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...Cutzamala itself is running dry amid low levels of rainfall in the area. Its main basin is only 47% full, compared to an annual average of 70% for early April. "This could be caused by climate change and deforestation. These are difficult factors to understand and predict," says Felipe Arreguin, under director of the National Water Commission. "We had to have the stoppages now to make sure that some supply can continue until the rain in June." The first two partial stoppages in February and March cut off water to hundreds of thousands. In the April action, the entire Cutzamala...
...Mexico City residents currently heed such advice. Keen on long showers and washing their cars, homes and clothes well, the average Mexico City resident uses 300 liters of waters per day compared to 180 per day in some European cities, says Arreguin. Furthermore, on Easter Saturdays, residents traditionally have huge water fights, in which everyone from grandparents to young children join in hurling bucket loads over each other. Piet Klop, an investigator at the Washington-based environmental think tank World Resources Institute, says that people will not learn to ration water unless it hits their pockets. "We need to understand...
...Arreguin-Toft said he feels that his work is even more important in light of recent military activity around the world...
...current political climate places too much weight on the use of military force to solve what are essentially law-enforcement and political problems,” Arreguin-Toft said...
...Arreguin-Toft and Nowrojee are accompanied by four other newcomers to the Carr center, including Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, a Sudanese anthropologist and visiting professor of African and gender studies at Brown University; Robert Choo ’90, a former worker at Save the Children Vietnam and Myanmar; Vjosa Dobruna, a Kosovar pediatric neurologist and human rights activist; and Max Glaser, a former senior policy maker at the humanitarian relief organization Doctors Without Borders...