MUST see! BANNED - Jesse Ventura : Great Lakes FULL
Well people I don't know what is going on. I come back and see that the link I posted as youtube is redirecting to another video. I tried pasting the link here and it seems to take you to the link. I don't know why it happening like that but just click this link to go to view this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUsd916mMX4
Edward
"Oh, you didnt know? Your a** better caaaaalllll somebody"! - NAO
Yeah kinda important stuff. I already knew about the chemicals that was used in the water and that comes from the plastic of the bottles, but the lithium was something new to me though.
Edward
Too much information :P in your link
You used http ://www. youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=channel%3A5122f51c-0-28d5-9004-47d7b86d410&feature=iv&src_vid=gnPIE8FhXvY&v=SUsd916mMX4
The actual youtube link is this...
http ://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=SUsd916mMX4
All you want is the numbers/letters after the = so in this case SUsd916mMX4
All the other stuff is tracking and redirects
Going to move this one into the Jesse Venture section.... 5....4.... 3....
Okay so what is this video about? Don't have time to watch it... give us a quick summary :D
Well it's best to watch it but anyways in short it covers how priviate individuals buying up land over Aquifers and are taking fresh water away and muliti-national corps. taking water from the great lakes. Selling the water back to us for pretty much more than what we pay for gasoline, in form of bottled water. On top of it all there is really little oversight if any at all on the bottling and treatment of said water. Plus finding out they are hauling the water away to other countries like China for example to re-fill their drying up aquafiers. Getting back to chemicals their are chemicals in the plastic of the bottles that affect our hormones and combined with the flouride in the water which pretty much most people know they are now finding lithium in the water at various water treatment plants and in the water we drink and not to mention uranium is also being found too. So you add it all up. It's making males less fertile amongst other side affects for the fetus they postulate.
I might be leaving out some stuff....oh yeah. Our various fresh water supply like the great lakes are being basically drained. They also talk about the effects on the eco-system and how precious the fresh water is, which is all true.
Gotta spend some time to watch it in my opinion. If you don't like Jesse or the show its no reason not to watch it. There is valid information here even though it is a tv show.
Edward
LOL yeah I am not a big fan of Jesse. Many of us especially here have spent years of long hours at hard research on such topics and he collects such info and makes his showman videos.
Sure it gets to the general TV watching sheep :P but its on our backs. ;)
Water in the Great Lakes
Canada has roughly 80% of the world's supply of fresh water that is easily accessible. At the end of the Great Lakes is Niagara Falls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae1RqLvO4a8
More than six million cubic feet (168,000 m3) of water falls over the crest line every minute in high flow, and almost four million cubic feet (110,000 m3) on average.
There is NO WAY that we can use up all that water no matter how many bottles we fill six million cubic feet per MINUTE Besides all that water is going down the St Lawrence river out to sea anyway.
Since the water level in the lakes has stayed constant for decades if not hundreds of years, that means the lakes are constantly being refilled at a rate that allows such a flow at Niagara.
While Lake Erie is heavily polluted and Lake Ontario is too but not as bad, Lake Superior is crystal clear. I used to scuba dive there about 10 years ago
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The clear ice cold water (average water temperature is 40ºF) preserves wrecks so it is a Diver's Paradise. The amount of water in Lake Superior is 2,900 cu mi (12,000 km3)
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So I would say there is no problem in the foreseeable future.
Lake Superior Miles of Pristine Shores Clear Deep Blue Waters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtaBM0HS_QQ
Though water freezes at 32F the temperatures between 40F and 32F are generally a jelly state and change quickly. Lake Superior (actually all the great lakes but Erie) are at 40F all year round.
But when the Winds of November come... the seas get nasty...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FaotwbMdw
The FURY of Lake Superior...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7bL3V1JQ8
Watch this big Iron Boat buckle in the storm
American Steamshp Company Watch the Charles Wilson work her hull and bend in the big waves from the deck eye level! Everyone was thinking of the Fitz on this run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddtyqQNHtM
If you have never seen the Great Lakes up close, it is hard to imagine the sheer volume of water... and to feel the fury of those gales when your in a 24 foot sailboat riding over 26 foot swells is something you have to experience.
The 'Fitz'? That would be the Edmund Fitzgerald, a wreck that is off limits to Diver's as she went down with all hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7Z8ZWgAMk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DqPSF2fyo
well Z..
while i agree with you about jessie
i have to disagree about the water
i have been worrying about water for abit now
and am currently looking into having a well dug
there are springs near by but getting old carrying buckets of water has less appeal than ever
so closer to the house would be great
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/17/great-lakes-harbors-low-water/1992719/
Low water levels bedevil Great Lakes harbors
Judy Keen, USA TODAY6:26a.m. EDT March 17, 2013
Communities and businesses all along the coasts of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are wishing for rain as record-low water levels threaten the region's economic stability.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/02/06/lake-michigan-lake-huron-record-low-levels-drought/1896603/
2 Great Lakes hit lowest water level on record
John Flesher, AP Environmental Writer2:41p.m. EST February 6, 2013
Lakes Huron and Michigan are at record low levels.
In this Nov. 2012 photo, white streaks on a steel breakwall show the normal water level on Portage Lake at Onekama, Mich., which is connected by a channel to Lake Michigan. Two of the five Great Lakes -- Michigan and Huron -- are at their lowest level on record. (Photo: John Flesher AP)
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The lakes were 29 inches below their long-term average and had declined 17 inches since January 2012
The low water has caused heavy economic losses by forcing cargo ships to carry lighter loads
It would take "years of consistent rain" to return Lake Michigan and Lake Huron to normal
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday, capping more than a decade of below-normal rain and snowfall and higher temperatures that boost evaporation.
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http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/02/11/record-low-water-levels-threaten-shipping-in-great-lakes/
February 11, 2013
Record Low Water Levels Threaten Shipping in Great Lakes
Lower than average snowfall coupled with a hot and dry summer has caused water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron to hit a record low for the second month in a row, causing economic hardship on shippers forced to carry lighter loads, according to a report by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The record set in January, the lowest point since data collection began in 1918, follows 14 years of below-average water levels, according to the report. The low levels will continue to affect recreational harbors as well as the shipping industry.
Waukegan Harbor in Lake Michigan is currently closed to commercial navigation. Groundings now are much more likely and other harbors may close, the corps said.
The latest forecast shows Michigan and Huron setting further all-time record lows with a predicted level of 575.95 feet for both February and March 2013, the corps said. The water level is expected to rise in April.
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http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/now/wlevels/levels.html
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http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2013/02/lakes_michigan_and_huron_hit_a.html
Lakes Michigan and Huron hit all-time record low water levels; no end to low-water trend in sight
By Dave Alexander | dalexan1@mlive.com The Muskegon Chronicle
on February 05, 2013 at 6:57 PM, updated February 05, 2013 at 7:36 PM
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MUSKEGON, MI – Boaters on Lakes Michigan and Huron – both commercial and recreational – are left asking how low will the water levels go after a new low-water record was reached in January.
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http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/10/new-great-lakes-map-highlights-environmental-threats-and-opportunities/
New Great Lakes Map Highlights Environmental Threats and OpportunitiesPosted by Lisa Borre in Water Currents on January 10, 2013
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The lake temperature map shows Lake Superior, one of the most rapidly warming lakes in the world, at highest risk. Source: Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping (GLEAM) Project.
i didn't know this.. very interesting
Updated: 3/29/2013.
Anniversary of Niagara Falls Running Dry
March 29 marks the anniversary of when a massive ice jam reduced the mighty Niagara Falls to a trickle in 1848, a rare phenomena that lasted for nearly 40 hours.
The ice jam developed as strong winds blew chunks of ice from Lake Erie into the Niagara River's entrance near Buffalo, blocking the flow of water to Niagara Falls.
Residents first noticed the eerie silence of barely any water rushing over Niagara Falls during the evening of March 29th.
In the hours that followed, a report from the New York State Assembly states that people were able to retrieve guns, bayonets and tomahawks (all artifacts from the War of 1812) from the exposed river bed.
Some crew members of the famous "Maid of the Mist" used this time to blast away rocks that had created navigation hazards.
Nearby mills and factory machines, which used power generated from the Falls, had to be shut down.
Normalcy around Niagara Falls finally resumed during the night of March 31st, when the ice jam broke free and water once again started roaring over the Falls.
http://local.msn.com/weatherarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=257015786
7 States Running Out Of Water: 24/7 Wall St.
24/7 Wall St.
By Alexander E.M. Hess, Samuel Weigley, Michael Sauter
Posted: 03/30/2013 1:31 pm EDT | Updated: 03/30/2013 1:32 pm EDT
Water, Business News .From 24/7 Wall St.:
The United States is in the midst of one of the biggest droughts in recent memory. At last count, over half of the lower 48 states had abnormally dry conditions and are suffering from at least moderate drought.
More than 80 percent of seven states were as of last week in "severe drought," characterized by crop or pasture loss, water shortage and water restrictions. Depending on whether the hardest-hit regions see significant precipitation, crops yields could fall and drought conditions could persist for months to come. Based on the latest data provided by the U.S. Drought Monitor, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the seven states running out of water.
Click here to see the seven states running out of water
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/30/states-running-out-of-water_n_2984979.html
Looking out my window I can see Lake Huron and I can vouch for the fact that the current water level is setting a low water mark.
The level has a cycle of up and down, but never this low. 20 years ago it was very high and people scrambled to put rock and earth in front of their waterfront properties to protect their homes. They spent millions to upgrade their docks and raise them up.
Fast forward and now some of those docks have zero water around them.
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are combined at the top of Lower Michigan so are on the same sea level. There are no canals or natural barriers between the two. Mackinac bridge goes over the point where the two lakes meet.
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If you think about the volume of water that is involved, one wonders where it has all gone.
Gotta ask, Is the water level going down or is the land rising?
Anyone know? Either way it would look the same.
Deuem
Quote from: sky otter on April 01, 2013, 02:01:05 PM
7 States Running Out Of Water: 24/7 Wall St.
The Dust BowlQuoteThe Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought combined with farming methods that did not include crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops, soil terracing and wind-breaking trees to prevent wind erosion. Extensive deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains in the preceding decade had displaced the natural deep-rooted grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds. Rapid mechanization of farm implements, especially small gasoline tractors and widespread use of the combine harvester were significant in the decisions to convert grassland (much of which received no more than 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation per year) to cultivated cropland.
During the drought of the 1930s, without natural anchors to keep the soil in place, it dried, turned to dust, and blew away with the prevailing winds. At times, the clouds blackened the sky, reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York City and Washington, D.C.. Much of the soil ended up deposited in the Atlantic Ocean, carried by prevailing winds. These immense dust storms—given names such as "black blizzards" and "black rollers"—often reduced visibility to a few feet (a meter) or less. The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km2), centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.
Millions of acres of farmland were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes; many of these families (often known as "Okies", since so many came from Oklahoma) migrated to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better than those they had left, due to the Great Depression. Owning no land, many became migrant workers who traveled from farm to farm to pick fruit and other crops at starvation wages. Author John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath, for which he won a Pulitzer prize, and Of Mice and Men about such people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
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Quote from: sky otter on March 26, 2013, 11:11:10 PM
well Z..
i have to disagree about the water
i have been worrying about water for abit now
and am currently looking into having a well dug
there are springs near by but getting old carrying buckets of water has less appeal than ever
so closer to the house would be great
I stand corrected on the lakes, seems like they are dropping. Yet there have been record snowfalls this year.
Digging a well is a good idea if you can. I want to dig one myself on the front lawn but would have to do so on the slight. You should do it now before they put a ban on them
I can tell you that the grain futures' speculators do not think the problem is too bad. Prices for this year's crop to be delivered is going down. Forecast is for increased acreage and good potential for yields compared to last year.
I just drove through many of the states that were extremely dry a year ago. That is not the case this year. Many fields have standing water in them. Even the fields that have center irrigation pivots in them. Subsoil moisture should be replenished even if there is a dry period.
The dry area is where the majority of Hard Red Winter Wheat is grown. That type of wheat loves drier conditions. Hence why it is grown there. Price of it is falling also.
just another little tidbit of info i came across..kinda interesting
Mystery in China: 54% of Rivers Vanish
The country attributes it to inaccurate maps, but there may be other factors By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff
Posted Apr 6, 2013 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) – As far as geological mysteries go, it's an intriguing one: For decades, China has reported being home to 50,000 rivers of at least about 40 square miles. But the country's three-year census of its water—a first-of-its-kind effort involving 800,000 surveyors and released last week—revealed a drastically different count. As of 2011, just 22,909, reports the Verge, which asks the million-dollar question: Why did 27,000 rivers vanish? The answer is an easy one, a census director tells the South China Morning Post: That 50,000 figure was arrived at using topographical maps as many as 60 years old, which were incomplete.
The Post cited climate change and water and soil loss as well, but the Verge reports that China itself may have had a heavier hand in the decrease. It spoke with Ma Jun, the director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs in Beijing, who agreed that the answers offered by the government likely played a role; but he cited pollution and overpopulation as key factors. As the Verge explains, the destruction caused by flooding in the 1960s led the country to erect dams and reservoirs that reined in flooding but messed with the ecological system, causing rivers to go dry. Add in a more than fivefold surge in water use by a booming population in about the same period, along with pollution that only compounds the problem: It's "destroying the limited clean resources we have," Ma said.
http://www.newser.com/story/165631/mystery-in-china-54-of-rivers-vanish.html
Sky, Our local river is still there. OMG I was worried. Most all of these rivers are used for human waste and rainfall run off. I know it sounds bad but I have never seen one that stinks! No, I would not drink it. Just recently they have started to build a secondary line for Sewage to go to a plant.
This is now going on all over the place. Starting about 20 years ago all new buildings were forced by law ( a good one ) to have both sewage and rain water sewage lines split. The funny part is that they both lead to the same place. But there was 2. Now with money in hand, they are slowly going back to every street and putting in sewage lines to the raw sewage pipes and leaving the rain water to the river.
Our street has been a mess now for over a year as they attemp to connect everyone. Our streets are all concrete so what a mess it makes, Dust everywhere for a year. The local sewage plant has now been under construction for more than a year. When it is done, the final legs will be diverted from the river to the plant. Just like they do in any US city.
It is also a possibility that many villages capped the river source and used it for local water. That happens also. Our local supply works that way. Only the excess water not needed for humans is then passed to the sewage and then to the river. So the sewage is using the best drinking water around. Maybe that is why it does not smell bad.
Deuem
now here's a real conspiracy
The possibility of global or national water shortages has emerged as an investment theme
in recent years, with exchange-traded funds including the PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio (PHO) and Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index (CGW) allowing anyone to play the sector.
The website 24/7 Wall St. took a look at the states running out of water, using as a starting point data from the U.S. Drought Monitor, produced in partnership by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the USDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
entire article here
http://money.msn.com/investing/5-states-running-out-of-water
A clouded outlook
Much of the midsection of the United States is experiencing a drought. More than half of the Lower 48 states recently had abnormally dry conditions that qualified as a moderate drought or worse.
More than 80% of seven states were in severe drought, characterized by crop or pasture loss, water shortages and water restrictions. Depending on whether the hardest-hit regions see significant precipitation, crop yields could continue to fall and drought conditions could persist for months.
When the drought began in 2012, conditions were most serious in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, said Brad Rippey, a meteorologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA said that 59% of the nation's rangeland and pastureland was in poor or very poor condition that summer due to drought, causing corn and hay harvests to be depleted. The ensuing shortage of livestock feed forced some ranchers to destroy cattle, which drove up beef prices.
By late 2012, drought conditions were spreading westward, Rippey said, to Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma, the drought's current epicenter.
Relatively large areas in the worst-off states are experiencing what the USDA defines as "exceptional drought," marked by "exceptional and widespread crop/pasture losses (and) shortages of water in reservoirs, streams and wells creating water emergencies."
The last time the United States saw a drought close to this level of severity was in the 1980s, Rippey said. But even compared with that drought, the current conditions may be worse. "You really need to go back to the 1950s to find a drought that lasted and occupied at least as much territory," Rippey said.
The possibility of global or national water shortages has emerged as an investment theme in recent years, with exchange-traded funds including the PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio (PHO) and Guggenheim S&P Global Water Index (CGW) allowing anyone to play the sector.
The website 24/7 Wall St. took a look at the states running out of water, using as a starting point data from the U.S. Drought Monitor, produced in partnership by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the USDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Read through the slide show for a closer look at five states running out of water.
For two mores state running out of water, and a full report, go to 24/7 Wall St.
Although no stranger to this concept of "Water War's" or what have you, but hey after reading this post I got thinking as to why so much corp interest is involved in water and such and scratched my chin whilst gazing into the crystal ball :D
Obviously water is another commodity and thee most important one !
But hey what if the corporate interest's are looking at a future tense of earth and trying to find means to know where it will abate to after a global calamity?
well it stinks that this is under old jesse cause my respect for him is totally gone..sigh..
but water is worth more than gold..gold doesn't grow anything but greedy morons
Dwindling Great Lakes squeeze shipping industryIn December, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron hit record lows, followed by Lake Superior which is the largest freshwater lake in the world. They all remain below their historical averages. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
By Amber Payne, Producer, NBC News
TOLEDO, Ohio -- It's the 14th straight year of low water levels for the $34 billion shipping industry that relies on the Great Lakes.
And for ships like the Mesabi Miner, that comes at a great cost.
On a recent Saturday the vessel drifted through the Detroit River and docked in Toledo, where the crew began the eight-hour process of unloading 66,000 tons of iron ore, the rounded clay-colored pellets that eventually take shape as steel in cars and refrigerators.
But the Mesabi Miner wasn't carrying a full load because water levels in the Great Lakes are just too low. On her journey from Duluth, Minn., to Lake Erie, she left 8,000 tons of iron ore behind.
That amounts to a day's work for an iron ore mine. It's enough to make 8,000 automobiles, and keep a big auto plant going for two weeks.
"Steel is what drives our economy," said Glen Nekvasil, Vice President of the Lake Carriers' Association. "And most of the steel in the country is still made in the Great Lakes basin."
This is an industry where the difference between success and failure is measured in inches.
"One inch of reduced draft can cost 270 tons of cargo," said Nekvasil. "And this ship lost about 2.5 feet of draft today."
About 85 percent of the Great Lakes shipping trade is iron ore, coal, and limestone for construction. The rest is primarily salt, cement, grain, and oil. And according to the LCA, the Great Lakes shipping system saves customers $3.6 billion annually compared to the other modes of transportation.
Despite the savings on fuel, lighter loads and fewer trips ultimately mean these costs will filter down to the consumer.
Mark Barker and his family have run the Interlake Steamship Company for 25 years and he is concerned about the domino effect.
"Less tons but we still have the same operating cost. So if you carry less tons, we have less revenue, equal cost. Our bottom line gets squeezed," said Barker.
Barker plans to carry fewer tons but take more trips to make up for the loss.
In January, Lake Michigan and Huron hit record lows, followed by Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world. Now all three lakes remain well below their historical averages. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, however, are both right around their long-term average right now.
Evaporation outpaces precipitation
Interlake's Captain Paul Franks says the toughest part of navigating a massive vessel is the bottle neck in the St. Mary's River, which connects Lake Superior to both Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
"On a good day I've probably got about 2.5 to 3 feet underneath me," he explained. "On a not-so-good day, sometimes as low as 9 inches and it's a real slow methodical process to not run aground and to safely just keep transiting."
NOAA hydrologist Drew Gronewold said there has not been enough rain and snow over the lakes in the winter coupled with an increase in evaporation fueled by warmer water temperatures.
"We're in a period where it's a stand-off between precipitation and evaporation," said Gronewold. "And evaporation is having a much more significant impact on the system, and particularly the changes, than it used to."
NOAA is also studying whether this could impact fish habitats and coastal wetlands that may be sensitive to long term changes in the water levels.
Hydrologist Andrew Gronewald explains the changing dynamics of the Great Lakes and what that can mean for surrounding ecosystems.
Hoping for higher water
In St. Joseph, Mich., Russ Clark is in his 27th year running Sea Hawk fishing charters. When he put his boat in the water at his normal location earlier this season, the bow was touching the bottom. Recently the water level has been better due to rain, but Clark fears this is temporary.
"This is how narrow the channel is," he said pointing west. "Twenty-five feet over and you're gonna be aground."
There are places he just can't take his clients anymore and Clark says that many of the bigger boats are unable to enter the water this season for fear of getting stuck.
"I think we're all just hoping and confident that the water levels come back," he said.
http://dailynightly.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/18/19026555-dwindling-great-lakes-squeeze-shipping-industry?lite
he interviewed a lady who explained how the bottled water effects a human body. first, the fluoridation creates an environment in the water, that when paired with the chemicals in the plastic bottle, cause things like low fertility rates in males and screws up babies, invitro.
when the plastic bottle is subjected to direct sunshine or heat for more than a few minutes, it begins to create formaldehyde as a byproduct of the breakdown of the plastic bonds. i have no idea how this might play into the rest of the biological issues.
was also mentioned that they've found radiation and lithium in the bottled water.
she also claimed that our politicians and government were also secretly giving our water, pumped from the underground acquifers that feed the lakes, like the great lakes and lake mead, to china, who were using it to restore their own water table and also making the plastic bottles to bottle it, and selling it back to us for 4 dollars a bottle.
then the bottles become like weaponized sterilization when finally sold to us at the store. she says it's a plot to 1) increase the power and influence of communism via china, on the world and 2) destroy our country by taking our best water and making us drink recycled toilet water.
also, there are corporations involved both stateside and abroad, who are using loopholes in the laws, to basically steal the water.
i say we all buy those machines that take water out of the air, filter it, and provide you with a nice glass of clean drinking water. of course, the minerals are missing, which means we'd need to supplement those, unfortunately
without the acquifers flow refreshing the water, rivers, creeks and ponds, become stagnant, killing all the life in them.
Quoteshe also claimed that our politicians and government were also secretly giving our water, pumped from the underground acquifers that feed the lakes, like the great lakes and lake mead, to china, who were using it to restore their own water table and also making the plastic bottles to bottle it, and selling it back to us for 4 dollars a bottle.
I am not quoting you Undo, but what that person said! ;) :)
Was there any mention of the Transport Logistics behind this ?
I would imagine that if there was a scant hint of truth to this that any country would set-up Desal plants before looking into transporting water for a large scale project like that. And if China made Desal Plant's it could possibly be assumed that they would not be ripped off AS much from a state run company than what it would cost a western country in term's of how much the man get's paid in creaming the project cost :D
all i remember her saying was they put it in huge buoyant bags with some weird name, and then tie it behind boats, and basically drag it across the ocean
Ahh thanks mate!
The Transport Sounds kinds silly huh ?
Quote from: Somamech on June 19, 2013, 09:23:58 PM
Ahh thanks mate!
The Transport Sounds kinds silly huh ?
there's footage of it.
Is that in Jesse's video ?
she describes them as huge plastic bladders that tie together like ziplock bags. yes it's in jesse's video. i'll see if i can get you her website. she probably has one.
they are called sprag bags or something like that.
her name is lorainne moray. i am not sure on the spelling. trying to find her. she has a pretty impressive resume' based on the intro they gave her in the show. she was an uranium specialist at lawrence livermoore national nuclear laboratory, known internationally as an expert on radiation and public health.
she says she has found uranium in our drinking water, along with lithium. "Lithium is used for people with bipolar disorder or manic depressant. it slows down and calms the brain. it makes the person docile."
then she talks about uranium effecting estrogen and testosterone and being a hormone disrupter. she also says the female population is expanding and the male population is shrinking (in the usa). then jesse says "we're being neutered."
these guys say, she's not as important as she lets on
http://archive.org/details/LeurenKMoret-RealJobAtLawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory
name is spelled Leuren Moret
here's a pic of it
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/in-the-shadows/water-conspiracy/gallery.html?curPhoto=21
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Spragg Bags
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http://www.waterbag.com/
Flexible barge
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A flexible barge is a fabric barge (non-rigid) for the transportation of bulk fresh water or other liquid bulk items (i.e. chemicals, oil, etc.).
One such barge is called the Dracone Barge invented in 1956 and another similar type is called the Spragg Bag invented in the 1980s.
Terry Spragg of Manhattan Beach, California, builds flexible fabric barges for the transportation of bulk fresh water and is the reason why his product is referred to as the "Spragg Bag." In the 1970s Spragg was a promoter of icebergs as a large source of fresh water, but soon realized this was impractical. He then put his skills into developing the waterbag technology starting in the 1980s. Spragg has worked on and perfected this over the last twenty years with his associates. The first field test of his waterbag was in December 1990. The waterbag was 75 meters long (245 feet) and it contained approximately 3,000 cubic metres (790,000 US gal) of fresh water. It was towed from the Port Angeles harbor in the state of Washington. Another test was done in 1996 with a 100-mile (160 km) voyage from Port Angeles to Seattle, Washington. Spragg says that his next goal is to run another test voyage demonstration between Northern and Southern California and a demonstration of the waterbag technology in the Middle East as well as around the world. There are various reasons why it has been difficult to gain support for demonstrating the viability of waterbag technology in California and around the world. Spragg claims when two waterbags pass underneath the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time in history the media will let the whole world know about it. A novel, Water, War, and Peace, has been completed that details the solutions waterbag technology offers to the complex political problems surrounding water issues throughout the Middle East, the United States, and the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_barge
Looks like one company at the moment Spragg
maybe this is why the great lakes levels are going down..been going on for some time
http://www.westernjournalism.com/barack-obamas-war-on-americas-fresh-water-supply/
Barack Obama's War On America's Fresh Water Supply
September 7, 2012 by Suzanne Eovaldi 24 Comments
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Barack Obama is keeping his promise to lower the sea levels, and he's starting with the drought- plagued Midwest where Lake Michigan water is being shipped by the boatloads over to China! By using a little-known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan to the tune of an estimated $500,000 to $1.8 million per day profit. By draining the precious jewel of the Great Lakes in the middle of America, our federal water managers are allowing the export of our water out of our country across thousands of miles of oceans into the Asian basin plagued by huge population centers that are suffering from their constant lack of fresh water. How's that for cutting America down to size?
The water is being sold at a "240 times markup"; that is, well over 240 times its production costs. In 2006, then-President George W. Bush signed into law a set of agreements aimed at safeguarding and maintaining the Great Lakes, which hold 20% of the world's fresh water. But clever bureaucrats and corporate profiteers discovered they could use a loophole to bottle and sell Lake Michigan water, water intended for use by its surrounding states and their watershed. By saying "this loophole allows for Great Lakes water to be labeled a COMMODITY", our public water officials are allowing the huge supply to be tapped and sold off to companies like Nestle at a very low price. This water can then be flipped for huge profits! Surrounding wildlife and water critters depending on fresh Lake Michigan water now are feeling the shortage, and our much-needed relief from the horrible Midwest drought of 2012 must compete with foreign countries for water that belongs to America! If anyone is wondering if this current Administration really does have the concern of America at its heart, then this little-publicized Water War should be a huge wake-up call for all of us.
Gorgeous Flathead Lake in northwest Montana boasts one of the largest fresh water lakes west of the Mississippi River. It will come into their cross hairs soon if we don't get busy and start contacting our do-nothing Congress about this travesty at 1- 877-762-8762. Montana and other western states already are up in arms about this all-out attempt by Democrats to shut off irrigation water in the Klamath Falls River Basin.
Four dams are slated for permanent destruction. Who can forget what has been done to America's breadbasket, California's Central Valley, along with the San Joaquin Valley? Our American farmers and our citizens now must compete with foreign countries for our own American water. When will Barack Obama's insane war on America's fresh water supply end?
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QuoteIs water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who cannot afford to pay these said corporations suffer from starvation due to their lack of financial wealth? According to the former CEO and now Chairman of the largest food product manufacturer in the world, corporations should own every drop of water on the planet — and you're not getting any unless you pay up.
The company notorious for sending out hordes of 'internet warriors' to defend the company and its actions online in comments and message boards (perhaps we'll find some below) even takes a firm stance behind Monsanto's GMOs and their 'proven safety'. In fact, the former Nestle CEO actually says that his idea of water privatization is very similar to Monsanto's GMOs. In a video interview, Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe states that there has never been 'one illness' ever caused from the consumption of GMOs.
Watch the video below for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTqvBhFVdvE
I can vouch for the fact that the subtitles are accurate..
This is INSANE
And I say BOTH food and water are rights, but the greedy have taken food from Us, and are now going after water.
http://www.weather.com/news/science/environment/drought-lake-powell-lake-mead-climate-change-20130818
more pics at link
Dwindling Colorado River Forces First-Ever Cuts in Lake Powell Water Releases
Terrell Johnson Published: Aug 20, 2013, 9:07 AM EDT weather.com
More than a dozen years of drought have begun to extract a heavy toll from water supplies in the West, where a report released last week forecast dramatic cuts next year in releases between the two main reservoirs on the Colorado River, the primary source of water for tens of millions of people across seven western states.
After studying the problems facing the river for the past two years, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – the agency charged with managing water in the West – announced Friday that it would cut the amount of water released next year by Lake Powell in Arizona by 750,000 acre-feet, enough to supply about 1.5 million homes.
It marks the first reduction in water flows since the mid 1960s, when the lake was created by the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. "This is the worst 14-year drought period in the last hundred years," said Larry Wolkoviak, director of the bureau's Upper Colorado Region.
The move could trigger an "unprecedented water crisis within the next few years," the business coalition group Protect the Flows told USA Today, as reductions could have major ramifications for farmers and businesses downstream that depend on those flows, as well as on hydroelectric power generation.
"The river is already severely endangered due to way too many dams and diversions," Gary Wockner of SavetheColorado.org told National Geographic, noting the impact the reduced flows also would have on fish and wildlife throughout the Grand Canyon. "The impact on the health of the Colorado River is unsustainable."
It's difficult to overstate how important the Colorado River is to the West. From Lake Powell along the Arizona-Utah border, the river flows more than 300 miles through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead in Nevada, supplying drinking water to more than 36 million people in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah.
The river also supplies water to 22 native American tribes, 11 national parks, 7 national wildlife refuges, and 4 million acres of farmland, ThinkProgress reports.
At Lake Mead, water levels will lower by 8 feet as a result of the reduction, after the lake already has dropped by about 100 feet since the current drought began in 2000, the Wall Street Journal notes. That would bring water levels there – now about 1,105 feet – within striking range of 1,075 feet, considered the threshold for the U.S. Department of the Interior to declare a water shortage.
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Low water levels at the Lake Mead Reservoir at Hoover Dam, shown in the 'bathtub ring' around the shoreline. The ring is colored white thanks to mineral deposits on surfaces that once were underwater.
Today, Lake Powell is only about 45 percent of its full capacity while Lake Mead stands at 47 percent full, according to Chuck Collum of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), which delivers water from the Colorado River to central and southern Arizona.
He told USA Today that the forecast would mean CAP would see its water releases reduced by about 320,000 acre-feet, or a cut of about 20 percent. CAP says this will have no impact on the cities and Native American tribes it serves, however, because the reduction would impact largely underground storage and non-Indian agriculture.
For Las Vegas, which draws most of its water from Lake Mead and grew by more than 6,000 people a month in the 2000s, the extremely dry conditions of the past decade already have prompted a raft of water restrictions and conservation measures -- including banning grass front lawns in new home developments.
But the city isn't counting on conservation alone. If the conditions of the past several years continue indefinitely, by 2015 water levels at Lake Mead could drop below one of Las Vegas's two intakes there, imperiling the city's water supply. Today, its water authority is scrambling to build a third intake to allow it to draw water at levels below 1,000 feet -- an insurance policy if the lake's levels drop low enough to put its first intake out of service.
(MORE: 20 Cities That Could Run Out of Water)
"It's essentially a race for us," Scott Huntley of the Southern Nevada Water Authority told National Geographic, because the lake likely "is going to drop more precipitously than seen in the past."
At their root, the potential water shortages both lakes face is the result of what has happened to the Colorado River over the past decade. Long-running drought across the Southwest has starved the river to its current low flows, and climate change is expected to reduce them by 5 to 20 percent over the next 40 years, University of Colorado geoscientist Brad Udall told Smithsonian Magazine.
Its impacts will be felt at each stage of the river's development: less snowfall in the Rocky Mountains will mean less water enters the river at its start, while hotter air temperatures and drier weather will mean longer droughts and more water lost to evaporation.
Drought, combined with overuse – some 70 percent of the river's capacity is siphoned away to water more than 3 million acres of farmland – already have produced some of the Colorado's lowest flows in more than 1,000 years, Udall told National Geographic. "Something very, very unusal is going on," he added, noting that today's low water levels should be a "kick in the pants" to spur both short-term and long-term water planning for the region.
"Climate change has the potential to throw curveballs," Udall added. "To throw extreme events at us the likes of which we've never seen and we're not prepared to deal with."
That former Nestle CEO video was mind blowing :O
Nearly every day I read an article in MSM about the growing Obesity crisis in the western world causing more death's than anything else in the world and oddly, one does not even have to use a braincell to kinda link that up to the industrial food age.
This guy talks of Employing people, and money creation YET fail's to address any other issue due to his thought's :O
I can honestly see where Matrix come's from when he talks of Double Logic introduced into the soul.
And i can see where Amy come's from with TAP... although with double logic going on it seem's like paddling up poop creek in barbed wire canoe with no paddle scenario in this day and age of madness sadly :(
I have spent a lot of time watching Raw Food Vegans, some big scammer's there, but when i mix what they say with health and permaculture along with good farming practise's I do think its possible to change things regarding people's health. Whether that happens is most likeley in the Canoe with the paddle!
Quote from: Somamech on August 20, 2013, 07:46:10 PM
That former Nestle CEO video was mind blowing :O
Nearly every day I read an article in MSM about the growing Obesity crisis in the western world causing more death's than anything else in the world and oddly, one does not even have to use a braincell to kinda link that up to the industrial food age.
This guy talks of Employing people, and money creation YET fail's to address any other issue due to his thought's :O
I can honestly see where Matrix come's from when he talks of Double Logic introduced into the soul.
And i can see where Amy come's from with TAP... although with double logic going on it seem's like paddling up poop creek in barbed wire canoe with no paddle scenario in this day and age of madness sadly :(
I have spent a lot of time watching Raw Food Vegans, some big scammer's there, but when i mix what they say with health and permaculture along with good farming practise's I do think its possible to change things regarding people's health. Whether that happens is most likeley in the Canoe with the paddle!
Hon, with psychopaths emerging as the top-of-the-heap, in control positions in any money system, if Fukushima doesn't get Us, We best do what We can to end this cycle of madness (literally - psychopathy is a madness). Regardless how dark it looks, giving up is not an option for Me.
Death will not release Me.
And... Help spreading the ideas is always appreciated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/water-stressed-countries_n_4434115.html
These Are The Most Water-Stressed Countries In The World
Posted: 12/13/13 EST
Matt Ferner
Stable and abundant water supplies are becoming increasingly difficult to come by on a warming planet with a growing population. And according to new data, 37 countries in the world already face "extremely high" levels of water stress.
The Washington, DC environmental research organization World Resources Institute released the data from their Aqueduct project Thursday. Extremely high water stress means that more than 80 percent of the water available to the agricultural, domestic and industrial users in a country is being withdrawn annually and that the risk of water scarcity in a region is remarkably high.
"Water stress can have serious consequences for countries around the world," said Paul Reig, associate for WRI's Aqueduct project, to The Huffington Post. "Droughts, floods and competition for limited supplies can threaten national economies and energy production, and even jeopardize people's lives. If countries and international-level decision makers understand more clearly where water stress is most severe, they can direct attention and money toward the most at-risk regions."
Researchers with the Aqueduct project looked at water risks in 100 river basins and 181 nations around the globe -- the first such country-level water assessment of its kind. By taking a close look at regional baseline water stress, flood and drought occurrence over several years time, inter-annual variability and seasonal variability as well as the amount of water available to a particular region every year from rivers, streams and shallow aquifers, WRI was able to give each country a score 0 to 5, with a 5 being the greatest level of water risk.
Baseline water stress is defined as the ratio of annual water withdrawals to total available annual renewable supply, a higher percentage, as illustrated in WRI's map, means more water users competing for increasingly limited water supplies:
the world chart blows up to too huge to post when moving..sorry go to link
WRI also produced a detailed interactive map using their recent data that can be found here.
WRI notes that it's important for a country to understand its risk of water scarcity and that extremely high levels of water stress doesn't mean that country will fall victim to water scarcity -- proper water management and conservation plans can help to secure a nation's water supplies.
"Publicly available rankings like these can help focus on regions facing the highest stress," Reig said. "International-level decision makers in agriculture, industry, and municipalities can use this information to identify regions with the highest need, then work together to improve water management and water security."
Take Singapore for example -- according to WRI, the country has the highest water stress ranking (5.0), a dense population and has no freshwater lakes or aquifers, and its demand for water far exceeds its naturally occurring supply.
But Singapore is an exceptional water manager, WRI points out in its blog, and is able to meet its freshwater needs:
Advanced rainwater capture systems contribute 20 percent of Singapore's water supply, 40 percent is imported from Malaysia, grey water reuse adds 30 percent, and desalination produces the remaining 10 percent of the supply to meet the country's total demand. These forward-thinking and innovative management plans provide a stable water supply for Singapore's industrial, agricultural, and domestic users—even in the face of significant baseline water stress.
Take a look at the 19 countries around the world, according to WRI, with the most amount of water stress:
also go to link to see some nice pics
reference also to here
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=4662.0
some really good pics of each city at the link as well as much more embedded info throughout
http://www.weather.com/news/science/environment/10-cities-could-run-out-water-20131212?pageno=1
10 Cities That Could Run Out Of Water
By Terrell Johnson Published: Dec 12, 2013, 6:02 PM EST weather.com
Securing access to plentiful, renewable sources of fresh water is among the biggest struggles large cities around the world face. Growing populations and declining fresh water supplies – from rapidly depleting aquifers as well as drought-stricken reservoirs and rivers – mean that cities are scrambling to find solutions.
In the pages that follow, we look at 10 major U.S. cities facing some of the nation's most acute water shortages, and the hurdles they face in obtaining enough water to meet their citizens', and industries', needs.
The list begins with the driest major city in Texas
> Sometimes called the "driest major city in Texas," El Paso has contested with drought and water shortages for decades, even as its population has grown from just over 130,000 in 1950 to more than 670,000 today (and more than 800,000 across the El Paso metropolitan area).
El Paso was ranked among the nation's most vulnerable cities in a 2012 University of Florida water availability survey, thanks largely to its arid location.
The city's drinking water comes mostly from groundwater and the Rio Grande that flows through the city, but in recent years it has begun experimenting with building a desalination plant to decontaminate brackish water pumped from underground, while it also uses treated waste water for crop irrigation and industrial uses.
> The home of technology giants Google, Apple, and Facebook (headquartered in nearby Palo Alto and Mountain View), this Northern California city is part of one of the most water-stressed areas anywhere in the U.S. Columbia University identifies it as one of the regions facing the highest potential for water shortages caused by multi-year droughts.
Exactly that scenario played out here during the record drought that stretched between 2005 and 2007. The drought forced local officials to adopt stringent water use restrictions for releases from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, one of the state's most important sources of water.
> South Florida's largest city faces some of the nation's most dire threats to its fresh water supplies. Rising seas along the coastline are pushing salt water into its underground drinking water supplies, while its population growth hasn't stopped – rising from about 249,000 people in 1950 to more than 410,000 today, with more than 5.5 million scattered across the Miami metro area.
In addition to this long-term threat, the region also faces the shorter-term challenges of drought. While this year has brought much more plentiful rain to South Florida, just two years ago an intense drought left nearby West Palm Beach less than two months away from running out of water completely.
> Like much of the Plains and western states, Nebraska has been caught in the grip of searing drought over the past couple of years. Nearly every square mile of land statewide experienced what the U.S. Drought Monitor classifies as "extreme drought" in early 2013, with more than 76 percent of the state reeling under the even-higher classification of "exceptional drought."
That's why it's no surprise that state capital Lincoln, with a population of just over 265,000, faces severe water stress when its main water source, the Platte River, dries up as it did in 2012. This helped University of Florida researchers list it as the nation's third most vulnerable city in their 2012 water availability survey.
> Rising temperatures in the next 30 to 40 years could put severe strains on the future growth of Salt Lake City, according to a University of Colorado-Boulder study released in November. For every Fahrenheit degree of warming, the study's authors found, the Salt Lake City region could see its fresh water supplies drop by 1.8 to 6.5 percent.
Those supplies come from the creeks and streams that feed the city's thirst for drinking water, which could dry up several weeks earlier in the summer and fall than they do today, the study found. Warmer temperatures will mean more of the region's precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, which will lead to earlier runoff from the nearby Wasatch Mountains.
Local officials and water system planners will need to find new, higher-elevation sources of water or build more water storage, the study's authors noted. "Water emanating from our local Wasatch Mountains is the lifeblood of the Salt Lake Valley, and is vulnerable to the projected changes in climate," Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker said.
> A combination of low rainfall, low snowpack in the mountains, and dwindling supplies from the drought-stricken Colorado River threaten every one of the main sources of water for this Southern California city that's home to more than 1.3 million people.
With predictions of another dry winter this year, San Diego County Water Authority officials say they're prepared to meet the county's water needs through next summer, thanks to 25 water reservoirs that contain an "ample supply."
But should this year's drought continue into next year and the year after that, the situation becomes much more problematic.
"We built these assets to use them," Ken Weinberg, the authority's water resources director, told San Diego Magazine. "But if you start to see successive dry years and use that storage – that's where we're vulnerable."
>With a population of more than 3.8 million inside its city limits, and some 16 million spread across its greater metropolitan area, Los Angeles routinely ranks among the nation's most water-stressed cities.
Though the city sees an average of nearly 15 inches of rain per year, that average masks the way in which its precipitation falls. One or two wet years are generally followed by seven to eight dry years, which means Los Angeles can see dry stretches that last for years on end.
Demand for water from the Colorado River Basin, where the city gets much of its water supply via hundreds of aqueducts, is projected to far outstrip supply in the coming decades thanks to drought, according to a federal study released at the end of last year.
By 2060, the study estimates water from the river will fall short of demand by more than 3 million acre-feet, about 5 times the amount of water Los Angeles consumes each year.
"They have painted a picture that is undeniable," Barry Nelson of the National Resources Defense Council said of the study. "The history of developing new water in the Colorado River Basin is over."
> San Antonio ranked as the number-one most water stressed city in the country in the University of Florida water availability survey, thanks to its population of some 1.6 million people today, up from just over 400,000 in the middle of the 20th century.
That explosive population growth has put severe stress on water supplies here, prompting the San Antonio Water System to reduce per-capita water usage through initiatives like "Plumbers to People," which provides up to two free water-efficient toilets to local residents with toilets installed before 1993.
"Our business model is to convince our customers to buy less of our product," San Antonio Water System president and CEO Robert Puente told NPR last May.
> Though the bursting of the housing bubble back in 2008 slowed its growth for a while, Las Vegas still ranks among the nation's fastest-growing cities and now boasts a population of nearly 600,000 in its city limits and more than 1.8 million spread across its metro area.
All that growth – the city was home to just over 40,000 people in the mid-1950s – has placed huge demands on its main water supply, the Colorado River Basin and Lake Mead. Because that river has experienced severe drought in recent years, local officials have been forced to build lower intake valves in the reservoir, to ensure the city's water supply isn't cut off.
>Home to more than 3.4 million people, Georgia's capital city has been caught in a tug-of-war with Florida and Alabama in recent years over rights to the water that flows through the Chattahoochee River from its nearby reservoir, Lake Lanier.
Though years like 2013 keep it at bay – Atlanta had a much wetter-than-average summer, with rainfall amounts in June and July more than double the norm – drought is an ever-present threat to the more than 5 million people who live here. It was just last year that Lake Lanier dropped to its lowest levels in years, tying it with historic lows reached in 2009.
Why are low water levels at Lanier so troublesome? Because the city draws nearly two-thirds of its drinking water from the lake and the Chattahoochee River, which means that in times of extreme drought (like the one that lasted from 2007 to 2009), Atlanta really has nowhere else to turn for water.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/california-drought-water-shortage_n_4689106.html
As Drought Persists, 17 California Communities Almost Out Of Water
01/29/14 08:20 PM ET EST
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Seventeen rural communities in drought-stricken California are in danger of a severe water shortage within four months, according to a list compiled by state officials.
Wells are running dry or reservoirs are nearly empty in some communities. Others have long-running problems that predate the drought.
The communities range from the area covered by the tiny Lompico County Water District in Santa Cruz County to the cities of Healdsburg and Cloverdale in Sonoma County, the San Jose Mercury News (http://bit.ly/LmgFL2 ) reported Tuesday.
Most of the districts, which serve from 39 to 11,000 residents, have too few customers to collect enough revenue to pay for backup water supplies or repair failing equipment, the newspaper reported.
A storm expected to drop light and moderate rains on Northern California on Wednesday and Thursday won't help much.
The list of vulnerable communities was compiled by the state health department based on a survey last week of the more than 3,000 water agencies in California.
"As the drought goes on, there will be more that probably show up on the list," said Dave Mazzera, acting drinking-water division chief for the state Department of Public Health.
State officials are discussing solutions such as trucking in water and providing funding to drill more wells or connect rural water systems to other water systems, Mazzera said.
Lompico County Water District, in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Felton, has just 500 customers and needs nearly $3 million in upgrades to its water system.
"We have been unable to take water out of the creek since August and well production is down, and we didn't have that much water to begin with," said Lois Henry, a Lompico water board member.
Henry said the district may soon have to truck in water.
In Cloverdale, where 9,000 get water from four wells, low flows in the Russian River have prompted the City Council to implement mandatory 25 percent rationing and ban lawn watering. The city raised water rates 50 percent to put in two new wells, which should be completed by July.
"Hopefully we'll be able to get through the summer and the development of this project will pay off." City Manager Paul Caylor said.
Residents of urban areas for the most part have not felt the effects of the drought so far.
Other areas on the state list include small water districts in Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Kern, Amador, Mendocino, Nevada and Placer counties.
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Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com
if you want to know how to get rich in the coming years.. have a way to clean water.. it will be worth more than gold
lots of pics at the links
http://news.msn.com/us/feds-reaffirm-wva-water-safe-for-all
Feds reaffirm W.Va. water safe for all
However, despite assurances from the CDC, some local doctors are telling certain patients not to risk drinking the water.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/82-000-tons-coal-ash-spill-power-plant-n-c-n23401
82,000 Tons Of Coal Ash Spill From Power Plant Into N.C. River
By Alexander Smith
Some 82,000 tons of coal ash mixed with 27 million gallons of contaminated water — enough to fill more than 40 Olympic swimming pools — has leaked from a North Carolina power plant and is threatening water supplies across state lines.
Duke Energy, the United States' largest electricity provider which runs the plant, said Wednesday that hundreds of people using heavy equipment were working day and night to try to solve the situation.
But the company's statement did not provided a timetable for when the leak will be fixed. And regulators are still trying work out if the ash, which can contain toxic chemicals, including lead, arsenic, mercury and radioactive uranium, is a hazard to people or wildlife, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
The coal ash was being stored in a waste pond at the Eden, N.C., power plant, but it started flowing into the Dan River on Sunday when a storm-water pipe running under the pond began to leak.
Brian Williams, a program manager with the Dan River Basin Association, told the AP he is worried that the extent of the damage might not be understood for years.
"How do you clean this up?" he told the news agency. "Dredge the whole river bottom for miles? You can't clean this up. It's going to go up the food chain ... Everything in the ecosystem of a river is connected."
Duke Energy said results downstream showed the water supply remained safe and that it was "exploring multiple options to permanently and safely seal" the pipe.
Across the state line, in Danville, Va., officials told the AP they are successfully filtering out contaminates in the drinking water for their city of 43,000. And Virginia Beach has stopped drawing its water from Lake Gaston, a major reservoir fed by the Dan.