Mexico City is facing severe water shortages that could see large parts of the city run dry in ... drained its lake, founding Mexico City on the soft, clay-rich soil of the lake bed.

drained the lake bed that lies beneath Mexico City, filled in canals and cut down forests. They saw "water as an enemy to overcome for the city to thrive," said Jose Alfredo Ramirez, an architect ...

Their well and the wells of some 30 other families on the outskirts of Clovis, New Mexico, have run dry ... aquifer is pumped for irrigation. I cross over the state line into Clovis, a city ...