MEXICO CITY – It’s Valentine’s Day here and I’m traveling with our intern Soren Nielsen to learn, first-hand, about the freshwater crisis facing Mexico and Mexico City. We’re staying with several families in the Iztapalapa municipality where, it seems, every inch is occupied by tarpaper shanties or ramshackle buildings. The universalities and metaphors abound – the poignant ironies that children here, even those without safe water, are making Valentines in school. Watch for our report on the Wilson Center site soon.