Newsy Documentary: Before The Water Runs Out

In regions near the U.S.-Mexico border, many still live without water connections. Their fight to get it now faces its final deadline: climate change.

For three months, the only light in Patricia Garcia's house was a single bulb run off the battery of a baby blue hatchback outside the front door. Finally, electricity came, but it would take 10 years for Patricia and her husband to secure a connection to clean water.

"If you ever go camping, it's the same thing, but every day," she says. "You have to go for water, you have to look where to go to the bathroom."

She stands outside her new home, cradling a printed photo of her and her husband, silhouetted against the outline of a house, workers on the roof, dismantling what used to stand on this lot.