Mexico City faces severe flooding and subsidence due to its founding on a lake. Each rainy season exacerbates the situation as records for rainfall are repeatedly broken. Residents endure months of damage, navigated by traffic and disaster zones. Experts emphasize that inadequate preventive measures and poor water management are to blame, rather than natural causes. Families, such as Mari and Jaime's, construct barriers to protect their homes, while others, like Angeles, desperately salvage belongings post-flood. Challenges mount as the city continues to grow, impacting over 22 million people in the area.
Each rainy season in Mexico City seems worse than the last, and year after year it is said to have broken its own record for the amount of water falling from the sky.
According to experts consulted by this newspaper, the city collapses again and again due to a lack of preventive measures, a precarious water management system, and scarce maintenance.
Tired of losing furniture and appliances, they built a half-meter-high wall at their front door.
Angeles dries family photos and furniture in the brief sunlight, refusing to lose too much to the flood.
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