Don't completely disagree with the general trend of what the article is predicting, since it really is a logistical nightmare to provide water to nearly 23 mill

Don't completely disagree with the general trend of what the article is predicting, since it really is a logistical nightmare to provide water to nearly 23 million people in a fairly dry valley metropolis filled with under-maintained infrastructure. However, I think they overstate the real risk of the city either running out of water or not having rain before the month has gone by (forecasts are predicting a massive rainfall and storms in the next couple weeks for the central region of this country). Also, maybe this was my biggest nitpick as someone who's been living here for many, many years: "Mexico City could run out of drinking water" Next to nobody, not even the very poor, actually drinks any of the municipal water. The bottled water industry in Mexico is fantastically extensive, innovative and manages to deliver its product to nearly every corner as far as I've ever seen. Even to the most isolated villages, and yes, the vast majority of people use that water for their actual drinking. Yes, you could argue that the municipal water of the capital district and its surroundings is what gets purified and bottled, and you'd be right, but only partly. The companies providing it are remarkably good at rerouting to new supply sources if local water dries up in any one region. I've seen them do it time and again.