vulnerability to landslides—which means we can’t begin to address any of the city’s real problems without facing the climate issue”
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Even their own government admits that about 20 percent of the people living in Mexico City do not have access to water through their tap faucets. There are residents who wait for over a month to receive clean drinking water from the trucks they hire. The residents often called these large trucks “pipas”. The cost for these trucks can sometimes be expensive, costing more than a wealthy resident would normally pay in a nicer neighborhood. A resident who has experienced this first hand said, “We line up at 3 in the morning for the pipa. We wait for hours to get water that doesn’t last a week, and usually there aren’t enough pipas. Sometimes there is violence. Women sell their spaces in the line. If you’re from the wrong political party, you don’t get water. You have to show your party affiliation, your voting ID.” So not only do they have to wait weeks for the clean water, but at times they have to fight for
Even their own government admits that about 20 percent of the people living in Mexico City do not have access to water through their tap faucets. There are residents who wait for over a month to receive clean drinking water from the trucks they hire. The residents often called these large trucks “pipas”. The cost for these trucks can sometimes be expensive, costing more than a wealthy resident would normally pay in a nicer neighborhood. A resident who has experienced this first hand said, “We line up at 3 in the morning for the pipa. We wait for hours to get water that doesn’t last a week, and usually there aren’t enough pipas. Sometimes there is violence. Women sell their spaces in the line. If you’re from the wrong political party, you don’t get water. You have to show your party affiliation, your voting ID.” So not only do they have to wait weeks for the clean water, but at times they have to fight for