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| India-Pakistan |
| Parched for a price: Karachi's water crisis |
| 2018-01-21 |
[aljazeera] Residents of Karachi, one of the largest cities in the world, are being held hostage by a ‘mafia’ that makes millions of dollars out of their need for water. Orangi is a maze, a spider’s web of narrow, winding lanes, broken roads and endless rows of small concrete houses. More than two million people are crammed into what is one of the world’s largest unplanned settlements here in western Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 In Pakistan, Allah works wonders: His herd of Mohammedans thunders! So, why's it not watered Or properly quartered? Mere infidel engineers' blunders. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-01-21 14:45 |
| #7 It is a yuuuuuuge polluted city. Hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage flows out of the harbor every day. Even some shipping companies do dot allow their ships at the port. These monster cities are living on borrowed time. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-01-21 14:36 |
| #6 Can a Desert Nation Solve the World's Water Shortage? - YouTube |
| Posted by: G. Thrick7535 2018-01-21 13:34 |
| #5 the megacity of more than 20 million I think I see the problem here |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-21 13:10 |
| #4 Is this SoCals future. Or Arizona's. The world needs cheap desalination. And it needs the power to run it. I keep hoping for a breakthrough in fusion. But I don't have too many fusion is thirty years away left. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2018-01-21 10:41 |
| #3 The could drink Sen. Cory "T-Bone" Booker's "tears of rage." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-01-21 09:36 |
| #2 Not a shithole, eh? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-21 02:22 |
| #1 UGH. Why can't people just do their jobs? |
| Posted by: newc 2018-01-21 01:26 |