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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Brendan O'Boyle, Henry Romero and Carlos Carrillo

Mexico City's thirst for water lays bare inequalities, changing climate

Gabriela Gonzalez, 22, walks after filling a plastic bucket with water to take home, on the shore of Villa Victoria Dam, part of the Cutzamala System collecting water for distribution into Mexico City and the metropolitan areas, in Villa Victoria, Mexico April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Every day, at a well near her home in Central Mexico, Isabel Solis fills plastic jugs with river water and loads them on her donkey to lug home for the day's cooking, cleaning and drinking.

Solis, 64, lives on the banks of Mexico's Villa Victoria reservoir, which supplies water to the bustling capital hours away but does not reach her own faucets.

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