The drought has caused havoc in a large part of the national territory, especially in the Mexico City and Nuevo Leónentities that share the same problem: the dry season and the most expensive water in the country.
A hookah can cost up to 3 thousand 74 pesos in Monterrey, Nuevo Leonwhile, in Mexico City, the cost of a unit of 10 thousand liters of water It can reach 1,802 pesos.
According to data from the Federal Consumer Attorney (Profeco)At the national level, the average price of water is thousand 180.30 weights the 10 thousand liters.
This amount reveals the excessive costs of a hookah in the Mexico City and Monterrey, which have increases of 52.67% and 160.44%respectively.
Related note: Drought increases 302% in 4 years nationwide
Excessive costs in CDMX
In CDMX, a water pipe can cost up to 2,800 pesos.
The Truth News consulted the prices of companies that offer the sale of water in CDMX. One of them is Safe Water Pipes (www.pipasdeaguasegura.com), whose costs are around thousand 700 pesos for the supply of a cistern in Iztapalapa, but for the Benito Juárez mayor’s office the cost It’s 1,600.
“Here on this side the pipe is at 1,600 because we are closer,” said the company consulted by The Truth News.
For its part, the company Aguilar Water Pipes (www.pipasdeaguaaguilar.mx) revealed that the cost of 10 thousand liters of water has a cost of 2 thousand 800 in the Iztapalapa mayor’s office, one of the hardest-hit demarcations due to water scarcity.
The third company consulted was Pipas Polman (www.pipaspolman.com), with a price of 1,500 pesos for each unit of 10,000 liters of water in the mayor’s office Benito Juárez and Iztapalapa.
How is the drought going in CDMX?
According to data from the National Water Commission (Conagua)consulted by La Verdad Noticias, from 2022 to 2023 the drought grew 111.6% in the Valley of Mexico.
That is to say, that the dryness of the City of Mexico, Hidalgo, State of Mexico and Tlaxcala it went from 44.7% (March 31, 2022) to 94.6% (March 31, 2023).
Only 5.4% of the territory of Mexico’s valley it has water. One year was enough for the water resource to be reduced, since in 2022 there was a supply of 55.3% liquid.
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