Posted on 05/26/2024 1:51:47 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
For months, scientists have worried that drought around Mexico City, which has over 22 million residues, would cause the city to run out of water. That day is approaching fast, and there is no alternative. Some groups of people in the city or some set of essential services will suffer within a few months or even weeks.
The reservoirs of the Cutzamala water system, which provide about one-fifth of the city’s water, are essentially dry. The only available option is to attempt to take water from the aquifers below the city. There is not a large enough supply, and as water is drawn from these, which are the partial foundations of Mexico City, the metropolitan area could sink several feet a year. The city, or much of it, will be destroyed.
According to The New York Times, “But as water has become scarcer, other areas of the city are facing increased rationing, including reduced flow and getting water during only certain times of the day or on certain days of the week. Water has been rationed to 284 neighborhoods this year, even to more affluent ones, compared with 147 in 2007.” What is left unsaid is that rationing only goes so far. At some point, it becomes insufficient if the drought continues.
The Mexico City challenge is one of a growing number of parts of the world’s population suffering from extreme climate change effects that cannot be improved or changed. It is not the first successful example, and it will not be the last.
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I can't feature what big cities in the desert west will do.
Gee, I never could have guessed this would be blamed on glow-bull warming.
Pray for rain.
I also remember when they had a major earthquake there a lot of years ago. Mexico City sustained major damage because it was built basically on sandy soil.
Let’s send all the illegals back with a gallon of water.
That’s what I call a win/win situation.
As long as it is just “Virtually” and not “Really” then things should be okay.
“22 million residues?” — that’s what happens when Mama Earth burns to a cinder.
Wasn’t MexIco City built on a lake?
Well, it is spelled correctly...
residues?
Methinks news editors are a thing of the past
AI could do a better job.
5.56mm
Less water in, less out. Poop accumulating resulting in gas fires.
I thought Mexico City had more water than almost any other city in the world.
40% of water is lost to leaks and illegal connections
Bring us your voters—uh I mean your people.
Americans are required to always help their Mehican friends out. FLUSH TWICE! THEY NEED THE WATER!
Are all those Californians still chilling there, or is this the usual hysterical propaganda from paid liars?
What's crazy is the amount of rain So-Cal has gotten over the past year. Had they built reservoirs, they could've stored it. But, no! The habitat of some one-eyed wonder worm was threatened.
When Sundaland disappeared as teh glaciers melted, and the people fled to mountaintops in New Guinea, Burma, and Thailand - THAT was climate change.
The volcano that the city sits in drank it all, and so the Mexicans will have to restore their age old practice of drinking blood.
OMG they’ll all be coming up here.
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