How Mexico City can solve its 400-year water crisis
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Following a bout of heavy rains in September 1629, water rose through the streets of Mexico City and did not recede. The city had just spent 22 years digging a drainage channel through the mountains, the Desagüe de Huehuetoca, meant to solve a problem the closed, mountain-ringed basin had faced for centuries: nowhere for excess water to go.
The project failed. Parts of the city stayed flooded for years and more than 30,000 people died, mostly from disease in the standing, sewage-laced water.
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The project failed. Parts of the city stayed flooded for years and more than 30,000 people died, mostly from disease in the standing, sewage-laced water.
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