Episode Details

Episode Topic: The Water Crisis in Mexico City

Mexico City has been facing a water crisis for a while. Even with increased rainfall, not enough is being captured to supply the needs of the city's 22 million people - it's a common challenge for megacities. Many people refuse to pay their water bill because of frequent outages (and a variety of other factors), meaning the authorities are not receiving enough revenue to invest in updating water systems (both to make them more efficient and to capture more water). It's a downward spiral of reduced services leading to reduced investment and vice versa. Professor of Development Economics, Alejandro Estefan is working with the government of Mexico City on the economic challenge it presents.

Featured Speakers: 

• Michael Talbot, Director for Initiatives in Mexico, University of Notre Dame
• Alejandro Estefan, Assistant Professor of Development Economics, University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/8130ec. 

This podcast is a part of the Global Dialogues ThinkND Series titled “The Worsening Water Crisis”.

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