Mexico City could run out of water in a month unless it rains
Mexico City could run out of water in a month unless it rains
Texas should get ready for a ton of people heading north. Give a person a choice of dying from no water or going where there is water and we all know what will happen.
They are: haven't you noticed how much of a hard-on they've got for shooting and/or imprisoning border-crossers?
As a Canadian I am scared shitless for a future when a deranged America threatens us for our fresh water.
The world is fucked. This is just the beginning. Europe is also prepping for an increase in migrants from northern Africa.
People are going to die in the millions and unfortunately a lot of them will be poor and brown which means collectively we won't give a shit.
If Mexico implodes this summer, this could help the presidential candidate who works towards more CO2 emissions. Ironic.
I see nothing wrong with this speculation, from a US point of view: A wave of Mexican climate refugees from Mexico City could fuel the Republican propaganda machine tar Biden as being soft on the border, and help Trump. Even though sadly Republicans in the Senate are blocking a bipartisan Senate border security bill.
Although Mexico is having a presidential election too, which makes the statement somewhat ambiguous, although Mexico's election day is really soon on June 2nd, which is well before summer.
The year is 1325. Some Aztecs see a snake getting eaten by an eagle out on an island of a vast lake. They take this as a sign from the gods that they should build their city here.
2025: this once vast lake is now a metropolis with routine water shortages
The aztecs knew how to manage it properly. It was the dumbass Spaniards that fucked everything up and drained all the water away.
Ah, I remember back when idiots thought climate change meant the world would be under water. Turns out it actually means a lot less water will be available.
It will be either too much water or no water.
Edit: i just went to check how my country is doing water wise:
Germany is one of the regions with the highest water loss worldwide. Since 2000, the country has lost 2.5 cubic kilometres of water per year. In the years 2019 to 2021, record low groundwater levels below the long-term lowest groundwater levels were recorded at the measuring points in many places.
Seems we already know
Here’s data for other contries for those interested; https://www.wri.org/data/aqueduct-40-country-rankings
Less water where you need it and more where you don't want it.
They forgot the difference between drinking and non-drinking water.
It's all drinking water. You just don't get to drink one type for very long if you keep it up.
Some areas will be under more saltwater than now, like Florida and the Netherlands. Some areas will be inhospitable due to consistent heat and lack of FRESHwater like Mexico, Northern Africa, India, etc.
There is also a mix: salty water that won't submerge land permanently, but that will reach more and more inland across rivers during high tides. River Mekong comes to mind, along which rice is cultivated and that already now suffers from this phenomenon. Salty water on land means you will not grow anything there anymore. The Mekong delta produces rice that is used to feed an incredibly high number of people in Asia.
In Brazil there was a mega flooding in the south recently, I knew some people there and they said it felt very apocalyptic. This is most definitely not normal climate.
Also they found some arid (like desert arid) zones recently in Brazil for the first time. It used to be semi-arid.
Desalination on a small scale is fine.
Desalination on a large scale would be its own form of environmental catastrophe.
So this is the Warning from Mexico I’ve been hearing about.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Experts say that Mexico City could run out of drinking water by the end of June, an event locals call "Day Zero."
Mexico City has long struggled to bring water to its millions of residents, but three consecutive years of low rainfall and high temperatures have created a serious emergency.
Conditions are so bad that the North American Drought Monitor classified the federal district containing Mexico City as "severe" on April 30.
The system normally moves about 15 cubic meters of water a second and provides service to about 22 million people.
About 40% of Mexico City's water is lost due to leaky pipes and other issues, the Post reported.
But rainfall might cause a "false sense of security," Christina Boyes, a professor at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching in Mexico City, told the Post.
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Those poor axolotls.
Oh wow the water wars are starting a few years earlier than I anticipated.
Mankind better watch out. Next it'll be air.
Oh, it's already being sold.
As Bo said, “Twenty thousand years of this, seven more to go.”