Cape Town, Black Africa about to run out of drinking water

[crimethink]

Note the virtually-unlimited source of water to the west and south of the city...

Aren't they glad "White minority rule" ended?


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/24/cape-town-prepares-to-run-out-water-as-severe-drought-worsens-ahead-day-zero.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01134-x

[Cebu_4_2]

scientists are scrambling to determine how the crisis will affect their research

That sucks.

[midnight rambler]

Will that make it qualify as a shithole country?

[Hitch]

Will that make it qualify as a shithole country?

We need to send Conan O'Brien down there to report. A one way flight should do just fine.

[Cebu_4_2]

Didn't we fix their water with depleted uranium a while back when we set Gaddafi free? He wanted to supply the whole continent with free water.

[Neuro]

That sucks.

Fascinating discussion in that Nature article... Running out of fresh water is essentially the death of the town, death of civilization. It’s what happened to Ephesus and Olympus in Ancient Greece/Rome or the Easter Island. The thing is that the cause wasn’t really drought either, these happen at regular intervals, it was just the tipping point, instead it was overconsumption. Cape Town had been aware of the problem for the last few years, but there was no political will to rectify or even to ameliorate the situation. Still they are only discussing it from their own egocentric point of view, how will this affect the universities research. Denial is a river in Africa and it is coming to Cape Town.

[singular_me]

or another case of wrong materialistic ideology, chasing money (greed) makes money scarce... scarcity will be soon a problem in many countries

[JDRock]

Big surprise ! They ruined la, ny chi, detroit and everywhere they ever set foot. Every single neighborhood , workplace and public venue. Wow total shock that water is racist too ...

[madfranks]

water is racist too ...

Great point, I wonder if CNN will pick up on this.

[Neuro]

or another case of wrong materialistic ideology, chasing money (greed) makes money scarce... scarcity will be soon a problem in many countries

No, this is a case of failing to take action in face of disastrous consequences. It isn’t lack of money nor water that is at issue here. It is how the municipal government failed to look at the life of their society, and focused more on having the money for other purposes.

[jimswift]

Came across this drone review video posted on Jan 23rd, and he is in Cape Town, South Africa...the guy doing the review aside(nobody must have told him about the water), the footage shows that the place is clearly a shit hole...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnqUokKrFbY

[latemetal1]

Without its reservoirs, New York City would have shut down years ago...If they had the money they could fix this or they could just keep praying for rain.

[Stop Making Cents]

Take a wild guess where they'll all go when cape towns water runs out