Thirsty Yet? Eight Cities That Are Improbably Running out of Water
Earlier this year, an obscure United Nations document, the World Water Development Report, unexpectedly made headlines around the world. The report made the startling claim that the world would face a 40 percent shortfall in freshwater in as soon as 15 years. Crops would fail. Businesses dependent on water would fail. Illness would spread. A financial crash was likely, as was deepening poverty for those just getting by.
The U.N. also concluded that the forces destroying the world’s freshwater supply were not strictly meteorological, but largely the result of human activity. That means that with some changes in how water is managed, there is still time—very little, but enough—for children born this year to graduate from high school with the same access to clean water their parents enjoyed."
TOKYO
MIAMI
LONDON
CAIRO
SÃO PAOLO
BEIJING
BANGALORE, India
MEXICO CITY
http://www.takepart.com/feature/2015/06/26/urban-water-crisis
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For example, "...all that rainfall (in Tokyo) is compressed into just four months of the year, in two short seasons of monsoon and typhoon." While average rainfall may be sparse in three winter months (average of 2 inches per month in December, January and February), for the rest of the year monthly averages are 4 inches or more. Hardly the savannah climate the article paints it to be.
http://weather.time-j.net/Climate/ClimateChart/47662
Also, while the article talks about "the 4 rivers that feed into Tokyo", there are actually many more rivers than that in Tokyo, which comprises not only 23 wards or boroughs that make up what everyone thinks of as the city of Tokyo (the eastern third of this map), but also a largely rural area in the western two-thirds of what can be considered to be the state or province of Tokyo (officially called "Tokyo Metropolis"
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Thank God for radiation.
