How Wastewater Recycling Can Save Mexico's Future

Mexico faces a water crisis fueled by bad policy and climate change. Experts urge a multi-pronged approach: greywater recycling, citizen participation and data-driven solutions to create a sustainable future where water flows freely.

How Wastewater Recycling Can Save Mexico's Future
A leaky faucet symbolizes Mexico's sluggish response to its water crisis.

Imagine a faucet. Not a leaky faucet, mind you, but one altogether stagnant, a rusty monument to inertia. That's the analogy Dr. Marisol Anglés Hernández, a water expert from the UNAM Legal Research Institute, uses to describe Mexico's current water woes. It's a crisis, yes, but one begging for not just a fix, but a complete reimagining.

Dr. Hernández isn't alone in her quest. She's surrounded by a ragtag band of water agitators – sociologists, anthropologists, even the occasional architect. Their mission: to vanquish the stagnant monster of bureaucratic inaction and usher in a new era of collaborative water management.