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Emily Green

Mexico City's long-running water problems are getting even worse

Sandra Martínez Martínez shows the dirty tap water she and her family are using as toilet water at her home in the municipality of Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico, on Sunday. (Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR)

MEXICO CITY — María Cristina Peláez holds up a bottle of a dark brown liquid. It looks like Coca-Cola and smells like sewage. This is the water that has come from her neighbor's tap since 2022.

It's unusable — too dirty to wash the dishes with or even clean the toilets.

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