Water Theft Proves Lucrative in a Dangerously Dry World
- Across continents, profits plus scarcity lure thieves
- The political will to safeguard water supplies is lacking
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They learned the hard way not to drive out alone.
Officials inspecting water theft in Monterrey, Mexico, started going out in convoys of three or four cars accompanied by police because others before them had been pelted with stones or had their cars surrounded. Once, one of them was briefly taken hostage.