{"id":1582,"date":"2020-05-02T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2020-05-02T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T21:42:24","slug":"my-oaxaca-agua-para-uso-humano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"My Oaxaca \u2013 Agua Para Uso Humano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/OaxacaScene_120516_084-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/OaxacaScene_120516_084-1024x684.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/OaxacaScene_120516_084-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/OaxacaScene_120516_084-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/OaxacaScene_120516_084-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/OaxacaScene_120516_084-2048x1368.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">In the dry months, after the winter green fades and before the summer rains fall, the city thrums with the sounds of <em>pipa <\/em>trucks<em>, <\/em>ungainly vehicles whose oval tanks contain up to 10,000 liters of \u201cwater for human use.\u201d Not for drinking, though. Not unless you enjoy a forced intestinal purge. For bathing and washing dishes and cleaning the cement patios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gas-powered pumps<\/strong> snort like un-muffled lawn mowers and push the water through corrugated rubber hoses into the cisterns of upscale homes, hotels, and trendy new businesses like French caf\u00e9s and fusion restaurants that delight those willing to pay first-world prices in a third-world city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Those without the money <\/strong>to buy thousands of liters, the working class and the poor, go without water for days when the city shuts off the tap. To drink and cook and bathe, they buy a 20-liter jug, a <em>garraf\u00f3n<\/em>. Others drop buckets into deep wells and draw up undrinkable water, good enough for cleaning and boiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is the conundrum:<\/strong> There is mescal that costs $10 a shot, there are hotels that charge $250 a night, there are iced frappuccinos from Starbucks, but there is not enough \u201cagua para uso humano\u201d to go around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the dry months, after the winter green fades and before the summer rains fall, the city thrums with the sounds of pipa trucks, ungainly vehicles whose oval tanks contain up to 10,000 liters of \u201cwater for human use.\u201d Not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,734],"tags":[680,743,681,755],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-my-oaxaca","tag-mexico","tag-my-oaxaca","tag-oaxaca","tag-water"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Oaxaca \u2013 Agua Para Uso Humano - Tim Porter&#039;s Second Draft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1582\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Oaxaca \u2013 Agua Para Uso Humano - Tim Porter&#039;s Second Draft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the dry months, after the winter green fades and before the summer rains fall, the city thrums with the sounds of pipa trucks, ungainly vehicles whose oval tanks contain up to 10,000 liters of \u201cwater for human use.\u201d Not &hellip; 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