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“Social Tensions Rise As Mexico Suffers Worst Drought in 60 Years”
by NEWS.scotsman.com - ELISABETH MALKIN   
September 14th, 2009
MEXICO is enduring its worst drought in 60 years, with crops drying up in the fields and water being rationed in the capital.
Residents of poor neighbourhoods have hijacked water trucks, and there are other signs of social tensions building, with water supplies cut off frequently, and many people queuing from 4am to ask for water trucks to fill tanks in their houses.
El nino is a weather pattern that warms the water in the Pacific Ocean and leads to changing weather around the Pacific Basin, is causing the drought.
The rainy season typically begins in June. Rain falls almost daily in most of the country, irrigating the spring planting and filling reservoirs before the dry months. But this year, the first three months of the rainy season were dry, and officials warned that the reservoirs were falling to dangerously low levels.
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