 Water management in Greater Mexico City

Greater Mexico City ("Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México"), a metropolitan area with more than 19 million inhabitants including Mexico's capital ("Ciudad de México", or CDMX) with about 9 million inhabitants, faces tremendous water challenges.These include groundwater overexploitation, land subsidence, the risk of major flooding, the impacts of increasing urbanization, poor water quality, inefficient water use, a low share of wastewater treatment, health concerns about the reuse of wastewater in agriculture, and limited cost recovery.