Photo is Airfield Falls near Fort Worth, Texas.
Water. Every living thing needs it but how much does anyone know about where we get it or how we get it to our house? Or how clean it is? I’ve been hearing for quite a while that there isn’t enough of it and there are literal water wars over how it gets allocated in several states.
But it’s not as scarce as they are trying to convince you, and charge you extra for…Hello, there is more water than land on our planet!
Desalination anyone? It’s an idea whose time has come, yet virtually no one is talking about it. Jon Rappoport and others write about how it’s actually fairly cheap to desalinate and build pipelines from the coasts to areas of the country where water is needed. I wonder why we never hear from anyone in a position to do something about it. Must not be enough profit. Or maybe it’s just way more profitable to use scarcity as a tool for control by keeping the prices higher.
The thing is, they know how to make it rain. It’s well documented at this point. So why is there any drought anywhere at all?
But what about how the water we do have access to is managed? Flint, Michigan is the poster child for bad management but it’s not the only example. Corporations have been polluting waterways for decades. If they really cared about having enough clean water it seems like they would do better at managing it.
Factories making aluminum, iron ore, and fertilizer produce fluoride as a by product and found a way to get it added to municipal water supplies. Probably hired lobbyists for those companies who were concerned with the cost of disposing of such a toxic chemical.
Turning a liability into an asset. What an awesome super power for a company to have! The chicanery is mind blowing. Our dear Congress lets them get away with it. Lobbyists are rich and can afford expensive gifts. Also, those company stock prices magically get better and Congress members reap the benefits of being such astute investors inside traders.
They even got the psyciatric profession to recommend anti depressants which are full of fluoride and other psychotropics. Fluoride is known as a neurological suppressant, which is why the Nazis used it on prisoners. An old joke goes: “Why is fluoride a prominent ingredient in prozac? Why is it in all of our drinking water? Why does nobody care?? Oh, the fluoride...”
Besides the chemicals from industrial waste, there are more and more contaminants showing up that industry insiders call “forever chemicals.” They stay around basically forever. PFAS as they are known, seep into the ground water from Fire fighter equipment and from many products we use. Like cleaners, paint, and flame retardant fabrics for example.
After learning about how much stuff is allowed to be in our drinking water, I decided to get a reverse osmosis built in water filter. And I write to my representatives about desalination plants to help with our water crisis. And better ways to protect the water we already have access to. Who knows if anyone actually reads my letters. But for sure they won’t get read if I don’t write.
Still it’s every man for himself now. Just in case, I suggest making sure you can get good water in the event of an emergency. And right now too. Good water can make a huge difference in your health.
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Speaking of water, enjoy the original and in my opinion, still the best version of this song. Art Garfunkle slays it.
"Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly
But they don't last long if they try!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI
The worst polluters are government agencies and government contractors. The most horrifyingly polluted place in the world is Hanford, Washington, and it wasn't free markets that made it that way. It was stolen by the government (eminent domain is theft) in 1943 and polluted egregiously and deliberately because nobody in the government has ever cared about their neighbours.
There is in fact plenty of water, and it falls where it is needed. Yes, it is certainly true that non-metal desalination systems are effective and low cost today, but most of them involve energy. And there is also plenty of oil in the world, but that is also made scarce through a very large number of government interventions going back to the late 19th Century.
Pure water is extremely important. The problem is humans. There are too many of us and we want too many products that create pollution. In my opinion, *everyone* should have a water purifier in their home. Personally I like the "gravity fed" systems (I'm also a fan of the alkaline ionizer purifiers). Gravity fed is good, it's pretty much foolproof. It just requires a little bit of effort to pour water into the top each day!