In the small Mexican beach town of La Manzanilla, you’ll see many people watering the unpaved dirt streets with their garden hose in the downtown area. Why do they do this, you may ask? Answer - to keep the dust down. I don’t know this for a fact, but I’m pretty sure that this is a relatively common throughout Mexico. In light of the worldwide water shortage, this sort of practice is really a waste of water to say the least. There is some discussion around town of paving the streets in the downtown area and installing a proper drainage system, as it would conserve a lot of water.

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