The aim was to work for the sustainable development of Mexico, he said. A key challenge is Mexico City, home to 20 million people, which suffers both water shortages and flash floods.
"There is an imbalance between the availability of water, population growth and economic development," said President Calderon as he unveiled the investment program during a visit to the state of Hidalgo. Mexico's population, currently some 106 million, had quadrupled in the last 55 years, he said, with people tending to concentrate in urban areas where provision of drinking water was more expensive.
Mexico needs too many thing to escape the misery but water is a good beginning as long it starts!
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