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    Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China 1/2 US Faces Extreme Water Crisis

    Obama Allows Great Lakes Water To Be Sold To China As Half The U.S. Faces Extreme Water Crisis

    By Michael Snyder, on December 16th, 2013



    What in the world is Barack Obama thinking? At a time when the United States is facing the greatest water crisis that it has ever known, Obama is allowing water from the Great Lakes to be drained, bottled and shipped to China and other countries around the globe. Right now, the Great Lakes hold approximately 21 percentof the total supply of fresh water in the entire world. Considering the fact that global water supplies are becoming extremely tight, that is an invaluable resource. One recent UN report projected that two-thirds of the people in the world will be dealing with “water stress” and 1.8 billion people will be facing “absolute water scarcity” by the year 2025. So why are we allowing foreign corporations such as Nestle to make millions upon millions of dollars pumping water out of the Great Lakes and selling it overseas? Considering the massive worldwide water crisis that we know is coming in the years ahead, shouldn’t we be doing everything that we can to protect this precious natural resource?
    Most Americans don’t realize this, but earlier this year water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan were at their lowest levels ever recorded. The following is from a recent article by Suzanne Eovaldi
    “Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels EVER RECORDED,” the US Army Corps of Engineers reported early this year. Corps measurements taken in January of 2013 “show Lake Huron and Lake Michigan have reached their lowest ebb since record keeping began in 1918.” The chief watershed hydrology expert warns Americans that “We’re in an extreme situation.”
    So what is causing all of this? Well, of course most of the water that leaves the Great Lakes is lost by evaporation. But the fact that water is being steadily pumped out of the Great Lakes and sold overseas is certainly not helping matters
    “Plunging water levels are beyond anyone’s control,” says another expert, James Weakley. But in one of our most popular posts, last year we warned, “Lake Michigan water is being shipped by boat loads over to China! By using a little known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan to the tune of an estimated $500,000 to $1.8 million per day profit.”
    For even more on this, please check out the episode of “Conspiracy Theory” with Jesse Ventura that I have posted below…



    All of this is happening at a time when the U.S. is getting ready to deal with the greatest water crisis this nation has ever known.
    For example, according to a Reuters article from just a few weeks ago, the state of California is currently experiencing the driest year ever recorded
    To nurture his acres of pistachio trees, Tom Coleman has long relied on water from California’s mountain-ringed reservoirs, fed by Sierra streams and water pumped from the massive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
    But the driest year on record has left the reservoirs so depleted – and the delta so fragile – that state water officials say they may be able to provide just 5 percent of the water he and others were expecting for next year.
    This water shortage is causing massive problems all over the state. Just check out how a recent Fresno Bee article described what is happening to Pine Flat Reservoir…
    Pine Flat Reservoir is a ghost of a lake in the Fresno County foothills — a puddle in a 326 billion-gallon gorge.
    Holding only 16% of its capacity, Pine Flat is the best example of why there is high anxiety over the approaching wet season.
    Gone is the healthy water storage that floated California through two dry years. Major reservoirs around the state need gully-washing storms this winter.
    And further east, similar things are happening. Lake Powell is fed by the once mighty Colorado River, and at this point the flow of water into the lake has been reduced to a “trickle”
    After 14 years of drought, Lake Powell is less than half full.
    Water flows into Lake Powell, nestled between Utah and Arizona, from high in the Rocky Mountains via the Colorado River. More than 30 million people in seven states depend on the mighty Colorado for water to grow crops, fuel power plants and keep cities such as Las Vegas alive. But this year, the worst drought in a century has slowed the flow to a trickle.
    In August, the federal Bureau of Reclamation cut, by 9 percent, the amount of water people in the southwestern United States could draw from Lake Powell. As states and counties squabble over their allotment of water in the coming years, hydroelectric plants (including the one on the Hoover Dam) could idle, and farmers are bracing for reduced crop production.
    And most Americans do not realize this, but the Colorado River does not run all the way to the ocean any longer. If something is not done soon, even the Hoover Dam could be forced to shut down. For much more on this, please see this article.
    Just recently, the Huffington Post ran an article entitled “These 11 Cities May Completely Run Out Of Water Sooner Than You Think“. According to that piece, some of the cities that are heading for a massive water crisis are not cities that you would normally think of…
    -Salt Lake City, Utah
    -Lincoln, Nebraska
    -Cleveland, Ohio
    -Miami, Florida
    -Atlanta, Georgia
    -Washington, D.C.
    -El Paso, Texas
    -San Antonio, Texas
    -San Francisco Bay Area, California
    -Houston, Texas
    -Los Angeles, California
    But those cities are far from alone. The truth is that pretty much the entire western half of the country is drying up. the following list of 15 facts about the coming water crisis is from one of my previous articles entitled “Dust Bowl Conditions Are Literally Returning To The Western Half Of The United States“…
    1. The Ogallala Aquifer is being drained at a rate of approximately 800 gallonsper minute.
    2. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “a volume equivalent to two-thirds of the water in Lake Erie” has been permanently drained from the Ogallala Aquifer since 1940.
    3. Decades ago, the Ogallala Aquifer had an average depth of approximately 240 feet but today the average depth is just 80 feet. In some areas of Texas, the water is gone completely.
    4. Scientists are warning that nothing can be done to stop the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer. The ominous words of David Brauer of the Ogallala Research Service should alarm us all…
    “Our goal now is to engineer a soft landing. That’s all we can do.”
    5. According to a recent National Geographic article, the average depletion rate of the Ogallala Aquifer is picking up speed…
    Even more worrisome, the draining of the High Plains water account has picked up speed. The average annual depletion rate between 2000 and 2007 was more than twice that during the previous fifty years. The depletion is most severe in the southern portion of the aquifer, especially in Texas, where the water table beneath sizeable areas has dropped 100-150 feet; in smaller pockets, it has dropped more than 150 feet.
    6. According to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. interior west is now the driest that it has been in 500 years.
    7. Wildfires have burned millions of acres of vegetation in the central part of the United States in recent years. For example, wildfires burned an astounding 3.6 million acres in the state of Texas alone during 2011. This helps set the stage for huge dust storms in the future.
    8. Unfortunately, scientists tell us that it would be normal for extremely dry conditions to persist in parts of western North America for decades. The following is from an article in the Vancouver Sun
    But University of Regina paleoclimatologist Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques says that decade-long drought is nowhere near as bad as it can get.
    St. Jacques and her colleagues have been studying tree ring data and, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Vancouver over the weekend, she explained the reality of droughts.
    “What we’re seeing in the climate records is these megadroughts, and they don’t last a decade—they last 20 years, 30 years, maybe 60 years, and they’ll be semi-continental in expanse,” she told the Regina Leader-Post by phone from Vancouver.
    “So it’s like what we saw in the Dirty Thirties, but imagine the Dirty Thirties going on for 30 years. That’s what scares those of us who are in the community studying this data pool.”
    9. Experts tell us that U.S. water bills are likely to soar in the coming years. It is being projected that repairing and expanding our decaying drinking water infrastructure will cost more than one trillion dollars over the next 25 years, and as a result our water bills will likely approximately triple over that time period.
    10. Right now, the United States uses approximately 148 trillion gallons of fresh water a year, and there is no way that is sustainable in the long run.
    11. According to a U.S. government report, 36 states are already facing water shortages or will be facing water shortages within the next few years.
    12. Lake Mead supplies about 85 percent of the water to Las Vegas, and since 1998 the level of water in Lake Mead has dropped by about 5.6 trillion gallons.
    13. It has been estimated that the state of California only has a 20 year supplyof fresh water left.
    14. It has been estimated that the state of New Mexico only has a 10 year supply of fresh water left.
    15. Approximately 40 percent of all rivers in the United States and approximately 46 percent of all lakes in the United States have become so polluted that they are are no longer fit for human use.
    Are you starting to get the picture?
    If things don’t turn around soon, we are going to be facing an absolutely crippling water crisis in this country.
    And according to recent forecasts, it appears that drought conditions may soon get even worse in the Southeast and the Southwest…
    Ongoing winter storms won’t be doing much to relieve some drought-stricken areas of the U.S. In fact, conditions could get worse in the Southwest and Southeast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration.
    NOAA last week forecast below-average precipitation for those regions this winter, meaning that “after some relief during the past few months,” the Southwest’s three-year drought is likely to redevelop and spread to the Southeast.
    Sadly, most Americans are not aware of any of these things.
    They just assume that there will always be plenty of fresh water for all of us to use just like there always has been.
    But times are changing rapidly.
    Please share this article with as many people as you can.


    December 16th, 2013 | Tags: Environmental, Fresh Water, Global Water Supplies, Great Lakes, Michael T. Snyder, Obama, Sold To China, Water Crisis,Water Scarcity, Water Shortage, Water Stress, Worldwide Water Crisis | Category: Commentary, Environment

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    WARNINGS ISSUED FOR COMING SHORTAGES OF WATER

    Acute problems looming for major U.S. cities


    Published: 3 hours ago
    BOB UNRUH


    The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    People considering a move to a new city or region frequently check the job prospects, quality of the schools, crime rates, property values and possibly the shopping or entertainment venues.
    Soon, maybe, they’ll have to ask whether there’s enough water.
    That’s according to a new report from Weather.com listing 10 major U.S. cities facing acute water shortages in the future. Drastic measures will be needed to keep supplies available to millions of Americans, the report said, costing trillions of dollars.
    After all, the human body, which is 65 percent water, can only survive three days without more water, scientists say.
    The threat encompasses more than just the 10 cities cited in the report – El Paso, Texas; Palo Alto, Calif.; Miami; Lincoln, Neb.; Salt Lake City, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Las Vegas and Atlanta.
    That’s because the freshwater Great Lakes are at their lowest level ever, reservoirs in California are dry bowls of dust, the life-giving Colorado River now disappears before it reaches its end and underground aquifers are growing tinier each day.
    The Weather.com report pointed out that the problem is worldwide, but the resolutions are being developed on a city-by-city basis.
    For example, El Paso already had water shortages decades ago but now has seen its population surge from 130,000 in 1950 to some 670,000 today. The city already had resorted to building a desalinization plant to clean up brackish wellwater and uses treated wastewater for crop irrigation and industry, the report said.
    In Palo Alto, like other places in California, there soon could be a choice between using water for growing food or for drinking.
    “In some regions, stringent water restrictions, including rationing, may be imposed,” noted a report from California’s Water Crisis, a state public education program.

    Dire threats

    Weather.com also said Miami faces the “dire threats” of rising seas that are pushing salt water into its underground drinking-water supplies.
    “In addition to this long-term threat, the region also faces the shorter-term challenges of drought. While this year has brought much more plentiful rain to South Florida, just two years ago an intense drought left nearby West Palm Beach less than two months away from running out of water completely,” the report said.
    San Diego officials say they have built 25 reservoirs to protect people during a drought. But Ken Weinberg, a spokesman for the San Diego County Water Authority, notes that if successive dry years require dipping into the storage, “that’s where we’re vulnerable.”
    Then there’s Los Angeles, which gets about 15 inches of rain per year on average, mostly in waves. It also gets water from the Colorado River, but estimates are that by 2060, the city’s sources will fall short of demand by 3 million acre-feet a year.
    That’s five times what the city uses.
    Similar issues are rising for the other cities.
    The U.S. Drought Monitor maintained by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln paints huge swaths of the U.S. as abnormally dry, in moderate drought, severe drought or two stages even worse.
    The accompanying report notes that a storm that coursed up the eastern seaboard of the United States over the last week did some to alleviate some drought conditions, but abnormal dryness still covers large areas of the states of Pennsylvania, New York and their neighbors.
    A report documented by the Associated Press earlier this year concluded America’s freshwater supplies no longer quench its thirst.
    “The government projects that at least 36 states will face water shortages within five years because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess,” the report said.

    ‘It it a crisis?’

    A spokesman for the American Water Works Association in Denver told the AP: “Is it a crisis? If we don’t do some decent water planning, it could be.”
    The report described it as a global issue, with dry spells also reported in Australia and shortages of fresh water in Asia.
    The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the U.S. used some 148 trillion gallons of water in 2000, including for residential, commercial, agriculture and manufacturing. It amounts to about 500,000 gallons per person.
    In Colorado — which contains the headwaters for several of the major drainages on both sides of the Continental Divide — mountain residences on wells are restricted to using a maximum of about 100,000 gallons per year per family. There are bans on outdoor watering to preserve precious gallons for livestock, and residents cannot let the water drain down the mountainside. It must be returned to an underground system, such as a leach field and septic system.
    Blog postings point out the U.S. is allowing water from the Great Lakes, which hold about one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, to be bottled and shipped to China and other countries around the globe.
    But fact-checkers vary on the accuracy of that claim.
    At the Western Center for Journalism, a report noted that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Great Lakes levels reached the lowest ever this year.
    According to the report: “‘Plunging water levels are beyond anyone’s control,’ says another expert, James Weakley. But in one of our most popular posts, last year we warned, ‘Lake Michigan water is being shipped by boat loads over to China! By using a little known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan to the tune of an estimated $500,000 to $1.8 million per day profit.’ Recent heavy rains and snowfall may mitigate low Lake Michigan water levels somewhat, but this trend must be stopped NOW.”
    A report posted on Examiner.com in 2012 noted a 1998 agreement in Canada allowed a company to sell Lake Superior water at the rate of 160 million gallons a year to China. But the permit was canceled in 1999.

    Loophole

    The 2006 Great Lakes Compact outlines standards for protecting the lakes, but it has a loophole that allows the water to be called a product and sold. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to close the loophole.
    The latest attempt would ban the export of such water outside the Great Lakes Basin of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ontario and Quebec.
    A National Geographic posting, however, said whatever water might be extracted from the Great Lakes would be insignificant compared to the estimated 29 billions gallons of water lost per day through evaporation.
    “Even if each ship could carry 2.5 million gallons of water in bladder tanks, it would take more than 10,000 ships a day leaving Lake Superior to equal the amount of water lost to evaporation in one day.”
    None of which changes the forecasts for water shortages across America.
    The Environmental Protection Agency said, “In the last five years, nearly every region of the country has experienced water shortages. At least 36 states are anticipating local, regional or statewide water shortages.”
    The Business Insider reported earlier this year that estimates called for $1.5 trillion in spending on water infrastructure over the next 20 years.
    “We have made almost no investments in water infrastructure since the Reagan administration,” Upmanu Lall, director of the Columbia Water Center, said in the report. “Something needs to be done about it.”
    According to the National Journal, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., noted just weeks ago that water supplies should be taking a higher priority for American politicians than issues such as the Syrian civil war.
    Other studies have listed as many as 20 cities liable to run out of water.
    Steve Tracton wrote in the Washington Post earlier this year: “It’s probably safe to say that the vast majority of U.S. citizenry assumes that the U.S. and North America more generally have enough readily accessible sources of fresh water to meet our everyday individual and societal wants, needs and requirements. Unfortunately, as I personally was surprised to learn while researching this subject, that assumption is demonstrably invalid, especially when we assess the likely circumstances in the coming decades.

    Indisputable fact

    Tracton said the “indisputable fact is that water scarcity is rapidly becoming a significant factor in the way of life in the U.S.”
    “Without sufficient foresight and resources for sustainable management of fresh water resources, the problem will become critical in just a decade or two. The range of effects may include (but are not limited to): long-term restrictions on home and community water usage; significant declines in agricultural output as well as meat and dairy produce that require huge amounts of water for irrigation and sustenance of livestock; shortages of just about every product made using water-dependent manufacturing processes (e.g. steel, plastics, pharmaceuticals); and disruptions or complete shutdown of several critical sources of hydroelectric power.”
    Tracton said the “fundamentals behind a coming water crisis are encompassed straightforwardly by recognizing that, while approximately 70 percent of the earth’s surface is covered by water, less than one percent is fresh and accessible for human use.”
    “The rest is either salt water of the earth’s vast seas, fresh water frozen in the polar ice caps, or too inaccessible for practical usage.”
    While the necessity of water for life is unchallenged, there are those who simply recognize the pleasure of a glass of water. One was Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the original World War I flying ace, with 26 enemy planes destroyed. He ran the Indianapolis 500 Speedway, was head of Eastern Air Lines and fulfilled a dozen other storybook roles in his lifetime before he died in the 1970s.
    He and a half dozen others survived 21 days on a rubber raft in the shark-infested Pacific by drinking rainwater after his airplane got lost and made a water landing.
    After their rescue, according to his biography, he drank a glass of water every day just for the pure pleasure it gave him.

    WHAT CONCERNS YOU MOST ABOUT POSSIBLE U.S. WATER SHORTAGES?


    • I don't believe there's any severe water shortage coming
    • Yet more evidence of global climate change that will be ignored until it's too late
    • Severe thirst and dehydration
    • Hoarding
    • Panic and even violence
    • Agricultural shortages, leading to less food and a spike in food prices
    • A black market or price-gouging for water
    • A major blow to America's natural resources and thus economy
    • Environmentalists are going to start screaming about this one
    • Another "crisis" that big-government liberals will use to pass controlling laws
    • Stupid rules such as no car-washing, or reduced toilet-flushing
    • Global-warming alarmists will have the ammunition they've been looking for to dupe people
    • Water, like oil, becoming an economic and political fuel for war
    • Government using it as an excuse to institute martial law
    • Other




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    WHAT CONCERNS YOU MOST ABOUT POSSIBLE U.S. WATER SHORTAGES?


    • Another "crisis" that big-government liberals will use to pass controlling laws (30%, 18 Votes)
    • Government using it as an excuse to institute martial law (28%, 17 Votes)
    • Water, like oil, becoming an economic and political fuel for war (13%, 8 Votes)
    • Panic and even violence (8%, 5 Votes)
    • I don't believe there's any severe water shortage coming (7%, 4 Votes)
    • Global-warming alarmists will have the ammunition they've been looking for to dupe people (3%, 2 Votes)
    • A major blow to America's natural resources and thus economy (3%, 2 Votes)
    • Agricultural shortages, leading to less food and a spike in food prices (3%, 2 Votes)
    • Environmentalists are going to start screaming about this one (2%, 1 Votes)
    • Yet more evidence of global climate change that will be ignored until it's too late (2%, 1 Votes)
    • A black market or price-gouging for water (0%, 0 Votes)
    • Stupid rules such as no car-washing, or reduced toilet-flushing (0%, 0 Votes)
    • Hoarding (0%, 0 Votes)
    • Severe thirst and dehydration (0%, 0 Votes)
    • Other (0%, 0 Votes)



    Total Voters: 60

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