The Cutzmala water system, which provides water to millions in Mexico City, is operating at 28% capacity and could run dry in a matter of weeks.
  • Mexico City could run out of drinking water by June 26, an event locals call “Day Zero.”
  • Three years of low rainfall and high temperatures have worsened the city’s water crisis.
  • The Cutzamala water system, which provides water to millions, operates now at 28% capacity.
  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.eeEnglish
    244·
    6 months ago

    I’d have been scrambling to build desalination plants and asking for help from the US.

    Thirsty Thursday will take on a whole new meaning on June 27th.

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.eeEnglish
        254·
        6 months ago

        Maybe instead of powering AI with nuclear power, we power desalination plants and pumping infrastructure.

        All AI will give is recipes made with glue and poop knives.

        Water stops thirsty hordes from breaking down your gates.

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          Oh for sure, I’ve been advocating AI have to cover their own power as if it weren’t subsidized by the government. We could just turn it off and that would be cool with me. I want it to be well known that this was my stance long before the water issues.

            • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
              12·
              6 months ago

              They “foot the bill” capische? The cost goes to them. They pay money equivalent to the true cost of the goods they consume, above the rate at which a regular citizen pays for a good produced under a system of government subsidy and/or control.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
          72·
          6 months ago

          Nuclear power has been declared double plus ungood by Greenpeace so if you try it they will sue you until you give up.

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          8·
          6 months ago

          wut?

          It’s actually pretty high on the list of worst opions, Mexico City has an elevation over 2,000 meters, surrounded by mountains over 3,000 meters tall above sea level. Access to the sun doesn’t make this any more or less of a monumental task, it’s assumed if they had that kind of energy infrastructure then they would already be using it.