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.
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Maybe there are too many Indians and not enough resources.
Their water was tired living there and moved to someplace nice in the World
What should worry us is them coming here and adding stress to our water supply also.
It will never happen here.
The Democrats are in charge of the cities and of the water supply.
There are a large number of springs in this area which flow millions of gallons an hour. If there was just some way to transfer it cheaply.
There is nothing natural about buying into propaganda that is fed to the masses in large volumes while opposing views are suppressed. That is a manufactured knee jerk view.
How’s that water shortage in California going?
Gotta love how they demand tapping the surrounding states lakes and reservoirs for their needs while continuing to let millions of illegals move in.
“Gotta love how they demand tapping the surrounding states lakes and reservoirs for their needs while continuing to let millions of illegals move in”
YUP
the same buttwipes who hit us with all the idiot water saving rules and devices are the same ones screaming “let them all in!!”
Utterly INSANE
They don’t bathe anyway.
200,000 dead per year from unsafe water?
Now that is a tragic.
For those FReepers who are my age, it used to be called Madras.
There’s all sorts of photos of kids playing in the Ganges River. Next to people gathering drinking water. Next to people washing their clothes. Next to garbage floating in the brown water. Next to dead animals. Next to dead people in the water. (Sacred river burials).
Some education would go a long way in reducing the numbers of deaths.
Desalination of the Indian Ocean water is the answer.I am just a Freeper.
Enough for 400,000 people per day or 1/3 of the COUNTY.
They’re going to need a few more of those.
Desalination plants, and in the process they can counteract the rising sea levels that aren’t really rising. Both problems fixed. 8>)
Build a Generation III nuclear plant and use the energy to desalinate.
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