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Newcomers Wait Years for Running Water as Mexico City Suburbs Struggle

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An hour's drive from the hustle and bustle of Mexico City, paved roads give way to dust, snaking up hills dotted with cornfields and wildflowers. Carolina, 36, moved to this eastern suburb, Chimalhuacán, four years ago so her family could own land. But at least once a week, she is stuck waiting outside her cinderblock home for a water truck to chug its slow way to her doorstep, one of tens of thousands of people living on the edges of Mexico's urban megalopolis who have no...

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