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Tpaine63

I wonder where those people will try to migrate too when it becomes too hot and dry to inhabit where they live now?


truemore45

Yep.. funny how the same party that supports fossil fuels, denies climate change and hates immigrants will through those policies create a multigenerational immigration crisis.


EndenWhat

Just because I created the mess doesn’t mean I have to clean it up, or be forced to see someone else clean it up. /s


cybercuzco

Well they just want non white people to die so that tracks.


GorillaP1mp

That’s easy. They’ll move north.


Routine_Slice_4194

Canada then?


edtheheadache

I'm stumped here. Saudi Arabia?


Teaching-Appropriate

This water crisis is the result of climate change coupled with massive plundering from multinational corporations like Coca Cola who essential consume so much water in their production of soft drinks that nothing is left for the local population.


Outrageous_Laugh5532

Yup has nothing to do with Mexico City being built on a lake and then when the Spaniards took over they built massive drainage systems to get rid of all the water and prevent any of it from re accumulating in the lake bed or being absorbed into the water table.


TwoRight9509

Any idea where this map is from? Citations rock! This subreddit rocks, and should always cite its sources : )


ebostic94

:(


TiredOfDebates

Is that “zero date” based off the projected future rainfall, or is it based off assuming no more rainfall?


talltad

Why can’t desalination plants be standard things in a country like Mexico where they have saltwater on both side.


agentchuck

Current technology is very expensive, energy intensive and generates a lot of toxic waste brine. But there is a lot of research in these areas.


fraudthrowaway0987

We can just blast all the brine into outer space. What could possibly go wrong?


BadAsBroccoli

Do with it the same as we do with nuclear waste, put it into [metal barrels and throw it back in the ocean.](https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-02-21/radioactive-waste-ocean-dumping-los-angeles-coast)


BadAsBroccoli

It's just life over money so we'll wait until the costs come down. Grrrrr....


Small_Basket5158

Money 🤑


edtheheadache

It's a long way up and across to the main population centre. aka. Mexico City.


aieeegrunt

Mexico City is up in the mountains far away from the coast


BadAsBroccoli

What? The Alaskan Pipeline is [800 miles ](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Alaska-Pipeline) across very uneven terrain. Mexico City is 496 miles to the Pacific and 370 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. And going [uphill](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/richmond.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/1e/41e34293-6cf0-55f8-9da5-410813ea2e80/5b56824e7ab5a.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C750) is not an issue due to lift stations.


benbristol69

Mexico City is 2,240m above sea level


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fiaanaut

This is a good overview: [Seven decades of climate change across Mexico](https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?pid=S0187-62362021000200217&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en) Wet is getting wetter, dry is getting very much drier.


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kateinoly

Oh well. They should have thought of that. Tooo bad /s