This is mainly affecting residents of Montevideo apparently where drinking water is now being affected.

Severe drought in Uruguay
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This terrible drought is in the US, too. Like Argentina, our main agricultural area, the Midwest, has been so dry that corn, a major crop that by July 4th is said to be “as high as an elephant’s eye,” is about 12” high today.
Midget elephants?
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‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans blast Google’s plan to exploit water supplyThe country is suffering its worst drought in 74 years, with the government even mixing saltwater into the drinking supplywww.theguardian.com
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And there’s been a severe shortage of rain in Spain. Reservoirs are drying up
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i cannot understand thisl lack of water in Montevideo,having in front ot this city the rio de ls plata, very big and plenty of water. We never had problems with edible water, even in times of severe droughts.
parhaps the big installations of water purifying facilities along Lugones hwy,, built in 1926 is the key question.
but as always our puppet president did not lose the opportunity to make a faux pas criticizing this to uruguay.
He deserves the Nobel price for itnernational relations.
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We have plenty of 'fresh' water where I am. However, it would seem to have high levels of arsenic and God knows what else in it.
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We have arsenic here as well.
I keep asking how much asenic is there and how much water do you have to drink to poison yourself.
No one answers
Oh well , lets keep to the whisky.....
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I'm thinking of getting another one of those water filters. When we had one it made an enormous difference to the quality, even though I never drink from the tap. Just coffee and tea.
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We had a pump installed in the garden years ago for collecting water to make tea/coffee etc. The missus insists on buying Villavicencio for drinking.
I still think it's all a bit OTT but she's the boss.
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We drink tap water.
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We drink tap water.
we also, never a problem.