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Erasing Flint’s Water Crisis: Or How to Lie With Statistics
Erasing Flint’s Water Crisis: Or How to Lie With Statistics Photo by Pete Souza | CC BY 2.0 Mark Twain famously wrote that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” This insight is relevant to examining the apologetics of modern-day academics in the rising neoliberal assault on the public. This subservience […]
New Jersey To Now Tax Water Supply as Well – Creative Greed of Taxes
New Jersey To Now Tax Water Supply as Well – Creative Greed of Taxes Politicians are truly amazing. When they need money, they are never short of ideas of things to tax. New Jersey is proposing to now tax water from the tap. The proposal is being submitted by State Senator Bob Smith D-Middlesex. Of course, Smith […]
How Lead Poisoning Was Discovered in Flint’s Water
How Lead Poisoning Was Discovered in Flint’s Water The toxic water supply in Flint, Michigan, which exposed up to 42,000 children under 2 years of age to lead poisoning, was a major media story a few years back. Ingestion of high dosages of lead, particularly among infants, results in cognitive impairment, attention and mood disorders, […]
Military Seizes Control Of Water Supplies As Venezuelan Infrastructure Collapses
Military Seizes Control Of Water Supplies As Venezuelan Infrastructure Collapses If there’s one group that has benefited from Venezuela’s economic collapse, it’s the country’s military, which has been handed control over much of the country’s remaining industry as the collapse has intensified. Venezuela’s army, about 160,000 strong, controls the mineral-rich Arco Minero del Orinoco, and […]
Water Wars: India Facing “Worst Crisis In Its History”
Water Wars: India Facing “Worst Crisis In Its History” India is facing its worst-ever water crisis, with some 600 million people facing acute water shortage, a government think-tank says. The Niti Aayog report, which draws on data from 24 of India’s 29 states, says the crisis is “only going to get worse” in the years […]
If You Think the Water Restrictions in California Are Tough, Check Out Cape Town
If You Think the Water Restrictions in California Are Tough, Check Out Cape Town Remember earlier in the year when the news was abuzz about Day Zero in Cape Town, South Africa? According to the press at the time, the day was looming when the city of 3.74 million people would run completely out of […]
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything What if it were possible to make headway on all these issues with simple changes to our neighborhoods? What if we could cut our medical costs in half? What if we could give the average American an added five years of healthy life? What if we could […]
The toxic price of convenience
The toxic price of convenience As many as 110 million Americans may be drinking water contaminated by a toxic class of chemicals that according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are used in “stain- and water-repellent fabrics, nonstick products (e.g., Teflon), polishes, waxes, paints, cleaning products, and fire-fighting foams (a major source of groundwater […]
America’s ‘Cadillac Desert’: Is there a substitute for fresh water?
America’s ‘Cadillac Desert’: Is there a substitute for fresh water? Thirty years after Marc Reisner penned Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water his prophesy is being fulfilled. As the chalky rings which mark previous higher water levels around Colorado River reservoirs grow ever wider, Grist reports that major disputes are now afoot […]
Nestlé’s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint
Nestlé’s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint Screw the people of Flint, or so goes the mantra of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which last month approved a controversial permit that will allow Nestlé to pump and bottle 400 gallons of fresh water per minute from the state’s White Pine Springs, near the […]
Understanding What the ‘New Normal’ Means for Water in the West
Understanding What the ‘New Normal’ Means for Water in the West After 20 years of drought conditions, some scientists are calling for better terminology to describe the impact of rising temperatures in the region. Humphrey’s Peak in Arizona is experiencing one of its lowest runoff years in history.Education Images/UIG via Getty Images APRIL IS OFTEN a […]
The Great Flood
The Great Flood There is little doubt that the amount of water on earth really does not change. There is simply what is known as the Water Cycle whereby evaporation moves water to the sky and then it is redistributed as rain elsewhere. Therefore, the likelihood of an actual flood in Biblical terms that covered […]
Selco: The Dirty Truth About Water and Sanitation When the SHTF
Selco: The Dirty Truth About Water and Sanitation When the SHTF Note: The biggest concerns in any long-term emergency are water and sanitation because the lack of these things can cause serious illness or even death. Because water and sanitation aren’t nearly as glamorous as guns and gadgets, they’re often overlooked in a preparedness plan. I […]
Water Wars Loom: UN Warns 5 Billion People Will Face Civilizational Threat By 2050
Water Wars Loom: UN Warns 5 Billion People Will Face Civilizational Threat By 2050 While residents of Cape Town, South Africa, brace for Day Zero (the day that the city of 4 million’s municipal water supply will be cut off for most households and businesses in order to preserve water after a severe drought that […]
Canada Covering Up Global Warming Nuts Destroying the Water Supply
Canada Covering Up Global Warming Nuts Destroying the Water Supply COMMENT: When Government turns on its own citizens. Good day, Martin; This climate change movement here in Ontario, Canada has gone too far. Construction of windmills in a small farming area has contaminated 16 residential water wells with that destroyed the pumps and piping that feed […]
