Some major cities in Mexico are facing a shortage in their water supply. This comes as the country has been dealing with extreme heat leading to a severe drought. Telemundo’s Vanessa Hauc talks to Mexican residents on how the shortage is affecting their communities.
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The Zumpango Lagoon you show first, was dried out by the goverment, because of the new airport AIFA. The lagoon was hpme of several kinds of birds, like geesse, ducks and herons, and they were a liabiliy for the planes coming to the new airport.
He does not care about any thing..
Access to water should and will be a universal human right. Ahora entiendo porque mi escuela de primaria me dijo que en caso de una emergencia…que camine a la factoria de coca cola 🙂
While here in the Philippines our President has stated our country is facing a water crisis and creates a Water Management office. He also orders the completion of all water infrastructure projects in order to prevent water scarcity in our country.
No one cares about your president!🙄
@@rm_alfaro Sorry I don’t care either and he was not the one I voted in the the last election. I was only stating facts that might help suggest a solution in Mexico. Unlike you who only cares for yourself.
@@keurikeuri7851 Oh no, I care so much about the world! I just don’t care about corrupt leaders like the Marcoses!🤷♀️
@@rm_alfaro Yup, your correct about that 😊
Panama has a similar issue. The artificial lake that runs the locks in the canal was taped for water for people (no problem as long as there is no drought). Now their GDP (canal is the larges source) and water for many are threatened.
This is horrible, I’ve heard that Mexico city is sinking.
All water leaks have to be repaired or replaced it will cost alot but it has to be done and close the coke machine
I’m not sure about other countries but here in South East Asia heatwaves are currently the problem but in the forecast after 1 month from now in June La Nina will start. This will mean superstorms are coming in South East Asia and probably other equatorial regions like Mexico in the next few months.
Coca Cola is the main reason why they don’t have water they consume it making the drink !!
The president has his head in the dirt.
No, no there is no weather manipulation at all.
Wise people flee such conditions!
“global warming is a hoax drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”
Coka cola draining the water supply you can’t be that stupid.
United States was in drought because of these companies but people are stupid not to realize this. They are draining underground water. And they are not being accountable for it.
Cloud seeding!! Works for Saudi Arabia.
I’m not drinking Coca Cola again
America is about to make the same mistake building the microchip factories in Arizona where there is already a water shortage. What are we thinking considering we have an overabundant water supply in the Midwest?
Pray all you want, it will do nothing. The lack of fresh water will eventually effect the entire planet in one way or another.
One would think humans multplying into 8 billion and at the same time polluting all the fresh water and runaway globally warming the planet might be a bad idea. But as Carl Sagan used to say, “Perhaps an alien ship observing might dispute the idea that there is intelligent life on this planet.”
what’s happening to earth 🥵
Already? Its only April
This summer is going to be a BK Broiler for the U.S.- global warming and El Nino double hitter. Prepare your wallets for massive AC bills…. may consider taking out a 2nd mortgage. The wolves will be at your door 💰🐺🐺🐺
The Holy Bible is the word of GOD through the Son of God Jesus Christ:
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. New International Version (NIV)
These are the signs of the end times. If the earth soil and the heaven or sky will gone meaning that the oceans, seas etc will follow!
Old news, Mexico City has been sinking for decades.
All that coke should be filtered for its water content and put back into the environment
The “president” tyrant of Mexico abuses his people forcing them to flee to other countries then uses their escape to demand things from the United States. When are the Mexican people finally going to put an end to the tyrants who keep showing up in their government.
Greed
Lying corrupted political leadership is becoming the norm worldwide. God save us!
Coca cola and beer brands are a big problem in Mexico ! They are drying mexico
These people could use those solar atmospheric water generators.
You know now would be the time for someone to invent the ability to filter salt water. Not only is Mexico running out of water but we are rapidly gaining water from melting ice. So someone should figure out a way to filter salt water so we can just give it out to the countries in need of clean water
Coca Cola are the owners of all the water
Only the less fortunate have water problems. Rich, middle class and transnational companies have plenty of it.
He said there is no water shortage like when they asked that kid on the first day of school if he was going to miss his mom, and he said… No☠️☠️☠️😂😂
Do a boycott for Coca-Cola
Stop selling your water to coca cola and beer
your president is an idot
This is the effects of climate change. there will be more people trying to cross the border to head north, or maybe start migrating south, or heading south, away from the drought zones.
Climate change is fake. It’s just a instrument the government uses to control you
Mexico’s president is a clown. During a mass shooting with several people killed at a family party, he said that they did it to make his government look bad, the homicides haven’t been solved.
Mexico City has a long history of water shortages. However, with AMLO an ambitious Socialist president, many infrastructure projects were began, but never finished. AMLO chose to “seed clouds” in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He’s been inaugurating dams in Northern and Central Mexico, but no plan on how to fill them. There is a project for a huge desalination plant in the Sea of Cortez with the US to supply water, but nothing else in the Pacific coast.
Vicente Fox, former head of Coca-Cola in Mexico became president and allowed Coca- Cola unfettered access to all of Mexico’s water resources. His administration promotion of that product made Mexico the No. One consumer of Coke resultant with many health issues.
Who needs water when you got a country full of chamos😂😂😂
How come international media was not this concerned with these issues before AMLO? Rather put the most corrupt president in our history in TIME cover, and remain quiet during the genocide perpetrated by Calderon. You are morally defeated.
Inacreditável…….
Aren’t they all pretty much over here now though?
Lol. Terrible country too
Theres more than enough water on this planet. its a closed system. BUILD DESALINATION PLANTS ALL OVER THE COASTS
Yes people are still having babies, then when their kids are dehydrated they will complain instead of holding their selfish selves responsible, giving your children diabetes should be considered child abuse, how sick in the skull do you have to be to have kids in such situations, same with people who have kids with wars and bombings
I live in Tijuana and there is constant water rationing and constant pipe repairing
You mean Coca Cola steals water supply.
Global warming
But las vegas needs that water from the colorado river…
Wow. He’s really got his finger on the pulse
He must be democrat
que gane xochitl
I mean… Atleast its Mexico of all places 😂
Coca Cola didn’t just start using massive amounts of water in Mexico, that has been ongoing for decades. Corruption and incompetence in granting housing permits where the infrastructure is insufficient has been ongoing as well. What’s different? The climate! Mexico’s typical corruption won’t cut it going forward. Droughts are going to be more frequent in the next 50 years than in the past.
There’s plenty of water in America. Another good reason to move North with Trump.
I know a guy at work that drinks nothing but coca cola. Its a pandemic over there but its just taken as a joke.
This is why I laugh at people who complain about the price of gas. I hate to think what the cost of a bottle of water fit to drink will cost in 10 – 20 years from now.
I’m starting to sense some Mad Max vibes here. ”Do not become addicted to water!”
Fake news
Theres a solution always.
Now they’re going to steal our water.
Coca cola is the biggest drug dealer in Mexico–cocaine addicted rats prefer sugar over cocaine.
Carbonated drinks are extremely dangerous and should be restricted .only drink when necessary.
I bet Coke still is pulling water for their bottling plant.
The presidente of México doesn’t care
Neither the candidate
Water is more valuable than gold …
😢😢😢😢😢
Coca Cola, is the Putin of the Food Industry…
The mass consumption of Coca Cola in Chiapas mirrors the plot in the movie:Idiocracy=Brawndo the thirst mutalator-a monopoly on liquid refreshment.
Bout to go steal some coke products
Portugal and Spain are also experiencing water shortages, in some areas the problem is amplified by tourism.
People should just stop reproducing at this point
Move the city! Mexico City’s geography used to be full of water before the dosing came in. Also, that coke statement is complete BS. They do t care, they’ll bleed the community dry till there’s no one else to sell it. That “low/ no sugar” options still have some harmful stuff that people shouldn’t be consuming on a daily basis like they do in Mexico.
I think could happen in future when all ice melt with this global warming so sad 😞 we need do something with water and global warming in future we need fix it
Title: “Major cities in Mexico”
Video: shows only countryside
Obrador is totally out of touch!
The medium size town in the mountains of Michoacan in which I live wastes water at a high rate.
So much groundwater pumping in the State of Sonora for Ag.
Maybe the cartel can organize a tax to pay for infrastructure
I hear Columbia has water, they should head south
Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to “TRY” to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.
Climate Change is making weather events more extreme. This will impact the worlds food supply.
Floods, droughts, fires, excessive heat, snow storms and low water levels in reservoirs and in ground water storage are becoming more common. We must stop adding more fossil fuels to the climate fire.
India, China, Brazil, Japan, US, Europe, Indonesia, Canada, Germany and Australia need to do more to reduce use of fossil fuels. They must stop building and financing more coal fossil fuels power plants.
Time to go all in on wind and solar energy, battery storage and electric vehicles.
Fossil fuels are a bad investment for people and the planet.
Investors are divesting from fossil fuels. wind and solar energy investing is growing.
The cost of dealing with the impact of climate change will be greater than the cost of reducing the impact.
The world population is expected to grow by another billion people. Where will the food come from ?
Bottled water is cheaper than soda, but people choose the soda
This is God’s way of Punishing MEXICO for allowing the Invaders to Travel through MEXICO and Attacking the USA.
Go to America 🇺🇸
Ask the Cartel t share Cocaine plants use water and weed also 😮
Ask the Cartel to Share their water … Drug plants use up water …and the Soda plants 😮
Wow, so this is a payed segment to promote the PRIAN candidate Xochitl. Lol, blatant propaganda.
🎭🌚😥Every year in Mexico, at least 47,770 hectares (118,042 acres) of forests and jungles are cleared to establish agricultural fields…In 2015, Mexico ranked third in Latin America for the largest area of degraded land (47%), reducing the potential productivity of the soil, increasing arid lands, and compromising biological and/or economic productivity
Coca Cola runs the town literaly. They exploit the water and then sell it back expensibly as bottled water and of course, coke.. On top of that people are not just so addicted to coke, dying of diabetes but also they’re making people dependent on them providing their jobs.. low wage jobs that is. They’re beyond bussines practices, they’re just power hungry. Capitalism is cool but when is run withouth ethics, this is the result.
Disgusted by that reply from Coca-Cola. It looks like every other letter written by any other big business when tackled on an issue they are creating through bad manufacturing practices. We know why they’re there – cheap labour, and the government easy to pay off, just so they can kay their hands on as much water as possible, with no consideration for the local population.
Shame on that president to just lie without any hint of embarrassment.
If I drank that rubbish at all (which I don’t. Hate the stuff), I would stop drinking it on principle. I hope others that watch this and do drink it will turn to a more ethical brand, if they still crave that cola taste.
I feel heartily sorry for those people in that region, whose main way of getting a drink is having to drink cola.
You certainly wouldn’t want to drink what water locals are left with. It looks unfit for everything except flushing a toilet.
Mexico, stop drinking soft drinks please. If you consume sugar, then you will feel thirsty. You will keep on drinking sugary drinks without knowing the danger it poses to health.
Maybe they bring back some old Mayan custom of human sacrifice to appease the Gods and bring back the rain.
So many experts in the comments who all live in Mexico and aren’t easily fooled by cheap propaganda.
The self-righteous of the stupid mercenary Colombian reporter. Should the president do a rain dance to make it finally rain?
Maybe it’s weather manipulation be monstrous people. Is Mexico’s sky full of Chem trail’s. I bet they say it’s because of the climate crisis 🤦🏼
Another old coot of a president who doesn’t have a clue of the people’s water needs.