Insufficient Water Supply Puts 180,000 Maya at Risk Mexico News Daily
go to original July 4, 2017

Climate change and insufficient investment in water distribution infrastructure have left the Maya people of three municipalities in Quintana Roo at risk for lack of water.

The federal government’s Mexican Institute on Water Technology determined back in 2015 that over 180,000 people in the municipalities of José María Morelos, Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Lázaro Cárdenas already faced lack of access to water.

The study on the effects of climate change concluded that those people were “highly vulnerable” to any changes in weather patterns.

Now, the federation has detected the mismanagement of 200 million pesos allocated to the state water department, allegedly embezzled during the administrations of the last three governors, Joaquín Hendricks Díaz, Félix González Canto and Roberto Borge Angulo.

In the José María Morelos community of Kantemó, Fernando Uc Chan lamented that despite the fact his town sits on top of the largest underground river network in the country, water is out of reach for families like his.

Digging a well would cost Uc about 3,500 pesos US $190), far more than he can afford.

Ten years ago the situation was different, the father of three told the newspaper Milenio. Water shortages were unheard of and shallow wells produced water.

Read the rest at Mexico News Daily

Related: Dirty Water Use Puts Nearly a Billion at Risk, Says Study (Reuters)

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