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The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine
When I was a little girl, my father would sing songs to me all the time about water. Sometimes, we would be playing down at the creeks and he would make up little tunes: “See that lovely water, trickling down the stream, don’t take it for granted, someday it might not be seen.”
My dad worked for many years as an engineer for Texaco and later for the Department of Transportation. Before he died, he told me that in my lifetime water would become a commodity more valuable than oil or gold, because there would be so little of it. Sadly, I believe he was right.
Our water has become so toxic that towns are issuing emergency boil notices and shipping in bottled water to their residents. In 2016, as I started research for my new book Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It, members of our very own US Congress had their water shut down in Washington due to unsafe lead levels.
We are in a water crisis beyond anything you can imagine. Pollution and toxins are everywhere, stemming from the hazardous wastes of industry and agriculture. We’ve got more than 40,000 chemicals on the market today with only a few hundred regulated. We’ve had industrial byproducts discarded into the ground and into our water supply for years. This crisis affects everyone – rich or poor, black or white, Republican or Democrat. Communities everywhere think they are safe when they are not.
Each water system is unique, but some of the most toxic offenders include hexavalent chromium (an anticorrosive agent), PFOA (used to make Teflon pans), PFOS (a key ingredient in Scotchgard), TCE (used in dry cleaning and refrigeration), lead, fracking chemicals, chloramines (a water disinfectant) and more. Many of these chemicals are undetectable for those drinking the water. Many cause irreversible health problems and people in communities throughout the country are dealing with these repercussions.
Like a blood test for disease, you can only find what you test for. If you don’t order a specific test for one of these chemicals, you won’t know it’s there. And you can’t treat water unless you know what’s in it.
Now, I know what you might be thinking. What about the EPA, Erin? What about corporate remediation departments? Aren’t the experts handling it?
The short answer is no.
These issues start with tiny seeds of deception that add up over months and years to become major problems. Our resources are exhausted. Corruption is rampant. Officials are trying to cover their tracks. People are not putting the pieces together when it comes to the severity of this crisis. I’ve got senators and doctors calling me, asking me what to do.
As if poisoned water wasn’t a big enough issue, the last six years (2013–2019) have been the hottest years on record. As our climate changes, and we experience more droughts, floods, superstorms, melting glaciers and rising sea levels, we are seeing greater strains on our water supplies and infrastructure.
Superman is not coming. If you are waiting for someone to come save you and clean up your water, I’m here to tell you: no one is coming to save you. The time has come for us to save ourselves.
But before you despair, I want to remind you that we are in this together. No one person must – or can – fix it alone. No one senator, one community member, CEO, mom or dad. We’ve got to work together.
Even in the movie that shares my name, we had a team working around the clock. I went door-to-door to talk with residents who had concerns and were asking good questions. We hosted community meetings. We worked with some of the best legal teams, researchers and academics in California. It was not a one-woman or one-man job. We fought together.
I’ve noticed over the years that when I visit towns and work with people, the number one thing everyone seems to need is permission. They are looking for someone to tell them that it’s OK to move forward or speak out.
It’s not always easy. We’re taught from the time we’re young to ask for permission: permission to leave the dinner table, permission to use the bathroom during class. As we get older, we must get permits to build an addition on to the house. We sign permission slips for our kids to go on field trips. All these little acts add up and then we think: who am I to stand up at a city council meeting and ask a question? We all have these doubts and questions. In the end, I think that the permission we are seeking is more about support. We want to know that if we take action, it will be successful and that our community will stand by us.
Consider this your personal permission slip. Yes, you have permission to ask questions. Yes, you have permission to scrutinize your water professionals to see if they have the right credentials. Yes, you have permission to start a Facebook group to make more people aware of your cause. You have permission to stick up for yourself when it comes to your health, your family, your life.
The first action that you can take is to become part of what I hope will be the first-ever national self-reporting registry. This crowd-sourced map allows individuals and community groups to report and review health issues (cancer being the most prevalent) and community environmental issues by geographic area and by health topic. The research is intended to connect the dots between clusters of illness and environmental hazards in specific communities and regions of the country. If you or someone you know is sick or suffering, please report it.
None of us need a PhD or a science degree, or need to be a politician or a lawyer, to protect our right to clean water. We have the power together to fight for better enforcement of environmental safety laws, to push for new legislation, and to storm our city halls until our voices are heard and the water is safe for everyone to drink.
21 Comments on "The US is in a water crisis far worse than most people imagine"
bochen777 on Sat, 29th Aug 2020 11:16 am
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makati1 on Sat, 29th Aug 2020 5:33 pm
“Our water has become so toxic…”
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink!
Amerika brags about being exceptional when it is already 3rd world covered over with propaganda bullshit. LOL
makati1 on Sat, 29th Aug 2020 5:44 pm
Hmm. Maybe “water water everywhere” is NOT in Amerika’s future?
“Much of the southwestern portion of the United States has been gripped by a drought that never seems to end, and there is a tremendous amount of concern that patterns that we witnessed back during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s may be starting to repeat.”
http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/return-of-the-dust-bowl-the-megadrought-in-the-southwest-is-really-starting-to-escalate
Not a good thing for Amerika’s food supply either if you look at the drought map in the article. Blow-back is a nasty bitch and she is coming home to terrorist Amerika.
Cloggie on Sun, 30th Aug 2020 4:28 am
The Dutch agricultural sector needs to be scaled down:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/the-agricultural-sector-in-the-netherlands/
Let Eastern European field workers work the fields at home (80% agricultural workforce). No need to sacrifice 66% of the Dutch landscape to stupid meadows. We need more forests, less pig farms. No need for a country 250 times smaller than the US ($150B) and 19 times less people, to be the world’s 2nd agricultural exporter ($94B).
Better concentrate on high-output, low-water needs horticulture in industrial-sized greenhouses with all-year around output that need far less soil per 1 million turn-over and could be largely automated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0LvqsRm59w
Cloggie on Sun, 30th Aug 2020 11:02 am
The future of agriculture in a dry world:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2020/08/30/agriport-a7-industrial-scale-greenhouse-agriculture/
Chrome Mags on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 5:49 pm
What if the future is an energy starved, clean water starved, food starved population crash. Of course the alternate reality politician will say, “Things have never been better and anyone saying differently hates America, the military, our flag, mom, apple pie and Chevrolet!”
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 5:56 pm
I flush twice for a piss & 3 times every morning when I grunt out a big steaming trump.
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 5:58 pm
“Trump and his butt licking home boys can’t stop the revolution, not even in Texas.”
zero juan on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 5:59 pm
dumbfuck JuanP:
FamousDrScanlon said I flush twice for a piss & 3 times every morni…
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 5:59 pm
“What is the Arctic Death Spiral?
The “Arctic Death Spiral” refers to a scientific chart generated from satellite data in order to visually depict the disappearance of Arctic ice since 1979. According to Skeptical Science, the first Death Spiral graphic is visually striking and clearly shows the loss of sea ice in all seasons. The circle (spiral) graph is stunning. It even provides a tidy disappearing point for when months start hitting zero. However, we cannot let this happen.
If we lose the Arctic, we will also lose the jet stream (video) as we know it, the troposphere will expand (video) causing droughts and fires on many continents, food production will be threatened, and we will be well on the way to a Hothouse Earth state in a 4-7°C [1] world of monster storms and mass extinctions. Eminent and world renowned researcher, James Lovelock, has been saying for over a decade that 6 billion people could perish by the end of the century. Additionally, a study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds a 5% chance that rapid global warming will be “catastrophic” or worse for the human race and indicates a sixth mass extinction underway. Scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal are already becoming extinct every 24 hours.”
https://www.scientistswarning.org/2020/06/04/blue-ocean-event/
zero juan on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 6:01 pm
egotistical asshole, JuanP:
FamousDrScanlon said “What is the Arctic Death Spiral? The “Arcti…
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 6:04 pm
Australia among global ‘hot spots’ as droughts worsen in warming world
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australia-among-global-hot-spots-as-droughts-worsen-in-warming-world-20200601-p54ydh.html?btis
Fuck those down-under Rupert Murdoch sheeple.
Let em burn.
I live in a rain forest & ammo is the only thing I worry about running out of.
FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 6:24 pm
Climate change creating vast new glacial lakes, with risk of ‘gargantuan’ floods, researcher says
“Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published research.
“Unsurprisingly, we found those lakes are growing,” said Dan Shugar, a geographer at the University of Calgary. “What was surprising was how much.”
The fact that glaciers around the world are shrinking due to climate change is well established. What hasn’t been so well studied is where all that water is going.
In a paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change, Shugar and his colleagues provide the first global assessment of how much water is contained in so-called glacial lakes and how quickly that volume is increasing.
That assessment wasn’t possible until a few years ago, when computers finally became powerful enough to work through a world’s worth of data and 250,000 satellite images.
Growing rapidly
Glacial lakes form when meltwater from glaciers is prevented from draining by the ice itself. They form on top, in front, beside or even underneath a glacier.
They are growing at a rapid pace everywhere glaciers are found. Shugar and his colleagues estimate that the amount of water those lakes hold has increased by almost 50 per cent since 1990.
The total volume is calculated to be an almost-unimaginable 158 cubic kilometres of water. That’s a cube of icy water almost 5.5 kilometres long, wide and high.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/climate-change-glacial-lakes-flooding-canada-calgary-1.5706477
zero juan on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 6:28 pm
Idiot JuanP:
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Davy on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 6:37 pm
“Biden Tells Voters Violence Will Continue Unless They Vote For Him”
https://summit.news/2020/08/31/biden-tells-voters-violence-will-continue-unless-they-vote-for-him/
“Joe Biden suggested that the violence plaguing American streets will continue unless voters elect him, prompting some observers to view the comment as a threat. “Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?” Biden tweeted…Joe Biden suggested that the violence plaguing American streets will continue unless voters elect him, prompting some observers to view the comment as a threat. “Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?” Biden tweeted. Biden appears to be using the threat of the mob to intimidate Americans into voting for him just so they can be spared from violence, rioting and looting for four years. The former Vice President appears to be crafting this narrative despite the fact that every city that has seen major rioting is run by Democrats. Respondents expressed their opinion that Biden was in effect threatening the American people…Joe Biden suggested that the violence plaguing American streets will continue unless voters elect him, prompting some observers to view the comment as a threat. “Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?” Biden tweeted. Biden appears to be using the threat of the mob to intimidate Americans into voting for him just so they can be spared from violence, rioting and looting for four years. The former Vice President appears to be crafting this narrative despite the fact that every city that has seen major rioting is run by Democrats. Respondents expressed their opinion that Biden was in effect threatening the American people. Political polls show that a significant chunk of Biden’s lead over Trump has been wiped out over the last couple of weeks. Some commentators see a parallel between Trump and Richard Nixon, who swept to victory in 1968 off the back of massive concerns about lawlessness. While polls have hardly proven reliable, the traditionally more accurate indicator of betting markets provides more good news for Trump. As Zero Hedge documents, more money being placed on Trump has left the betting odds virtually tied. “Gamblers have the chance to place bets before the polls come out, and a lot of people are convinced that the odds have shifted in the Republicans’ favor. This will be partly due to the Republicans’ convention, which would normally give some polling “bounce,” but is more thanks to a second critical factor, which is the disorder in Kenosha, Wisconsin.” “Since the shooting of Jacob Blake went viral a week ago, trading volume in Predictit’s contract on the presidential outcome in Wisconsin has surged, as has the probability of a Trump victory.”
phew for a moment i thought supreme goat has croaked i thought supertard madkat would go first but who would expect supreme goat to go first on Mon, 31st Aug 2020 7:33 pm
ok, all is good, both supertards are making their presence. he’s gonna update his blog which i gona swipe to generate pasive income 10 yrs from now.
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 12:55 am
FamousDrScanlon Tells Voters Violence Will Continue No Matter What, So Skip The Election And Throw Down….Bitches.
Dem douchbags are claiming the climate ‘will be lost’ if you don’t vote Biden.
Apparently planetary physics is controlled by a magic dial & it can instantly be turned up or down based on which Boomer cunt wins another mean nothing election.
The left is only slightly less retarded in scientific matters than remedial team right.
Right’s in denial. Left are magical thinkers.
If civilization/energy holds for a couple more decades the west is still fucked via a combination of historical dumb-down, decadence & disunion. There is no replacement for the soon to retire Boomer scientific brain power or not enough. Plenty of bright young minds in gender studies & marketing.
China has more STEM students than the west has all students. 1 more generation (20-25 years) is all they need. If it goes 2 more generations (it won’t) Mandarin will be the new global lingua franca.
Considering what happened last time a very powerful China dismissed the west & rest & ended up being turned into junkies & whores, they won’t isolate again & no people forgets a crime of that magnitude.
They’ll put a boot on our neck the first chance they get.
Hey Round eye you want some more fentanyl? Fentanyl luv you long time.
zero juan on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 4:15 am
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FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 4:48 am
Trump suggests ‘some very stupid rich people’ are funding protest groups, rioters at RNC and across US
DOJ ‘TARGETING AND INVESTIGATING’ LEADERS, FUNDERS OF FAR-LEFT GROUPS AND RIOTERS, WOLF TELLS TUCKER “This person was coming to the Republican National Convention and there were like seven people in the plane [with] this person, and then a lot of people were on the plane to do big damage,” Trump insisted. “This is all happening.” The president added that “people you’ve never heard of, people in the dark shadows” may be facilitating much of the left’s activism. “The money is coming from some very stupid rich people [who] have no idea that if their thing ever succeeded, which it won’t, they will be thrown to the wolves like you’ve never seen before,” he said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-very-stupid-rich-people-funding-riots
FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 1st Sep 2020 4:51 am
Attorney for Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse says client was hunted ‘as prey’ before deadly shooting
According to Pierce, Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha from his home in Antioch, Ill. to help a friend who owns a business in Kenosha and feared for his property after two nights of rioting that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse brought a First-Aid kit to render assistance if needed. At one point, Pierce said, Rittenhouse found himself isolated from the business when riot police shifted positions while Rittenhouse tried to extinguish fires set by the rioters. “There was a shot that was fired as Kyle was retreating, actually, from a mob that had become enraged that he was trying to put out the fires that the arsonists had set because he was trying to protect property,” Pierce recounted. “The mob became enraged. “They began screaming that Kyle needed to be killed and they were going to kill him. They started relentlessly hunting him as prey as he ran down the street attempting to retreat,” Pierce went on. “As he ran out of room to retreat, shots were fired from behind him.” At one point, Rittenhouse tripped and a protester immediately appeared above him, while a second tried to disarm him. Pierce said one of the men involved in the struggle, identified by local media as a BLM volunteer medic named Gaige Grosskreutz, was holding a firearm when he was shot in the arm by Rittenhouse.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/kenosha-kyle-rittenhouse-hunted-as-prey
Rik on Mon, 7th Sep 2020 4:35 pm
Monsanto and other agricultural corporations should eradicate world hunger by forcing foreign farmers to sell their land and sign over the rights to them. The farmers are liable, not Monsanto and co.