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2024-05-08 Africa Subsaharan

Bombs Shrapnel By Boko Haram, Decomposing Dead Bodies Have Polluted Our Drinking Water — Borno State Government

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Posted by Fred 2024-05-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [108 views ] Top
File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)

#1 Third World Problems
One of the reasons we invented civilization was so we would not have decomposing corpses, human or otherwise, in our water supply.

In one of those amusing bits of synchronicity our universe is famous for, NPR ran a long piece yesterday on how Mexico City is out of water.

The report went into some detail about how back in the Aztec days, when the city was known as Tenochtitlan, it was an island city surrounded by water (and probably malaria, but let's not go there). With lots of canals and channels to supply the city, it all sounded quite green and lovely.

Then the Spaniards, bastards that they are, showed in the 1500s and drained the land to make the place more European. Cut to the present day when the city is not just running low but flat out rationing water. In some areas, water is only available for a few hours a day. Cue a plaintive interview with a woman about undrinkable, muddy tap water and we are out.

Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, in case you were wondering.

Posted by SteveS 2024-05-08 10:00|| 2024-05-08 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Decomposing Dead Bodies Have Polluted Our Drinking Water

They need more dogs.

As cholera cases rise worldwide, health officials sound 'concerning' alarm about vaccine shortages

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-08 10:24|| 2024-05-08 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 SteveS: look at the population change since even the late 1800's. Self-culling appears to be in the cards.

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-08 10:33|| 2024-05-08 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 back in the Aztec days, when the city was known as Tenochtitlan, it was an island city surrounded by water

I suspect the current population is at least several orders of magnitude greater than it was in those halcyon days, SteveS, with a concomitant greater need for water.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-05-08 10:40|| 2024-05-08 10:40|| Front Page Top

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