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Coastal Megacity Karachi Is Running Out of Water (earther.com)
The Pakistani megacity of Karachi, home to more than 20 million people, is among the most water-stressed cities in the world, only able to meet half of its daily water demand. From a report: Karachi requires 1,100 million of gallons per day (mgd), but only receives 550 mgd, according to the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB). Karachi's water is sourced from the Indus River via Keenjhar Lake, which sits more than 90 miles away from the city. The water shortage in Karachi is linked to myriad factors including climate change, mismanagement of water resources, and corruption. Most of all, however, a rising population increasing at a rate of 4.5 percent a year creates a strain on the finite water supply. Pakistan ranks in the top ten of countries worst affected by climate change, and water shortages are likely to deepen in both intensity and frequency in the coming decade.
Hey, not my problem. Pakistan is the most backward country on earth, bar none. Let them die.
Teach Pakistan a military lesson... It would be about time.
Allah be praised! This is clearly his will and only those who have true pure faith in his holy word and his servants will remain.
The rest will move away as quickly as they can as they realize that these kinds of environmental stresses are brought by the one true God as punishment for believing in someone who claimed to hear voices, instead of listening to the innate goodness and wisdom in their hearts.
I'm running out of beer and the Grocery Outlet is closed and I'm too buzzed to drive. And I'm supposed to be upset because Karachi's running out of water just because there are 20 million people there? You SJWs really suck, you know that? Who's going to stand up for me, huh? Nobody, that's who. Wait, I think I just heard my neighbor come home. I bet he's got some beer. Never mind.
Happy Memorial Day everybody!
You are welcome on my lawn.
Pakistan has gone from 40 million people in 1955 to 200 million in 2018. That is a 5 times increase in less than 65 years. Is there anyone who thinks that is sustainable? http://www.worldometers.info/w...
Obvious solution: Raise the price of water.
Higher prices will incentivize consumers to conserve, producers to produce, and distributers to fix the leaks in their pipes.
It's time to wipe Pakistan off the face of the earth with a coordinated preemptive nuclear strike. And not just Karachi, the whole bloody stink hole country---one solid sheet of nuclear glass. Hopefully India will see it's duty as saviour of Civilisation and act first by destroying the satanic cesspit known as Pakistan.
In the end, they can leave or deal with water scarcity. It sounds like things aren't bad enough for people to leave and improvements are impossible, so deal with it they will.
Pretty sure the order of causes are corruption and water mismanagement followed by climate change being the crack that drained their fresh water supply.
Imagine the water saving from not flushing! Wha? No toilets in Pakistan? Never mind.
It never rains in Karachi?
I am of Indian descent, and I volunteer to urinate in the mouth of any thirsty Pakistani. I will soon be starting a charitable foundation to transport Indian urine to Karachi. You have heard of the Jewel of India? This is the Gold of India.
The sooner they go extinct the better
The problem with Pakistan is too many Moslems. If we killed all the Moslems in Pakistan it would solve the water shortage. But even better, it would liberate all the Pakistani minorities who suffer under viscous and violent Moslem oppression: women, Christians, LGBT, Hindus, Bahai, atheists, blacks, east Asians, intellectuals, free thinkers, and slackers.
Except that isn't happening, and fresh water in America has jack shit to do with fresh water in Pakistan.
Fuck off, Ahmed.
Climate change is of course front and centre as the main cause but I don't buy that. Australia is affected by climate change and growing population but still manages to keep the water flowing. It's done by resource management, infrastructure improvements [desalination etc] and educating people that water is a finite resource at least on land.
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Fix the problems in Karachi of infrastructure, corruption, water use and population growth first.
So now your going to die of dehydration... who caused this? You did!!!
Dry up and die happy in the knowledge you did things your way.
This city sits right at the coast - just desalinize the seawater and they'll never run out. Humankind has known about desalinization for thousands of years so why are they forgetting now?
Right, because they get their water from the same place.
You fucking idiots will do anything to try and blame shit on the US.
water from rivers is free. But agreed, who needs fresh drinking water to flush the toilet? Maybe they should have thought about a greywater system in the 65 years it took them to go from 50 to 200 milion people?
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And I krap on karachi. I pee on mohammed piss be upon him.
Well I found this and the family in the picture puts America's Duggars (only 18 kids) to shame with 36 kids https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-population-muslim-birth-rate-census-disaster-poverty-million-a7938816.html
Spend less money on ak-47's and hiding osama and maybe fix your fucking water problem.
Or maybe sit around and whine for your crap pedophile god to save you.
Fuck 'em.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
3.79 liters per gallon or 4.55 liters per gallon? Get with the fucking times, hicks. Then, are you trying to tell me that they really NEED more than 200 liters per person per day? Surely that includes industrial uses, because that's a lot for personal use in an arid country. And surely industrial use can pay for desalination, you know, with the city being on the coast, i.e. right next to practically unlimited amounts of water.
And you instantly get called racist, even though in the west that is exactly what people keep saying.
OK, raise your hands.
GIve me a second to count hands.
OK. Done. No hands raised. Well nobody here gives a shit about Pakistan.
A far better story: Parched for a price: Karachi's water crisis
... stealing water in Karachi is an industry worth more than half a billion dollars." (each year)
... manages a household of 5 people on an income of roughly $190 a month.
Quotes:
Perween Rehman: "It is not the poor who steal the water. It is stolen by a group of people who have the full support of the government agencies, the local councillors, mayors and the police; all are involved."
"Shortly before her murder, Rehman spoke to a documentary crew, who were making a film about her work."
More:
"The scale of the theft is staggering.
"Ali Asghar, 75, says he still has to pay bills to the utility company for water that never comes in the pipes."
Another problem:
Family size.
"... Farzana Bibi, 40,
"... his entire household of 17 people is dependent on water bought from tankers."
Al Jazeera is generally a good place for such news. However, this story has no date. It was apparently written in 2017.
So, the parent comment is exactly correct.
Cut off all emigration from Pakistan and let them deal with their own problems. Overpopulation has its consequences. China knew it and implemented the One Child Policy to great success. Europe (and colonies) and East Asia have dealt with their population problems and now have stable or declining rates. If South/West Asia, the Mid East and Africa can't figure it out themselves, we're not going to bail them out by taking millions of their excess people.
Those arseholes of Americans did not build a 12000km long water pipeline. Bastards. But Allah is great, Islamic Sciences will solve the problem by throwing enough rocks to woman or mutilating them.
The number of children per woman in Pakistan has decreased rapidly in the last decades to now around 3 children per woman (2.3 is required for population to just be static in the long run). The only reason the population still grows is many children growing up and having (on average 2-3) kids of their own. There is no statistic link between religion and population growth.
See here: https://www.google.com/publicd...
Or if you do only trust the US, check the CIA:
https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...
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But Americans still have water.
For globalist it does
Quit fucking. You're producing too many people. I can't continue supporting you. Try oral sex or jerk off, just quit fucking!!
1: Pakistanis are overwhelmingly inbred, up to 70% of the total population by most estimates.
2: Rampant interbreeding creates enormous numbers of birth defects. People of Pakistani descent account for 3% of the British population, yet over 30% of congenital birth defects due to first cousin marriages, as one example.
3: The rest of the moslem world isn't far behind (if at all).
So you now have a perfect storm of hundreds of millions of moslems breeding up like rabbits, and producing retarded offspring that will (should they live long enough) easily fall for the worst that Islam has to offer. A ready made army of retards willing to kill and die for their death cult.
Imagine the deepest recesses of Alabama in the US, multiplied a hundred or thousandfold.
Now give them nukes.
Breeders are always needers
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/world/saudi-arabia-awakes-to-the-perils-of-inbreeding.html
As the World fills up with Muslims, they'll all start killing one another because the all the other Muslims practice Islam the wrong way.
What we in the West need to do is just stay out of the way. As soon as we step foot in one of those countries, we become the infidel invaders and they band together and forget their imaginary differences.
For example, we should just let ISIS do its thing and save our money - we'll need it for Medicare and Social Security.
....when that happens, perhaps population should be controlled instead of letting it continuing to grow at will.
It's on a website called "Earther" and written by a Pakistani journalist. No agenda there at all! Must be absolutely the Truth.
they had a water shortage too, all these coastal cities have no excuse sitting next to HUGE bodies of water, they need to build desalination plants and turn sea water in to potable drinking water
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Some will just have to pay more for it.
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A perfect time to watch the stars.
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NUCLEAR Desalinization plants. That's the key. Of course then there's all that hot super-salty water that goes back into the ocean, but what harm could that do?
Why was this down modded ?
I think this post is on the money.
Perhaps you can refute the claims ?
They need to use Desalination
But Americans still have water.
America has plenty of water issues, and they sure as shit didn't quintuple their population over the last half-century. If they had, then America would probably be more fucked than Pakistan right now with regards to water.
You mean another five-fold growth over the next 65 years? Funny thing about exponential curves: another 45 years of Moore's law would require re-inventing the atom.
Exponential growth is not sustainable. That's what "exponential" actually means. There's two kinds of inflation in this world: comic inflation, and cosmic inflation. Only cosmic inflation never runs out of elbow room. News for Nerds, now in high middle age (with burgeoning male pattern baldness), and we're still overrun by bald appeals to comic inflation.
Or did you mean to ask whether Pakistan's current population of 200 million is sustainable, at that number, with no further growth, and no immediate shrinkage.
Washington Post: A disaster in the making — 9 September 2017
It seems to be that the function of Catholic clerics is to deny our population of effective birth control; whereas the function of Islamic clerics is to deny their population of effective birth control. The poverty/sin cycle is good for business. (Especially if your baptismal basin has priority claim on the fresh water supply.)
We seem to forget, however, that birth control (BC) is a relatively modern human invention. Before the BC epoch, clerics everywhere did a tidy little business in tiny tombstones.
Evolution always has a solid backup plan, even if we don't.
"The reason I don't have a job is because of the recession! Yes, I know, I quit my last job because I was bored (gave the boss the finger on the way out) and was fired from my last two jobs for a mix of showing up 2 hours late and drunk, but seriously, it's not me, it's the economy, stupid!"
Karachi needs to take some responsibility for themselves. They're a coastal city, build desalination plants. Fix the problem yourself instead of taking the easy way out!
There is zero fucking excuse for any coastal town or city to have water shortages.
D E S A L I N I Z A T I O N
I too live in a a coastal city and have to endure preemptive water rationing"to preserve resource availability". It's utter bullshit. Build additional desalinization plants to meet demand and charge accordingly. Fuck shortages and restrictions.
There is no easy way out. Complaining about climate change wouldn't solve anything if that were the cause of Karachi's problems, and certainly not otherwise.
Yeah. But I said they had water. Not that it wasn't without issues.
USA could afford desalination of necessary I suppose.
Pakistanians maybe not. Even if they use less of it.
I never said anything about population growth of USA.
America west is dependent on several streams that are shared amongst states. Problem is, these are drying up, while states like AZ, are playing games. But with our Congress solving nothing, the water issue is only going to get worse.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
There may be areas in which Al Jazeera is not helpful.
However, if, like me, you live in the U.S. and have never been to the countries Al Jazeera covers most, the articles are often far ahead of others on the same subject.
You said, "They covered a ceremony in my hometown and claimed eight people died. No one died."
Could you tell us more about that?
No Desalination Plants for a city next to a body of water? OK, I will watch the will of the people in CNN.
You asking for a link Windy to back up numbers, you are just too funny.
You offering credibility advice, when you are the least credible person here, priceless.
Actually imperial units are still in widespread usage here even within engineering groups. My company uses metric for softwaee, but physical stuff like structures or antennas gets done in foot pounds and the like. I am a proponent of switching, but they tried that 40 years ago and the only thing that stuck was liters on bottles of diabetes, er soda.
refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
It's just like California crying about their own inept attitudes.
You are coastal, De-salinate the ocean water. You can do it with some magnifying lenses and containment vats of water, As it evaporates, you collect the condensation and big surprise, you have potable water.
DUH!
Explain why it was dumbed down for Americans.
If you think it is so ridiculously easy to be proficient in both systems, why change it for them?
Where did I say metric wasn't arbitrary? I said it was used in 95% of the world, and that means it's much more common. You do understand percentages right? You don't need them dumbed down too do you?
"Lastly, salinity levels in oceans are predicted to rise, which would make filtering water more expensive. The more salt there is to filter out, the more energy required. That’s why plants often convert brackish water (think lightly salted potato chips vs. regular) to clean water. But brackish water is not as prevalent as ocean water."
Guess what resource wars will fight about in the future?
The water shortage in Karachi is linked to a lack of birth control
Just another day in Paradise
Some individual Pakistanis need to heat up sea water in skillets and catch the boiling steam evaporation into funnels and route that water via a tube to sealed water bottles. Unfortunately it takes a lot of heat to boil water. Personal desalinators are a partial solution to this problem. Another partial handle is to heavily tax parents who have more than one child and use that money towards mass desalinization efforts . Harsh but necessary. Doing nothing could lead to much much worse problems.