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About five million people, or a quarter of the population of Mexico City's urban sprawl, woke up Thursday with dry taps. The drought was caused by the biggest stoppage in the city's main reservoir system in recent years to ration its depleting supplies. Government officials hope this and four other stoppages will keep water flowing until the summer rainy season fills the basins back up. But they warn that the Mexican capital needs to seriously overhaul its water system to stop an unfathomable disaster in the future. (See pictures of the world water crisis...
...water department, says the government has tried to distribute supplies as fairly as possible but the Cutzamala system is hooked up to many of the unplanned communities on the city outskirts. The city has, however, sent out of fleets of water trucks, and Mayor Marcelo Ebrard - who built urban beaches and a winter ice rink for the poor - is personally handing out free bottled water. Aguirre says the long-term solution involves teaching people to ration their water much better. "We need to educate people from when they are children that water is valuable and needs to be used wisely...
...Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry, directed and co-written by artistic director Masterson, is a gracefully staged pastiche of the writings of bucolic Kentucky poet Wendell Berry, but is a little too high-minded and low-energy for my tastes. I had more fun with the raucous urban energy in Ameriville, from the New York-based troupe Universes, which uses a mix of song, poetry and movement to express the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, even though its hectoring tone eventually becomes wearing...
When Boston City Councillor Sam Yoon ventured into residential Allston last night to meet with the Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum, he was questioned about his fledgling mayoral campaign, his views on urban planning and Harvard’s Allston expansion, and his plans to shake up Boston’s government...
Americans are afraid of this economy. As a result, they're getting locked and loaded. To wit: Jacquita Baker, a soft-spoken single mother from Kentwood, Mich., near Grand Rapids. She works as an administrative assistant at the Grand Rapids Urban League and is studying criminal justice at a local university. As of Monday, she's the proud owner of a shotgun. Why bear arms now? "The economy played a large part in my decision," says Baker, 27. "When people don't have jobs, they might go breaking into people's homes. I want to be safe in my home...