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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: Spain
Date: November 29, 2023, 2:21 pm
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Why Spain is turning into a desert
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 25, 2024, 7:42 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/one-world-biggest-cities-may-103023024.html
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> One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from
running out of water
> ...
> Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million
people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe
water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography,
chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are
compounded by the impacts of climate change.
>
> Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high
temperatures have added stress to a water system already
straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been
forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped
from reservoirs.
>
> “Several neighborhoods have suffered from a lack of water for
weeks, and there are still four months left for the rains to
start,” said Christian Domínguez Sarmiento, an atmospheric
scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM).
>
> Politicians are downplaying any sense of crisis, but some
experts say the situation has now reached such critical levels
that Mexico City could be barreling towards “day zero” in a
matter of months — where the taps run dry for huge swaths of the
city.
> ...
> Densely populated Mexico City stretches out across a
high-altitude lake bed, around 7,300 feet above sea level. It
was built on clay-rich soil — into which it is now sinking — and
is prone to earthquakes and highly vulnerable to climate change.
It’s perhaps one of the last places anyone would choose to build
a megacity today.
>
> The Aztecs chose this spot to build their city of Tenochtitlan
in 1325, when it was a series of lakes. They built on an island,
expanding the city outwards, constructing networks of canals and
bridges to work with the water.
>
> But when the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century, they
tore down much of the city, drained the lakebed, filled in
canals and ripped out forests. They saw “water as an enemy to
overcome for the city to thrive,” said Jose Alfredo Ramirez, an
architect and co-director of Groundlab, a design and policy
research organization.
>
> Their decision paved the way for many of Mexico City’s modern
problems. Wetlands and rivers have been replaced with concrete
and asphalt. In the rainy season, it floods. In the dry season,
it’s parched.
>
> Around 60% of Mexico City’s water comes from its underground
aquifer, but this has been so over-extracted that the city is
sinking at a frightening rate — around 20 inches a year,
according to recent research. And the aquifer is not being
replenished anywhere near fast enough. The rainwater rolls off
the city’s hard, impermeable surfaces, rather than sinking into
the ground.
>
> The rest of the city’s water is pumped vast distances uphill
from sources outside the city, in an incredibly inefficient
process, during which around 40% of the water is lost through
leaks.
>
> The Cutzamala water system, a network of reservoirs, pumping
stations, canals and tunnels, supplies about 25% of the water
used by the Valley of Mexico, which includes Mexico City. But
severe drought has taken its toll. Currently, at around 39% of
capacity, it’s been languishing at a historic low.
>
> “It’s almost half of the amount of water that we should have,”
said Fabiola Sosa-Rodríguez, head of economic growth and
environment at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico
City.
> ...
> the long-term trend of human-caused global warming hums in the
background, fueling longer droughts and fiercer heat waves, as
well as heavier rains when they do arrive.
>
> “Climate change has made droughts increasingly severe due to
the lack of water,” said UNAM’s Sarmiento. Added to this, high
temperatures “have caused the water that is available in the
Cutzamala system to evaporate,” she said.
>
> Last summer saw brutal heat waves roil large parts of the
country, which claimed at least 200 lives. These heat waves
would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change,
according to an analysis by scientists.
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Which one and only one civilization is to blame for all of the
above?
Conditions will only continue to worsen over time. EMIGRATE TO
THE US ASAP!
See also:
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 22, 2024, 2:58 am
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Update:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/mega-city-running-water-22-100055098.html
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> The taps had dried up weeks ago, and Cervantes' daughter had
been calling the city nearly every day, pleading for the water
trucks to come to their working-class neighborhood in the city's
south.
> ...
> Water shortages are becoming a way of life in cities across
the globe — Los Angeles; Cape Town, South Africa; Jakarta,
Indonesia; and many more — as climate change worsens and
authorities often pipe in water from ever-more-distant sources.
>
> “Water sources are depleted around the world,” said Victoria
Beard, a professor of city and regional planning at Cornell
University. “Every year, more cities will face ‘Day Zero,’ with
no water in their piped systems.”
>
> Mexico City — founded by the Aztecs on an island amid lakes,
with a rainy season that brought torrents and flooding — might
have been an exception. For decades, the focus has been getting
rid of water, not capturing it.
>
> But a grim convergence of factors — including runaway growth,
official indifference, faulty infrastructure, rising
temperatures and reduced rainfall — have left this mega-city at
a tipping point after years of mostly unheeded warnings. Distant
reservoirs and underground wells are drying up as leaders
belatedly confront an existential dilemma.
>
> "The water shortage has really intensified this year," said
Claudia Rojas Serna, a hydraulic engineer at the capital’s
Autonomous Metropolitan University. "What we are going through
now is as bad as we have seen."
> ...
> Millions now have only intermittent service — sometimes an
hour a week or less of running water, residents say.
> ...
> “Without water, what do we do?”
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EMIGRATE ASAP!
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> Last year was among Mexico City’s hottest and driest on
record. Scientists cite El Niño conditions linked to climate
change.
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The record will soon be broken again. Emigrate before it
happens!
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> Now the ubiquitous water tankers are a lifeline as the 22
million people in this metropolitan area wait for rain and a
little relief.
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That's 22 million who should have emigrated.
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> The Aztecs are sometimes referred to as the hydraulic wizards
of Mesoamerica.
>
> The Indigenous founders of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City,
built their capital on an island amid a series of lakes, a
strategic setting that provided both security and access to
water. They crafted a virtuoso matrix of canals, dikes,
navigation channels, causeways, aqueducts and floating vegetable
gardens (chinampas) — all in a mountain valley almost a mile and
a half above sea level where rain, while often torrential, lasts
only a few months.
> ...
> But Spanish invaders obliterated the Aztec capital in the 16th
century, smashing dikes and other Indigenous hydraulic works.
Thus began a protracted process of draining lakes and waterways
to transform the glittering island city into a European-like
capital planted on terra firma.
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::)
Woke comments:
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> They should move to Europe
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> Come to U.S we have plenty of room....
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> Maybe we can do what Mexico does with Central and South
American migrants: pass them on through to the north. Hello,
Canada!
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 31, 2024, 4:58 pm
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Woke comments:
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> Billions of people in India this can only end disastrously
people have to migrate to different parts of the world.
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> Pretty sure high income countries has less impact
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> Let's look at some numbers.
> Number of cars in Europe - 253 million
> Number of cars in India 326 million.
> Entire Europe population - 763 million
> India's population - 1.4 billion.
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> Do not discount the extreme damage caused by animal
agriculture.. Some animals consume 50 times what humans do.
Extremely energy intensive protein when considering Beef, and
Pork humans get very little protein in return which I find
highly questionable.
>
> The direct impact animal agriculture has on farmed animals is
clear. In the industry, billions of land and trillions of
aquatic animals are forced into existence in unnatural quarters,
made to live in their own excrements and other dead animals (a
live petri dish) often killed before reaching the age of one; in
the dairy and egg industries, mothers are repeatedly
artificially inseminated and separated from their young, causing
extreme distress for all (Farm Transparency Project, 2022;
RSPCA, 2022). Not so obvious are the secondary effects this
industry has on the environment, which affects all its
inhabitants. Both human and nonhuman.
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The same civilization solely to blame for what is described in
the fourth comment is by no coincidence the one with the more
cars per capita in the third comment and higher income in the
second comment. Homework: where should the climate refugees
mentioned in the first comment be migrating to?
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: SirGalahad
Date: May 31, 2024, 5:42 pm
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Alternatively, if western countries won’t take in Indian climate
refugees, then China should take them in, and re-emphasize
Buddhism while they’re at it. Though this is also an unlikely
scenario, since modern China is too Eurocentric (on top of being
too progressive and secular for the latter). But the two have a
shared “dharmic” religious history found in Buddhism, so the
deep friendship between the two should have come naturally
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 18, 2024, 7:32 pm
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: WaterWars
Date: July 22, 2024, 1:41 pm
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Oxfam accuses Israel of 'weaponising water' in Gaza
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> A recent report by Oxfam accuses Israel of weaponising water
in Gaza, highlighting a dramatic reduction in water supply by 94
percent. The NGO notes that most water facilities are in ruins,
with Israel persistently obstructing the delivery of aid to the
Strip.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8uicrE3mk
Israel leading the way in showing Westerners how to wage
colonial wars, especially water wars, against the oppressed.
Nothing new here really...
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 4, 2025, 2:52 am
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In other news:
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 6, 2025, 6:57 pm
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: FirstWaterWar?
Date: May 8, 2025, 12:10 am
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The 'potential flashpoint for war’ between India and Pakistan |
LBC
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