As a water crisis looms in Cape Town, could it happen in Canada?
February 19, 2018 by John Pomeroy, The Conversation
The city of Cape Town, South Africa is under extreme water rationing and heading towards complete depletion of its municipal water supply. When Day Zero —the day the tap runs dry —arrives, it will be the first major city in the world to run out of water.
Though drought has ravaged much of the world in recent decades and severe drought continues over large swaths of Africa, to see a large, developed city run out of water raises questions for us all: Could this happen in Canada? If so, how might we prevent it?
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https://phys.org/news/2018-02-crisis-looms-cape-town-canada.html#jCp
