In any case, the site shows 2.39 inches of rain as of 11 PM today.

Delivered bottled water is inexpensive, and you MUST use it for your doggie. The calcium levels in the tap water are way too high for them.

Great water is inexpensive and be SURE to give it to your pets too!

I never heard this kind of argument...Tap water in Switzerland and the Alps are one of the purest but are really hard.
You may drink milk or take calcium pills as well, which contain a lot more calcium than water. Your body will get rid of the excess.

Our dog drinks tap water 5months per year in Zihuatanejo and never had any issue with it.

can you drink the tap water in ixtapa or Zihua? or is it highly recommended to drink bottle water including in restaurants etc..

Good question. Locally, the water from the taps is called "agua potable" but everyone knows it isn't.

We use ePura for our 5 gallon jugs. They drive by the house Tues, Thurs and Sat and beep. If we need water, we wave, never getting less that three jugs, to make it worth their while. The price went up for us Jan 1, and it varies, but we now pay 31 pesos per garafon. They carry them up to the second floor, and we tip them. When we had health issues, they happily carried them up to the fourth floor and mounted them on our bases.

Great water is inexpensive and be SURE to give it to your pets too!

No restaurant will serve you other than bottled water. I am not a coffee drinker, and have no need for the little bottle of water, so with my meals i ask for a glass of water, knowing it will be the "good stuff."

Sure, pipa water can be delivered but it's more expensive. I fear our local residents will bear the brunt of water shortages while big complexes keep the sprinklers running to keep the gardens pretty.

What happens when pipa water runs out? Rivers mostly stop running in the dry season, so I assume pipas then get their product from groundwater. No groundwater, no pipa water?

Pipas can use private wells, and they can also travel to other locales if necessary.

Sure, pipa water can be delivered but it's more expensive. I fear our local residents will bear the brunt of water shortages while big complexes keep the sprinklers running to keep the gardens pretty.

What happens when pipa water runs out? Rivers mostly stop running in the dry season, so I assume pipas then get their product from groundwater. No groundwater, no pipa water?

... we the wealthy could live more responsibly and reduce unnecessary suffering for ourselves as well as others.

In the late 1980’s, a journalist was on assignment covering cultures around the world and specifically, how their cultures relate to and think of our culture. His guide in East Africa (the affluent part of Central Africa) invited him to come see the distribution of the clothes from the dead Americans to the locals. When the journalist asked the guide why the locals thought the clothes were from dead Americans, the guide looked at him oddly and said, “Why would a living person give away any of their clothes?”

Of course, this was almost 2 generations ago. With some bumps along the way, Africa has been experiencing strong economic growth for some time now.

In contrast, we the wealthy could live more responsibly and reduce unnecessary suffering for ourselves as well as others.

Speaking as a guest, who uses water conservatively… I believe many other tourist would be more conservative. They knew the conditions. We stayed in two hotels this trip one encouraged towel reuse, but nothing was said in either about a drought.

It's good that you use water conservatively as a practice.

Tourism feeds the local economy so it's no surprise that the critical water shortage is not communicated to visitors. Now you know about the drought and so does anyone else reading the message board.

Red and blue stickers on all!

Red and blue stickers on all wouldn’t help. “Is this red and blue sticker on the tap for hot or for cold?”

Red or blue stickers might help. But then partisan Americans would either be scalding themselves or using tepid water because they would refuse to use one of the taps!

As an aside, when people ask whether I have hot and cold running water I tell them, “No, I have hot and tepid running water.”

Speaking as a guest, who uses water conservatively… I believe many other tourist would be more conservative. They knew the conditions. We stayed in two hotels this trip one encouraged towel reuse, but nothing was said in either about a drought.

One simple fix that would save thousands and thousands of gallons a year is to clearly label faucets, hot, and cold. Because the plumbing is so erratic you never know which is which and we was gallons trying to figure it out.

Red and blue stickers on all!

Mexicans generally know nowadays to save water, though they may not always act like it.

I've never seen hot and cold water faucets reversed. Were you confused by the "C" for Caliente on the tap?

One simple fix that would save thousands and thousands of gallons a year is to clearly label faucets, hot, and cold. Because the plumbing is so erratic you never know which is which and we was gallons trying to figure it out.

Red and blue stickers on all!