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Re:Mexico City may be just months away from running out of w... by palm-tree on Sunday February 25, 2024 @08:19AM (#39500574)
"Years of abnormally low rainfall" - at what point does "abnormal" become normal?
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Re:Mexico City may be just months away from running out of w... by Waterluvian on Sunday February 25, 2024 @09:14AM (#39500988)
So long as a settlement’s reason for its location has shifted drastically, never.
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Re:Mexico City may be just months away from running out of w... by thaumasiotes on Sunday February 25, 2024 @08:27AM (#39500664)
Never. That might make it sound less like an emergency.

For example, one of the first things you'll read in the wikipedia article on "Drought" is this:

> The longest drought in recorded history started 400 years ago in the Atacama Desert in Chile and still continues.

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