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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.
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.
typo in story: "bated" breathe = "baited" breath
Yeah, we really need to know they're not getting enough water in Mexico City.
Not my problem.
My country uses uses about 90 liters of water per citizen per day. So basically, in the place in question, they're using 2.6 times as much water as we do. And we happen to pay around $4 USD per cubic meter (despite having no shortage of it and being upstream from all our neigbours), yet they (in a subtropical region) insist on "[delivering] water ... free of charge". I think I may see a problem here...
Ezekiel 23:20
All our problems are self made through greed, pride, obstruction, etc, etc, etc... It's pure politics all the way down. So, let's not hear all this bullshit about how we have to make sacrifices. Let's turn off the taps in New York's financial district first.
So trump was right when he said some of these countries are shithole countries?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Next time you flush your toilet, just remember how blessed you are. That's fresh water that some would fight for that you are flushing.
The article claims 16-21' of rain/year and other sources I googled indicated 12 inches. If they really get 16' of rain per year I don't see them having problems. If 12" is correct, I see how they are going to have huge problems.
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.
Everyone has the right to water. Everyone does *not* have the *right* to have water pumped, purified, then transported to wherever they wish to live. Someone has to pay for that. The people who should pay are those who use it.
If there is no more water to be had in a particular area, and nobody wants to pay to get water delivered there, then you're going to have to move somewhere there is water.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
With a population of 7.6 billion, that's 14 million liters per person per year (38,000 liters per person per day) of fresh water literally falling from the skies.
Water shortages are not the problem. They're a symptom. Find out what's preventing these people from moving to an area where water (and presumably other services) are more readily available, or preventing readily available water from being made available for consumption. That will be your problem.
Ironically, when the ancient Aztecs first populated the area that would become modern day Mexico City they had to deal with the fact that the only land there was a small marshy island in the middle of a giant lake. The Mexican flag features an eagle eating a snake. Legend has it that when they saw this bird eating a snake that it was a sign from the gods to found a city there. So they had to invent ways of cultivating crops while they were floating on water. Now the people in this city are running out of water to drink.
If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down. (that's what we had to do during drought conditions)
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
It there is a truck full of water, that means there is no water shortage, but rather a problem with water distribution network
The pipes needs to be maintained. One common problem when private companies are in charge is that they take the money to make profits and forget to maintain the network. Is that what happened in Mexico City?
"People bathe their children with bottled water"
Children as in plural , stop having so many and resources go further. In a sense it is literally a problem of your own creation.
Yeah, keep breeding. Then seek refuge in countries that still have resources. And then continue breeding.
Let's kill this planet.