Problems with water

[Joz]

Water makes me sick.

 

[no1tovote4]

During my wife's first pregnancy they kept telling her to drink more water and it would solve the swelling problem she had. It wasn't until the last month of pregnancy that they figured out she was swelling because her kidneys weren't working, not because she wasn't drinking enough. She had Pre-Eclampsia but they would not diagnose that because her blood pressure wasn't elevated. It wasn't until after the birth that most of the classic symptoms showed up.

I would suggest drinking cranberry juice, it has much of the benefits of water without the negative aspect, for you at least, of being water.

 

[dmp]

mix gator-aide with water - the flavour may help...or carbonated water (club soda)...

Remember, Pop/Soda is mostly water - it's better to drink soda than nothing.

 

[deaddude]

If it is somthing in the water than adding sulfur to water purifys almost all bacteria, if you are going to go "rough it" for a few days you use sulfur to purify river or lake water for safe driking.

If it is merely the taste of water than sulfur won't help, makes the water taste foul.

 

[GotZoom]

Crystal Light. Their lemonade is pretty good. They even sell the mini packets to mix in the small bottles of water.

Yum.

If you don't want that, how about a lemon? I put lemon in my water and diet soda. Cuts out some of the after taste - not to mention it leaves a fresh, clean feeling.

Ahhhhh......

 

[Joz]

... how about a lemon?....

Funny you should mention that. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll get lemon with my water. I've just got to be more attentive to see if I get as sick when I do that.
I do know lemon added to the water is advisable if you're EXTREMELY hot. The body simulates it better & quicker. Hmmmm.

 

[MtnBiker]

Try bitters and soda with a lime.

I'll bet you have even made of few of those.

 

[waltky]

Cape Town almost outta water...

Dangerously Low on Water, Cape Town Now Faces ‘Day Zero’
JAN. 30, 2018 — It sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. “Day Zero” is coming to Cape Town this April. Everyone, be warned.

The government cautions that the Day Zero threat will surpass anything a major city has faced since World War II or the Sept. 11 attacks. Talks are underway with South Africa’s police because “normal policing will be entirely inadequate.” Residents, their nerves increasingly frayed, speak in whispers of impending chaos. The reason for the alarm is simple: The city’s water supply is dangerously close to running dry. If water levels keep falling, Cape Town will declare Day Zero in less than three months. Taps in homes and businesses will be turned off until the rains come. The city’s four million residents will have to line up for water rations at 200 collection points. The city is bracing for the impact on public health and social order. “When Day Zero comes, they’ll have to call in the army,” said Phaldie Ranqueste, who was filling his white S.U.V. with big containers of water at a natural spring where people waited in a long, anxious line.

It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way for Cape Town. This city is known for its strong environmental policies, including its careful management of water in an increasingly dry corner of the world. But after a three-year drought, considered the worst in over a century, South African officials say Cape Town is now at serious risk of becoming one of the few major cities in the world to lose piped water to homes and most businesses.
Continue reading the main story Hospitals, schools and other vital institutions will still get water, officials say, but the scale of the shut-off will be severe. Cape Town’s problems embody one of the big dangers of climate change: the growing risk of powerful, recurrent droughts. In Africa, a continent particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, those problems serve as a potent warning to other governments, which typically don’t have this city’s resources and have done little to adapt.

For now, political leaders here talk of coming together to “defeat Day Zero.” As water levels in the dams supplying the city continue to drop, the city is scrambling to finish desalination plants and increase groundwater production. Starting in February, residents will face harsher fines if they exceed their new daily limit, which will go down to 50 liters (13.2 gallons) a day per person from 87 liters now. Just a couple of years ago, the situation could not have looked more different here. In 2014, the dams stood full after years of good rain. The following year, C40, a collection of cities focused on climate change worldwide, awarded Cape Town its “adaptation implementation” prize for its management of water. Cape Town was described as one of the world’s top “green” cities, and the Democratic Alliance — the opposition party that has controlled Cape Town since 2006 — took pride in its emphasis on sustainability and the environment. The accolades recognized the city’s success in conserving water. Though the city’s population had swelled by 30 percent since the early 2000s, overall water consumption had remained flat. Many of the new arrivals settled in the city’s poor areas, which consume less water, and actually helped bring down per capita use.

The city’s water conservation measures — fixing leaks and old pipes; installing meters and adjusting tariffs — had a powerful impact. Maybe too powerful. The city conserved so much water that it postponed looking for new sources. For years, Cape Town had been warned that it needed to increase and diversify its water supply. Almost all of its water still comes from six dams dependent on rainfall, a risky situation in an arid region with a changing climate. The dams, which were full only a few years ago, are now down to about 26 percent of capacity, officials say. Cape Town has grown warmer in recent years and a bit drier over the last century, according to Piotr Wolski, a hydrologist at the University of Cape Town who has measured average rainfall from the turn of the 20th century to the present.

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[waltky]

Cape Town is about to run out of water...

A major South African city is about to run out of water, and officials say it will be the worst disaster since 9/11
1 Feb,`18 - Cape Town, a coastal South African city of about 4 million people, is about to run out of fresh water.

After three years of persistent drought, the government is warning that "Day Zero" — when it will be forced to turn off most faucets — will be April 16. That's when reservoirs and water sources are forecast to hit 13.5% capacity, at which point the city is expected to move most residents to a strict water-rationing system. As Cape Town's reservoirs of fresh water get dangerously close to dry, locals are beginning to store water in jugs and fill up at spring-fed taps set up by local breweries. Those who can afford it are boring mini backyard wells to collect private water stashes, and some hotels are investing in pricey desalination plants to make ocean water drinkable.

Take a look at how people are dealing with the looming crisis:

 

[waltky]

Mexico City Keeps Sinking As Its Water Supply Wastes Away...

Mexico City Keeps Sinking As Its Water Supply Wastes Away
September 14, 2018 • "We are depleting volumes of water that took hundreds, thousands of years to store. Sooner or later it will run out," says Mexico City's outgoing water system director.

It's the rainy season now in Mexico. Between May and September, on most late afternoons, thick clouds roll into Mexico City's mountain-ringed valley. The skies darken and then an amazing downpour ensues. Despite the rainfall, for five months of the year, many of the metropolitan area's more than 20 million residents don't have enough water to drink. Nearly all that rainwater runs off the streets and highways into the city's massive drainage system built to stave off perennial flooding. Drinking water increasingly comes from a vast aquifer under the metropolis. And as that water table drops, the city sinks. So why put a capital city more than 7,000 feet above sea level, in a mountain-ringed valley, that fills like a plugged-up bathtub when it rains? "It's a historic mistake the city has had to pay for more than 500 years," says Ramón Aguirre Díaz, who has run Mexico City's municipal water system for more than a decade.

The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral in Zócalo Plaza has had to undergo repeated repairs. It is among the many structures in the Mexican capital that are sinking.​

The ancient Aztecs first picked the spot. They built their city atop the huge lakes that filled this valley, leaving the natural freshwater supply intact around them. The city flooded back then too, but the Aztecs, probably the last civilization to properly manage this watershed, built a system of dikes to control the problem. The "historic mistake" kicked in around the 1600s, when Hernándo Cortés and his band of conquerors arrived. To make room for their expanding empire, over a few hundred years, they slowly but surely drained all the valley's lakes. By the 20th century, long after Mexico's independence from Spain, the fresh surface water was mostly gone and the hunt for new sources had taken over. Hundreds of miles of pipes now bring in about 30 percent of the city's water needs from faraway rivers and lakes. The rest comes from the valley's vast underground aquifer. Today, Aguirre says, twice as much water is pumped out as is put back in. "We are depleting volumes of water that took hundreds, thousands of years to store. Sooner or later it will run out," he says.

Marco Marquez, 52, keeps storage containers filled with water on his patio. The tap runs dry on a regular basis, but he needs clean water especially for his fruit business.​

When exactly that is, no one really knows. But for those living in the poorer eastern stretches of the city, like 52-year-old Marco Marquez, it feels like now. "Look," he says, as he spins his water tap. "Nothing — not even a drop." During the rainy season, Marquez gets about an hour of water a day. His little patio is crammed with different sizes of storage containers filled with water. During the dry season, he can go two, even three months without water. He says sometimes the government will send in a water tanker truck, known as a pipa, which literally means pipe. "The quality of the water the government provides is really bad quality, it's disgusting," he says. "You can only use it to flush the toilets or wash the sidewalk." Marquez says sometimes he and some neighbors pool their money to buy a private pipa with water from better wells. He needs clean water to run his fresh fruit stand. He has named the small storefront, run out of a street-facing room in his house, the Oasis.

A large crack cuts through this Mexico City street. Half of the street is lower than the other half, one of many signs this metropolis is sinking.​

The city's underground pipes, half of which are at least 60 years old, fail at an alarming rate. It could take at least 50 years, and hundreds of millions of dollars, to replace all the old, ruptured pipes, according to one official estimate. That means the water tankers are in high demand. Twenty-two-year-old Juan Flores stands on top of a 2,600-gallon tanker. He guides a huge hose connected to a pipe pumping water directly out of the aquifer into the truck. "I'll take this to fill up tanks at schools and hospitals around this district," which borders Mexico City's airport, he says. In many ways sending trucks all over the sprawling capital is a more efficient system than the city's pipes, which are so prone to breaks and leaks that nearly 40 percent of the drinking water running through them is just wasted, according to a government study in 2010.

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