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Mexico City could run out of water in a month unless it rains (www.businessinsider.com)

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Mexico City could run out of drinking water by June 26, an event locals call "Day Zero."
Three years of low rainfall and high temperatures have worsened the city's water crisis.
The Cutzamala water system, which provides water to millions, operates now at 28% capacity.

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[–] captainlezbian 32 points 6 months ago

Yes. Well no, but yes. Hemisphere on the whole? No. Land in the hemisphere? No. Land in the hemisphere that isn’t Antarctica? Yes, it’s much more likely to be located closer to the equator. Of the 6 inhabited continents 3 (North America, Europe, and Asia) are entirely located in the northern hemisphere.

You have some areas like Patagonia that are akin to somewhere like europe, but the equator is lower on every continent it passes through than you probably think. The equator in South America is found in the Amazon basin. In Africa it’s in in the Congo and a bit above Nairobi (Johannesburg is the northernmost major city in Africa below the southern tropics). In the Asian sphere it passes through Indonesia. About half of Australia is tropical.

For another comparison the top of the Tropic of Cancer (northern one) is in the middle of the Sahara, below New Delhi, right above Hong Kong, and about in the middle of Mexico.