Mexico declared the water shortage in the northern state of Nuevo Leon a matter of 'national security' on Friday as the region, home to Mexico's industrial capital, has been crippled by a worsening drought in recent months.
Buckets are refilled with water by residents as a water truck distributes it outside houses at La Hacienda neighborhood in Guadalupe, in Nuevo Leon state, Mexico June 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jorge MendozaMONTERREY, Mexico, July 29 - Mexico declared the water shortage in the northern state of Nuevo Leon a matter of "national security" on Friday as the region, home to Mexico's industrial capital, has been crippled by a worsening drought in recent months.
In a declaration issued Friday afternoon, the federal government said available water should be prioritized for public use, and said existing federal water concessions to private companies could be modified or reduced. "We're going to be able to guarantee water eight to 10 more years," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said earlier on Friday during his regular news conference.Outrage has grown in recent months across the metropolitan area of Monterrey, home to some 5.3 million people, as authorities sharply limited water access to residents, even as commercial bottlers and beer companies continued to extract what amounts to billions of gallons of water annually under federal concessions.
Photos of canned water donated by Heineken went viral on social media in recent days, sparking criticisms from those who continue to lack water at home. In June, authorities began curtailing access to running water across the metropolitan area to only a few hours each morning.
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