Mexico city is sinking because people are thirsty. The city has sunk dozens of feet in the last 60 years because 70 percent of the water people rely on is extracted from the aquifer below. This has caused buildings to lean and sink into the ground at a rate of up to one foot a year in the most extreme places. Fusion visited three historical sites in the city to learn more.

Tom Hanson fills us in as Mexico City faces a big problem

Artist Rivera developed his own native style based on large simplified figures and bold colors with the Aztec influence clearly present in these paintings. He began painting the staircase murals in May 1929 and finished these murals by November of 1935. The stairway "triptych" is sometimes compared to an epic poem comprising the legendary pre-Hispanic past, a kind of prologue, then the depiction in the central panels of the Conquest up until 1930, and on the left, the present, with all its conflicts, but also with the promise of a better future.

You should know that even though Mexico City is a huge metropolis, it is not that difficult to move around, especially because Metro and Metrobus that access to the business areas and main attractions of the city are so prevalent.