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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (873744)7/19/2015 2:59:19 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1578527
 
“The drought here has not received as much attention as the one in California and other Western states. But the dry weather, which meteorologists say is caused by the Pacific warming pattern known as El Niño, has spread across much of the Caribbean, affecting countries like Cuba and the Dominican Republican as well as crops and livestock. In Puerto Rico, some reservoirs have come within 30 days of running out of water.”

What's disturbing about the Caribbean drought............San Juan averages 57" of rain per year....not the paltry 14" of LA or the 20" of SF. And strangely enough, they are in their rainy season right now:

en.wikipedia.org

For 160,000 residents and businesses on the island, water is turned off for 48 hours and then back on for 24 hours, sending people into a frenzy of water collection. Another 185,000 are going without water in 24-hour cycles, and 10,000 are on a 12-hour rationing plan.

PR has got to be one of the worst managed places in the Americas.
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