Atlanta = Almost Out of Water
November 1, 2007 at 9:04 am
Atlanta has about 100 days of water left in its main reservoir.
This is what the apocalypse looks like.
What does this mean? It means that Atlanta’s poor and middle classes will need to begin water rationing while the wealthy classes can continue wasting water with impunity.
Awesome.
James Russell said,
Actually, I’ll tell you what the apocalypse really looks like: when you’re living in a country (i.e. Australia) which is almost 100% in drought, where extreme water restrictions (dictating, among other things, the days—and, moreover, the precise hours during those days—on which you can water your lawn to try and make it turn a less unattractive shade of brown while prolonging its death agony) are in place, where those extreme water restrictions will apparently remain permanently in place even though the situation they apply to has passed (i.e. just because water levels in the dams are back up and things aren’t as bad as they were doesn’t mean we can actually start using water again), and where a 60-something man can get physically attacked (dying of a heart attack following the assault) after someone picked on him for being presumptuous enough to water his lawn on a day when he was legally entitled to do so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7072917.stm
This, alas, is not the last story of this sort we will see.