Not a drop to drink

• Autores: Sally Adee
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3086, 2016, págs. 16-17
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Adee details why staving off a global water crisis requires a formidable rethink about how to value it. Zika isn't the only thing hanging over the Rio Olympics. The city's water problems are so intractable that swimmers have been told to keep their mouths closed so that they don't ingest sewage. The situation is an important consequence of the shoddy way they all treat their water. Beyond Rio, evidence of their disregard for the wet stuff is all around, and it is starting to bite. Beijing has sucked so much water out of the ground that the city is sinking by 11 centimeters a year. That's positively glacial compared with parts of California's Central Valley, which are dropping by five centimeters per month