Posted on 06/27/2019 3:35:32 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
One of India’s largest cities, Chennai, is dealing with a crippling crisis: It has run out of water. In the middle of a particularly hot summer, the four lakes that supply the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu have dried up; together they contain just 1% of the volume they did last year. Residents don’t have enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes. People are working from home; malls have closed their bathrooms; and restaurants have shut their doors.
The natural instinct is to blame the situation on climate change and, indeed, the last monsoon’s rains were especially weak. While that’s certainly played a role, however, Chennai’s is largely a man-made disaster – one that more Indian metropolises are soon to suffer no matter the weather.
According to a study by the federal government think tank NITI Aayog, 21 Indian cities will run out of groundwater by next year, including the capital New Delhi and the information technology hub of Bengaluru. Two hundred thousand Indians already die every year because they don’t have a safe water supply, the report said. A shocking 600 million people face “high to extreme” water stress.
(Excerpt) Read more at indiatoday.in ...
They could do a lot more than just run the desalination plant with that. 8>)
I’d bet $100* that IF there are accurate records going back 1000 years, it can be documented there has been at least one and probably have been several rainfall deficits in the area, in that 1000 years, that considerably exceed the present one.
*Well heeled FReepers can up that if they wish! ;-)
What a ridiculous article. Bottom line, they paved over, built on, farmed, and reclaimed the land making up the watershed.
If the Indians can get by on 1/2 the water as Carlsbad customers do, assuming few have left the area, and assuming current sources can provide water for, say, 2 million people, then they need approx. 8 of those plants.
“Their water was tired living there and moved to someplace nice in the World”
Joe Biden can fill you in; he’s an expert of Indians, otherwise ask Elizabeth Warren.
What India and the rest of the world should do, is cut their birth rate by about 30& and that wold be the best solution to their water shortage and other problems. How ever, no one what to talk about that, as a solution.
80 percent of California's water goes to agricultural irrigation, and another 12 percent goes to residential irrigation and golf courses.
“Build a Generation III nuclear plant and use the energy to desalinate.”
I heard that the sands deposited by the Indonesian earthquake’s tsunami was very rich in thorium.
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