Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2014 10:15:33 GMT -6
.....and God's Grace is wearing as thin as paper, I'd say.
Sao Paulo, Brazil has a problem. It's a very BIG problem for its 20 million residents. They are almost dry on potable water. They don't have fall back resources to cover them, at least, not for much longer...and predictions are running short term to the point of weeks or months..not years..to a catastrophic loss of water supply for a good % of those involved.
The scary part? This actually MAY be thanks to the idiocy and greed of Man. Unlike every temperature out of exact 'average' range, anywhere on the face of the Planet that Enviro-extremists credit to some vague sense of 'mans impact'? This situation has clear, specific and very obvious actions by man to have caused it.
#1. Problem is "leakage", or the loss of water to leaks, drips, drabs and old joints throughout the entire municipal water system for Sao Paulo. By comparison, San Diego has a leakage rare at or below 5%, the last I looked it up. Tokyo has something around 3%, according to the story. Sao Paulo has THIRTY TO FORTY PERCENT loss to 'leakage'. So 1/3rd to almost 1/2 the water pumped from the source...is lost before reaching a consumer.
#2. Burning down the lungs of our planet was neither smart nor without consequence. Back in ancient times...(1980's)..we saw ticking clocks in public that ticked off the acres lost to clear cutting and burning in South America. Much like the national debt is shown in some places today. That HAS brought terrible consequence...as so many warned it would.
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The piper has arrived..and is demanding his payment. Of course, I say this with the full knowledge that my own nation is only steps ahead of where Brazil is at, and for similar reasons, both local and within the infrastructure as well as 'upwind' for weather patterns.
One of the world's biggest cities is running out of water. Sao Paulo, a city of 20 million people, could run dry within weeks. The humanitarian and economic cost would be immense. The fiasco should be a global wake-up call for other metropolises.
The immediate cause of the crisis is a year-long drought. The Cantareira reservoir system that supplies around a third of the city's population is so low that Sabesp, the local utility, has to dip into and treat sediment-heavy supplies and pipe water in from other sources.
The immediate cause of the crisis is a year-long drought. The Cantareira reservoir system that supplies around a third of the city's population is so low that Sabesp, the local utility, has to dip into and treat sediment-heavy supplies and pipe water in from other sources.
Sao Paulo, Brazil has a problem. It's a very BIG problem for its 20 million residents. They are almost dry on potable water. They don't have fall back resources to cover them, at least, not for much longer...and predictions are running short term to the point of weeks or months..not years..to a catastrophic loss of water supply for a good % of those involved.
The scary part? This actually MAY be thanks to the idiocy and greed of Man. Unlike every temperature out of exact 'average' range, anywhere on the face of the Planet that Enviro-extremists credit to some vague sense of 'mans impact'? This situation has clear, specific and very obvious actions by man to have caused it.
#1. Problem is "leakage", or the loss of water to leaks, drips, drabs and old joints throughout the entire municipal water system for Sao Paulo. By comparison, San Diego has a leakage rare at or below 5%, the last I looked it up. Tokyo has something around 3%, according to the story. Sao Paulo has THIRTY TO FORTY PERCENT loss to 'leakage'. So 1/3rd to almost 1/2 the water pumped from the source...is lost before reaching a consumer.
#2. Burning down the lungs of our planet was neither smart nor without consequence. Back in ancient times...(1980's)..we saw ticking clocks in public that ticked off the acres lost to clear cutting and burning in South America. Much like the national debt is shown in some places today. That HAS brought terrible consequence...as so many warned it would.
Worse, the drought may not be temporary. Some scientists link it to the destruction of the Amazon rain forest thousands of miles away. That would call for more investment in alternative sources - from desalination to water from other river basins.
The piper has arrived..and is demanding his payment. Of course, I say this with the full knowledge that my own nation is only steps ahead of where Brazil is at, and for similar reasons, both local and within the infrastructure as well as 'upwind' for weather patterns.
