If Cape Town is the first globalist paradise that will run out of water. Than Jakarta is probably the first globalist paradise that will sink in the sea. The city is sinking 5 to 20 cm every year. Flood canals and rivers are now sinking below sea level.
https://www.justreadonline.com/2017/12/23/jakarta-is-sinking-so-fast/
"As environmentalists have pointed out, if the city doesn’t first clean up its rivers and canals, a dike will turn an enclosed Jakarta Bay into the world’s largest cesspool."
Eww!
Jakarta certainly appears a mess but the single biggest, near term impact of sea level rise on coastal cities across the planet is the impact on human waste and the systems that remove it from highly concentrated urban populations. In the United States, cholera epidemics were routine occurrences in the 1800's. The wealthy in New York, fled the city to summer homes to escape these deadly annual events. The response was to construct magnificent systems to carry waste away and prevent it from contaminating our sources of drinking water.
Waste systems (sewers) are predominately gravity fed, relying on the natural flow of water. The best systems, separate flood water from waste water to the extent that they can and, in some sections of the modern system, pumping is required to counteract gravity.
Even the most modern waste water systems can be overwhelmed by flooding. At current sea levels, heavy rain events routinely cause human waste, untreated sewer water, to spill across streets and open areas in Miami. One recent heavy rain forced officials to release a huge amount of untreated sewer water into the sea to prevent a deluge of human waste across the city. Rapid response crews in the region race around to contain and clean up these areas. Imagine a sea level 1 meter higher than today?
Water drinking bans and deadly cholera epidemics are going to become the new normal in our coastal cities. I wonder how often these events need to occur before people begin to decide they don't want to live in Miami?
Periodic "Poop Events" would dissuade me from moving there.
By the way, "Periodic Poop Events" would be a great name for a punk rock band.