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April 25, 2017

Mexican farmers demand rights to capital's sewage

  • Some say farms will go under if they lose access to the raw sewage after a $530 million water treatment plant is built.
    • By REBECCA BLACKWELL
    Associated Press

    TEPATEPEC, Mexico — For more than 100 years, most of what gets flushed down Mexico City's toilets has resurfaced two hours to the north in the rivers and reservoirs of the rural Mezquital Valley. A massive new water treatment plant is about to change this.

    But rather than welcoming the prospect of cleaner water, angry farmers are demanding the government honor an 1895 presidential decree granting them the right to the capital's untreated sewage, which they see as fertilizer-rich, if foul, irrigation water.


     
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