Water Scarcity /Climate Change Through 2095

Water scarcity and climate change through 2095

Which means continued use of fossil fuels through fracking, tarsands, off shore oil drilling and also NUCLEAR must stop NOW. All climate policies that deem to keep water use and waste as part of its plan is a policy doomed to failure in a world of increased population that needs to be fed and sustained.

This article also mentions the year 2095...2095? Will we last that long?

63 trillion gallons of groundwater lost in drought, study finds



If You Think the Water Crisis Can't Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained

Newsflash to California: YOU ARE RUNNING OUT OF WATER.

Sucking aquifers dry by drilling deeper and deeper combined with fracking may also be bringing on earthquakes:

Study FInds Link Between Drought-Earthquakes

Millions Of Dollars Of Spilled Wine Lost



And this:

The Elevation of Western U.S. Is Rising Due to Drought

California is now seeing towns without water at all and talk of migrating people out. However, where is the real urgency? People are painting their lawns green to continue living in their bubbles of denial instead of demanding real solutions as fracking continues without punishment for their waste. Farmers are hiring dowsers, or "water witches" to locate water using copper sticks... Really? Celebrities just dying to get on the PR bandwagon are dumping ice water over their heads to get attention (there is a difference between donating to a cause discreetly because you really care or just using it as a PR fad to get attention for yourself, especially during a severe drought.) And I am SURE that there are many celebrities living there who have yet to empty out their huge Olympic sized swimming pools. Wildfires, droughts, floods, sea level rise, ocean acidity, loss of the monsoon, accelerated ice loss... DO people really not see the urgency of this crisis on a global basis?

Well, we better see it now. Water is the greatest challenge in relation to climate destruction. Agriculture is the main target of changes being seen in the hydrologic cycle due to amplification of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Simple equation- no water = no food.

On this blog previously I have tried to express my concern for the human race in regards to the effects of water scarcity specifically as it relates to climate destruction. I am truly getting to the point where the human race, or at least the apathetic among it do not have my concern. The Earth is in trouble and it is because of our wastefulness, apathy and consumption practices that are not only accelerating the tipping point of our climate but of humanity in total. Ignorance is no longer an excuse.

I do not know the words to use anymore to express the utter urgency of the situation we find ourselves in. I do know this: marches alone will not solve it unless those marching actually start living as they claim we should all be living and are willing and prepared to take it as far as it needs to go. We will also not address this properly by continuing to appease the very institutions precipitating this and looking to them to fix it.

Climate policies currently do not take into effect feed-backs particularly in regard to water sources globally. Look now at the Middle East for example which is a tinder box. Water is central to this battle and will most certainly be a factor in wars of the future- with natural gas also being at the forefront. Our voracious consumption and the continued appeasement of political and corporate corruption can no longer be sustained if we are to survive beyond this century.

Hundreds of sea-floor methane plumes spotted by sonar

We're Stuck With the Global Warming "Hiatus" Myth for Years to Come

(Note in regard to this article: Anyone pushing a warming hiatus is ignorant. Whether warming is atmospheric or in the oceans which sequester it- it is still WARMING and the ocean will give up that excess heat and it will be brutal. It is a scandal for people and the media to continue pushing this myth as if it has any merit whatsoever.)

The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’

Greenland Ice Melting At Record Speed

"Incredible" rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists

A New Frontier for Fracking: Drilling Near the Arctic Circle

(More insanity)

So again, if California is any sort of example of how the world is going to handle this global crisis in years to come particularly in regards to water- we are doomed. We can't keep hitting the snooze button whenever the alarm sounds. Eventually you have to wake up and face the day, especially if you want civilization to make it to 2095.

Also see:

New Coal Plant Rules Do Not Go Far Enough To Address Climate Destruction

Scientists Sound Alarm On Climate

1 In 10 People To Face Water Scarcity If Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue

Arctic Ocean Leaking Methane At Alarming Rate

Changing Our Global Approach To Farming Is Key To Our Survival

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"Pacific Ocean Now Dead From Fukushima Radiation"

While all we see in the media is news of war the Pacific Ocean is dying.

We need media coverage and a stop to the lying!

Props to those who care enough about our ecosystems and oceans to bring us the truth.

I will continue to pass on what I find as well.

Fukushima reactor 3 meltdown was worse than estimated: Tepco

BY KAZUAKI NAGATA

STAFF WRITER

AUG 6, 2014

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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that its new estimate shows that all the fuel rods in reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant apparently melted down and fell onto the bottom of the containment vessel.

In November 2011, the company had said it believed only about 63 percent of reactor 3′s fuel core had melted.

The utility updated its estimate as part of an effort to probe unclear points about the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 plant caused by a megaquake and monstrous tsunami in March 2011.

The revised estimate is based on the finding that an emergency cooling system, known as HPCI, of reactor 3 stopped working six hour earlier than previously thought, and that the meltdown had also started more than five hours earlier.

Tepco had previously said that the HPCI had shut down at 2:42 a.m. on March 13, 2011. But further investigation over the past year determined that the HPCI appeared to have lost its cooling function about at 8:00 p.m. on March 12.

According to the new estimate, all the melted fuel penetrated the pressure vessel, fell onto the bottom of the containment vessel and melted about 68 cm into the concrete.

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Please pass this on. This is devastating. People must know.

Also see:

Fukushima Fallout-We Need To Be Concerned

TEPCO Plans To Dump Radiation In Pacific Ocean

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Fukushima operator to decontaminate toxic water, dump into Pacific

THIS MUST STOP NOW.

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Typhoon Halong Lashes West Coast "Unprecedented" Rains

Red-level Weather Alert As Typhoon Halong Lashes Southern Japan

Hundreds of thousands of residents in southern Japan have been advised to leave as the typhoon with heavy showers batters the country’s southwest, from Kyushu to the Kii Peninsula on Saturday.

“We’re asking residents to stay on high alert over landslides and to evacuate as early as possible when advised by local officials,” Hiroshi Sasaki, the agency’s chief forecaster, told a news conference.

Evacuation orders have already been issued in Yamaguchi Prefecture, part of the Chugoku region, and Tokushima and Kochi on Shikoku, affecting some 2,700 residents from more than 1,300 households.

In Mie prefecture, in central Japan, some 300 kilometers west of Tokyo, the cities of Yokkaichi and Suzuka in northern Mie have issued evacuation instructions to some 512,000 residents, city officials and local media said.

“We are strongly urging our residents to evacuate, while we are hurriedly setting up temporary shelters across the city,” a Yokkaichi official said, according to the South China Morning Post.

The Japanese weather agency’s chief forecaster, Satoshi Ebihara, said at a news conference that the levels of torrential rain monitored in Mie were already “unprecedented.”

“We are in an abnormal situation where serious danger is imminent,” Ebihara said.

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Once again Fukushima gets a reprieve from a direct hit. Let's hope with the media blackout surrounding Fukushima that we would even be told should that happen.

Fukushima Diary

For all updated news on Fukushima you are not getting on mainstream media this is a credible source.

More on Typhoon Halong:

Heavy Rainfall and High Seas Brought by Typhoon Halong


Growing beast ... Typhoon Halong is shown southwest of Japan yesterday. Source: AFP / EUMETSAT 2014 Source: AFP

Effects Will Become More Obvious As Japan's Climate Changes

A 10% increase in rainfall by end of century means more severe flooding...not advantageous for any nuclear power plant.

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4 Billion Gallons of Mining Waste Pour Into Pristine B.C. Waterways

Video: Watch 4 Billion Gallons of Mining Waste Pour Into Pristine B.C. Waterways

First Nations, environmentalists and just about everyone else are aghast at the severity of the toxic spill from a tailings pond.

On August 4 the tailings pond of the gold and copper open-pit Polley Mine, operated by Imperial Metals Corp., breached and sent billions of gallons of metals-laden silt and water into waterways awaiting the return of the salmon.

RELATED: Horrific Toxic Spill in B.C. Called Another Exxon Valdez

The mess has only just begun to wreak its environmental havoc, with campgrounds evacuated, a local emergency declared and a fishing ban imposed, among other immediate effects. Long-term damage is not yet known, and Imperial officials say they have no idea why it happened.

But company president Brian Kynoch told CBC News that the tailings pond isn’t so bad and that he would even consider drinking it.

RELATED: Pour Him a Tall One! Mining Exec Insists He'd Drink Water From Tailings Pond

Imperial has been given a deadline for dealing with the situation, the Vancouver Sun reported in a story with extensive video as well.

The jarring footage below from flyovers would seem to belie that notion. The first one was posted by Global BCTV and the second, a half-hour long, is raw footage taken by the local government.

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Mount Polley Mine tailings pond breach is one of the worst in the world: Experts

VANCOUVER – At this point it is unclear just how far reaching the damage is and just how much it will cost to clean up the mess.

Environmental experts say it’s one of the worst tailings pond breaches in the world.

When the pond burst it sent millions of cubic meters of sludge and water cascading through the natural landscape.

It caused massive damage to everything in its path.

The government says it’s really too early to know how long the cleanup will take and how much it will cost.

But we can compare it to a tailings pond breach in Tennessee in 2008. Officials there anticipated the cleanup would take six months, but within that time, they only managed to cleanup three per cent of the destruction.

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At the rate noted in the above article it would take approximately TWENTY YEARS or more to clean up the destruction caused by this tragedy. The company as it is in collusion with the government will more than likely just get a fine and then not have to clean it up in total leaving citizens responsible. I really do not know what else to type. The same words have been typed over and over and over again on this blog. All I can do looking at this is cry. Notice they claim "they have no idea how it happened" even in light of this: Firm that designed original Mount Polley tailings dam says it warned of growing size.

And then the usual line from the company head:

"But company president Brian Kynoch told CBC News that the tailings pond isn’t so bad and that he would even consider drinking it."

I will however, say this in response to the quoted sentence above: I dare you Bryan Kynoch, you soulless ass, I want to see you DRINK THAT WATER IN PUBLIC. So sick of these rich arrogant nature killers saying things like this to validate their ecocide and not following through.

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Toledo Bearing Full Brunt of Lake Erie Algae Bloom

UPDATE: 8/5/14: Toledo’s Contaminated Water: Here’s What Went Wrong



Ban has been lifted but personally I would give it a couple days before using it for drinking and cooking. I would also demand transparency in testing and how the water is being processed now. This isn't the end considering retiscince of authorities to regulate fertilizer runoff and the fact that climate change is here to stay.

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A sample glass of Lake Erie water is extracted near the City of Toledo water intake crib on Sunday.
Photograph: Haraz N Ghanbari/AP

Toledo Bearing Full Brunt of Lake Erie Algae Bloom

By Laura Arenschield

The night before Toledo officials warned people not to drink the municipal tap water, Jeff Reutter opened a federal website to check on the algae bloom in western Lake Erie.

The picture didn’t look bad, at first, to Reutter, an expert on toxic algae who is the director of the Ohio Sea Grant College Program. The algae covered Maumee Bay, but the bloom was significantly smaller than the one in 2011 that stretched past Cleveland, ruining summer beach trips for families along the Lake Erie coast.

A closer look gave Reutter pause, though. The most-intense parts of the bloom seemed to have settled right at the mouth of the Maumee River.

“It’s at the greatest concentration right in Maumee Bay,” Reutter said yesterday. “And, unfortunately, that’s where the Toledo water intake is” for the city’s Collins Park Water Treatment Plant.

Early Saturday morning, Toledo officials confirmed Reutter’s fears. Tests at the plant showed levels of the toxin microcystin in Toledo’s drinking water that were above the 1 part per billion that the World Health Organization deems is safe to drink.

Boiling water concentrates that toxin, so a simple boil alert wasn’t an option.

By 2 a.m. Saturday, Toledo had issued a warning that ultimately affected more than 500,000 people: Don’t drink water from the taps. Don’t even cook with it.

Microcystin can cause nerve and liver damage in people and animals. Symptoms can include diarrhea, vomiting, cramping and dizziness.

It was the second time that algae toxins had contaminated a public drinking-water system in Ohio. In September, about 2,000 people served by a water-treatment plant in Ottawa County, in northwestern Ohio, were without safe tap water for drinking or cooking for two days.

Reutter said the bloom over Maumee Bay now is “exactly the same situation” as the bloom that polluted water in Ottawa County last year. The wind patterns have kept it concentrated near where Toledo collects its water rather than spreading it throughout Lake Erie.

“There’s no problem over at Marblehead or any of the islands or Cedar Point or Cleveland,” Reutter said. “But the Toledo area is really getting the full brunt of this right now.”

Adults affected by the warning still can use the water for bathing. The World Health Organization allows up to 20 parts of microcystin per billion parts of water for bathing. Tests at the Toledo plant showed water there had levels as high as 2.5 parts per billion.

George Zonders, a spokesman for Columbus’ public utilities, said it is unlikely that toxic algae could shut down the drinking-water supply here because Columbus gets its water from more than one source. The city is installing a $70 million treatment system in 2016 that will, in part, help deal with algae toxins.

Municipalities treat algae toxins with carbon. The toxins latch on to the carbon, and the combined particles are then removed from the water.

Algae flourish in warm, shallow waters, which makes Lake Erie — the shallowest of the Great Lakes — an inviting home. The algae feed on phosphorus, a key component of the fertilizers farmers spread over fields.

Studies at the National Center for Water Quality Research at Heidelberg University in Tiffin have found a direct link between farming and high levels of phosphorus in watersheds, Laura Johnson, a research scientist there, said yesterday.

“We know it’s coming from agricultural runoff. But in reality, when we think about why these farms are leaking phosphorus, that part of the story is far from clear and far from simple,” Johnson said.

Heavy rains can wash fertilizers from fields into the streams and rivers that feed lakes. Overflowing sewers, failed septic systems and runoff from lawn fertilizers also contribute to phosphorus in the watershed.

Ohio has no laws requiring farmers to limit the amount of phosphorus on their fields or that force farmers to reduce runoff. But lawmakers this past spring took a step toward tackling the algae problem when they offered farmers voluntary training before they use commercial fertilizers on their fields. snip Reutter said scientists and public water and health officials are concerned because the algae bloom in Maumee Bay is likely to spread on Lake Erie. Algae problems typically get worse in September and October when the water is warmer than in the spring.

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Perfect storm... warmer temperatures, heavier rainfalls, increased run off of nitrogen fertilizers combined with poisons like ROUNDUP combined with dysfunctional leadership killing our water. I think it is safe to say that Lake Erie is dying. The water quality has been declining as we see increases in fertilizer run off and heavier precipitation events in this area of the country and flooding due to an amplification of the hydrologic cycle through anthropogenic global warming. It really just at this point makes me cry to see all of this happening now. We are killing our only home and making it uninhabitable and our water dying will surely be the end for us. Sounds too depressing? Not sunny enough with enough sugarcoating? Don't want to read it? Too bad. I'm angry and I am frightened thinking of what we have unleashed by our greed, apathy and incessant placation and arrogance and I won't apologize for that. WATER is our lifeblood and a world without it is no world for humans. I suppose we will have to learn that fact the hard way.





Taken By Storm


This satellite image provided by NOAA shows the algae bloom on Lake Erie in 2011 which according to NOAA was the worst in decades.
Photograph: AP

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Also see:

Friday Night: Tests Come Back At Almost Three Parts Per Billion

Climate change brings mostly bad news for Ohio: Big algae bloom in Lake Erie, very dry 2015 forecast

Farming practices and climate change at root of Toledo water pollution

Great Lakes Going Down?

More Tests Needed on Toledo Water Before Supply Can Be Restored/Empties Bottled Water

Between the West Virginia poisoning in the beginning of this year (which BTW saw a slap on the wrist to Freedom Industries paying a fine of only $11,000 after poisoning the water supply of over 300,00 people, the coal ash spill in North Carolina courtesy of Duke Energy that got them a slap on the wrist as well, the shut offs in Detroit, the extreme drought in California, the algae toxins in Toledo and the myriad effects of fracking in 36 states, the bottled water industry must be in Nirvana. Make no mistake about it, the privatization of our national water supply is something companies like Nestle are salivating over. Things that make you go hmm....

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World Faces Water Crisis By 2040

Report: World Faces Water Crisis By 2040

The world will face “insurmountable water crises” by 2040 if it does not move away from water-intensive power production. Two new studies released this week predict the world will have to choose between drinking water and energy demand in the next three decades.

The two studies—“Capturing Synergies Between Water Conservation and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Power Sector” and “A Clash of Competing Necessities”—have been published by researchers from Denmark’s Aarhus University, Vermont Law School and the CNA Corporation, a non-profit research and analysis organisation.

“It’s a very important issue. Water used to cool power plants is the largest source of water withdrawals in the United States,” says lead study author Paul Faeth, Director of Energy, Water, & Climate at CNA Corporation in a press release on the two new reports. “The recommendations in these reports can serve as a starting point for leaders in these countries, and for leaders around the world, to take the steps needed to ensure the reliability of current generating plants and begin planning for how to meet future demands for electric power,” says Faeth.

The reports suggest there has been a three-fold population increase in the past century and a six-fold increase in water consumption globally. If trends in population and energy use continue, it could leave a 40 per cent gap between water supply and demand by the year 2030, the reports say.

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With all due respect to those who have performed this study, I would say the world is already facing a water crisis. By 2040 it will be a CATASTROPHE. No matter what continent you look at water is becoming scarcer, more polluted and more in demand due to dirty and radioactive energy sources especially with India, China and other developing countries driving more cars and with oil consumption actually climbing in the US outpacing China. Seems the message regarding the consequences of our addiction are falling on deaf ears until catatastrophe strikes and it is too late? We humans have now precipitated the greatest crisis we will face in this century.

Take a look around and everywhere you now see wars being fought in places where natural gas is plentiful and water not so much. Population increases, climate destruction, corruption, greed, waste all culminating in the perfect storm of human extinction... Oh my, did I just type the words human extinction? Yes, I did. Think it isn't possible?... think again. With extinction rates now 1,000 times faster than they would be without human influence it is inevitable that at some point it will hit us and with the added stresses of water loss, loss of access and poisoning it to the point that even if you have it you really don't have it- humans cannot survive on this planet on the trajectory we are traveling on for too much longer. Water Is Life is not a cliche'd phrase- it is a FACT.

Our oceans are in peril already from using them as a toilet bowl. Garbage gyres, overfishing, radiation, oil, fertilizers, poisons, all coming together to the point of extinctions in our oceans along with the added stess of acidification due to the burning of fossil fuels increasing calcification. Water is a part of the dirty energy cycle from beginning to end. From extraction to sale. In a world of drought that is not only illogical it is immoral. This is also why the current Obama "All Of The Above" energy policy is a betrayal to our water present and future. Is it really worth it to bring about the end of humanity all because we couldn't wean ourselves off oil for a few fleeting hours of electricity when there are better ways of doing it to preserve our lifeblood? This is not a question of your politics or anything else about you- it is a question of our ultimate collective survival... and it is now in peril.

Imagine one day in say 2025, you wake up and go into your shower where you stand every morning from ten to twenty minutes using more water in that time than a family in Africa uses in a week. You turn the faucet on and nothing comes out and it isn't because of a glitch. You don't have anymore because the aquifer was sucked dry by "frackers" and climate destruction has amplified the hydro logic cycle to the point where your area is not getting enough rain to replenish what you sucked out and evaporated.... or sucked out by NESTLE or some other corporation that thinks it owns it because you were too distracted to see them steal it right out from under your feet. Imagine going to a grocery store and not seeing any food-because there is no water to grow it or process it or it's so exhorbitantly expensive you still go hungry. Imagine a day when you have to be the one taking huge buckets down to your local bay or water source if there is one (in my case ewwww) in order to hope you can get enough water to even meet the needs of your children let alone yourself and hope that you aren't robbed or worse on your way back by those desperate for water ... and after using it hoping your children don't get sick or die. Imagine the governments of the world have now managed to kill off much of the populations in the areas where water is scarce to now own it all- at a VERY HIGH PRICE to those who remain alive and war is now perpetual and brutal- all for a drink of water. These are not scenarios from some far away place and time. They are all happening now.

There really is no other way to phrase it- unless we stop wasting and polluting water and find ways to provide electricity that are not water intensive- we will run out of water to grow food, to drink, to live. And if you think this can't happen, just look at California. There are talks already of perhaps having to migrate people out of California because of the intense drought they are still enduring- mostly let's face it of their own making in league with the effects of climate destruction that is now on track to affect agriculture and water sources globally at an accelerating pace. The longer we continue to play politics with this and give credence to those who deny facts the more we slip into the abyss.

This crisis is not something that "could" or "might" happen- it is happening NOW. In the end it comes back to the same main precept: MORAL COURAGE and putting your present fleeting selfish wants behind the needs of all collectively now and in the future. It is about humanity. It is about respecting the lifeblood. Do we have the capacity as a whole to do that? Or will it take that final catastrophe to wake us up?

Also see:

Dry Planet

World Bank Wants Water Privatized-Despite Risks

1 In 10 People To Face Water Scarcity If Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue

Oceans In Critical State From Cumulative Impacts

Our Carbon Debt, Our Moral Duty

Water In The Anthropocene

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