Eyes Turn to Mexico as Drought Drags On

Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times

The Ciénega de Santa Clara wetland in Mexico could be threatened by a decision to activate a Yuma desalination plant.

Beginning nearly 40 years ago, the briny runoff from the “salad bowl” of southern Arizona, some of the most productive farmland in the nation, has been channeled into an arid plain of the Sonoran desert in Mexico.

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Ángel Franco/The New York Times “There are so few options that this is where they go,” says Nadia T. Villagrán, the director of community services for the Coachella Valley Housing Coalition.

Just a short drive from that spa of a community called Palm Springs, there exists another oasis, a place so exclusive that curious dawdlers need to keep constant watch for the black-and-white security vehicle patrolling the grounds.This private community is the Desert Mobile Home Park, better known as Duroville, after its owner, Harvey Duro Sr. Crammed onto these 40 acres are 300 or so old trailers, many of them distressed.

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