Water wars are just around the corner

By Stephanie Henaro

While Juan Luis Guerra wishes in his famous song that it would rain coffee in the countryside, all I want in real life is for it to rain, and for this to save us from the water wars that are just around the corner.

The water crisis we have been experiencing since March and the images of Lake Patzcuaro, which has lost 42% of its surface area due to illegal water extraction, drought and overexploitation of the aquifers in the lake basin, seem like visions of a world to come, in which we will be thirsty and more conflictive.

In fact, a recent S&P study projects that in Mexico, 20 of the 32 entities will not have enough water by 2050 and therefore, 60% of the Mexican territory would experience lower economic growth as droughts intensify, making those who are not dying of thirst, likely to starve.

This is how thirsty the future looks and that is why it is important to see that the present is also thirsty.