Drought conditions in northern Mexico are so bad that the federal government declared the water shortage in the state of Nuevo Leon a matter of "national security" last month.

That's where Mexico's industrial capital of Monterrey is located.

CGTN's Alasdair Baverstock has more on the impacts of the drought that include strict water rationing.   

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