However, the U.S. water crisis is mild compared to what already faces Mexico. It is not an overstatement. The facts about water in Mexico are beyond alarming. One out of every eight Mexicans has no ready access to drinking water.
Bad water kills thousands every year.
The government says pollution has claimed 93 percent of the nation's waterways. Twenty million people rely on it for safe drinking water. Other factors contribute to the water emergency. In Mexico's north, for example, the United States has siphoned much of the Colorado River and what little flows back to the Mexicali Valley is high in salt. Throughout the country, people routinely dump refuse in waters.