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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.
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
Incorrect, bucko, "bated" is correct.
There is an editing mistake, though, in that the "on with" should just be "with".
And the worms ate into his brain.
It's clever how your phrasing is ambiguous as to which one of the two options you consider to be the right collocation.
Ezekiel 23:20
_Everybody_ knows they're shitholes, not even in dispute. Politicians are supposed to be more diplomatic.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Additionally insulting was that many of the countries are shitholes directly because of previous US policy and action.
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.
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.
just remember how blessed you are
You mean: "just remember that I chose live in an area that has sufficient resources".
I'm surprised Dubai hasn't run out of water yet.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
It gets collected from the toilets, treated in a plant, and is then ejected back into the river that Germans drink from. ;)
Ezekiel 23:20
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.
Actually they get plenty of water, rains in buckets, but being it's a third world shithole they don't store it.
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?
Trump's not a politician. He's never held elected office in his life and after leaving office never will again. Contrast to Obama or Hillary or Bernie Sanders, people who never had straight jobs in their lives.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
He never said any such thing in public. He allegedly said it behind closed doors while trying to hammer out a compromise that would save the DACA people from possible deportation. Unfortunately Dick Durbin (D) decided it would be better to throw a hand grenade into the talks to score some political points for his party.
they don't want to pay for it.
really the news isn't about water running out, it's about their infrastructure failing.
due to corruption and not getting along mostly.
I can't drink tap water where I live now, but in my native country sure, yeah. the reason is that the locals don't bother with making the water delivery network good enough because this is cheaper. of course then they have to truck around shitloads of drinking water...
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Cumulative rainfall in Cape Town for the past 3 years (2015, 2016, 2017) is below the 20th percentile of the past 40 years, see http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/curr...
As a result, the dams haven't been able to recover during the winter as they usually do, you can explore the details here: http://niwis.dws.gov.za/niwis2...
The national government (run by the ANC which is largely seen to be corrupt, including the Dept of Water and Sanitatiom which over-spends their budget and has high levels of irregulat expenditure) has however not been cooperative with the provincial government and City of Caoe Town (both run by the DA, which has been highly critical of the corruption in the ANC).
National government has built desalination plants in ANC-run cities that are less affected by the drought (e.g. Richard's Bay), but in Cape Town, the city has even had to foot the bill for the only major dam to be constructed in the Western Cape in the past 20 years (the Berg River dam).
Well, it just so happens that if we think about the magnitude of chlorocarbons that affected the atmosphere and caused the ozone hole (which, by the way, is now shrinking), and compare it to the magnitude of carbon dioxide that has been dumped into the atmosphere -- the latter out-masses the former by HALF-A-MILLION TIMES .
That comparison is one of the greatest examples of dumbassery I've seen in a long time. The quantity difference is irrelevant if the effect size per unit is vastly different. Sugar and cyanide might both be bad for you but you can tolerate a fuck of a lot more sugar than cyanide.
Actually they get plenty of water, rains in buckets, but being it's a third world shithole they don't store it.
Store it where? There are plenty of first world cities that get massively caught out by drought just the same way as Cape Town did. Most cities have not changed the way they collect and store water in the past 20 years. Major dam and infrastructure projects can take that long to actually get completed. The problem can be somewhat offset by individuals who don't have such as long process to go through, but then everyone with enough money in Cape Town already has a water tank in their back yard.
We can look forward to various outbreaks of disease and illness when it comes time for these people to actually drink it though.
Compared to population growth,dysgenics, poor governance and fossil water depletion, temperature increases aren't even a drop in the pond.
See for yourself :
http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/cl...
Rainfall hardly budged from the beginning of last century.
Trump's not a politician. He's never held elected office in his life and after leaving office never will again. Contrast to Obama or Hillary or Bernie Sanders, people who never had straight jobs in their lives.
Trump might not be a politician, but the average Joe off the street has more common sense and diplomacy than Donald Trump. Most of the time that Trump says something bad and sticks his foot in his mouth (even if the press read into it more than he meant), it's the kind of thing 95% of people would know is a stupid thing to say in front of a microphone.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
My family's down to 20 liters per person per day with a sub-R1000 grey water system. We re-use the washing machine's water by catching it in a 210 liter drum. We then add some swimming pool chlorine for decontamination and bought a secondhand washing machine pump to pump it into the toilet with our unused garden hose. The washing machine's water is now also a third as the first rinse's water is used for the second load's wash and the second rinse's water is used for the second load's first rinse. If we can make is slighly neater, we'll keep the system in pace after the drought.
But your first world places have reservoirs, and some like California have new programs to store floodwater to lessen dependence on aquifers since that's a known issue in coming decades (solution is purely engineering problem).
Filtering water from lakes and reservoirs to excellent quality is a long solved problem, plenty of huge cities have that as norm
That's a cool setup! So efficient. Is it strange to have dark water in the toilet? My washer output goes into the garden and it is visibly not clear.
Man, you really need that seminar!
Trump's not a politician. He's never held elected office in his life and after leaving office never will again. Contrast to Obama or Hillary or Bernie Sanders, people who never had straight jobs in their lives.
What do you mean by "straight job"? The only boss Trump has ever had was his dad who regularly bailed him out.
He's done a great job of filling out a suit and promoting himself on TV. He talks about all the great buildings he's built but most were built by other people and Trump likely doesn't know the 1st thing about how to truly construct a building.
Years ago, I worked for a millionaire who did construction & home renos and looked good in a suit - but he knew most of the trades to a high level of expertise and was a good draughtsman. Trump can barely scratch out a legible signature.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Yes. Reservoirs that were designed between 80 and 40 years ago and not reviewed since. Cape Town isn't the first city to nearly run out of water, and it happens in the first world too.
The point that you're missing is that unless a water crisis was addressed 10 years ago and engineering is already underway, even a first world city would have problem avoiding a potential disaster in the face of a changing climate.
nonsense, climate isn't changing that fast. don't be misled by hoopla over weather.
reservoirs are being designed and built, aquifer recharging is now being done too. just engineering problems
Politicians are supposed to be more diplomatic
Like it or not, being politically incorrect is one of the primary reasons that he's in office, and why he got ~$2B in free media. Many (myself included, though I did not vote for him) are sick and tired of being told what we can and can not say without some snowflake with a chip on their shoulder taking offense when we had no intention of offending them.
Just another day in Paradise