Health risk alarm over water rationing in Rome

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This is something as preppers we should be prepared for regardless where we live

"The Lazio region has said that emergency measures to battle the prolonged dry spell could lead to staggered water supply shutdowns in neighbourhoods in the capital for eight hours daily, starting from this weekend."

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/36510683/health-risk-alarm-over-water-rationing-in-rome/#page1
I'm afraid we are going to be seeing more temperature extremes in the future. I'm tired of all the debates wether it caused by man or just natural cycles, but the fact is things are changing. I still try to urge people to get out of areas that are prone to water supply problems. It's the number one thing we all require.
 
...but,but,but...it can't happen here in the west...or can it???

Nature changes things every few hundred years, look at the medieval warming period (950~1250, 300 hundred years) for each warming period it tends to be a tad warmer that later become the mini ice age (not really an ice age but damn cold for a long period of time) Also look at the cold periods of 1650, 1770 with the last one in 1850 all three years followed a warming period, we are 167 years into the warming period and haven't peaked yet so maybe we got another 100-200 years of warming before we begin to cool.
 
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Droughts aren't only caused by rising temperatures, they are a result of changing rain patterns because of influences such as la Nina, or El Nino, or dropping temperatures on other parts of Europe.
Rome's problem is the result of a prolonged dry spell and the decision to stop drawing water from Lake Bracciano, which the water company said is unnecessary.
Turning off and on the mains is a problem in itself.
If they decide to shut down the mains, you will probably see an increase in main breaks.
 
In ancient times people built large population centers on rivers. Now the "enlightened " modern man builds them in the desert. And then complains when there isn't enough water. :rolleyes:

Tell me...why is it that some of the parts of this country that have the most abundant natural resources (including abundant water and fertile soil) have very low population densities? And some places that have practically zero natural resources have very high population densities?

Don't tell me humanity has "progressed" in the last few centuries - it just makes more complicated gadgets.
 
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In ancient times people built large population centers on rivers. Now the "enlightened " modern man builds them in the desert. And then complains when there isn't enough water. :rolleyes:

Tell me...why is it that some of the parts of this country that have the most abundant natural resources (including abundant water and fertile soil) have very low population densities? And some places that have practically zero natural resources have very high population densities?

Don't tell me humanity has "progressed" in the last few centuries - it just makes more complicated gadgets.
Let's keep it that way. I don't want to see any mass migration out my way. Just look what mass migration from California did to Oregon and Washington.
 
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Let's keep it that way. I don't want to see any mass migration out my way. Just look what mass migration from California did to Oregon and Washington.

Yep, since 1992 things really started to decline though through the 80s (1985) is when the migration started but obscured, 1985 was the last time a Republican governor held office. Oregon was similar to Washington's time frame, last Republican to hold governors office in Oregon was 1987 I think. 1992 onward things gone to shit.
 
Yep, since 1992 things really started to decline though through the 80s (1985) is when the migration started but obscured, 1985 was the last time a Republican governor held office. Oregon was similar to Washington's time frame, last Republican to hold governors office in Oregon was 1987 I think. 1992 onward things gone to shit.
Remember the California scheme (scam) of piping water from the Columbia River to southern California? Maybe if California would deport their millions of wetbacks they'd have enough water.
 
Remember the California scheme (scam) of piping water from the Columbia River to southern California? Maybe if California would deport their millions of wetbacks they'd have enough water.

Ya they tried, that pissed a lot of people off here especially the farmers, now they have wind farms in Oregon and Washington that don't really help these two states, the power is sent to California, in the process littering pristine land with windmills :(

"Much of the electricity generated by wind farms in Eastern Washington and Oregon will be consumed far from the wheat fields of the Columbia Plateau. By the end of 2010, the BPA projects that 47 percent of the wind generation capacity connected to its grid will be under contract to California utilities."

http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/10/washingtons-wind-power-windfall-the-harnessing-of/
 

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