River in Mexico vanishes overnight leaving 10,000 people without water | Emergency Preparedness | Forums

Can you imagine waking up one day and there is no water coming out of your tap?

Thousands of Mexicans were astonished when they woke up to discover their local river had vanished overnight.

The Atoyac River, the sole source of water for 10,000 in the state of Veracruz, is thought to have disappeared into a crevasse following an earthquake tremor.

It is unclear how much of the river, which crosses eight municipalities in the mountainous area of central Mexico, was affected by the suspected sinkhole.

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