Maude Barlow on Water: The Myth of Abundance

[Medusa]

OOOOHHHH!! Dawn!! I've never heard of her but I am SO intrigued!

I will be watching the vids on the treadmill

Thank you for such a wonderful and interesting thread!

[Kätzchen]

Time has passed slowly since I first became acquainted with issues concerning impending water crises— locally, nationally or even at international levels of interest.

Here in the immediate area of my home state of Oregon, the ongoing fight for water resources between farmers and indigenous populations has only been reported on from the perspective of saving fish runs to certain rivers and dams (Kalamath, etc), but had we not gotten a late winter snow storm in early March, we might have drinking water issues in the metro area of our state’s largest populated areas. I know we have schools across the pdx area that still have lead pipes which contaminates fresh water supplies but that is one of many water concerns in our local area.

At a national level, I’ve lost track of former but relatively recent water issues. I know there are critical issues out there but it is not getting the press coverage it needs to warn people of the dire consequences of not taking care of our water infrastructure.

Here is a recent report I learned about originally on CNN, but investigated on my own and came up with the headline story on water troubles for those who live in Mexico.

LINK: https://water.org/our-impact/where-we-work/mexico/


Here is a few frightening details about the water crisis Mexicans face:

A) In general, millions of people do not have access to clean water.

B). In the countries’ capital, Mexico City— which has a population of 127 million, 72 million do not have access to clean water. And, 47 million do not have access to a toilet.

C). Mexico City, by summer, will not have any trickle of any water supply. They have a crippled water and crippled sanitation situation driven by extreme drought and a barren economy which leaves the Mexican population in extreme crisis because they can’t truck in clean water nor do they have a plan to get their ongoing water crises addressed by summer.


Here is an updated news report from a water agency:

https://americasquarterly.org/articl...into-politics/


I’m guessing Maude Barlow has got to be Canada’s superhero by now because years ago she helped steer Canadian interests by making sure water rights in Canada were designated as a human right so no foreign interest could claim their natural water reserves as theirs. Thereby, protecting the interests of humans who live in Canada. America has yet to adopt Canadian standards for water rights and to protect clean water sources from foreign interests. Mexico is in serious trouble with lack of clean water and sanitation services. America might be next on the horizon of the “water wars” Maude Barlow referenced years ago.

[Kätzchen]

Just a day ago or so, CNN featured a press release about rivers in Alaska bleeding orange— due to toxic minerals leaching into rivers and polluting fresh water supplies for humans and animals alike.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/clima...ska/index.html


Closer to home, here in Oregon, out in Umatilla county (Pendleton, Boardman, and surrounding rural areas) have undrinkable water due to toxic nitrates in well water or naturally occurring water reservoirs. It’s been going on for months and the article I saw yesterday is very disconcerting. Here in the Portland metro area we constantly hear about how the Willamette River and Columbia River are constantly being monitored for sewage spills, and other toxic forms of materials which are not easily cleansed from rivers or riverbeds etc.

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2...contamination/


I subscribe to a nonprofit organization that is trying to help educate the world on the impending and highly serious water crisis occurring in Mexico’s biggest metropolis— Mexico City, where a staggering number of resident do not have clean water to drink or even a toilet. They’re in serious trouble down there, yet it seems the water crisis there is as big or bigger than other serious water crisis issues leaking into major news outlets.

https://www.ecowatch.com/mexico-city...-day-zero.html


Maude Barlow still is involved in water management services both in Canada and in Washington DC …. If I find any news about how people locally or nationally or internationally come about solving water crisis issues I will try to get them posted here.

Until next time,

— K.

[Kätzchen]

The forthcoming war on water between Mexico and the US concerns itself with an outdated water sharing policy which centers upon the Rio Grande— which Texas argues is an immigration issue but it’s not . This is most likely why Mexico City has no water, due to extreme drought and no rainfall for either Mexico or the borderlands of Texas near Mexico.

I saw this press release today about it, over on CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/clima...ght/index.html

Also, Democrat Arizona Gov Katie Hobbs finally took action last year by canceling the water rights lease by Saudi owned company producing hay for cattle: the Saudi based company was over pumping water from local sources which puts others in danger and in need of water. That press release has been featured on CBS news: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-a...ccess-arizona/.

[Kätzchen]

From a source devoted to factual, statistical analysis by scientists who study PFA’s in water sources serving municipal areas, has issued its findings in a scholarly periodical this past December (2024).

PFA’s are man-made chemicals which never goes away and ruins water sheds and rivers and other vital places where water sources live.

This study “screams” for anybody and everybody’s attention because water sources are compromised daily. Until technology is developed to scrub water clean of PFA’s, and until newer technological advances are developed to deal with how soil is affected by current use of x, y, or z methods which contaminates soil and water, the diversity of the soil and water impacts will never change until more people realize that the human race will not survive soil and water impacts.

Water is essential to life. Clean water extends and enhances human life.

Again, this is a timely article educating people on scientific evidence found about the polluted water sources affecting millions of every day Americans.

LINK: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2417156122