The U.S. federal executive threatened tariffs against Mexico for alleged non-compliance with a 1944 water treaty, while Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum acknowledged the challenges posed by drought and proposed solutions to resolve the issue
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Increasing climate threats, higher agricultural and industrial demand, poor infrastructure and a rapidly growing population will exacerbate the insecurity if steps are not taken to reconcile available water supply with growing demand
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Twelve Mexico City municipalities — Álvaro Obregón, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez, Cuajimalpa, Coyoacán, Cuauhtémoc, Iztapalapa, Iztacalco, Miguel Hidalgo, Magdalena Contreras, Tlapan and Venustiano Carranza — will have a decrease in water supply for the next four weeks, the capital’s water system announced Saturday, Nov. 12. Due to a technical failure on Friday, Nov. 11, in one of the
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced a plan on Friday, July 29, to provide water to the northern drought-ridden state of Nuevo León over the course of the next 10 years. The plan, which he announced during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, encompasses a series of measures, including the use of
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XINHUA Mexico’s Caribbean resort region is facing an ecological catastrophe due to a mysterious contagious disease that has damaged up to 50 percent of all local marine coral species, according to Lorenzo Álvarez Filip, a researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “This is a disease of tissue loss in hard corals, and the pathogen is still unknown,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Because of the worsening drought in the northern state of Nuevo León, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, July 18, asked bottlers in that region to stop the production of soft drinks and beers in order to provide more water to the population. “In other states (in the north of Mexico), the governors are
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, July 12, Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) declared a state of emergency in light of the enduring drought facing Mexico’s northern states, establishing new regulations for water distribution in the affected territories through the emergency’s publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation. According to Conagua, newly introduced measures to address the drought issue include
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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, June 5, Governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León Samuel García Sepúlveda spoke out in criticism of the federal government’s response to the enduring water shortage in his jurisdiction, claiming that the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration has little interest in aiding its citizens affected by the drought. Recounting Nuevo León’s – Mexico’s
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By KELIN DILLON After seven days of work by the Water System of Mexico City (Sacmex) to discover the origin of reported waste flooding in residences across Mexico City’s Coyoacán municipality, the source of the water breach still has yet to be determined, adding further supply issues to the Mexican capital metropolitan area’s enduring drought issue, in which dams remain
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In order to replace a valve in along the Ecatepec Aqueduct that feeds the capital’s water supply, Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) on Thursday, March 24. temporarily suspended fresh water service to three Mexico City municipalities, Venustiano Carranza, Gustavo A. Madero and Azcapotzalco. The repair work began at 8 a.m. and lasted into the
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