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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What’s the problem? Just go to the supermarket and buy bottled water. Just tap the Easy button.
Yes...it is the former capital of the Aztecs...which was a city built in the middle of lake Texcoco.
22 million residues? Snort.
c. 1983.
I know because we did a hotel project c. 1984, and the structural engineer had just got done doing forensics on building failures from the Mexico City earthquake. It’s the most over-engineered building in Fort Lauderdale. If I’m ever stuck there in a major hurricane, I know where I’m going!
with no water and a blazing sun, 22 million residues will be all that’s left behind for someone to scrape up.
Mexico City is built on a lake.
Actually, residue is what the residents will become, if they don’t get some water.
20 million residues is just a prediction.
Desalination Plant consume and enormous amount of power
Better build a couple Gigawatt power plants at the same time.
If sea levels rise, then there will be more storms. That means more fresh water.
So, just hang in there amigos. It’s coming.
Bkmk
predicting most eva....they cannot know that.
This circumstance will no doubt be played up in the near future as a reason for yet more illegal border crossings.
They didn’t have that problem before the Europeans arrived. Tenochtitlan was in the middle of a large lake.
Are these the “climate migrants” they want us to take?
Maybe you’ve been wondering why so much recent advertising for LUME and other body deodorants…..we’re reaching the point where water rationing will prevent bathing.
We have killed millions of babies through abortion since Roe v. Wade. Sometimes I think the Lord is telling us, "Since you've decided to kill your children, I'm giving what was intended for them - to foreigners."
"Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant." - Galatians 6:7
“ c. 1983.
I know because we did a hotel project c. 1984, and the structural engineer had just got done doing forensics on building failures from the Mexico City earthquake. It’s the most over-engineered building in Fort Lauderdale. If I’m ever stuck there in a major hurricane, I know where I’m going!”
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Props to you, sir. The longer I live the more I don’t think any critical structure can be “over engineered”. Structural engineers and builders do a disservice to their clients if they merely build to code.
You could not have picked a worse location to build a city of 20 million.
uhm...surrounded by ocean
desalinization plants
everything we’ve been lectured on...have fewer children, work harder, work longer,take statins and all the vaccines and donate to your 401 so the govt can get a slice of it when you start needing it in old age oh, and everybody should go to college, because those college kids are so darn smart....
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