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Drinking Water

3/29/2014

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This week's earlier posting (3/25/14) called Don't Drink the Water on my GoingTrueGreen Blog generated several questions for actual numbers related to our drinking water situation. Therefore, since finding all the facts in one place is not always possible, I am doing a follow up to provide that data and statistics so we can all go True Green and be a leader.

It is important to realize that these figures immediately relate to all of us and have already infiltrated our own backyards:

The hardest fact to swallow (no pun intended) is how little water we have in this world that is drinkable. From all the water on our planet, 97.5% is salt water. That leaves us 2.5% of fresh water, but that is not all drinkable!

- Almost 70% of that 2.5% is frozen. Otherwise known as glacial ice.
- In addition, almost 30% of that 2.5% is in the ground.
- Thus leaving us LESS THAN 1% of clean drinkable water for our survival.
- Some calculations actually present .007% of clean water to drink.
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How does this data relate to you and me?
Have you spilled just one drop of oil in your backyard? Some gasoline or lighter fluid?
One drop of oil, just like most pollution we create, will contaminate and render over 6 gallons of clean drinking water, undrinkable. Okay, but so far we still have clean drinking water. Pause for one minute and think about the issues for our neighbors along the gulf and all they have gone (still going) through because of the oil spill. Think about municipalities closing wells because of fertilizer and that one drop of spilled oil that went through the ground and into your drinkable water (water table) under the ground. Think of all the litter along the curb and washing into our waterways via street sewers. Yet, there is so much more to know, comprehend, evaluate and conclude...

97.5% is salt water.
2.5% is fresh water!
Almost 70% of that 2.5% is frozen.
Almost 30% of that 2.5% is in the ground.
Less than 1% of clean drinkable water for our survival.*
Calculations actually present .007% of clean water to drink.

* Survival without drinkable water is difficult within 3 days. A human will die in approximately 5 days without water.
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Now we don't just drink that .007%, we are free to use that precious little clean drinkable water to do thinks from washing our cars to flushing our toilets!

We use clean drinkable water to flush our waste away! Are you not sure if we have any other way of dealing with this issue? Use this LINK to visit my GTG Blog posted on May 2, 2013 called Recycling and Gray Water for the another way.

Now please read these numbers... Of our .007% clean drinkable water we use:
70% for agriculture (To have 2 pounds of beef, over 4,200 gallons of water is needed)
22% for industry (To make one microchip, almost 9 gallons of water is used)
8% is for domestic use


Of our 8% for domestic use, that is of the .007%, we consume 60% of that to water lawns, wash cars, hose down the deck or sidewalk, wash windows, fill up swimming pools, run rides at water parks, etc. etc..

So how much clean water do people use each day?
Americans use about 150 gallons** (over 30 times more than a person without easy access to clean water).
Europeans use about 65 gallons (over 13 times more than a person without easy access to clean water).
1.1 Billion people use less than 5 gallons of water per day and DO NOT have easy access to clean drinkable water.
** Yes, 150 gallons because of all the water used in the production of the items we consume each day.
Do you buy bottle water? There is a better way.

"From preventable, water related diseases, we lose about 6 Thousand children each day"
Now I see three (3) choices for us:
- One can take the extreme side that despite these numbers, a perfectly fine future is our inheritance.
- Others may take the opposite extreme side that these numbers are prophesying doom for the human race.
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- Yet there is another way, many different and better ways of using our drinkable water. This third choice is going down the middle of the road. Taking steps to stop the obvious waste of clean water (such as the solution presented above with the Link called Gray Water). Intelligently changing the way we operate when using clean water, thus helping to guarantee a better future. Not just for us in America, but also for the 1.1 Billion people who need America to offer and provide helpful solutions. Yes, us Americans are the ones that put humankind on the moon and safely home again and again. Numerous benefits ranging from medical to water came from our Space Program. The money was well spent and thousands upon thousands of people are alive today because of the transition from Space Program to everyday life. Made possible by all those Americans who fulfilled a dream by thinking of a better way of doing everything, so we can go to the moon and back. AND those Americans, those people, then and now are a conglomerate of all people from our world! It is damn time we raised our sights again by coming to our senses and making our planet a better world for all. You can start leading in your own home, your own neighborhood, by obtaining valuable data and knowledge on water. Start by visiting our EnergyHotwire.com LINK on water and read about "other ways". There is even a better way than buying bottled water so you can save money, energy and water!

Evaluation of the data above shows a clean drinking water crisis is already on our planet and has already encroached upon our own backyards. Will we be leaders and implement solutions intelligently, so we can pour a clean glass of water for our grandchildren and know that other grandparents half way around the world are doing the same?

Bill Lauto, GTG

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Don't Drink the Water

3/25/2014

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When I was young, one popular joke on television shows was about not drinking the water outside the United States. The most common line used was about Montezuma's revenge. In reality, this is not a joke. In addition, not having any clean drinkable water is not funny at all.

I started to think again about our world's water situation when I shared Professor Nieter's Blog
last week on my Facebook page. He wrote about 2014 winter's snow melting and being filled with garbage along the streets that eventually goes into our waterways.  Feel free to visit his Blog at the Alley Pond Park Wetland Nature Preserve and leave a comment, but please finish reading this posting first and this is WHY...

The facts about wasting water and water shortages immediately erases the passive pictures we may create so that the serious tone to this topic can be ignored, put off, or just not believed. If you do not know some of the details and facts to this topic, then please keep reading. This will help put things into perspective.

The United Nations has done some estimations that state by the year 2025 almost 75% of our planet's people will have serious shortages of clean drinkable water. The period of time for these shortages will vary from occasionally to constant. The United States will not be excluded from these fresh water shortages. Our old infrastructure and inadequate storage will contribute to our country having serious problems.

To understand how bad things can become, all we have to do is look at areas of our world already suffering from fresh water shortages. Without a safe fresh water supply we have seen waterborne diseases increase and mostly children are the victims. In Africa tens of thousands of people, mostly children, die from being infected with schistosomiasis each year. This parasitic disease plus diarrhea diseases, kill people because there is no fresh, clean and reliable water. Without fresh water we cannot survive. Many women and children in Africa spend most of their day walking several miles to secure, collect, and return with water for their family. Thus leaving little or no time for going to school, taking care of the family, growing food, community, and other job related tasks. STOP, think of turning on your water faucet one early morning and there is no water coming out. Life will change...
Ask someone in America who had water rations done in their township and how that little difference caused a big change in their life. Now think of a real fresh water shortage in your life, it will not just be an inconvenience.
To learn about the following:

- the serious water issues growing each year
- how to save a significant amount of money on the way you drink water
- how to live healthier with the water your family drinks
- help to protect and save our water supply for our children's children
- know the origins of water, so you can help solve serious water issues

Visit our Lifetime Membership program for details, online class about water is available to all members. Please use the GTG Membership Link above. Thank you.

You will not be tested by me, but life may test your grandchildren.
Can you teach them what they need to know?


Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Astounding AT&T

3/18/2014

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Action:
This is just an astounding operandi from one of Corporate America's leaders. For those of us who find ourselves following such a leader that heedlessly promulgates such wasteful actions, we must see the cliff's edge approaching and immediately change direction or stop following.

Results:
This MO by AT&T is a waste of our money, our trees and our energy supply. In return, AT&T will raise our costs to cover this type of foolish expense.

Back Story:
First the customer was informed that they owed AT&T a total of 15 cents after closing an account.
The customer's bank stated no Electronic payments can be made under 99 cents.
The customer had to write a check, buy a stamp, envelope and mail
to AT&T.
Thus, elements of our environment, energy supply and money were consumed.
THEN...
AT&T mails a check back to the customer for an undisclosed reason.

AGAIN paper, stamps, trees, gas, etc. was consumed to mail the customer a grand total of:
TWO CENTS! (See the actual check above)
Astounding.

Lesson Learned
:
When you are working with or doing business with anyone person or entity, be mindful that they are accountable for their actions. If not, go in a different direction or better still, become a leader yourself.
All AT&T had to do is EMAIL the customer and ask them to add the 15 cents due to any future donation being made by the customer for a charity. This should be Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for any leading American corporation when FINAL amounts under 99 cents are due.
If the customer fails to make a donation or add to donations, that is between them and God.
Anyway, that is just my two cents, literally.

Bill Lauto, GTG

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California Drought

3/6/2014

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People, farmers, crops and animals are all suffering from California's severe drought emergency that is occurring after three years of rainfall being below normal.

Almost 95% of California is dealing with these choking drought conditions.
The rain storms that swept across California at the end of February did ease some reservoirs deficits, yet mandatory restrictions may come into play by the start of springtime.

As bad as this drought is, I have wondered if this could be a blessing in disguise. My Blog posting called Nuclear Reality Check on January 27, 2014 talks about the radiation issues created by Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plants that exploded in 2011 after the tsunami hit that country. Current reports show information about Sea Lions, Polar Bears, Bald Eagles, Sea Stars, Turtles, King and Sockeye Salmon, Herring, Anchovies and Sardines are dying or suffering off the coast of Alaska and California. Thus, the possibility of contaminated rain falling onto crops growing in California is a overwhelming probability. So perhaps, just perhaps, the lack of rain has kept a detrimental level of Japan's nuclear plant's radiation out of California's food supply and soil.
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To place things into perspective, don't think the East Coast of the United States isn't affected. The bounty produced by California's farms is enjoyed by everyone in America and many other countries. California grows nearly half of all U.S. fruits, vegetables and nuts. Over eighteen billion dollars in exports to other countries is solely California and over seven percent of America's revenue from livestock. Do you buy fish? Most fish caught in the United States comes from the waters off the coast of California and Alaska.

Now I do not believe anyone wants to buy food with any amount of radioactive contamination.
Yet, some people still think nuclear power is safe. Thus, we have become our own worst enemy.

We came close to destroying America's largest food supplier this time, but all I can say is thank you God for protecting us here in America by holding back on the west coast rains these past few years.

So to those who say it never rains in southern California, I tell you this: As soon as rain can fall again on California without any radioactive waste, it will, and California will come back stronger than ever.

God's speed California, God's speed,
Bill Lauto, GTG

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