- Mexico City could run out of drinking water by June 26, an event locals call “Day Zero.”
- Three years of low rainfall and high temperatures have worsened the city’s water crisis.
- The Cutzamala water system, which provides water to millions, operates now at 28% capacity.
They “foot the bill” capische? The cost goes to them. They pay money equivalent to the true cost of the goods they consume, above the rate at which a regular citizen pays for a good produced under a system of government subsidy and/or control.