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It's been a slow-motion crisis, exacerbated by three factors conspiring together:

The worst drought in over a century, which has pushed Cape Town's water scarcity into a potentially deadly horizon Its population, which is 4 million and growing quickly A rapidly changing climate


Reason number two is the key issue here. Africans are leaving the sh!t hole that is most of Africa and fleeing north to Europe or south the the relatively modern city of Cape Town. Cape Town has been through droughts before just not with 4 million residents.

1 posted on 01/25/2018 6:20:05 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Mandela has created quite the Utopia down there, hasn’t he?


2 posted on 01/25/2018 6:22:19 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Get ready for another influx of thirsty “refugees” from Africa. When your world goes to sh*t, don’t bother trying to fix it. Run to America.


3 posted on 01/25/2018 6:26:18 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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Perhaps some day someone in charge there will notice that Cape Town (hint: the name!) is right on the ocean? Which has lots of water.


5 posted on 01/25/2018 6:28:56 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: artichokegrower

Quick, send Conan!


13 posted on 01/25/2018 6:44:35 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: artichokegrower
Get ready for communitites of Thunderdomes:


14 posted on 01/25/2018 6:51:16 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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“”Africans are leaving the sh!t hole that is most of Africa and fleeing north to Europe or south the the relatively modern city of Cape Town.””

And taking the water with them? This is ABOUT Cape Town so they aren’t fleeing TO Cape Town.


16 posted on 01/25/2018 6:56:18 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: artichokegrower

The article didn’t mention one very significant factor contributing to the water shortage. Bulk provision of water is the responsibility of National Govt. Local govt cleans and distributes.

Politics plays a large role here. The Western Cape is the only province which is not governed by the ANC and we constantly deal with attempts to undermine local govt. Too much water was allocated by National Govt to agriculture and not enough to urban/suburban areas.


17 posted on 01/25/2018 7:16:39 AM PST by Diapason
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Merkel will take a few million Cape Towners so that she can finish off Germany.


18 posted on 01/25/2018 7:20:18 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: artichokegrower

Used to be one of the strongest economies on the African continent, turned upside down after the terrorist Mandela and his thugs stole the country.


19 posted on 01/25/2018 7:22:18 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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and, of course, no planning with one of these:

http://www.water-technology.net/projects/carlsbaddesalination


26 posted on 01/25/2018 8:39:18 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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Obviusly its dem mofo crackas fault! Ford Pickup truck, deer huntin’ mofos.


27 posted on 01/25/2018 9:17:16 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (God Bless Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Thank You!)
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