Cape Town are 80 days from running out of water

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kneemos wrote: »

Can’t see the point in going to war over water. You can't transport it.

You've not watched "Mad Max":)

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Chrongen wrote: »

You want to live in an arid climate then you are going to wind up paying for water.

If I live in a freezing country I'm going to have to pay for heat, no?

Not sure if serious, its not like they specifically want to live there, Id say like most of a population anywhere, they are likely to have been born there, you mke it sound like everyone there now decided to move there at some point in the past like it was a lifestyle choice.

Chrongen wrote: »

That's still only 40 litres a day per person. So that's a quick shower and 2 jacks flushes.

There are ways to limit that, flush when essential, wash out of a sink/basin using a cloth, reuse recycle that water for flushing, where theres a will to fix a problem, a simple and/or innovative solution can be implemented.

Reducing use seems like a good start, recycling used water for secondary purposes, Id consider it for gardening purposes/car washing as it is wasteful to use water treated and suitable for drinking for that. If there were costs involved Id take it further and consider treating water for flushing toilets but it's not worthwhile.

Country mismanages its natural resources in today's shocking news.

Cookie_Monster

Nairobi is in a worse situation and has been for longer.
It's going to be an increasingly big problem world wide over the coming years

c.p.w.g.w

Can we the change the Thread Title, now 79 days...

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Reading up on it there.
This situation could have been avoided. The local government had many different opportunities to stop this from happening.

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kneemos wrote: »

Can’t see the point in going to war over water. You can't transport it.

Rubberchikken

Isnt there some system coming into operation in February to fix this?
Was reading something today just cant remember.exact thing

Bigus

Rubberchikken wrote: »

Isnt there some system coming into operation in February to fix this?
Was reading something today just cant remember.exact thing

Yeah it's called turning off the mains , and only supplying water at stations .

Pepefrogok

This is the problem, South Africa is ran by people with low intelligence, watch this.

https://youtu.be/94RGsTvipXs

It's actually hilarious!

Wanderer78

Pepefrogok wrote:

This is the problem, South Africa is ran by people with low intelligence, watch this.

And nothing to do with highly extractive processes of wealth and resources from these nations towards developed nations, as explained very well by people such as Joe stigliz etc!

Pepefrogok

Wanderer78 wrote: »

And nothing to do with highly extractive processes of wealth and resources from these nations towards developed nations, as explained very well by people such as Joe stigliz etc!

That made that politician stand and make animal noises? Also a lot of the African countries have had independence long enough now to be masters of their own destiny.

Wanderer78

Pepefrogok wrote:

That made that politician stand and make animal noises? Also a lot of the African countries have had independence long enough now to be masters of their own destiny.

So indebting nations by whatever means doesn't have negative outcomes for those nations? You don't have to go too far to see the devastating effects of imposing 'odious debts' on a nation has!

Pepefrogok

Wanderer78 wrote: »

So indebting nations by whatever means doesn't have negative outcomes for those nations? You don't have to go too far to see the devastating effects of imposing 'odious debts' on a nation has!

They indebted themselves, sub Saharan African countries on independence didn't inherit debt, only in the 80's did many go on a borrowing binge and most had debt over 100% of GDP, hell even with debt forgiveness and massive charity drives they still cant make it work! I personally blame lack of education and over population but if you want to blame the white man tear away.

Gwynplaine

Sith Ifrica

JupiterKid

The Cape Town crisis is just another symptom of how much SA is going down the tubes in the past decade. Chronic corruption and mismanagement of resources and a failure to plan in invest in infrastructure.

A South African friend told me a couple of years ago that she was really optimistic when Apartheid ended in the mid 1990s that her country was facing a bright future and better days, but the country has instead gone to the dogs.

White South Africans have been leaving the country in droves - I wonder why that is?

Chrongen

muppetshow1451 wrote: »

If you can find any reliable source?that could be one of the main problems in Africa and middle east in general.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/03/libyas_water_supply

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17775211

Chrongen

padd b1975 wrote: »

African countries doing something to help themselves??

Don't make me laugh!

You should work for Trump.

igCorcaigh

JupiterKid wrote: »

The Cape Town crisis is just another symptom of how much SA is going down the tubes in the past decade. Chronic corruption and mismanagement of resources and a failure to plan in invest in infrastructure.

A South African friend told me a couple of years ago that she was really optimistic when Apartheid ended in the mid 1990s that her country was facing a bright future and better days, but the country has instead gone to the dogs.

White South Africans have been leaving the country in droves - I wonder why that is?

Mandela sold out. That's why apartheid ended.

muppetshow1451

Chrongen wrote: »

https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/03/libyas_water_supply

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17775211

Without pollution?As i understand most of the groundwater in Africa is very shallow.