Seven centuries ago, the capital city of the Aztecs was built in the middle of a lake-filled valley, with water feeding the region. Across time and governments, the area was drained and filled in, its streams piped and turned into sewers. Suffering from a decades-long drought yet inundated during summer storms, Mexico City, built on the ruins of the once water-rich Tenochtitlán, is in acute crisis. Krishna Chandrasekhara, a rising fourth-year student from Irving, Texas majoring in health and societies, has been volunteering with Isla Urbana since high school and continued his work this summer as the recipient of a 2024 Paul and Kathleen Barthmaier Award through the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF). Read more at Penn Today.