Residents of Mexico City suburb are anxious after living over a month in black sewage water
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Residents of Mexico City suburb are anxious after living over a month in black sewage water

Hindustan Times  

CHALCO, Mexico — As 56-year-old Juana Salazar Segundo walked through her home in Chalco, a low-income suburb southeast of Mexico City, she recalled how black, reeking water had reached up to her belly button after flooding early last month. “Day and night we couldn’t sleep, the water just rose and rose,” she said. “I haven’t been able to work because I have to take care of my things, my daughter hasn’t been able to take her son to school … we’re just surviving.” Omar Arellano-Aguilar, a biologist and expert in environmental toxicology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said the combination of drainage failures and the geological structure of the area makes it more vulnerable to floods. “It's being taken care of,” he said during one of his daily press briefings last month. “We need to start learning how to live alongside the water and accept that there are areas that have to be flooded,” he said.

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