Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had to confront a pretty dire problem: they were running out of water. Due to a severe and lasting drought, water reserves in this country of 11,000 people had dwindled to just a few days' worth. Climate change plays a role here: as sea levels rose, Tuvalu's groundwater became increasingly saline and undrinkable, leaving the island dependent on rainwater. But now a La Niña–influenced drought has severely curtailed rainfall, leaving Tuvalu dry as a bone. "This situation is bad," Pusinelli Laafai, Tuvalu's permanent secretary of home affairs, told the Associated Press earlier this month. "It's really bad."
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3 comments:
This article is chock full of false statements.
1. The island is sinking, and sea level has not risen
2. There is no "climate change"
3. An industrial sized water desalinizer would solve there immediate problem
4. The tectonic plate are causing the island to sink and therefore short term fixes will not help their long term problem
I agree with almost all of your statements, 7:45 with the exception of #2. There IS climate change, there has always been climate change and there will always continue to be climate change. Perhaps you meant to say human-caused climate change.
From your mouths to God's ear.
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