Every day, at a well near her home in Central Mexico, Isabel Solis fills plastic jugs with river water and loads them on her donkey to lug home for the day's cooking, cleaning and drinking.
Infrastructure also plays a role, with leaks plaguing the network that lugs water up to and across Mexico's high-altitude capital.
It does not help that Mexico City, North America's largest metropolis, "grew without adequate planning," said Ramiro Gutierrez, an engineer and assistant manager of drinking water supply at CONAGUA. with CONAGUA in the state of Michoacan to increase the water flowing to the El Bosque reservoir, which officials say will provide more water to communities surrounding the Cutzamala System.
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