Thursday, May 14, 2009

Western water retreats as Sierra snow pack shrinks.

All over the West there is a drought. Our nation's frantic search for desert heat and beautiful places to live, and our assumption that dams and technology will provide is failing. Soon, perhaps not this year or next, but in the next twenty or thirty years, fresh water will become important. And for those of us on the Great lakes, this brings both peril and promise. Promise that we live on the world's largest bodies of freshwater, and peril that the rest of our nation will try to steal it.

See the future in this article on California water

Monday, October 13, 2008

Water Born Disease Risk Increases on Great Lakes

With global warming and climate change the possibility, the likelihood, of water borne epidemics in the States bordering the Great Lakes is increasing. This is the result of monsoon like spring rain events, the overtaxed sewage treatment cities of the Great cities which border these largest bodies of fresh water, and immense livestock operations and their associated waste, which flood and then pollute the waters. See Article

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Bush Administration Tell Americans Drink Rocket Fuel

Don't get that lighter too close to your mouth if you live in certain states. You might just ignite courtesty of the GOP See Salon Post