to think this is how future wars will start?

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I have just been reading on Twitter that with current consumption Cape Town is set to run dry of water on 21/04.
Residents are currently limited to 87L each but more than 60% are using more that the restricted amount so as of 01/02 the new limit will be 50l.

Does anyone else think this will be the kind of stuff the new wars are fought over? Literally battles to exist because of a lack of water. Sanitation we be out the window, the stench will be horrendous, riots will take over and people will die of disease and dehydration.

How have we fucked this planet is so badly?

beta.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-south-africa-water-crisis-20180119-story.html

SOrry to bounce my own thread but I’m growing more and more horrified by this as the days go by.

Day Zero for Cape Town is now expected to be 11/04.

Yep.

Environmental issues will cause massive global issues- war, immigration, famine etc

Just seeing on the Twitter Moment that a man in a suburb went in and bought every bottle of water on the shelves of a supermarket and when a woman asked if she could have one he said “no they are mine”.

This is terrifying.

My secondary school geography teacher circa 1994 predicted that the next world war will be fought over water resources.

Water and food I think.

The current waves of migration to Europe will be nothing compared to what happens next, I suspect.

Tap Lake Victoria ?

Waters a bit of a nuisance, and tends to be in all the wrong places.

I vaguely recall Loch Ness holds more freshwater than all the other lakes in the UK combined. Shame it's not inside the M25.

(Cynically, there are an awful lot of people who have a vested interest in keeping water, food and other basic human needs scarce)

It would be both easier and cheaper to just build proper irrigation/water capture/desalination systems. Go catastrophise about something less ridiculous.

This is why fracking is such an issue.

Eggs, what exactly happens whilst people wait for that to be built and there’s no water supply?

It would be both easier and cheaper to just build proper irrigation/water capture/desalination systems.

True.

So why isn't it being done ?

Go catastrophise about something less ridiculous.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooo !

Water rights already cause a lot of global conflict, and it's only growing - www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-a-lack-of-water-cause-wars/

Do you mean 11th April this year?

Someone mentioned this to me last weekend but I hadn’t heard this news story. I watch the news every day and read online. It’s disappointing it’s not a bigger news story.

I was reading about this last night. It seems so...unreal that a major city can simply run out of water.

Spring - yes this year.

unreal that a major city can simply run out of water.

London had standpipes in 1976.

But they've had warnings since 2004 and rejected the idea of desalination plants as too costly.

Resource wars will break out due to overcrowding and overpopulation.

Polite society is only a thin veneer, it won’t take much to bring out our animal survival instincts. Think of the Black Friday frenzy over cheap TV’s.......if people fight over a TV, what will they do when the food runs out!

A friend of mine who is an ex US marine had the following advice for anyone who wants to live beyond about 2025 (he was being tongue in cheek, but you know many a true word and all that):

Buy a plot of land
Learn how to cultivate vegetables
Buy a gun

Buy a plot of land yep
Learn how to cultivate vegetables yep
Buy a gun yep

Start to stockpile food water and fuel. This is no joke by the time you realize you need this stuff, it’s already too late and you will be dead soon.

A friend of mine who is an ex US marine had the following advice for anyone who wants to live beyond about 2025 (he was being tongue in cheek, but you know many a true word and all that):

Buy a plot of land
Learn how to cultivate vegetables
Buy a gun

I take it they weren't an officer ?

Personally, just get a gun. Then you can get all the land, food and labour you need.

(Bearing in mind guns are only of use as long as you have ammunition. If the balloon really went up, who's going to be making that ? Although the resultant attempts of people who didn't pay attention in science to make gunpowder would have a population-thinning effect ).

There was a serious plan to tow icebergs to Africa to provide fresh water. I think it was shelved after people objected to the view from their beach houses being spoiled .

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-10-16-capewatergate-could-towing-an-iceberg-to-cape-town-help-solve-future-water-problems/

Bear in mind quite a few people reading this now were born long after we put a man on the moon.

(Bearing in mind guns are only of use as long as you have ammunition. If the balloon really went up, who's going to be making that ? Although the resultant attempts of people who didn't pay attention in science to make gunpowder would have a population-thinning effect

Not a funny thread (quite terrifying in fact) but this did make me chuckle

Somebody has been reading too many post-apoc novels, hey?