Thread by @GodlessNZ

(1) A city of 3.7 million people, in a supposedly 1st world country, will literally run out of water within weeks.

It's not a case of may, might or would. Itt will. Climate change isn't the problem. Socialism is.

The MSM is playing it down:
nationalgeographic.com/travel/destina…

(2) How well do you think it's going to work having 3.7 million people collect their daily water ration from just 200 public taps?

That's 18,500 people PER TAP.

Having armed guards won't make the sites safe or operational.

(3) If you thought conditions in Puerto Rico immediately after Hurricane Maria were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. There will be riots and deaths. The military will be belatedly deployed but won't be able to cope with the scale of the crisis.

(4) Along with the violence, there will be deaths and illness caused not only by dehydration but by food and water born illness, and the inability to maintain hygiene. Cholera and more is in Cape Town's short term future. South Africa used to be a country that gave aid to others.

(5) My recommendation is for residents to leave Cape Town for the duration of the crisis, no matter the cost or inconvenience. You can always find a new job.

And certainly don't travel there as a tourist. The city's chance to stay open for tourism was missed.

(6) The Cape Town city council has known since the 1990s that this water crisis was inevitable if they didn't make major infrastructure changes while limiting population growth through housing law changes. In 2015 the problem became very clear.

(7) If Cape Town had been run by a competent free market friendly city council in 2015 and since, the best civil emergency planning would have resulted in a city far better prepared for the inevitable.

But these socialist clowns instead just blamed the national government.

(8) Of course, the socialist national South African government blamed the socialist Cape Town city council.

Neither body took sufficient action to soften the blow of the looming water shortage, which they blame on fossil fuel use causing climate change.

(9) I know for a fact that the Left will raise the issue of race (instead of economics, corruption and government competence). Unfortunately, the extreme Right will also raise the issue of race & I don't disagree with the facts. However, it doesn't help solve the crisis now.

(10) I don't care what color a given Cape Town resident is, they are all going to need adequate water to stay alive and stay healthy. Like in a lot of countries, socialists were able to use race issues to take power & keep it indefinitely. South Africa must become a 2 party state

(11) One more thing. I don't "deny climate change," I oppose the global communism policies that arose from the politicization of science. Even if we could be fairly sure fossil fuel use contributed to this natural phenomenon (and we can't)...

(12) No one can say with adequate certainty how much fossil fuel use has what level of effect or how much reduction would work. We don't make other far reaching decisions based on such uncertainty, so destroying the economy & security of each of our countries' economies is stupid

(13) The water reservoirs near Cape Town would be adequate right now if the city's population hadn't virtually doubled in the last 20 years.

A government has the right, indeed the duty,, to pass laws that prevent that, such as limiting new homebuilds & the number using a home.

(14) Which brings me back to capitalism vs communism.

A free, independent, sovereign state supports the welfare of its people by doing its job in response to free and fair elections.

Open borders & EU style multilateralism prevent that.

(15) Socialist-globalists the world over are screeching about Trump keeping the free and fair trade promises he made in 2016.

He is simply doing what #WeThePeople hired him to do. He won't let an event like the Cape Town water crisis happen in America. No chance.

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(16) ADDENDUM: Surprisingly, the residents of Cape Town have reduced their water use enough to delay "Day Zero" when the city's water supply will be cut off. Provided they stay ahead of the game, they will get a reprieve for 12 more months.

capetown.gov.za/Media-and-news…

(17) This really isn't great news for Cape Town. The long term water shortage will continue to weaken the economy (agriculture, tourism etc), and huge resources and effort have been & still are needed to maintain water conservation efforts.

Details: capetown.gov.za/Media-and-news…

(18) While an extra 12 months (fingers crossed) provides more time to prevent civil unrest, injuries, illness, and death, is there the will and ability in South Africa to ensure safety when Cape Town's Day Zero eventually comes? I'm not confident.

(19) They need to reduce the population of Cape Town by encouraging & assisting those who want to relocate elsewhere in South Africa, while investing in more water supply & continuing to conserve water. But mass internal migration isn't PC.

(20) Anyway, now that I have your attention about the risk to public health and safety that a water crisis brings, here are details about the 11 other major world cities that also need to lift their game, fast, incl Miami and London: bbc.com/news/world-429…

(21) The above story's list of 11 cities most at risk of a drinking water crisis:
1. Sao Paolo, Brazil
2. Bangalore, India
3. Beijing, China
4. Cairo, Egypt
5. Jakarta, Indonesia
6. Moscow, Russia
7. Istanbul, Turkey
8. Mexico City, MX
9. London
10. Tokyo
11. Miami

(22) Yes, each city & country is responsible for fixing its own water crises. However, it is wise to consider the impact on one's own country of major crises among our trading partners & places of geostrategic importance to us.

(23) I also want to note that water pollution and scarcity doesn't need to be related to naturally-occurring climate change for it to be a legitimate threat that we must take action to address. In most cases it isn't related at all.