Monterrey suffers weeks-long water cutoff amid drought

[hunter]

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The industrial hub of Monterrey has long been one of Mexico’s most prosperous cities, so its almost 5 million residents were shocked when they lost the most basic of services: water.

A combination of an intense drought, poor planning and high water use has left residents of Mexico’s industrial powerhouse to resort to extreme measures that call up images of isolated, poorer areas: storing water in buckets to use a scoopful at a time.

“We are panicked, because we don’t know when the water will come back on,” said 60-year-old Monterrey resident María del Carmen Lara. “We finally got them to send us a water truck, but we still don’t have running water.”

Local authorities began restricting water supplies in March, as the three dams that help supply the city dried up. They currently hold only 45%, 2% and 8% of their capacity, and city authorities say the two lowest dams had only a few days’ worth of water left. Earlier this month, they declared water would be available only between 4a.m. and 10a.m, recently extending the service until 11a.m. But authorities haven’t even been able to supply that, and in thousands of homes, not a drop has come out of faucets for weeks.

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https://apnews.com/article/climate-politics-caribbean-droughts-dams-59e38d845e6e763325a493f372684d50

Coming soon to the U.S.A.?

Texas has already demonstrated a similar incompetence managing its electric grid.

[TheRealNorth]

1. Republicans and Conservatives gotta have toilets....

With enough flow to flush away confidential, incriminating documents.

If poor people gotta die of dehydration so that the 1% can have large pools and green lawns, well, they will blame liberals for trying to conserve.

[SergeStorms]

2. I betcha'....

those factories are getting the water they need though.