Despite concerns by planners, Mexico is proceeding with a plan to build it's new central international airport in a swamp.
"It's absurd to construct an airport (in Texcoco), because among other things it would exacerbate uncontrolled urban sprawl in an area that doesn't have water or infrastructure," Lopez Obrador was quoted as saying by the government news agency Notimex. Other city officials said the Texcoco airport would pave an area that is crucial to regulating floodwaters in the city and would conflict with migrating birds that stop at the salty, polluted waters of nearby lakes."
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