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This is a longstanding tradition on the American right wing, and hard seltzer, as an ahistorical, premium-priced beverage that’s relatively inexpensive to make and carries no cultural baggage, is an ideal product for aspiring 20-something hucksters like the Nelk Boys to hawk to an impressionable young audience already thirsty for line-stepping, anti-PC troll theater.

Mr Dangote’s refinery near Lagos is thirsty, with a capacity of 650,000 barrels of crude a day.

“I am a Matthew chapter 25 kind of Christian - where Jesus said: ‘When I was hungry you fed me, when I was thirsty, you gave me something to drink.’”

“There was water up to my waist. And because our guide lost the way we floated for hours. I thought this was going to be the end of my life. I’m diabetic so I had to urinate sitting there. And because I was thirsty I had to drink the water I had urinated in. Can you imagine? In Kabul I had everything. My whole life has been taken away from me because the Taliban took over,” she says.

If the drought continues, city residents can expect not just grilling restrictions but also mandatory water restrictions: Reservoirs are low, and New Yorkers are thirsty.