For the anecdote, and to pile on the testimonies saying it’s aldo happening in their corner of the world :
we’re also running out of water in Mayotte (Mozambique Channel). They’re building a new desalination plant right now, but the impact studies say it’s likely going to kill the nearby mangrove and coral reef (which is already rapidly shrinking). Rainy season has been diminishing for the past decade and the island is overpopulated with refugees from Comoros, which is essentially a dictatorship. They live in slums which the french government regularly razes, when cyclones don’t take care of it. Desalination is a good solution all in all, but it requires ungodly amounts of power, which we generate… with a petrol generator. Because of fucking course we do
For the anecdote, and to pile on the testimonies saying it’s aldo happening in their corner of the world :
we’re also running out of water in Mayotte (Mozambique Channel). They’re building a new desalination plant right now, but the impact studies say it’s likely going to kill the nearby mangrove and coral reef (which is already rapidly shrinking). Rainy season has been diminishing for the past decade and the island is overpopulated with refugees from Comoros, which is essentially a dictatorship. They live in slums which the french government regularly razes, when cyclones don’t take care of it. Desalination is a good solution all in all, but it requires ungodly amounts of power, which we generate… with a petrol generator. Because of fucking course we do