Posted on 04/13/2022 6:34:12 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile has announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million.
“A city can’t live without water,” Claudio Orrego, the governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, said in a press conference. “And we’re in an unprecedented situation in Santiago’s 491-year history where we have to prepare for there to not be enough water for everyone who lives here.”
The plan features a four-tier alert system that goes from green to red and starts with public service announcements, moves on to restricting water pressure and ends with rotating water cuts of up to 24 hours for about 1.7 million customers.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Chile’s city dwellers would do well to “migrate” to the US.
The technology using nuclear power along a coast to generate electricity and to desalinate huge amounts of sea water is not that complicated.
You have a whole damn ocean filled with water at your doorstep...figure it out.
“The technology using nuclear power along a coast to generate electricity and to desalinate huge amounts of sea water is not that complicated.”
And you can use solar collection material covered pipelines with power generation facilities from the Desalination plants to move clean water inland while producing energy that can be used in villages.
You are correct. This isn’t complicated and costs a lot less in the long run. It is a crime against humanity not to do this.
“You have a whole damn ocean filled with water at your doorstep...figure it out.”
They couldn’t figure it out in South Africa and are paying the price. Israel offered to help and were call racists and killers.
The also have HUGE watershed from the Spring snow melt of the Andes range.
But of course building new sources of water isn't a priority for their new incompetent buffoon of a President, Gabriel Boric.
Boy, even the Egyptians only got 7 years of drought.
Chile must have really ticked off the Big Guy.
Not sure if the 14th year is the time to fix the problem?
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