A drought in northern Mexico is not only making everyday life challenging for residents, it’s also threatening their livelihoods. “The only hope is that it rains,” said Leticia Rodríguez, who owns a restaurant close to the near-empty La Boca reservoir.
The drying up of Santiago’s reservoir is not the only problem for the industrial hub of Monterrey, about 22 miles to the north.
In the next two weeks, Barragán said the city plans to expand the use of tankers to deliver water to more outlying neighborhoods. The city faced serious drought in 1998 and 2013, but it’s more complicated now because only El Cuchillo still has water, he said. On a recent day, she pointed across the muddy lake bottom to an abandoned restaurant well into the lake where diners used to arrive by boat. It closed earlier this year when the water receded and the tourists stopped coming.
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