Much of Mexico is close to “Day Zero,” the date when a region will lack sufficient water to meet basic needs, but companies like Volkswagen, Ternium, Heineken and Dr. Pepper are licensed to use huge amounts of water.
towns also face water shortages due to hydroelectric dams redirecting water to the gold mines.
In Mexico City, mining, food, entertainment, and other companies consume 850 times more water than households on average, and are a major contributor to water shortages., affirming, “In February and March, after seven years , the courts canceled five mining concessions in Ixtacamaxtitlán, Cuetzalan, Tlatlauquitepec and Yaonáhuac.”the organized criminal group, Los Ardillos, for deploying 50 vans and 20 motorcycles in the path of the Indigenous activists.
“The canals are drying up; natural water has been replaced with low-quality treated water; the fish we used to eat are gone. We haven’t benefited in any way from supplying the city with water, and we’ve never been consulted.
Silvia Cabello Molina, a local autonomous council representative, speaking at a meeting in Xochimilco, as part of the caravan.From Coca-Cola’s illegal water extraction in Apizaco, to privatized water in Puerto de Veracruz, the map of struggles that the caravan has visited and will visit is a detailed one.
The caravan “is a message that peoples are bringing to other peoples and communities, suburbs, organizations. As they go, they bring the message that it is important to struggle, to organize in order to defend water, and life … and that together, it’s possible to stop all this,” Marichuy said. “If communities can’t strengthen their self-determination and autonomy, they leave a space for the mega projects to continue their destruction.
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