The Water Sellers of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl
In a city of a million taps that run dry, an informal economy of tanker trucks decides who drinks. Inside the block-by-block politics of scarcity in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.
Deeply reported features from the field. Months in the making.
In a city of a million taps that run dry, an informal economy of tanker trucks decides who drinks. Inside the block-by-block politics of scarcity in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.
Every winter, truckers haul a year of supplies across frozen lakes to Arctic mines. The season keeps getting shorter, and the ice keeps getting harder to trust.
When a hailstorm flattened their orchards, the farmers of Cañón Verde blamed the cloud-seeding planes overhead. Then they went to court, in a case that could rewrite who owns the weather.
One hundred and eleven years of brine, tin, and women's hands. The line stops in October.
Europe promised a sleeper-car renaissance. Riding the last surviving routes tells a different story.
The lawyers who reopen closed cases win almost never. What keeps them reading the files?
The aquifer is dropping three feet a year. The wheat is still going in. Notes from the high plains.
In the clinics between two countries, birth is the one thing that doesn't wait for paperwork.
Before the doctors, before the triage nurse, there is Yolanda, a clipboard, and the hardest question in medicine: who's next?