It’s the opposite here (Denmark), we have clean drinking water in the entire country, but I’ve been hearing about efforts to reduce water consumption and preserving the natural resources for instance regulating agriculture as far back as I can remember, which is back to the 70’s.
Our governments have been on top of this all the way through (mostly the left), and water is very cheap, so we have a tax on water to prevent people from using it mindlessly.
That’s very hard to make a short response to. I like it here, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
I find myself privileged to live here, although other places can have advantages in better climate, cheaper high quality food, and warmer personalities.
But here people are more “real” than most places, we don’t do fake praising or other fake behavior as much as most cultures. I like that, but for foreigners it can be difficult.
My city is running out of water as well. Their bright idea was just to give it away for free to Big Industry. Also water bills are going up. So that’s fun.
There’s many cities like this. I remember reading about Mexico City being on a similar path. Ground water keeps sinking rapidly so they keep digging until some day they won’t be able to and it’s all fucked.
The aquifer has been totally drained by wildcat wells since there is almost zero access to running water in Jakarta. The draining of the aquifer has resulted in the rapid sinking of the city
I believe I read about that in Chinese cities as well, maybe Shanghai?
The water takes up space in the soils and when it’s pumped out, the soil settles and can never be refilled with water again. Sorta feels like another way humans are going to need to engineer out existence in even bigger ways.
10 years ago I met a hydrologist from Tehran. He told me aquifer depletion was a looming disaster then, and the government wouldn’t face it.
Hardly unique to Tehran. Utah is facing the same crisis right now. Their answer has been to privatize harder.
It’s the opposite here (Denmark), we have clean drinking water in the entire country, but I’ve been hearing about efforts to reduce water consumption and preserving the natural resources for instance regulating agriculture as far back as I can remember, which is back to the 70’s.
Our governments have been on top of this all the way through (mostly the left), and water is very cheap, so we have a tax on water to prevent people from using it mindlessly.
As a great grand child of a danish immigrant, I rather curse my ancestors for leaving.
What’s it like living there? I’ve always wanted to become a citizen there. Love Danish music, people, culture, history, and danish danish
That’s very hard to make a short response to. I like it here, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
I find myself privileged to live here, although other places can have advantages in better climate, cheaper high quality food, and warmer personalities.
But here people are more “real” than most places, we don’t do fake praising or other fake behavior as much as most cultures. I like that, but for foreigners it can be difficult.
As a non-Danish, I’d love to know more about what you love about Denmark.
I have only fragments of knowledge about its medieval history, and in music, I know only of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.
My city is running out of water as well. Their bright idea was just to give it away for free to Big Industry. Also water bills are going up. So that’s fun.
Mormons are insane.
Most Christian groups are, but yes…Mormons are extra insane.
Religion is just a part of it.
Ranchers, golfers, and data centers are at the heart of this thing. Plenty of these guys are fully secularized
Turn it off!
There’s many cities like this. I remember reading about Mexico City being on a similar path. Ground water keeps sinking rapidly so they keep digging until some day they won’t be able to and it’s all fucked.
Jakarta is quite literally sinking into the sea. The government’s solution was to move the capital to a new island
I don’t think that’s related to water use though, is it? Isn’t it just a weight of the city thing?
Edit: I was wrong, thanks for the corrections!
The aquifer has been totally drained by wildcat wells since there is almost zero access to running water in Jakarta. The draining of the aquifer has resulted in the rapid sinking of the city
With a number of cities, it’s because they pump out the water below the city aquifer. The more they pump out, the lower they sink.
I believe I read about that in Chinese cities as well, maybe Shanghai?
The water takes up space in the soils and when it’s pumped out, the soil settles and can never be refilled with water again. Sorta feels like another way humans are going to need to engineer out existence in even bigger ways.
Same for mexico city.