As Cape Town Runs Out of Water, Here's a Look at Parts of Mexico City That Have Been Without Water For a Year (buzzfeed.com)

In some places, taps have been dry for over a year. People bathe their children with bottled water. A group of women has taken over water distribution from the city authorities. The future feared by millions of people across the world has already arrived in Mexico City , BuzzFeed News reports. From the report: In certain areas, people say taps go dry for months. Angry civilians have blocked off highways and squared off with riot police, wresting control of water distribution from the government. "Crime affects us deeply but if you don't have water, you can't do anything," said Marisol Fierro, part of a group of women in charge of delivering water to neighbors. Across the ocean, authorities in South Africa talk about Day Zero, when Cape Town is set to run out of water and the city is forced to shut off its taps. It has made headlines around the world, as people watch on with bated breath. But here in Iztapalapa, a sprawling, drab Mexico City borough where nearly 2 million people live, that day has already arrived, offering a window into what the future may hold for millions of people when the taps run dry. Police officers are sometimes forced to guard water trucks, popular targets for kidnappers who sell their contents for hefty prices. In other cities, politicians might promise expanded broadband, better health care, or higher wages to win votes, but in Mexico City, mayoral hopefuls have made simple access to water central to their campaigns. Reserved and quiet, Emma Pantaleon seems an unlikely protagonist at the front lines of this daily battle. Pantaleon joins Fierro and other women -- housewives who juggle child-rearing, house chores, and part-time jobs -- gathering water requests from their neighbors, coordinating trucks' routes with local authorities, and riding along to ensure the operation runs smoothly.

On a recent morning, she sat in the passenger seat of a water tanker as it revved its motor up a hill, dwarfing the dilapidated single-room houses along its path. When the driver swerved left and stepped on the brake, Pantaleon leaped out. It was a scene straight out of Mad Max: Fury Road. Pantaleon, 41, walked over to the nearest cinder block house and called out to its owner. As soon as Catalina Cortez opened the door, the driver and a helper marched in, pulling the truck's hose straight up to a plastic water storage tank taking up a third of the patio.

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The tides have turned for the white people in South Africa who basically sailed in and took a mostly uninhabited land. This is in stark contrast to what happened in the USA when settlers killed millions of natives or pretty much ANYWHERE else that Europeans colonized. Over the last few decades, the whites who had been there for about ten generations caught the PC virus and gave more and more migrants from the north a place to stay and then gave them voting rights, and they turned around and kicked everyone out like rioters breaking into and looting a store. There are raids on SA houses/farms where the owners are being killed and tortured, the government refuses to prosecute these cases, and the government is now forcibly removing whites from their property because they are white. There are laws on the books that keep whites from being hired, quotas which allow no more than a few percent of a company to be white employees. Unfortunately, the people who have lived there for generations are the ONLY people who know how to farm and run the utilities.
 
So Cape Town isn't running out of water because it is running out of water. It is running out of water because the genocidal lunatics in control have gotten rid of the only people who knew how to extract the water. It is the story of a parasite killing its host.
 
THIS is exactly what happens when you allow your culture to be displaced by foreign invaders. The story has been repeated ad infinitum for thousands of years.