Posted on 04/15/2022 5:00:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile on Monday (April 11) 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 onto restricting water pressure and ends with rotating water cuts of up to 24 hours for about 1.7 million customers.
The alert system is based off the capacity of the Maipo and Mapocho rivers that supply the capital with most of its water and have seen dwindling water levels as the drought drags on.
The government estimates that the country's water availability has dropped 10 per cent to 37 per cent over the last 30 years and could drop another 50 per cent in northern and central Chile by 2060.
The water deficit in the rivers, measured in liters per second, will determine if cuts will take place every 12, six or four days. In each case, a different area would face water cuts each day.
"This is the first time in history that Santiago has a water rationing plan due to the severity of climate change," Orrego said. "It's important for citizens to understand that climate change is here to stay. It's not just global, it's local."
Certain areas in the city center would be exempt due to the high concentration of capitals. Areas fed by well water or other sources besides the two rivers will also be exemp
A country that is basically one 2000 mile coastline, has a drought for 13 years still hasn’t built desalination plants??
My ability to buy off on things like his, is how much effort
have they made to bring in desalinization? If they haven’t
made any effort, they’re not serious.
They have 2,653 miles of ocean coastline, but no water.
They lost me right there...
Bingo!
To quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
A bunch of them powered by nuclear reactors....just as California should be doing.
Doesn’t it snow in the Andes Mountains?
The same thought went screaming through my mind.
Yes…
“:^)
Ya look a very big Ocean
But... But... If we take ANY water out of the 2,653 miles of ocean coastline,then... then... there will be less water in the ocean. The equilibrium, sustainability, and, yes, EQUITY of the oceans of the Earth will forever be altered and damaged. The water in the oceans is for the oceans, the fish, mammals, plankton, not for the disgusting human race. All humans ever think of is take, take, take. Perhaps we can get Soros to petition the United Nations to outlaw desalination worldwide. And... you know... One of the largest perpetrators of desalination is... Israel. Israel should be made to put back all of the water they have stolen.
they must not have thought of that
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The problem is they were used to El Nino (80's and 90's) and those were not normal decades.
IT is NOT climate change....
IT is POPULATION INCREASES over many years.
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