“Water which is too pure has no fish.”
- Anonymous
Water is life and it is recyclable, covering 70 percent
of our planet; 2.5 percent is fresh water and “only 1 percent is easily
accessible, the rest is trapped in glaciers and snowfields.” National
Geographic noted that freshwater is in crisis because levels have remained the
same over millennia but the human population has exploded to seven billion and
thus water use based on population size and animal use is unsustainable. http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/
The climate change
industry is growing exponentially, shaped and driven by U.N.’s Agenda 2030, relentlessly
introduced, reintroduced, renamed, and first signed by 178 nations in 1992 as
Agenda 21. This agenda is driven not by the “saving the planet” narrative, but by
global social engineering control and redistribution of wealth to third world
nations.
The lynchpin
of the now globally-adopted Agenda 2030 is sustainability
everything disguised as smart
growth/green growth. Everything we do in the civilized world has been
declared unsustainable by the global
elites who control this climate change industry scam worth trillions of
dollars.
To please elitist
billionaires and environmentalists around the world, we must fundamentally
change according to their plans of de-developing society and regressing to a more
primitive lifestyle. They are now regulators of water use, electricity
production and use, fossil fuel exploration and use, mining, agriculture,
education, medical care, and land use, which will enable them to control the
weather and the climate by taxing us into oblivion.
U.N.
declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation. They celebrated The
World Water Day on March 22, 2014 and the world toilet day on November 19 to
remind us that 2.5 billion people have no sanitation and 780 million people do
not have access to clean water. http://www.unwater.org/water-cooperation-2013/en/
U.N. alleges
that our civilization and standard of living pollute river basins and eating
meat and dairy places undue stress on water because those industries use more
water to operate.
Some African
countries cannot provide clean water to their population yet they are discouraged
to produce electricity with “dirty” fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels and
electricity, clean water cannot be supplied in sufficient quantities thus water-borne
diseases are rampant.
Desalination
is frowned upon by environmentalists because it is much more expensive to
produce than conventional ways of providing fresh water. Israel that is
successfully and relatively inexpensively providing 40% of its water supply
from desalination.
According to
discovery.com, there are over 15,000 desalination plants around the world that
convert ocean water into drinking water either by distillation or reverse
osmosis. Environmentalists complain that both processes use too much
electricity. Distillation involves boiling the sea water, capturing the steam,
separating it into cooling tanks, which then condense the steam into fresh
water. Reverse osmosis is filtration that removes the salt and minerals from
the water. The brine left behind is usually piped back into the ocean.
Mike Mickley
wrote in “US Municipal Desalination Plants: Number, Types, Location, Sizes, and
Concentrate Management Practices” that 324 plants were built since 1971 in the
United States, capable of producing 25,000 gallons of fresh water per day. The
Carlsbad desalination plant in San Diego, California is slated for completion
in 2016 and will be capable of producing 50 million gallons of fresh water per
day, providing 7 percent of the San Diego region’s supply needs.
United
Nations bemoans the fact that “85% of the world’s population lives in the
driest half of the planet.” The eventual U.N. planned solution will be social
engineering in the form of massive population movement from these arid areas to
places like Europe and the United States where the rural density per capita is
quite low.
IPCC “predicts
with high confidence that water stress will increase in central and southern
Europe and, that by the 2070s, the number of people affected will rise from 28
million to 44 million. Summer flows are likely to drop by up to 80 % in
southern Europe and some part of central and Eastern Europe. Europe’s
hydropower potential is expected to drop by an average of 6%, but rise by
20-50% around the Mediterranean by 2070.” (Alcamo et al., 2007)
Data from
the World Bank was cited in 2010 which estimated the cost of a yet to be seen 2
degree Celsius rise in global temperatures to be $70-100 billion per year
between 2020 and 2050. Of this cost, anywhere from $13.7-19.2 billion will be
water-related. http://www.unwater.org/water-cooperation-2013/water-cooperation/facts-and-figures/en/
Elitists say
that, if global population would be allowed to reach the current lifestyle of
the average European or North American, 3.5 planets Earth would be needed for sustainability. That is why population control by any means
is considered important. Projections predict 2-3 billion people over the next
40 years. This growth will certainly not come from the senescent white
Europeans and North Americans but from third world countries.
As Tom
DeWeese wrote in his report, “Sustainablists
work to keep these nations from developing or increasing energy use,
thereby keeping them poor. Green regulations stop the building of
infrastructure. They panic at the idea of increased energy use in developing
nations. Instead of working to solve the real problems – the root of poverty -
they exploit the excuse of over population and advocate enforcing polices
to drastically reduce populations. China’s brutal one child policy of forced
abortions and sterilization has become their model.”
How many people does the United
Nations believe should inhabit our planet? “A reasonable estimate for an
industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of
living would be 1 billion. At a more frugal European standard of living, 2
to 3 billion would be possible.” United
Nations Global Biodiversity Assessment. https://deweesereport.com/2016/05/17/six-issues-that-are-agenda-21/?mc_cid=040d1ca29b&mc_eid=371fc3eeb1
The fact
that we have periods of drought and rainy seasons escapes the “sustainablists” narrative. But, we must
still use our water resources responsibly. Do we need to have daddy government
control water consumption and recreation via smart water meters and other
regulations?
Even though
we’ve had 21 consecutive days of non-stop rain, our water bill contained a
glossy which stated the necessity to control irrigation via a recommended
irrigation schedule. Odd number addresses could water on Sundays, Tuesdays, and
Fridays. Even number addresses could water on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.
And businesses could water on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Installing
rain sensors and soil moisture detectors to avoid unnecessary irrigation and
further reduce stress on the water system was recommended so that our Service
Authority could maintain adequate water pressure in our neighborhood.
The American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) reported that 170,000 public drinking water
systems in the country serve 264 million people, transporting 13 percent of the
total water withdrawn from the U.S. surface and subterranean sources to
residential and commercial buildings via 1 million miles of water main pipe
that are deep in the ground and over 100 years old.” The cost of replacing
these pipes is $1 trillion and will be passed on to the consumers. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30724-exclusive-dispatch-private-water-industry-says-water-bills-have-to-go-up
A USA Today
survey of 100 municipalities found that “residential water bills in at least one
in four places have doubled in the past 12 years.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/09/27/rising-water-rates/1595651/
Some states fine
and jail homeowners who collect rainwater. Even a rain puddle is regulated in
other places. In California’s San Joaquin Valley, protecting the delta smelt is
more important than irrigating crops that feed millions of Americans.
The voters
in Oregon tired of their government’s overt attempt to control their water and land
and said no to Nestlé. They rallied and
defeated Nestlé’s attempt to privatize their
water.
“The
issue that brought conservatives and progressives together in this way was
clear-cut: keeping Nestlé Waters North America from building a water bottling
plant and extracting over 118 million gallons annually from a spring in a
small, rural community 45 miles east of Portland.”
Americans
drink a lot of expensive bottled water, often just filtered tap water, over 10
billion gallons in 2013. With revenue of $12.3 billion in 2013 and Americans
spending $18.2 billion on bottled water in 2014, there is a cash cow in that
industry which the International Bottled Water Association is gladly
representing. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36129-our-water-our-future-voters-in-oregon-defeat-nestle-s-attempt-to-privatize-their-water
Progressives
and the U.N. are obsessed with water, among many other things, as a way to
control what people do. Take for instance a golfing community in Texas that
pumps water from the Brazos River running next to the golf course. After
estimating the number of gallons of water needed to water their lawn, they paid
the county for the water plus an additional amount in case they have
underestimated their needs. After years of this business arrangement, the
county wants to “renegotiate” the agreement because they feel that the course
is not entitled to so much of “God’s water.”
Additionally,
the residents cannot build cisterns to catch rainfall because “God’s water”
would run on the property, seep into the ground, and run off into the river,
thus polluting it.
As I
described in my previous article, http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58534
United Nations has a strong vested interest to control our water supply and our
passage through the seas, oceans, our shipping, fishing, and mineral and oil
exploration on the bottom of the ocean. They are controlling it through Agenda
21, chapters 17 and 18, and through the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) which has
not yet been ratified by the Senate for lack of sufficient votes – for now.
Executive
Order 13603 from March 16, 2012 gives the Department of Defense authority over all
water resources. The order also covers all food, transportation, energy,
construction materials, “health resources,” farm equipment, fertilizers, and all
fuels that can be commandeered and controlled by our government both in
peacetime and during national emergencies. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
Tombstone,
Arizona, “the town too tough to die,” has been embroiled in expensive
litigation with the USDA and the Forest Service over its ability to use water
from the mountain springs that has provided the desert town with water since
the 1880s, predating the Wilderness Act by 80 years.
A Monument
Fire in 2011 destroyed the pipes in Huachuca Mountains that carried the water
down from its source in the Miller Canyon Wilderness Area. Boulders the size of
cars buried the pipes. The Forest Service denied residents the use of heavy
machinery to unearth the pipes that were covered in some places by 12 feet of
mud. Instead, they could only use wheelbarrows and hand tools because they were
protecting an endangered species, a pair of nesting Mexican spotted owls. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/06/12/is-this-owl-forcing-historic-tombstone-az-to-fix-water-lines-with-horses-and-handtools/
The 10th
Amendment protects states and their subdivisions from federal regulations that
impede their ability to fulfill essential health and safety functions. “Though
the water may originate on National Forest lands, Bureau of Land Management
lands, and other federally managed lands, the rights to that water belong to
the farms and ranches and cities.” The lawyers for the federal government
disagree.
In mid-June
2012, a group of citizens armed with shovels trekked 2 miles up the mountain in
100 degree heat to restore water by hand from the Gardner Spring to the
historical Tombstone, Arizona. http://netrightdaily.com/2012/06/tombstone-az-residents-forced-to-use-shovels-and-hand-tools-to-fix-water-supply/
Mr. Gosar said
in his one minute speech to the House of Representatives on December 12, 2012,
“Our communities shouldn’t need their Congressman or a lawsuit to make basic
repairs to infrastructure. The Federal Government should work with us, not
against us, to preserve western water supplies.” http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r112:H12DE2-0026:/
Progressives
don’t like hydroelectric power generation because it is interfering with nature,
aquatic habitats, and the natural flow of rivers. Many dams have been blown up for
this very reason. The fact that nature itself causes rivers to flood, creating
and destroying habitats at the same time, had been ignored by the progressive
agenda.
We now have
to suffer the ill-effects of low flush “enviro-friendly” toilets that don’t
really save any water since people have to flush them 4-5 times in order to get
rid of human waste. To make matters worse, city sewers get stopped up because
of low-flush toilets, costing them millions and millions of dollars a year to
fix huge clogs. The much touted flushable wipes also choke the small residential
pipes and cost homeowners millions of dollars a year to dig them out and
replace. Yet there is sufficient water, save for cyclical periods of drought.
Copyright: Ileana Johnson 2016
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