and national water commission says more than half of the country has run out of water, the shortages are leading to growing public anger as manuel. rob, hello reports. there's a water crisis playing out in monte mexico. taps across the city have been running dry since the weekend desperate. maria lee said roblis, a local resident has been filling up buckets from a nearby municipal water tank problem. it says it's the only water available for drinking. she also plans to use it for cooking and cleaning her home. okay. and not many people ask us why we take that water, but what else are we supposed to do? city officials in monterey have been limiting water access to 6 hours a day. the water shortage has led to growing public anger. many say the response by public officials to meet the needs of residents has not been enough. oh, every day they cut off our water at 9 in the morning and it doesn't come back until one the next morning were staying awake, waiting for the water to arrive filling containers. this is the way it has been since the wood cuts, where now more than half of mexico is

according to canada, mexico national water commission. in other parts of mexico like animal sealed, a lack of access to potable water. recently sparked demonstrations, were thousands marched on the streets of the city. experts say climate change is behind the excessive heat. fueling the crisis. the city of monterey in the mexican state of naval they own is regarded as mexico's industrial capital. mexico's president has placed part of the blame for the water shortage on excessive extraction of water by bottling company's cache. merlow is the case of near the leon, is one to think upon. it has to be said, there are too many come hands that have been installed, that require water. the weather is simply not enough water descent, so there must be better planning on moving forward. this situation will be resolved . yea, we are all helping the private sector is helping to out. but we will have to think about how we move forward. water and sewage authorities in level they own warn the 2 main dams that supply water to the monterey metropolitan area

according to mexico's national water commission. er parts of mexico, and lack of access to potable water sparked demonstrations where thousands marched on the streets of the city. experts say climate changes behind the excessive heat fueling the crisis. the city of monterrey is regarded as mexico's industrial capital. mexico's president placed part of the blame for the water shortage on excessive extraction of water by bottling companies. >> the case of nuevo leon, it has to be said, too many companies have been installed that require water where there is not enough water. there must be better planning moving forward. the situation will be resolved. we are all helping. the private sector is helping to, but we will have to think about how we move forward. >> water and sewage authorities worn, the two main dams that supply water to the monterrey metropolitan, home to 5.3 million residents, could be completely dry by next tuesday. with a hot summer just underway, many hope the seasonal rains that come with it will arrive soon and put an

according to canada, mexico national water commission. in other parts of mexico, like animal c, u, a lack of access to potable water, recently sparked demonstrations. were thousands, marched on the streets of the city. experts say climate change is behind the excessive heat. fueling the crisis, the city of monterey in the mexican state of new level they own, is regarded as mexico's industrial capital. mexico's president has placed part of the blame for the water shortage on excessive extraction of water by bottling company. that gasoline merlow is the case of nearby leon is one to think upon. it has to be said, okay, so too many come hands that have been installed, that require water then where there is simply not enough water to change. so there must be better planning on moving forward. this situation will be resolved. yes, we are all helping all the private sector is hoping to out. but we will have to think about how we move forward. water and sewage authorities enable the own warn the 2 main dams that supply water to the monterey metro

water. 10 people died. is that ghting nazis? >> unfortunately, it is a great pity, but international diplomats, including the unr commission of human rights, the u.n. secretary-general, and other you and representatives- united nationsresentatives are being put under pressure by the west and often used to spread fake news by the west. >> so you are saying russia is a clean? >> no, russia is not squeaky clean. russia is what it is. we are not ashamed of showing who we are. >> one of the two british men sentenced to death by a russian proxy court in rebel held eastern ukraine? i tell mr. lavrov in the eyes of the west russia is responsible for their fate. >> i am not interested in the eyes of the west at all. i am interested in international law. mercenaries are not recognized as combatants. >> but they served in the ukrainian army. >> this should be decided by a court. >> do you think the courts e dependable? >> i am convinced there are independent courts there. >> do you think your courts are independent? there is no expectation of improvement. >> i do not think there is any room for maneuvering anymore beuse both boris johnson and liz trust say openly we should defeat russia. we should force russia to its knees. go

stanislaus national forest, for an amount not to exceed 2,330,087 and with a duration of five years, to provide watershed protection for the san francisco public utilities commission's approved water sources and surrounding lands within the stanislaus national forest. >> per this agreement, the stanislaus national forest will provide protection services for our water resources and surrounding lands that are located in the stanislaus national forest. we're talking about cherry reservoir watershed, cherry reservoir, and cherry diversion and cherry aqueduct area. it ensures central services within the stanislaus national forest remain secure. examples of activities include patrolling, public education, stock management, public maintenance, camp restoration out at cherry, garbage removal, and law enforcement. we have had a similar agreement since 2008, and today, we're asking you to approve this new agreement. thank you. >> thank you. questions or comments? commissioner maxwell? >> yeah, what did we do before the agreement in 2008? >> they provided services, but it -- i couldn't point to it, so we actually, within our agreement -- within our documents that we describe on our stewardsh

water supplies and other short and long-term drought response mitigation actions. federal agencies contribute to efforts to predict drought. the 2000 national drought policy commissionort identified 88 drought related federal programs and the total is certainly increase since that time. as you know in 2021 congress appropriated millions of dollars to respond to drought and new funding and infrastructure supplemental appropriations for activities expected to improve drought monitoring preparedness and resiliency. we expect lag times and obligating these funds and it will take several years before their effects are fully realized. outside of new funding resources summit proposed other often interrelated actions to mitigate that. my testimony broadly divides these proposals into preparedness data and monitoring of manning supply and demand management. with regard to planning and preparedness some have highlighted the need for better court nation and a capacity building program for the biden demonstrations 22 opportunities for fema funding for drought planning and mitigation. without data collection and integration it's -- various efforts to improve drought information