Posted on 11/19/2024 7:25:38 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Mayor Eric Adams declared a drought warning Monday — and halted a major aqueduct repair project to preserve the city’s waters supply — as New York City faces the threat of severe water shortages.
Adams also directed city agencies to roll back water usage and urged New Yorkers to voluntarily do the same amid the historic rainfall shortage and dwindling water reserves.
“Our city vehicles may look a bit dirtier, and our subways may look a bit dustier, but it’s what we have to do to delay or stave off a more serious drought emergency,” Adams said at a press conference.
Pausing the $2 billion Delaware Aqueduct Repair Project allows the city to reopen the aqueduct and resume water flow from four additional reservoirs.
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Save water
Drink beer
There’ plenty of sewage for the filth to drink.
Here is an idea! Let’s import 20 million more foreigners to hit up America’s water supply as well as everything else. America is the Land of Endless Everything!!!
” –- and directs city agencies to roll back water usage..”
Be a shame if there was a rash of big fires,😎
“Whisky’s for drinking. Water’s for fighting over.” - Mark Twain
And for Democrats to control you. - blueunicorn6
Curtail cleaning the subways.
(Nobody will notice the difference.)
Only a socialist can run out of water while next to an ocean.
There goes the great NYC pizza.
I remember the days of “if it’s yellow let it mellow; if it’s brown flush it down”.
Mayor Koch days.
Be a shame if the immigrant hotels had their water supply shut off.
They are use d to that.
They just crap and pee in the corner.
The New York City water system, which brings in water from the several hundred square mile Adirondack watershed, was built in the 19th Century to accommodate daily street washing of horse manure into storm drains and out to sea. Every street was swept clean early every morning and flushed from fire hydrants (which served dual purposes).
In the 1950’s, when only a handful of Hanson Carriages were stabled in Central Park, it seemed that the city would never, ever, run out of water.
As Milton Friedman said, if the government was in charge of the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand.
So NYC is facing a drought, and the Mayor's response is to halt an infrastructure project designed to "preserve the city's water supply"? You can't make this [BLEEP] up.
DEI has turned leftist cities into third world dumpster fires who are no longer capable of serious capital projects like desalination plants.
You would never build a desalination plant in or near NYC. There is water nearby, it is a matter of getting it to the population centers.
The Delaware Aqueduct is one of several places that bring water to NYC. The water drought is not actually in NYC, it is in the reservoirs where the water comes from.
If I brewed beer in NYC, I would be very worried. It takes 9 to 10 gallons of water to brew one gallon of beer. That would be the first place govt would go to cut consumption of raw water.
New York City, like other Democrat cities, have been under "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, spread it right on the ground." for some time now.
He should have done this weeks ago if it’s been an increasing issue. Not wait til 3 days before the drought ends. Very likely chance of decent amount of rain Thurs and Friday and some days following week.
NYC water comes from the Catskills, from the Delaware river watershed. Most rivers in the Adirondacks flow the other way, North and empty into the St. Lawrence River. Some Rivers in the SE Adirondacks flow do south into the Hudson but thanks to GE it's undrinkable south of Albany.
Fun fact: There's a mini continental divide in the Adirondacks, in fact there's one spot where if you pee to the North, your pee will pass by Montreal, if you pee to the South it will pass by New York City.
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