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Saturday, April 7th, 2018

Jakarta Is the World’s Fastest-Sinking City and It May Have Only a Decade Left

Author:     Pam Wright
Source:     The Weather Channel
Publication Date:     6 April 2018
 Link: Jakarta Is the World’s Fastest-Sinking City and It May Have Only a Decade Left
Stephan:   Cape Town, South Africa, a city of more than 4 million people is running out of water. Jakarta, Indonesia, a city of 10 million people is being submerged and may have only 10 years left. This story explains the situation there. That's 14 million people. Where do you think they will go when their cities become uninhabitable? And when there are a hundred cities in similar circumstances, and a third of the people on the planet are forced to migrate somewhere else, will civilization survive?  Water is destiny, and the cretins in Congress and the Executive branch who refuse to believe that and actively work to keep people ignorant of what is coming are guilty of crimes against humanity.

Jakarta, Indonesia

  • The city, home to about 10 million people, is reportedly sinking at a rate of nearly 10 inches each year.
  • About 40 percent of the metropolis now lies beneath sea level.
  • An overabundance of private water wells under the city, development and rising seas is proving to be disastrous for Southeast Asia’s largest city.

The Indonesian city of Jakarta, touted as the world’s fastest-sinking city, may only have a decade left before it’s too late to reverse impending disaster.

About 40 percent of the metropolis now lies beneath sea level, and several districts, including Muara Baru, have sunk as much as 14 feet in recent years, the New York Times has reported.

The city that is home to about 10 million people is reportedly sinking at a rate of nearly 10 inches per year, largely due to the overconsumption of groundwater.

Only about a third of the city’s population is served with piped water, so residents are resorting to digging illegal wells deeper and deeper into the ground to access groundwater. As the aquifers […]

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