RE: Day Zero, Cape Town, South Africa
March 28, 2018 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2018 at 4:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(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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