Nicole Franco
Dry well, one from a personal, ongoing project, The Inherited Thirst of Mexico
In the high desert mountains of Central Mexico, the people thirst. Their groundwater is disappearing. Communities came into conception where groundwater was once abundant underneath the arid terrain. But, decades of mining, erosion and pollution have left what remains highly contaminated and now, a constant struggle for accessible clean water. The people now depend on rainfall to help replenish their wells but rains come only once a year. Their thirst is an inheritance of the land. Today, the scarcity of water in Mexico is no longer an isolated issue. In 2011 the “Right to Water” was realized as a human rights issue and implemented into the Mexican Constitution. The amendment claims, every person in Mexico is entitled to affordable, accessible, and safe water.
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