Quote:
Originally Posted by timun
Lolwut? Los Angeles and Phoenix have HUGE problems with their water supplies. The effects of diverting water to these cities has been characterized as one of the world's worst man-made ecological disasters. They already have significant drought problems, they're ****ed.
New York City mostly gets its water from the Delaware River watershed >100 miles northwest, and has been reliably been replenished with rainwater and snow melt. Ours is the Bow and Elbow valleys, and it's not being reliably replenished.
|
I suppose I should have phrased it as 'have continued to find ways to provide' water for their huge populations. It would be interesting to know more about the financial costs involved (let alone ecological costs), and whether they are really being paid by residents - evidently not as it has not been a factor in stemming population growth.
Which isn't to say it isn't something we should be working on, but my point is that it will be hard to view it locally as a 'crisis'. It will be an uphill battle in terms of individual behaviour when you can look at any number of bigger cities in the world with more difficult situations who haven't really had to turn off the taps...