Name: 一个建在水上的城市快要用光了（A City Built on Water Is Running Out of It）
Uploaded: 2021-05-17T02:17:45.000Z
Duration: 12 min 38 s
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and of water that it's there but you don't see it.

There's parts of the cities where you would never know

apparently just as abundant as it would be

in very, very, extremely precarious water situations.

are now facing a situation where they open the tap

all of the water in the world and somehow ending up

of top 10 cities most likely to run out of water.

is in a water crisis that gets worse by the day.

They design and build cheap and simple systems

There's nothing new about rainwater harvesting.

and looked up at the sky at the same time.

Just figure out how we can use this water

as kind of like a first part of a larger solution.

It's a situation that affects women very particularly.

kind of in charge of managing the household

living in this house on the edge of Mexico City.

who don't have access to permanent and safe drinking water.

The economic implications of not having water

are very interesting, and the people that rely

all the time to wait for a possible water truck arrival

so there's often someone that can't work at all.

What's strange about Mexico City, though,

The sky is just falling and there's lighting and thunder

During the rainy season you will have floods.

than a city like London does, for example.

why do we have to be in such a bad situation?

The water crisis in Mexico City is a 400-year-old story.

Mexico City started off being a city on an island

basically the city has focused on draining

all of these ancient lakes out of the aquifer

and building a giant modern city in its place.

So where you had this 2,000-square-kilometer lake

you now have just city as far as the eye can see.

You see a lot of highways and a lot of avenues

Those streets were actually rivers 50, 60 years ago.

around 1,800 wells pump water out of the ground,

But because the city's prone to deadly flooding

to get the water out quickly when it rains.

The result: not enough water filters down

The loss of that water that you can actually see

is paralleled with the drying up of all of the aquifers.

We're just pumping and pumping and pumping water

out of the ground to the degree that, actually,

Monuments need steps added for people to reach them,

streets rise and fall, sinkholes open up the earth,

and the water from the ground isn't enough

30% of its water is imported from outside the city.

But the infrastructure is so old and huge

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一个建在水上的城市快要用光了（A City Built on Water Is Running Out of It）

incredibly

incredible

significant

apparently