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Video: Heavy rains in Mexico can’t beat the drought

Video: Heavy rains in Mexico can’t beat the drought

Although Mexico is currently in the grip of the worst drought it has suffered since World War Two, houses flooded and streets turned into lakes this week when torrential rainfall lashed down on Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico.

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Video: Mexico’s drought leaves city dwellers and countryside high and dry

Video: Mexico’s drought leaves city dwellers and countryside high and dry

Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital’s water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century.

See the Los Angeles Times report here.

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Snorkelling Cenotes – but can they be saved?

Snorkelling Cenotes – but can they be saved?

Read MexicoReporter.com’s dispatch for CNN Traveler on the Mayan Riviera’s cenotes here.

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Snorkelling a Cenote in Tulum

Snorkelling a Cenote in Tulum

The Maya Riviera down on the Caribbean Mexican Coast is home to some of the country’s best kept secrets – cenotes. Cenotes are underwater caves, and there are more than 150 forming part of the network along the Riviera. You can dive or snorkel them, and I had a commission to write a piece for [...]

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Video: Tulum’s dirty beaches

Video: Tulum’s dirty beaches

New Correspondent paid a visit to the Sian Ka’an Biosphere reserve in Tulum, Mexico. Lucy Gallagher from Mexiconservacion explained why the Reserve’s beaches are so dirty.

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Video: Mexico’s deteriorating environment

Video: Mexico’s deteriorating environment

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Water pollution is one of the biggest problems, and the growth of tourism in the area prompts the growth of new settlements due to the new jobs created. The hotels are required to have a water-treatment plant, but the settlements for hotel workers have no such facilities obligations or facilities.
The direct impact of tourism is [...]

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