World Water Crisis (LIFE)

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I believe "The Boyz" are still loading up on food commodities, thus no drought news in the US, hail just wiped out thousands of acres in Spain. flooding in India has destroyed much of their crops, China had a typhoon flood some of their crop region.

Water specifically, fracking, arsenic and glyphosate ruining ground water, and lake Erie, geez blast off on food commodities and water coming soon?

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/08/23/lake-erie-algae-bloom

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/real-reason-toxic-algae-hit-floridas-beaches

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-official-links-fracking-and-drinking-water-issues-in-dimock-pa/2013/07/29/7d8b34b2-f8a1-11e2-afc1-c850c6ee5af8_story.html

http://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/glyphosate02.html

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/glyphosate/en/

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Drought is everywhere but nobody is paying attention to water... water is plentiful in bottles and super convenient... for now... the time of want/need is nearly here.

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SHOCK: Americans' drinking water could become thousands of times more radioactive under new EPA proposal

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/054526_water_pollution_radiation_EPA.html#ixzz4D6SgsISD

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The Great Lakes Water Wars Have Begun After U.S. Officials Approve Drawing 30 Million Liters Per Day

http://www.naturalblaze.com/2016/06/the-great-lakes-water-wars-have-begun-after-u-s-officials-approve-drawing-30-million-liters-per-day.html

A group of eight U.S. officials have voted to allow a Wisconsin-based region to begin drawing 30 million liters of water a day from lake Michigan for drinking water. A Canadian Mayor has spoken out on the recently-approved plan calling the recent decision “the end of the Great Lakes as we know them.”

Last year, the city of Waukesha in Wisconsin had asked the Great Lake states for permission to divert water from Lake Michigan because its own aquifer is running low and the water is contaminated with high levels of naturally occurring cancer-causing radium.

A panel representing governors of the eight states adjoining the Great Lakes unanimously approved a proposal from Waukesha, which is under a court order to find a solution to the radium contamination of its groundwater wells. The city says the project will cost over $200 million for engineering studies, pipelines and other infrastructure.

Waukesha is only 27 kilometers from the lake but just outside the Great Lakes watershed. That required the city of about 72,000 to get special permission under the compact, which prohibits most diversions of water across the watershed boundary.

The Mayor of Leamington, Ont. is calling the recently-approved plan to draw water from Lake Michigan the “wrong decision.” He immediately took to Twitter to voice his discontent, calling the recent decision “the end of the Great Lakes as we know them.”

“This should not be allowed,” Paterson told CBC News. “I’m really disappointed it happened. That was unexpected. I actually thought the governor of Michigan was going to side with us. He even bailed.”

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, defended his in-favor vote, arguing the initiative is “the best way to conserve” Lake Michigan.

Over the past few months Ontario officials have expressed a “number of concerns” with the proposal, prompting the city to revise its submission.

“We appreciate the scaling back of this proposal in part thanks to pressure from Ontario,” Bob Duncanson, executive director of Georgian Bay Association, a group representing 20 cottage associations, told the Toronto Star.

“But we still feel that it sets a bad precedent for protection of the finite water resources in the Great Lakes … despite the fact they look like large bodies of water, they don’t replenish easily.”

Under the agreement, Waukesha must return 100 percent of the water it uses as treated effluent piped to the Root River, a Lake Michigan tributary.

Waukesha must filter pharmaceuticals and personal care products from the return water flow, conduct environmental monitoring and document the daily, monthly and annual water withdraw and and return amounts.

Each Great Lakes state can independently conduct audits to inspect Waukesha’s records and the agreement can be withdrawn by the other states at any point if conditions of the agreement are violated.

“Should this decision stand uncontested, it could set a precedent that will lead to drastic consequences for the entire Great Lakes basin.”

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Las Vegas Going Dry? Largest Reservoir In America Reaches Record Low
by Tyler Durden - Jun 17, 2016 2:45 PM

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-17/las-vegas-going-dry-largest-reservoir-america-reaches-record-low

Lots more including chartwork at the link above...

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Water is the biggest risk to the global economy
Bob Bryan May 11, 2016, 7:29 PM

http://www.businessinsider.com/lifeblood-of-the-global-economy-at-risk-2016-5

It doesn't take long to draw up some crisis that could damage the global economy.

China's slowdown, ever increasing emerging-market debt, political instability in the Middle East, and the breakup of the European Union all pose serious risks.

But none of those worries compare to the real danger, according to Joe Quinlan, strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's US Trust.

He wrote (emphasis added):

They all represent known unknowns—or externalities already acknowledged and discounted by the capital markets. That's the good news. The bad news: None of the hazards just mentioned are as remotely as threatening to the global economy as water-related climate change risks, a dynamic little understood by investors.

Quinlan believes that climate change will decrease the supply of water available not only for human consumption, but also industrial use to dangerously low levels. Without water, which he calls the "lifeblood of the global economy," it will be impossible for economies to function, from the human toll to the simple fact that many industries are water-intensive.

He cited a World Bank report that lays out just how dire the situation is: 1.6 billion people could be subject to serious water scarcity within 20 years, while global water demand could shoot up as much as 50% by 2050. Industrial water demand could increase 50% to 70% by 2050, according to World Bank estimates.

India's difficult water situation over the past two years is the perfect example of this trend, according to Quinlan. Here's his breakdown (emphasis added):

None other than India, the newly anointed growth champion of the world economy, is in the grips of a two-year drought that threatens the economic livelihood of more than 300 million people. Because water levels in India's 91 reservoirs are at their lowest levels in decades, agricultural output has declined, while electricity generation has plummeted. Dams are parched, factories are operating below capacity, and the lack of safe drinking water has put the health of millions of people at risk. Water wars have erupted between states, making the crisis all that more acute for the national government. Add it all up and the world's strongest emerging market is being laid low by a climate-induced water crisis.

In order to alleviate these concerns, Quinlan said, governments and private firms will need to invest extensively in conservation and means to combat the global crisis, or risk it totally decimating growth.

According to Quinlan's estimates, the world water industry already generates around $450 billion a year, and that is poised to increase as the globe confronts this issue.

If that doesn't happen, there could be dire consequences.

Quinlan concluded:

Global climate change—or the increasing frequency and severity of droughts, floods and violent storms—has added another dangerous element and layer to the world's mounting water crisis. This slow-motion crisis of the past few decades is now accelerating, creating plenty of risks to global growth but also multiple investment opportunities.

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From Sovereign Man via e-Mail...
April 19, 2016 Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile

Over the weekend, just as I was arriving back to Chile after a few weeks away, the sky above Santiago opened up and started to dump heavy rain on the city.

I was already in the car on the way down to one of our farms once the rains began.

But apparently the downpour was so heavy it caused an epic, almost biblical flood of some of the major rivers in the area.

It was pretty nasty in Santiago; the city just isn’t used to rainfall of that level.

Parts of one of the main highways were totally submerged. Major retail and office buildings were flooded and had to close.

The power grid went down sporadically in a lot of neighborhoods.

And the city’s water system virtually shut down, so millions of people had to go a few days without access to running water.

I’m not trying to paint a picture of chaos and pandemonium; Chile has seen its share of natural disasters, and they tend to deal with such things in a civilized manner.

But still-- who wants to go a few days without access to water and electricity?

It’s easy to take basic utilities for granted when all we have to do is flip a switch and the lights come on... or turn a faucet and water comes out.

A lot of us have grown up in an environment where we’ve never even had to think about the enormous effort from thousands of people and millions of tons of resources it takes to make that happen.

That is, of course, until the power and water go out. Then we start thinking a lot about it.

It’s like health, in a way. Few people wake up feeling grateful for being in good health that morning.

But the moment illness strikes we long for that feeling of wellness.

In my case, the flooding didn’t affect me at all. We got a lot of rain down here at the farm, and the power went up and down sporadically, but it didn’t matter one bit.

In addition to generating a healthy commercial profit, the farm where I am right now can also produce its own food, water, and electricity.

In fact, most of our farms are totally self-sufficient in this way. And it just makes a lot of sense.

Being self-sufficient means that no matter what happens in the world, we’ll be able to deal with anything from a position of strength.

But as we discussed yesterday, part of being a Sovereign Man is having a strong sense of independence and self-reliance.

From a financial perspective, that doesn’t necessarily mean being super rich, but rather educating one’s self to build an independent source of income.

It also means having greater independence from the banking system so that you have more control over your savings.

(This is why I’ve long recommended holding physical cash and precious metals, rather than keeping 100% of your savings in a bank with shaky fundamentals.)

From a personal perspective, this concept of self-reliance also means taking steps to reduce your dependence on the big grid.

I feel a bit strange saying this, because I’m not a doom-and-gloom, ‘the end of the world is nigh’ sort of person.

I’m actually quite optimistic about the world and all the opportunities I’ve seen traveling to 120 countries.

But the world is certainly changing, and that carries a degree of risk.

The big titanic governments that ruled that past are rapidly going broke. That, too, carries a degree of risk.

And as our experiences in Chile over the weekend attest, sometimes the unexpected happens.

As a Sovereign Man, I’d rather be in control of my own fate.

And that means not having to depend 100% on the complicated logistics of transporting coal across the country in order for the lights to come on.

If that system works, I can still use it. If it doesn’t work, it won’t affect me.

This is not to say that everyone should live on a self-sufficient farm and grow their own food (though it is a very nice lifestyle).

Start small. And cheap. Buy some bottles of water and store them some place in your home, out of sight and out of mind.

Or even still, just fill up some old bottles with tap water. It’s practically free.

Don’t feel weird about it-- it’s not crazy to keep a little bit of extra water around the house at almost zero cost. And you certainly won’t be worse off for having it.

It’s like holding a bit of physical cash: there’s basically zero cost for doing it.

But in the event that any of these risks become a reality, it’ll be one of the smartest things you do.

Until tomorrow,

Simon Black
Founder, http://www.SovereignMan.com

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Very hip, very cool, very good!!!

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Interesting article if true>>>>>

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-tower-pulls-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air-180950399/?no-ist

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This is all I needed to see... the acts and manifestations of the Satanic Monsanto never cease to amaze and sicken me:

Pyriproxyfen is a larvicide produced by Sumitomo Chemical, a subsidiary of Monsanto.

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Water---Argentine Doctors Believe Larvicide Real Cause of Zika

http://preventdisease.com/news/16/022316_Argentine-Doctors-Believe-Larvicide-Real-Cause-Zika.shtml

A group of physicians in Argentina has filed a claim that the sudden microcephaly epidemic in Brail was not caused by the Zika virus after all. The physicians claim that a larvicide, placed in the country's water supply, is to blame. Months after the first Zika case was reported, the microcephaly outbreak continues to shake the world's medical community

Maria moved slowly. She remained on the side of the bed. Her joints ached -- a side effect, her doctor said, of the Zika virus.
The pain in her elbows didn't match the pain in her heart as she contemplated the baby she would have in about six months. Would the child be healthy? Eight of her friends were pregnant as well. Five of them had already made the trip to Rio and found out the prognosis for the lives growing inside them.
Maria wondered if she would go to bed that night with good news -- or dread.
Women from all nations have been advised to exercise caution if they are contemplating a trip to Brazil. Microcephaly, a birth defect in newborn babies, has been connected to the Zika virus. Microcephaly is a condition that causes babies to be born with abnormally tiny heads.
The "company line" if being challenged by the Argentine physicians as they suspect that Zika is not to blame for the increase in microcephaly, but that a larvicide in Brazil's water supply is responsible.
Coincidence?
The doctor's group, Physicians in Crop-Sprayed Towns (PCST), points to a 2014 incident where larvicide was dumped into Brazilian waterways to stop the spread of mosquito larvae in drinking water tanks.
The larvicide, sold as Pyriproxyfen, was first applied in a large government-sponsored program, was meant to control the country's mosquito population. Pyriproxyfen is a larvicide produced by Sumitomo Chemical, a subsidiary of Monsanto.
Malformations found in multitudinous kids living in regions where the chemical was added is not an accident according to a PCST report
One example is the instance where the Brazilian Health Ministry injected pyriproxyfen into lakes in Pernambuco. The proliferation of the Aedes aegypti mosquito -- the Zika virus carrier -- in Pernambuco is very high according to the PCST.
The first state to notice the problem was Pernambuco and the state contains 35% of total cases of microcephaly in the country.
According to PCST, during previous Zika epidemics, there have been zero instances of microcephaly linked to Zika. Over 75% of the population in countries where Zika has broken out had been infected with the mosquito-borne virus. For example, in Colombia, where there are many Zika cases, there are no records of microcephaly linked to the virus.
It was after the Colombia president announced that many of the nation's citizens were infected with Zika, but no case of microcephaly that the accusations and allegations started to come out. Over 3,000 pregnant women in Colombia were infected with Zika, but PCST reports show these women are carrying healthy fetuses -- or had already given birth to healthy babies.
Skeptics
Sumitomo Chemical says, on its website, that pyriproxyfen poses a minimal risk to birds, fish, and mammals. However, the evidence is overwhelming.
The Washington Post reported in January that experts examined over 700 cases of Zika-related microcephaly and over half were not related to Zika after all.
Even with all of the suspicions, the World Health Organization (WHO) has not linked Zika to microcephaly.
"While a link between Zika infection and microcephaly has not been established, the circumstantial evidence is suggestive and worrisome," said WHO Director Margaret Chan.
While there is no solid proof yet that the larvicide is behind microcephaly, the government of Grande do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil, suspended the use of the chemical pyriproxyfen.
Sumitomo Chemical, the maker of Pyriproxyfen, released a statement to reassure that its product is safe for use:
"Pyriproxyfen has shown no effects on the reproductive system or nervous system and has been approved for use in around 40 countries across the globe.

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Here's The New Study The Fracking Industry Doesn't Want You to See
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/17/2016 13:47 -0500

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-17/heres-new-study-fracking-industry-doesnt-want-you-see

Though fracking industry proponents scoff at any intimation their so-called vital industry poses even scant risks to the public, a new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology just proved those critics right — fracking wastewater causes cancer.

Using human bronchial epithelial cells, which are commonly used to measure the carcinogenesis of toxicants, researchers confirmed fracking flowback water from the Marcellus Shale caused the formation of malignancies.

After conducting further tests on live mammalian subjects, researchers found five of six mice “injected with cells transformed from well water treatments developed tumors as early as 3 months after injection,” including a tumor in one mouse that grew to over 1 cm in size in just five months. A control group did not develop any tumors for the six months of the study period.

There is more at the link above...

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Global Water Technologies demonstrates new pipeline system in 16 Tech

http://gwtr.com/news_02-14-2016.php

INDIANAPOLIS, February 14, 2016 -- Global Water Technologies (OTC Pink: GWTR) is hosting a demonstation of a new pipeline technnology in the 16 Tech innovation district of Indianapolis this week for a visiting delegation from China and other industry leaders who are attending the Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) show.

The new Tomahawk™ system was developed in Canada by Envirologics Engineering and can be used to rehabilitate aging drinking water pipelines. Aging water infrastructure is a common problem in North America that has received renewed interest after the White House declared a water emergency in Flint, Michigan last month after lead in pipes leached into water supplies. The new technology utilizes a dry process to clean out the build up of such materials and contaminants inside water mains, reline the pipes and return them to service in the same day.

The technoloogy demonstation is being presented in a partnership with Global Water Technologies, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), Envirologics and the national Trenchless Technology Center at Louisiana Tech. The visiting China delegation includes representatives from engineering and construction companies and a large municipal water utility that serves 20 million customers. The visit is being coordinated by Dr. Tom Iseley, who is an international expert in underground infrastructure and was recognized in 2015 by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) with its highest award for his more than 40 years of service.

Global Water Technologies and IUPUI have been promoting a "living laboratory" just north of the campus in an area that has been designated by the city as the site of 16 Tech, a planned world-class innovation community that develops and attracts leading tech talent. This demonstration of new water technology is the first of such activities in the area, which is gearing up for major expansion in the next two years.

More information about the technology demonstration is available at: http://www.gwtr.com/gwtr16Tech.pdf

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Bill Maher: Erin Brockovich – February 5, 2016 (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI7p_cFtZ4w

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I look at that every Thursday when updated. I own a stock that stabilizes rice bran in rice mills in the norther valley. The northern major reservoirs are doing just fine. Shasta, Oroville, Trinity, Bullards Bar and Folsom are well above last years levels, except Trinity that is a higher elevation and has huge areas of snow pack to get them well above last years levels by Memorial Day. The others will benefit as well from snow melt. last year, almost no snow. The southern reservoirs that feed the vegetable farmers need a bit more help, but should exceed last years levels with the snow. The kicker is that from March 1st til june, almost no rain last year in the entire state.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES

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Take a look at the US Drought Monitor w/tons of info:

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu

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Flint was just the beginning.

Detroit collapsing into third world status as water supply becomes too toxic to drink... America's infrastructure imploding

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/052739_toxic_chemicals_water_supply_Detroit_Michigan.html#ixzz3yDtAH200

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One organization covers food and WATER:

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org

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Fracking Wastewater Is Cancer-Causing, New Study Confirms

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/fracking-wastewater-cancer-causing-new-study-confirms-1?page=1

The fracking industry likes to call its product "natural gas," but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater.

A new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology titled, "Malignant human cell transformation of Marcellus Shale gas drilling flow back water," is the first study of its kind to confirm widely held suspicions concerning the carcinogenicity of fracking pollution.

The new collaborative study was conducted by scientists at esteemed institutions in both the U.S. and China and found that so-called "flow back" fracking wastewater induced malignant changes in human bronchial epithelial cells consistent with the cancerous phenotype. The same fracking wastewater was injected into mice, with 5 of the 6 developing .2 cm to .6 cm tumors as early as 3 months after injection, and with the control mice forming no tumors after 6 months. The authors concluded that their results indicate "flow back water is capable of neoplastic transformation in vitro," i.e. fracking wastewater is capable of producing cancer in mammals.

n order to understand how, and to what extent, this fracking wastewater is produced, read the following background information:

Natural gas is believed to possibly be a bridge to transitioning from coal dependence. Currently natural gas fuels nearly 40% of the U.S. electricity generation, and the Marcellus Shale formation in the Appalachian Basin is on the forefront of gas-shale drilling for natural gas production in the United States (Pritz, 2010). Mining natural gas is not new, but the volume has soared in recent years because the new technique of high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHHF). The concern surrounding the environmental, public health and social impacts of this method has increased accordingly. HVHHF is an advanced technology that injects water, sand, and other ingredients at very high pressure vertically into a well about 6000 to 10,000 ft deep (Penningroth et al., 2013). The high pressure creates small fractures in the rock that extend out as far as 1000 ft away from the well. The pressure is reduced after the fractures are created, which allows water from the well to return to the surface, also known as flow back water (Veil, 2010). The flow back water contains complex proprietary chemical mixtures, but also naturally occurring toxins such as metals, volatile organics, and radioactive compounds that are destabilized during gas extraction (Warner et al., 2012). On average, about 5.5 million gallons of water is used on average to hydraulically fracture each shale gas well, and 30% to 70% of the volume returns as flow back water (Veil, 2010). Currently discharge options of flow back water are: inject underground through an onsite or offsite disposal well; discharge to a nearby surface water body; transport to a municipal wastewater treatment plant or publicly owned treatment works; transport to a commercial industrial wastewa- ter treatment facility; and/or reuse for a future hydraulic fracturing job either with or without some remediation (Pritz, 2010). Some commercial wastewater disposal facilities accept flow back and discharge the water after treatment under their own national pollutant discharge elimination system permits (Veil, 2010).

The implications of the data presented above are truly harrowing. Pennsylvania, alone, has over 7,700 active wells in use at present. Over 4,000 violations have been reported, and over 6 million in fines paid out thus far. The operation of these Pennyslvania wells require about 42 billion gallons of water, and according to the figures above, would together produce between 1.4 and 6 billion gallons of flow back wastewater.

Despite the massive scale of toxic pollution generated by the fracking industry, they have been highly successful in deceiving the public by calling its product "natural gas" -- a typical green-washing technique.

he truth is that the Marcellus Shale formation in the Appalachian Basin, which is by far the #1 producer of "natural gas" in the US, and which uses the increasingly widespread fracking technique known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracking (HVHHF), is responsible for producing not only massive fracking chemical and heavy metal pollution, but radioactive waste as well. Read my report, "Fracking Creates Massive Radioactive Waste Problem," to learn about how the fracking of the Marcellus Shale is releasing highly carcinogenic radioactive waste into the environment on an unprecedented scale.

The new study addresses the radioactivity concern by noting that their test wastewater, "may not be truly representative as it was aged prior to the physical–chemical characterization necessary in this set of experiments; and thus neither significant amount of radioactivity or organic compounds was present." In other words, the carcinogenicity of fracking pollution may be far higher than observed in this study i radioactive components are taken into account.

The primary "carcinogenic" elements identified in the test wastewater were barium and strontium, which are two alkaline minerals that mimic calcium in living organisms and therefore are freely taken up by cells. These elements are naturally found in the Marcellus Shale, but are released in far higher than natural concentrations into wastewater as contaminants only after fracking.

The study concluded:

Our work has provided the first line of evidence that Marcellus Shale flow back water induces malignant cell transformation in vitro. The BEAS-2B cells exposed to flow back water up to six weeks appeared to be transformed and exhibiting altered morphology as compared to parental cells. The present work also provided Ba and Sr as hydraulic fracturing-related target pollutants in addition to the more classically- studied fracking contaminants (i.e., radioisotopes and methane) for fur- ther investigation. Research to determine whether fracking-associated pollutants can migrate to private or public drinking wells, to identify early warning indicators of exposure and effect, and to identify suitable remediation approaches are urgently needed. Descriptive and analytical epidemiological studies along with animal model studies will help to better understand the health impact associated with unconventional shale gas production.

To learn more about the hazards of fracking, watch the movie "Gasland" belowfrownIN THE LINK BELOW

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Merry Christmas, all!!!

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Let It Snow - California Drought Recovery Remains "Extremely Unlikely"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/25/2015 16:00 -0500

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/let-it-snow-california-drought-recovery-remains-extremely-unlikely

While so much hope is pinned on El Nino relieving California's drought in early 2016, climatologists suggest tempering that optimism a little as what is really needed is snow. "Since it has been dry for so long, people get excited,” says one hydrologist, but, as Bloomberg reports, without snow "the notion of fully recovering from the drought is extremely unlikely,” as if the storms come in as rain, or the mountain snow can’t pile up high enough, a lot of water will be lost.

California is in its fourth year of drought and almost the entire state is abnormally dry, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Improvement is possible. However, the drought will certainly go into a fifth year, according to the forecast from the U.S. Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. As Bloomberg reports,

The drought relief for California widely expected from El Nino in early 2016 will be far more effective if a chill descends soon -- ideally with a bit of snow.

“If we can get some snow on the ground and some cold nights, it will set up the snowpack and get cool air pooling,” said California State Climatologist Mike Anderson.

Cool air, especially at high altitudes, will help ensure snow falls and stays on the ground in the mountains through the winter, as needed to supply the state’s reservoirs. While that may seem like a non-issue given the height of the mountains and the tradition of heavy snows there, recent years have seen some worrisome trends.

During the winter of 2014-15, the three-month average temperature in the Sierra region topped the freezing mark of 32 degrees Fahrenheit (zero Celsius) for the first time in records dating to 1950, data compiled by Anderson show.

California as a whole posted its warmest February on record and both December and January came in among the top 10, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina.

Here is why all of this is important: If El Nino delivers the promised increase in big, wet storms off the Pacific from January to March, California needs a lot of what falls from those systems to be snow.

There is more at the link above...

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Officials Secretly Added Cancer-Causing Chemicals to City’s Water Supply
Cassius Methyl November 6, 2015

http://theantimedia.org/officials-secretly-added-cancer-causing-chemicals-to-citys-water-supply/

(ANTIMEDIA) Sacramento, CA — In 2013 and 2014, the City of Sacramento performed a water treatment experiment at the expense of residents of the city “to save money,” according to a local news investigation.

Area residents were never informed about the toxic chemical contamination of their water that resulted from the experiment. “Cancer, miscarriages, and birth defects” are the consequences of consuming those chemicals, but the extent to which Sacramento residents are likely to experience these symptoms is not yet known.

City officials allowed the experiment to continue for an entire year — despite knowing early on that very process was creating carcinogens. For how long that contamination will be suspended in the water supply is up in the air.

Officials experimented on the water with a new added chemical to aid in removing sediment, silt, and other impurities in the water supply: aluminum chlorohydrate (ACH). It was due to replace the chemical known as ALUM that was regularly used to take the larger particles out of river water to treat it. Both chemicals weigh down the sediment to make it easily removable.

However, the addition of ACH to the city’s water supply wound up being ineffective as a treatment — so an excessive quantity of chlorine was added to the water, as well.

An astonishing failure, the combination of excess chlorine and aluminum chlorohydrate ended up yielding carcinogenic toxins known as “DBPs” — disinfection byproducts. Specifically, these are in the class of chemicals known as THMs, or Trihalomethanes.

According to Water Research, THMs are in the same chemical class as chloroform; and, although this water experiment ended about a year ago, the THMs remain in Sacramento’s water supply in levels that exceed EPA regulations. Several readings of THM levels provided to ABC10 exceeded 80 parts per billion, the EPA limit.

The rest of this article with hyperlinks is available at the link above...

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US Forest Service sued over Nestlé bottled water controversy

By Hal Conick+, 16-Oct-2015

Snippet:
The US Forest Service is being sued for not taking action against Nestlé Waters North America, with public interest groups saying the company is bottling water without a current permit from the San Bernardino National Forest.

http://www.beveragedaily.com/Manufacturers/US-Forest-Service-sued-over-Nestle-bottled-water-controversy

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California - A Deluge Followed by Mega Drought?
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 09/01/2015 08:53 -0400

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-01/california-deluge-followed-mega-drought

Both NOAA and the Australian Meteorologists issued El Nino updates in the past 24 hours. The weekly numbers that were released confirm that an historic event is taking place. It now is (nearly) certain that the most significant El Nino in recorded history will be with us over the next five months. From the Aussie weather geeks:

The 2015 El Niño is now the strongest El Niño since 1997–98.

The last time we were close to the current El Nino conditions was the fall/winter of 1997/1998. National Geographic has this to say of the 1997 El Nino:

It rose out of the tropical Pacific in late 1997, bearing more energy than a million Hiroshima bombs. By the time it had run its course eight months later, the giant El Niño of 1997-98 had deranged weather patterns around the world, killed an estimated 2,100 people, and caused at least 33 billion [U.S.] dollars in property damage.

At its peak, the 1997 El Nino index reached a record high of 2.3. This extreme level was nearly reached over the past week, there is every indication that it will move higher in the coming months.

Plenty of info/charts at the link above...