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Weekly Report - 02 February 2012 (WR-12-05)
MEXICO: Drought threatens central Mexico
The effects of the drought are moving ever closer to central Mexico, the national water authority (Conagua) is warning. Northern states have been suffering from a lack of rain for months. If the drought were to reach central Mexico, the country’s most affluent and populous area, it would present a huge logistical challenge to the government which so far has struggled to deal with the emergency in the north, and to grasp the full extent of the threat it represents.
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