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Today, Explained

North America’s biggest city is running out of water

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Officials say “Day Zero” is imminent in Mexico City. A walk through the city reveals the historical roots of the water crisis, its present-day challenges, and the potential solutions. This episode was produced by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Anouck Dussaud, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! vox.com/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The other day I called Juan Reboyar.

0:03.0

And I live in at this at the Japan de Saragosa, that is a suburb of Mexico City.

0:08.0

I called Juan because he's running out of water.

0:11.0

And we receive water only on Mondays, but obviously it was not enough because in my house, for example, we leave four people.

0:19.0

And obviously there were some days that we were not able to have water at all.

0:25.0

We can't shower, we can't wash our clothes, the basic activities that the human needs we cannot fulfill.

0:34.0

Because Juan City, Mexico City, is also running out of water.

0:39.0

As we understand, this situation has not reached the peak.

0:45.0

More than 60 million people have of the entire country's population without daily access to water.

0:52.0

We're heading to the biggest city in North America

0:54.0

to find out more about their water crisis on today explained.

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