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A similar disaster is playing out in Mexico City: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647180486/mexico-city-thirsty...

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A similar disaster is playing out in Bangalore: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/bengaluru-is-facing-a-te...

A similar disaster is playing out in Tehran: https://www.livescience.com/64235-tehran-is-sinking.html

And the "water tanker mafia" in Karachi:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/10/6455253...

Which inspired a VR game I made.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/510930/Thirst_VR/

Have you read this? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23209924-the-water-knife

No but that looks awesome. The VR game is based on a screenplay I wrote that is Blade Runner meets China Town. Water Knife looks like something I'd like. Adding to vacation reads list! Thanks!

It is a good book. Here's a copy/paste from the wikipedia article about the author's previous book, also set in a dystopian post-environmental-disaster environment.

The work won the 2010 Nebula Award[3], the Campbell Memorial Award[4], and the 2010 Hugo Award (tied with The City & the City by China Miéville for the Hugo Award), both for best novel.[5] This book also won the 2010 Compton Crook Award and the 2010 Locus Award for best first novel.

Paolo Bacigalupi is a good writer with a creative take on world building. Both The Windup Girl and The Water Knife (on topic for this thread) are good reads. His short stories collected in Pump Six and Other Stories are worth digging into as well if you like his novels. He goes into the potential effects of widespread gene modification and excessive patent protection of crops as well.

Really cool!

And Bangkok: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/216240...

There's a good deal of sinking happening in California as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/18/californ...

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