South Africa water crisis sees taps run dry across Johannesburg

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Add Johannesburgh to Mexico City as another Mega-City with dry taps resorting to trucking in water to keep their >1 Million Homo Sap populations from dying of thirst.

As with MC, the water crisis is blamed not only on climate change but also on supposed bad Goobermint that has failed in its job of keeping its infrastructure in good repair and enforcing rules on water usage to make sure what they have isn't wasted.

While I'm sure it's true these places have less than competent goobermints (what place doesn't?), the fact is these cities are chock full of POOR PEOPLE, and poor people don't provide a whole lot of tax revenue to pay for this maintenance, not to mention the fact that the population size from when these systems were built 50 years ago has doubled in size.

In fact, the increase in population as a factor in the water shortages is barely mentioned, which of course makes sense because the MSM is also busy playing up the horror stories of how awful Depopulation and the global drop in fertility is.  See,capitalists want more consumers and cheap labor, they just haven't figured out how to get them enough water to drink, much less food to eat.

Also no surprise we're seeing these problems arrive first in the poorest countries and cities first, which is a big part of the reason the Deniers of Collapse tend to reside in the richest countries and richest enclaves of the richest cities.  Their taps are just gushing water, so what's the problem? 3rd Worlders always had blackouts and water shortages, right?

Well, climate change isn't going away,and as long as we have refugees migrating here and setting up tents in Sanctuary Cities, they're going to start running short of water too.  Even if you don't build them places to live, they still need to drink water, shower and flush toilets.  Just don't tax any corporations for money to build the infrastructure.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-africa-water-crisis-johannesburg-taps-run-dry/

South Africa water crisis sees taps run dry across Johannesburg

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[K-Dog]

The high levels of unemployment, at over 25%, and inequality are considered by the government and most South Africans to be the most salient economic problems facing the country.

The country is half homeless camp and it seems determined to stay that way.

South Africa is a case study in how things will not be fixed by head chopping the billionaires.  South Africa is one place behind the State of Palestine in (happiness ratings).  Eliminating inequality and fundamental change is the 'only way', but people will say 'no way'.  The common preference is to head chop and take the place of the elite becoming the new elite.

Unequal societies are unhappy societies.

It has to do with being a social animal.  But as this is a fact that can be empirically proved, you really do not need a reason to know that inequality breeds unhappiness.