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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: elmatador who wrote (138732)1/29/2018 1:00:14 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 217549
 
It's tough not to hear about Cape Town South Africa running out of water due to the "El Niño" weather pattern which also periodically affects California and Australia.

With the reservoirs at 25% capacity the current water ration is 50 liters per person, down from 87, which can be easily used in a ten minute shower! Most homes are not metered so using more than your ration of water is widespread. In southern California those using more than rationed amounts paid huge penalty rates,

When the reservoir levels fall to 14%, which they're calling Day Zero projected by April 14, Cape Town will shut off the water distribution pipeline and distribute even more restricted rations of only 25 liters per day per person at 200 distribution points across the city.

When Auckland New Zealand found themselves in this stupid situation, they resorted to tankering in water from Indonesia. Cape Town is beginning to drill wells to tap aquifers to help extend their water past April 14. The aquifers are limited.

The changing weather patterns will primarily hit the US states of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas far more than California which has access to RO water systems from seawater.

Cape Town residents fill up jugs at a local spring to supplement their water supply


Peculiarly green golf courses in Cape Town.


Cape Town's largest reservoir
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