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Message 1492203 - Posted: 20 Mar 2014, 20:55:03 UTC

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Message 1492251 - Posted: 20 Mar 2014, 21:51:58 UTC - in response to Message 1492203.  

For want of a 2" fish the water was lost.
For want of water the power was lost.
For want of power the food was lost.
For want of food the vote was lost.
For want of a vote the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a 2" fish.
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Message 1492309 - Posted: 20 Mar 2014, 23:13:31 UTC

Been Raining and Snowin' its YingYang off in Da MidWest and East Coast. If Stupid American wants A Pipeline, Hows 'bout a Pipeline and Pumps to take All This Frakkin' Water West and SouthWest where it is needed. By Fish and Man.

DumbA$$ Frakkin' Waste of Billions of Tax Dollas on Meaningless Shat in this Country.

WATER is What is NEEDED. NOt mO frakkin' Tax Drainin' Give Aways to Get Frakkin' Votes.

Got 'it'? Got Cave? Got Water?

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!
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Message 1492315 - Posted: 20 Mar 2014, 23:21:09 UTC - in response to Message 1492203.  
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How else to describe self-appointed environmental activists who fight to reduce our water supply, drive up the price of healthy food, and top it off by actively creating future shortages of electricity?

I have to agree that most of those zealots have a very narrow view on things and they certainly don't seem to want to look at or want to understand the repercussions of their actions in the bigger picture of greater things.

Funnily enough when they do get their way they are also the 1st to complain when their actions drive their cost of living up.

Catch 22.

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Message 1492387 - Posted: 21 Mar 2014, 0:11:19 UTC

Whilst I don't agree with a lot of what those "zealots" say, I do believe we have to be careful, on a global scale, how we manage water supplies.

Dams in a lot of cases are not the answer;
They require vast amounts of concrete, which has a very large carbon footprint. If they flood area's of vegetation they produce Methane, a gas worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. There are discussions, delays on building dams because of this in S. America and Africa where it has been pointed out the effects of the production of methane will probably be worse than if they built coal fired power stations.
They cause disruption to nature downstream, as pointed out in that article, which presumably has effects on the food chain. In Ethiopia there are plans for a large dam which will affect the flow of silt down the Blue Nile, if these silts stop flowing where does that leave Egypt, which rely on these silts to produce all their food. You only need to know a little about the Bible to see there have been problems when the floods don't happen.

You cannot rely on aquifers, the Ogallala Aquifer in central USA is mainly water put there in the last ice age, so when it is gone, it's gone because the local rainfall cannot refill it fast enough.
And in place where the rainfall is sufficient to refill an aquifer there is danger that it can become contaminated with agricultural and urban run-off, not to mention the current craze of fracking.

In the 70's there were predictions that the next major wars would be over water and the subsequent failure of food supplies.
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