Maude Barlow on Water: The Myth of Abundance

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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.

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The forthcoming war on water between Mexico and the US concerns itself with an outdated water sharing policy which centers upon the Rio Grande— which Texas argues is an immigration issue but it’s not .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/.

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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