I added the emphasis because I really wonder what "green" measures were taken by the Cape Town leaders that may have helped cause this crisis. For example, refusing to develop adequate reservoirs, as in CA, and refusing to develop an build adequate desalination facilities along with the necessary power generating plants, also as in CA. The authors of this article do nothing to describe the actions and inactions of Cape Town government that may have led to this ridiculous crisis.
To: libstripper
Well, that didn’t take long.
2 posted on
02/01/2018 6:56:38 AM PST by
SJSAMPLE
To: libstripper
South Africa’s inexorable march toward third world status
3 posted on
02/01/2018 6:58:36 AM PST by
Josa
To: libstripper
Don’t say it, Jeff. Don’t say it.
4 posted on
02/01/2018 7:00:42 AM PST by
Jeff Chandler
(TRUMP RULES - KENNEDY DROOLS)
To: libstripper
I’ll add that the pipes probably leak like hell - which is probably why they need a full shutdown. Getting rid of the whites pretty much turned the city into Soweto.
5 posted on
02/01/2018 7:01:58 AM PST by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
To: libstripper
I guess they have never heard of desalination. I guess they ran out of Krugerands to sell to investors.
6 posted on
02/01/2018 7:04:53 AM PST by
LukeL
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7 posted on
02/01/2018 7:05:32 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
To: libstripper
Sounds like another shithole in the making.
8 posted on
02/01/2018 7:06:05 AM PST by
gop4lyf
(Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
To: libstripper
Meh, it’s part of Africa reverting to African ways.
Widespread death is, in fact, an African way.
9 posted on
02/01/2018 7:06:42 AM PST by
gaijin
To: libstripper
Cape Town had a population in 1955 of about 755,000 residents. In 1975, it’d grown to 1.335,000. In 1995, it’d grown to 2.4-million. And in the last five years, it’s figured to be around 3.7-million. You can ask the locals but they all believe that the rate will continue, and 4.3-million will occur by 2030.
All of this success has put a drain on resources which the city never really thought much about (especially the last twenty years).
Fresh water sources? Six dams...the last added in 2007 (Big River Dam). Consumption has gone beyond the capabilities in a fairly short period of time. Add to this...a long drought period. They would need two or three years of favorable/normal rainfall, to bring the water levels back to some norm. That simply hasn’t happened.
The one single project that is chatted about is the Voelvlei Dam project (originally supposed to be finished in 2024) is now pressed hard to complete by 2019.
If you follow local news, for months, there’s been political bickering going on, with meetings held and nothing ever decided upon. Leadership-wise, they’d basically need to fire the whole top level and start fresh.
My guess is that 5-percent of the locals will up and leave the local area by July if rainfall doesn’t come to delay this Day Zero business.
To: libstripper
I was going to say that Cape Townies ought get in touch with the Israelis about desalinization because they have come crackerjack tech going on in this area. Then I remembered just who the Cape Townies were...Oh well!
12 posted on
02/01/2018 7:16:04 AM PST by
Trentamj
To: libstripper
When you're clearly one of a few beacons of light on a continent rife with $h!thole countries, how would you devise to join the holers?
Go green!
16 posted on
02/01/2018 7:18:23 AM PST by
Sgt_Schultze
(When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
To: libstripper
"It is quite unbelievable that a majority of people do not seem to care and are sending all of us headlong towards Day Zero," the mayor's office said in January. "We can no longer ask people to stop wasting water. We must force them."Stupid, stupid people. When they run out of drinking water, it come to them like a total shock. They should have been forced to reduce usage long ago. Fine anyone who's utility bill is over X amount.
At collection points, no portage is available
Whaaa! These are truly stupid people. As if they don't have a wheel barrow or child's wagon.
Surrounded by water. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
17 posted on
02/01/2018 7:20:30 AM PST by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: libstripper
Nothing GREEN caused this crisis, SA has been in a very extreme drought for several years, driven by El Nino.... Much of the country has begun recovering as the multi year drought has been ending, but Capetown area has not yet.
To: libstripper
Once one of the only successful countries in Africa, now South Africa slowly descends into primitive tribalism. With every tick of the clock, the once modern infrastructure of South Africa incrementally breaks down. All the productive and technical class have been killed or have fled. All those capable of maintaining a modern society are gone. What is coming will make Haiti look like paradise by comparison.
To: libstripper
Coming here to California soon. Just you watch.
21 posted on
02/01/2018 7:23:47 AM PST by
Angels27
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