El Nino Dries Up 13 Main Rivers in State of Chiapas teleSUR
go to original April 29, 2016

Experts predict the drought in Mexico will only get worse. (Reuters)

The southern Mexican state of Chiapas has been hard hit by the El Niño climate phenomenon causing such an intensive drought that 13 rivers have been completely dried up, Mexican newspaper Reforma said Friday.

State Director of Civil Protection Luis Manuel Garcia told Reforma that 40 Chiapan municipalities have been affected, of which four are experiencing extreme drought.

“All of the biggest rivers in the coastal area of Chiapas have been practically dried up,” Garcia said.

In light of the extreme circumstances, Garcia said they would send a petition to the federal government requesting that they issue a state of emergency decree for three of Chiapas' municipalities in order to get financial resources from the National Disaster Fund.

"The drought issues began last year when we recorded 36 percent less rains than the historical average, and this year has so far been the same,” he said.

The official recalled that Chiapas is one of Mexico's states with more rains, but that due to El Niño, this is no longer true.

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