To prevent premature melting while being towed, the iceberg will be wrapped in a textile insulation skirt while being dragged across the 2,000 kilometer distance over a three-month period.
But it won’t be cheap as towing the iceberg alone could cost up to $100 million—a steep price for an operation with several questions remaining over its viability.
Newfie wrote:The bigger problem is the water rights issue between India and Pakistan.
I read they were in DC a couple of weeks ago negotiating. But have heard nothing since.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
M_B_S wrote:Karachi Pakistan without water soon?!
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2 ... index.html
But despite all this rationing, the water tank at her home is almost dry.
“There is a small amount of water,” she says. “I am saving it to drink. When I have money in my hands, I’ll get a tanker.”
Orangi’s problems, while acute, are not unique in Pakistan’s largest city. Karachi’s roughly 20 million residents regularly face water shortages, with working class neighbourhoods the worst hit by a failing distribution and supply system.
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You can print money out of nothing but no water!
M_B_S
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