Word: paso
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...Paso and Juarez offer a test to all the high-minded globalists who think that if you fix the economy, the other solutions will fall into line. On the one hand, manufacturers from Ireland to Japan are streaming into town. Some 400 maquiladoras, or assembly plants, have all but eliminated unemployment in Juarez and have sown the seeds of a stable middle class, "not Mexicans with sombreros," says Miguel Angel Giron, 26, an accountant at an auto-parts factory. But all the problems that booming trade creates are concentrated here as well; the potable water in the cities' common aquifer...
...border mountain pass, is now Mexico's fourth largest city, with a population of 1.3 million and 50,000 more arriving each year. Huge clusters of tiny workers' houses rise out of the sand and stretch in every direction. "It's instant urbanization," says Nestor Valencia, who directed El Paso's city planning for 11 years. "One year it's a desert. The next it's a city...
...bungalow with a modern kitchen and interior, done in beige and cool mint, on a street appropriately named Hacienda de la Novia (the Bride's Ranch). Going to the U.S. to live and work doesn't cross their mind anymore. "We used to think the bosses living in El Paso didn't think too much about Mexicans," says Tania. "This makes me feel as if that's changed...
Many chronic problems are shared by the twin cities. They slurp from a common, underground desert aquifer, but Juarez's exploding population may run out of fresh water in as little as five years because it sits on a smaller portion of the aquifer. El Paso is looking to import water from 150 miles away. Druglords have killed so many people here that victims' families--on both sides of the Rio Grande--have their own support groups. Tuberculosis and hepatitis flow freely back and forth--and beyond. "The truck driver with TB who sits in our restaurants today will...
...Paso and Juarez recently teamed up--behind the backs of their federal governments--to increase the amount of treated wastewater that Juarez can channel to agriculture. That will eventually free up river water for colonias like Anapra--and lessen the chances of El Paso's drying up along with Juarez. And there's an $833 million, 20-year plan to tap new aquifers for both cities. Says Maria Elena Giner, of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission: "I don't think anyone has ever confronted the scope of what we're racing against...