As of Sunday afternoon, the dreaded “day zero” – the day residents of the city of Cape Town, South Africa, will need to begin queuing for drinking water after supplies sink below the threshold of sustainability – was estimated to be Nov. 11, 2018.
The shortage is the result of South Africa’s worst drought in 100 years…
And with city government efforts to secure alternative water supplies progressing slowly, Cape Town (pop. 440,000) is on track to become the first major world city to run out of water.
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rssMt Everest Glaciers Shrink 14% In 50 Yrs: Study
Researchers have found that glaciers on Mt. Everest in the Himalayas, the world’s highest peak, have shrunk by about 14 percent in the past 50 years in what they suspect is the effect of climate change.
The pace at which the glaciers have been decreasing in recent years is nearly six times that of the average between 1958 and 1975, according to recent research led by Sudeep Thakuri of Italy’s University of Milan.
Members of the research team are warning that the decline in glaciers and snow will likely pose a major impact on Asia’s water resources and agriculture.
“The Himalayan glaciers and ice caps are considered a water tower for Asia since they store and supply water downstream during the dry season,” Thakuri said in a press release. (more…)
25 Shocking Facts About The Water Resources ,Read Point Number 11 & Think About it
War, famine, mass extinctions and devastating plagues – all of these are coming unless some kind of miraculous solution is found to the world’s rapidly growing water crisis. By the year 2030, the global demand for water will exceed the global supply of water by an astounding 40 percent according to one very disturbing U.S. government report. As you read this article, lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers are steadily drying up all over the planet. The lack of global water could potentially be enough to bring about a worldwide economic collapse all by itself if nothing is done because no society can function without water. Just try to live a single day without using any water some time. You will quickly realize how difficult it is. Fresh water is the single most important natural resource on the planet, and we are very rapidly running out of it. The following are 25 shocking facts about the Earth’s dwindling water resources that everyone should know…
#1 Right now, 1.6 billion people live in areas of the world that are facing “absolute water scarcity“.
#2 Global water use has quadrupled over the past 100 years and continues to rise rapidly.
#3 One recent study found that a third of all global corn crops are facing “water stress“.
#4 A child dies from a water-related disease every 15 seconds.
#5 By 2025, two-thirds of the population of Earth will “be living under water stressed conditions“.
#6 Due to a lack of water, Chinese food imports now require more land than the entire state of California. (more…)