Wenn es nicht regnet, könnte Mexiko-Stadt innerhalb eines Monats kein Wasser mehr haben

https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-city-water-crisis-day-zero-drought-rain-2024-5

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  1. Just for reference: The greater Mexico City Metropolitan Area has a population of 22.5 million people. Basically, a population as large as Florida’s close to running out of water.

  3. Spoiler, heat dome coming. It won’t rain unless there’s a hurricane

  4. Tell me again about the collapse of empires in the southwest. It’s almost like there was a flourishing population of people that essentially disappeared in a relatively short time frame.

    No water, no food, no people.

    Humans struggle to live in balanced ecosystems.

    Without predators, even deer will destroy the survivability of their habitat.

  6. The cartels can afford to fix it . Maybe a few desalination plants and lots of big pipes 

  7. They need those machines that pull the water out of the air.

  8. What sort of policies have been implemented? Last year Montevideo metro area had a similar problem, so water from the water system was mixed with water from the River Plate, basically “stretching” it, and while unfortunately the price of bottled water shot up because people couldn’t drink the salty water, it helped us not run out of water altogether.

  9. Can someone who lives there confirm this? Businessinsider is not exactly a reliable news source in my book and an area with a population of 25 million running out of water in a month seems like it should be all over the news everywhere all the time.

    EDIT: OK, it seems this headline is a exaggeration, to call it nicely:

    > “Day Zero is a bit of an exaggeration,” says Juan Bezaury, until recently the Mexico country representative at the Nature Conservancy. Instead, Bezaury says, Mexico City, North America’s largest city, is facing the exhaustion of the Cutzamala aqueduct system, which brings the metropolis up to 25 percent of its water, from reservoirs across the surrounding state of Mexico. Scientists say the persistent drought much of the country has suffered is depleting its reservoirs.

    Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/0424–kinard-mexico-city-run-out-of-water/#:~:text=The%20financial%20district%20of%20Mexico%20City.&text=The%20global%20press%20recently%20warned,although%20dire%2C%20is%20more%20nuanced.

  10. If Mexico City runs dry, maybe this will be the catastrophic event that finally prompts world leaders to act decisively about climate change.

  11. If they are not fucked this year then perhaps next year. They need to find a solution and fast. 

  12. Anyone want to chime in with the dumbass opinion that climate change isn’t real?

  14. Terribly designed infrastructre that was poorly maintained. If this goes on then I expect there to be a huge shock to the country.

  15. I’m living in Bogota, Colombia and the city is already rationing water here. No water every 9 days. Climate change/el niño is a bad combo

  16. The president is pretending there isn’t a problem

  17. Welcome to the future, brought to you by a corporation near you.

  19. Solar and desalination plants – pipe the water from the sea, very quickly- like the Australian do

  20. They need to start sacrificing to the rain gods once again. They never had this problem when they did that. Makes you think?
    /s

  21. So “funny”. India’s roasting, Mexico is low on water… here in France we’ve had the coolest, wettest spring.

    How about some actual change on the *causes* of this climate disaster? Why the fuck are companies getting people back into offices not pushing work from home? Why… the list goes on and on and on.

  22. I wonder where the millions and millions of Mexican citizens will go when the city runs out of water?  

  26. This is what happens when your government doesn’t plan

  27. Dystopian timeline here we come. I feel actually sorry for the next generations.

  30. Well that’s terrifying.

    As a related note, what ended up happening in Cape Town? They had a similar issue a few years back but it sort of disappeared from media.

  31. Petition to call Mexico City dune and everyone wears fremen suits

  32. Is nestle PART of the problem? Like are they privatizing a good portion of the water that is meant for the city? Because that’s a huge issue and sign of things to come for the world

  33. I was there all weekend. It rained pretty heavy multiple days. Yesterday it rained fairly well for over 2 hours.

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