Guadalajara’s water crisis reaches a boiling point

Guadalajara’s water crisis reaches a boiling point

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — As the Jalisco government plans to spend more than 20 billion pesos to overhaul Guadalajara’s aging and long-neglected water system, residents across Mexico’s second-largest metropolitan area have launched an unprecedented effort to answer a more immediate question: What is coming out of their taps? Working alongside university scientists, neighborhood volunteers have collected hundreds of water samples, documented hundreds…