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re: Cape Town, South Africa will run out of water by April 16 - a day being called "Day Zero"
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:11 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:11 am to GetCocky11
All they gotta do is clone water. Dumb Africans
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Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:20 am to jbgleason
Droughts do happen. Greed is what causes problems.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:26 am to momentoftruth87
somebody call ToTo
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:32 am to slackster
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This comment is asinine in this thread, unless you're implying white leaders made it rain more often.
Well it does seem that there were some major failures by the national government. LINK
This long drought was going to be tough either way, but Cape Town seemed to be trying to address the problems and the national government fricked them.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:36 am to nes2010
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Most of the southeast will be fine though.
Not necessarily. Tennessee and Alabama have had water disputes within the last three or four years, and Georgia has had a drought that seriously affected Atlanta's water supply. Louisiana has no water policy at all. I'm not saying these places will run out of water, but there has been conflict, and there will be more.
ETA: on most sites this topic would be discussed on a political forum, but the poliboard is such a dumpster fire that rational people are reluctant to go there.
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 9:38 am
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:44 am to GetCocky11
Get rid of the people who know how to lead a country and suddenly you’re running out of clean water. Nice
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:45 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:47 am to Collegedropout
You and Paul Ehrlich hate the human spirit and the power of innovation.
Go prep your bunker.
Go prep your bunker.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:52 am to Jim Rockford
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Tennessee and Alabama have had water disputes within the last three or four years
So have Mississippi and the City of Memphis. I took Indian Law for an easy A in law school, and I remember thinking some of the stuff we learned about water rights could be very important in the future. Indian reservations are given superior water rights for enough water to make the reservation a working farm, but it is up to them what they do with the water. A lot of the tribes out West sell their water rights. What I remember being interesting is that the reservation's rights to the water supersede their neighbors' rights and wondering if water rights really become important, are the reservations going to have a lot of power or is the US going to ignore the water rights treaties?
Posted on 2/1/18 at 9:56 am to Collegedropout
Maybe in So Cal but even there I doubt it. Our infrastructure for moving water out West is pretty impressive. The resevoir system in California makes what is happening in Cape Town very unlikely and some of the pipelines being developed out there are moving potable water from places like Canada and even the Great Lakes for just in case situations.
The problem is, South Africa does not have high enough mountains where snow falls unlike the Sierras and the Rockies here
The problem is, South Africa does not have high enough mountains where snow falls unlike the Sierras and the Rockies here
Posted on 2/1/18 at 10:02 am to GetCocky11
Kangz
Posted on 2/1/18 at 10:03 am to GetCocky11
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Cape Town is in a Mediterranean Climate zone, not the desert.
That means that it is semi arid like California which means that it is prone to periods of drought....this one is profound though and right now is the height of their summer so it is probably extra dry
Posted on 2/1/18 at 10:08 am to GetCocky11
"Apartheid" is an old South African word that means "having water"
Posted on 2/1/18 at 10:11 am to GetCocky11
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I mean, I think this has more to do with a 3 year long drought and population growth. Cape Town was like half the size it is now during Ian Smith's time.
I found a picture of you
Posted on 2/1/18 at 10:37 am to slackster
Risk aversion. If you're okay living check to check, rain season to rain season...you don't feel planning is important until you ain't got none no more and then it's who gonna give me money/water/whatever.
It's the problem with "giving" people more responsibility than they "earned"....the natives of South Africa aren't fit to rule themselves because they required the whole world to get them something they should have earned themselves.
It's the problem with "giving" people more responsibility than they "earned"....the natives of South Africa aren't fit to rule themselves because they required the whole world to get them something they should have earned themselves.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 10:41 am to GetCocky11
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I mean, I think this has more to do with a 3 year long drought and population growth. Cape Town was like half the size it is now during Ian Smith's time.
South Africa was on the decline well before the drought.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:05 am to GetCocky11
Idiots. frick em.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:11 am to GetCocky11
Why hasn't anyone invented a way to desalinate massive amounts of water at a time? Seems like you would be rich beyond imagine if you owned that technology.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:16 am to Brosef Stalin
The technology is there. It's just expensive as hell and requires tons of energy.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 11:17 am to GetCocky11
Sounds like they need Vusi to come back home, find his girl Karen, and straighten things out again. I'm all in on Dangerous Ground II!
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