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Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:19 pm
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Saw this in the recent issue of Air & Space magazine:
Day Zero is the grim name given to the moment, calculated to occur THIS summer, when Cape Town, South Africa, will become the first major metropolitan area in the world to run out of water. Due to severe drought and a dysfunctional government that has long ignored warnings from climate scientists and water engineers, citizens will be forced to pick up daily rations at emergency stations.
Probably a harbinger of things to come world wide, in my view. I wonder how many folks will tout 'prayer' as the solution to the problem ??
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:22 pm
(March 28, 2018 at 2:19 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Saw this in the recent issue of Air & Space magazine:
Day Zero is the grim name given to the moment, calculated to occur THIS summer, when Cape Town, South Africa, will become the first major metropolitan area in the world to run out of water. Due to severe drought and a dysfunctional government that has long ignored warnings from climate scientists and water engineers, citizens will be forced to pick up daily rations at emergency stations.
Probably a harbinger of things to come world wide, in my view. I wonder how many folks will tout out 'prayer' as the solution to the problem ??
My coworker is from South Africa and she just got back from a 3 week visit. We were like why would you visit when it's running out of water and she was like "eh I made sure the places we are staying are connected to wells."
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:30 pm
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California and arizona cities are vulnerable to the same fate.
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:31 pm
Heat waves in France and Chicago have caused fatalities. I'd assume a major metro running out of water will extract a significant toll among the elderly, disabled, poor, and the disenfranchised.
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:41 pm
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Major city running out of water supply will likely bring huge sanitation problems and with it epidemic diseases. You can't maintain public health without cleaning drinking water and functioning sewer and sewege treatment.
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:44 pm
I've been following this one for awhile. They're working on stop gaps, they've managed to add a few days, but unless it starts raining like a motherfucker..............
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Perhaps setting up unmanned automatic cameras and uplink facilities to record and broadcast the collapse would be scientifically important and perhaps motivating to other cities similarly ignoring their own water problems ??
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:46 pm
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California wasn't far from this point in late 2015, after a 5 year drought.
The loss of weight of water from reservoirs and draining of ground water actually physically increased California's mean elevation above sea level by 1mm.
I remember California declared state wide emergency and attempted to impose mandatory water saving measures. However the Republican fat cats of the Orange county refused to comply and insisted on watering their golf courses as if there is all the water to be had, because "they paid their taxes".
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 2:57 pm
(March 28, 2018 at 2:46 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: California wasn't far from this point in late 2015, after a 5 year drought.
The loss of weight of water from reservoirs and draining of ground water actually physically increased California's mean elevation above sea level by 1mm.
I remember California declared state wide emergency and attempted to impose mandatory water saving measures. However the Republican fat cats of the Orange county refused to comply and insisted on watering their golf courses as if there is all the water to be had, because "they paid their taxes".
Oh I remember that! It was so infuriating and I'm not even in California!
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RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 4:21 pm
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(March 28, 2018 at 2:46 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: California wasn't far from this point in late 2015, after a 5 year drought.
The loss of weight of water from reservoirs and draining of ground water actually physically increased California's mean elevation above sea level by 1mm.
I remember California declared state wide emergency and attempted to impose mandatory water saving measures. However the Republican fat cats of the Orange county refused to comply and insisted on watering their golf courses as if there is all the water to be had, because "they paid their taxes".
Pretty much what's happening in Cape Town, too. The effects of water restrictions are mostly falling on the dirty poors, and ofc the dirty poors are being blamed while the wealthy simply buy whatever water they require to fill their pools at an inflated (and then further inflated) price - or just drill deeper wells.
I don't think this surprises anyone, and it's not to say that there isn't awareness in the wealthier set who replace their lawns with artifical grass and whatnot, ofc.
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