Cape Towm could be first major city to run out of water.

[Thomkal]

Hit bad by drought, Cape Town may have as little as 90 days left in its reservoirs.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/01/19/cape-town-could-first-major-city-run-out-water/1047237001/

[Qwikshot]

Paging Mad Max

[Kodos]

We don't need another hero!

[AlexB]

I was there in November: the limitations were both harsh and, as far as I could tell, pretty much entirely voluntary.

Now they’re talking about penalising people for using more than 50 litres a day, which is three toilet flushes apparently, or about three minutes in a shower.

How they work out/punish people I’m not sure, but that is a severe water restriction in a major developed city.

It doesn’t register what could happen in April if it doesn’t rain. A lot.

[Warhammer]

I have never understood (and I am in the industry) why more coastal cities to not build large desalinization plants.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I have never understood (and I am in the industry) why more coastal cities to not build large desalinization plants.

$, best I can tell.

Both up front in building the planets AND on the back end to get the water from them. (apparently it requires a significant amount of energy to produce potable water that way, 10x to 20x the cost of something like river water)

[JPhillips]

Eventually growing populations and changes in weather patterns will result in a city without water. And when that happens, they'll be totally unprepared and all sorts of people will assure us that, "nobody could have predicted."

Hopefully that time isn't April.