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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 16:57:27 GMT -5
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Post by Lommaren on Jan 27, 2018 17:21:51 GMT -5
Cape Town seems like a classic case of lack of planning for fast population growth. Water desalination is quite a must in quasi semi-arid areas with poor groundwater, but nothing works anymore in South Africa so little wonder no plant has been built there. They should be able to get water from the wetter eastern part of the country and ship it in water tanks there like Spain solves things.
As for Paris, seems a bit odd. Has there been very localised rain there lately? I associate winter flooding with the United Kingdom but not Seine...
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Post by lab276 on Jan 28, 2018 2:06:57 GMT -5
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Post by jgtheone on Jan 28, 2018 2:19:47 GMT -5
We've got the desal plant now too, just in case things go south.
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Post by rozenn on Jan 28, 2018 6:52:07 GMT -5
As for Paris, seems a bit odd. Has there been very localised rain there lately? I associate winter flooding with the United Kingdom but not Seine... Very localized rain does practically nothing on the Seine, it needs a consistent pattern of oceanic lows to burst its banks. Flooding is more common in winter I'd say, even though the river was a tad higher in June 2016 than now. FWIW we've had more than 200 mm since the beginning of winter. With the constantly high RH and cloudy skies, soils get waterlogged. Got 26 rainy days over the past month and are have had 13 consecutive days with rain as of yesterday. The streak might end today, or might not. Places further up on the Seine drainage basin have generally seen more rain than Paris itself. For example Langres got 127 mm in December and 226 mm in January so far. |
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