Environment News Service

June 21, 2004

http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=32831

WASHINGTON, DC, - The U.S. government is ill prepared to confront increasingly severe water shortages across the country and should make a new commitment to water research and governance, water experts warn in a new report.

Water research is fragmented among 20 federal agencies and is poorly coordinated, according to a new study from the National Academies of Science sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The report comes on the heels of an announcement by USGS scientists Friday that the parched Interior West could be the driest it has been in 500 years.

A decade of drought has produced the lowest flow on record in the 1,400 mile long Colorado River, which provides drinking water to Phoenix and Las Vegas.

USGS scientists said Sunday that drought continues to affect a broad area of the West, from the Central Plains into the Northern Rockies, and has now moved into the Southeast.

Committee Chair Henry Vaux, a resource expert with the University of California at Berkeley, warned "water crises are not confined to western states."

Vaux cited as an example the recent conflict between Maryland and Virginia over Potomac River water rights that had to be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Decisionmakers at all levels of government are going to have to make difficult choices in the coming decades about how to allot limited water supplies, and they need sound science to back them up," Vaux said.

Given the competition for water among farmers, environmental advocates, recreational users, and other interests, as well as emerging challenges such as climate change and the threat of waterborne diseases, the committee concluded that an additional $70 million in federal funding should go to water research each year.

Overall federal funding for water research has been stagnant in real terms for the past 30 years, and that the portion dedicated to research on water use and related social science topics has declined.

The panel says additional millions of dollars should be allocated with the aim of improving the decisionmaking of institutions that control water resources and gaining a better understanding the water use challenges that lie ahead.

The water experts called for a new entity to coordinate water research at the national level. No structure is in place now that prioritizes research for funding purposes, evaluates progress, or shifts priorities as new challenges arise.

The panel said either an existing interagency body, a neutral organization authorized by Congress, or a public-private group led by the White House Office of Management and Budget could serve as the coordinating entity.

Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) say one of the worst climatic events in the history of the United States, the Dust Bowl drought, which devastated the Great Plains in the 1930s, was brought on by changes in sea surface temperatures.

Siegfried Schubert of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues used a computer model developed with satellite data to look at the climate over the past 100 years.

The study found cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface temperatures combined with warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures to create conditions in the atmosphere that turned America's breadbasket into a dust bowl from 1931 to 1939.

These changes in sea surface temperatures created shifts in the large-scale weather patterns and low level winds that reduced the normal supply of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and inhibited rainfall throughout the Great Plains.

"The 1930s drought was the major climatic event in the nation's history," Schubert said. "Just beginning to understand what occurred is really critical to understanding future droughts and the links to global climate change issues we're experiencing today," he said.

Across the Great Plains 2004 ranks as one of the top five driest years since 1893 in parts of Nebraska and since 1909 in parts of Wyoming, according to data provided by Brian Fuchs, regional climatologist at the High Plains Regional Climate Center.

From southeastern Montana into western Nebraska, cccasionally hot weather and short-term dryness is aggravating the effects of a multi-year drought, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center.

In parts of western Nebraska, the January-May period rivaled 2002 for the driest start to a year in more than a century.

Meanwhile on the southern High Plains, where June 8 to 14 temperatures ranged from four to six degrees Fahrenheit above normal, short-term heat and dryness continued to take a toll on dryland summer crops. As a result, abnormal dryness and moderate drought continued to expand across the southern High Plains, the National Drought Mitigation Center said.


Informant: NHNE

Ökologisches Gleichgewicht gefährdet

22.06.04

Der unkontrollierte Bau von Mega-Staudämmen gefährdet das ökologische Gleichgewicht der wasserreichsten Flüsse der Erde. Eine am Dienstag veröffentlichte Studie des WWF identifiziert die 21 am stärksten durch in Bau befindliche oder geplante Dämme bedrohten Ströme. An der Spitze stehe der Jangtse in China mit 46 Bauvorhaben. Es folgen der La Plata in Argentinien mit 27 sowie Tigris und Euphrat im Mittleren Osten mit 26 Dämmen. In Europa seien die Donau mit acht und der Ebro mit sechs neuen Staudämmen besonders betroffen. Zu den gefährdeten Giganten zählten auch der Amazonas, der Mekong und der Brahmaputra...

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=8719

http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml

Western Drought Beats Dust Bowl,
Could Be Worst in 500 Years
By Angie Wagner
Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-18/s_25025.asp

Friday 18 June 2004

Las Vegas - The drought gripping the West could be the biggest in 500 years, with effects in the Colorado River basin considerably worse than during the Dust Bowl years, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.

"That we can now say with confidence," said Robert Webb, lead author of the new fact sheet. "Now I'm completely convinced."

The Colorado River has been in a drought for the entire decade, cutting an important source of water for millions of people across the West, including Southern California.

Environmental groups said the report reinforces the need to figure out a better way to manage the Colorado River before reservoirs run dry.

"The water managers, they just continue to pray for rain," said Owen Lammers, director of Living Rivers and Colorado Riverkeeper. "They just say, well, we hope that things change and we see rain."

The report said the drought has produced the lowest flow in the Colorado River on record, with an adjusted annual average flow of only 5.4 million acre-feet at Lees Ferry, Arizona, during the period 2001-2003. By comparison, during the Dust Bowl years, between 1930 and 1937, the annual flow averaged about 10.2 million acre-feet, the report said.

Scientists use tree-ring reconstructions of Colorado River flows to estimate what conditions were like before record-keeping began in 1895. Using that method, the lowest five-year average of water flow was 8.84 million acre-feet in the years 1590-1594. From 1999 through last year, water flow has been 7.11 million acre-feet.

"These comparisons suggest that the current drought may be comparable to or more severe than the largest known drought in 500 years," the report said.

The report said the river had its highest flow of the 20th century from 1905 to 1922, the years used to estimate how much water Western states would receive under the Colorado River Compact. The 1922 compact should now be reconsidered because of the uncertain water flow, said Steve Smith, a regional director for the Wilderness Society.

The report did not surprise water managers.

Adan Ortega, spokesman for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, said the water district has been increasing water storage, buying water from farmers, and investing in alternatives to the Colorado River.

"The big lesson is communities cannot afford to put all their eggs in the proverbial basket. You need ... a diverse portfolio of resources," Ortega said.

Herb Guenther, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, said the agency continues to plan for a lingering drought.

"It's serious, but the sky is not falling. Of course, we wish it would in the form of rain," he said.

Droughts seldom persist for longer than a decade, the report noted. But that could mean the current drought is only half over.

"If you're a betting person, you will bet that we will come out of this drought next year," Webb said. "It's a very severe event, and these things tend to end fast. There are other indications, though, that suggest that this drought could persist for as long as 30 years. "We don't really know."


Informant: Hopedance

First it was no more counties, everything "state" operated, here in Oregon starting in the 60's.... then there was all the "interstate" jurisdictions created beyond state boundaries, "regions", "zones", "areas", "districts", " 21 Century Communities", on and on....NOW THE INTERNATIONAL COURT IS BRINGING WHAT USED TO BE "COUNTRIES" BUT ARE NOW "COPORATE STATES" INTO COMPLIANCE WITH THE GLOBAL RULES .... NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN IT, TOTALLY STATUTORY...

Already they use water to steal homes, destroy lives, arbitrarily add taxes to water bills, then shut off services to the poor... who then lose their children for failure to provide basic needs.... it is all so horrendous and the poor have NO remedy in any known public assistance.... "no wrong door" they call it so that no matter who you turn to for help they are a mandatory reporter who WILL turn you in for any "rule violation"... doctors taking your drivers license now through DMV - THERE IS NO APPEAL PEOPLE.... IT IS A CUT AND DRY BUSINESS GOING ON IN THERE - YOU PAY OR YOU PAY SOME OTHER WAY.....

ON OUR WEBSITE UNDER GLOBAL AGENDA SEE THE MAP FOR THE UN BIODIOVERSITY AND WHAT THEY HAVE PLANNED FOR US... PUT KEY WORDS INTO THE SEARCH ENGINE AND REAL MORE ABOUT THIS, ALL HAPPENING NOW, AND THE REAL REASON BEHIND ALL THE OUTRAGEOUS THINGS GOING ON IN COURTS.... THE COURT IS WHERE THIS IS ENFORCED, WHERE THE TICKET YOU GET TURNS IN TO YOUR RENDERING ON THE KILLING FLOOR, SOON THE BEHEADINGS WILL BE RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN COURTS, WITH JUDGES CREATING "TORTURE WARRANTS" AND "EXECUTIONS ON THE SPOT" WITH "THE EXTRA JUDICIAL SOLUTION", GUN SHIPS FROM HELICOPTERS BLASTING ANYTHING THE STATE TARGETS.....

IF WE DONT START SAYING NO NO AND NO TO EVERY BIT OF THIS, AND THESE AGENTS START MEETING UP WITH SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO DEFEND OURSELVES, WE WILL NOT STAND AGAINST IT AT ANY LATER TIME. THE TIME IS NOW TO ACT.

FULL DISCLOSURE NOW. TRUTH IN COURTROOMS NOW. CONSTITUTIONAL JUDICIAL DUE PROCESS... WE ARE THE AUTHORITY, ONLY IF WE ACT LIKE IT IN THAT COURTROOM AND HELP EACH OTHER...

pamela gaston
http://www.avoiceforchildren.com


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YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET! ...CHECK THIS OUT!
Posted By: CliffMickelson
Date: Friday, 18 June 2004, 6:42 a.m.
In Response To: GOVERNMENT METERING PRIVATE WELLS (PRAVDASEEKER)

Greetings, Pravdaseeker:

The slow and methodical water grab by the government has been underway in the Western United States since the 1940s. If you thought what Mulholland and the L.A Metropolitan water district did to the Owens Valley was bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Do a google search on the Methow Valley, here in Washington State. You will find a naked and vicious water grab by the government bureaucracy and their allied environmental comrades that will knock you off your feet!

And....this is just ONE example among thousands of similar cases. Here in the Tampico WA area, our farmers, ranchers, and landowners in general, just recently lost their existing water rights to the State Dept. of Ecology. Some of the water rights that were taken away (stolen) have been on the books since before 1856. I have a close friend who lives about five miles down the road from me. His family settled here in 1870 and have lived here ever since. They have a small spring in their front yard. They have irrigated their garden with it for 150 years. As part of the recent water rights rip-off. They were served with an injunction by the department of Ecology and threatened with arrest if the Ecology department finds that they ever use the spring again.

Here in the Pacific northwest, you can be thrown in jail for using your private well to grow and sell anything other than fodder for sheep or horses. One must buy a special permit for a well that is any larger than 6 inches in diameter... This permit costs $1,000 dollars. You must pay for the permit first, and then wait to receive it. The current wait to receive a permit to drill a hole in the ground any larger than 6 inches in diameter is 10 years!

So, it is only a matter of time before all wells are metered and you are charged for the water you use. Of course the fact that you paid to drill the well and you paid to install the pump and the pipe and the State didn't pay squat to help you with those expenses, has no bearing on the issue. You will be metered and you WILL pay. The servants who will be our masters, have ordained it!

Now, I believe that it is not all that far fetched to consider this:… After everyone's wells are successfully metered, and everyone is paying the government for the privilege of a drink of water. What could possibly be next?

Well, I will tell you what comes next......
You and I will be metered for the amount of air we breath each day! Sound far fetched? So did meters on private wells, just a few years ago. Oxygen consumption meters will be worn someday by your children. And...They will pay! Just wait and see!


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CONTROL WATER-CONTROL PEOPLE-WORLD BANK WTR POLICY
Posted By: Rayelan
Date: Friday, 14 July 2000, 4:04 a.m.
==============RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY===========
Rayelan Allan, Publisher

In 1993, the World Bank published a Policy Paper, titled, "Water Resources Management." The intent of the water management laid out in the Policy Paper, is to gain control of humanity by gaining control of the water.

The following Analysis of the World Bank's Policy Paper was written by a friend of Rumor Mill News. This is the first time it has been released on the Internet. It was scanned, using an OCR program. It has been proofed many times. Hopefully, all the mistakes were caught.

This is an extremely important article -- please send it far and wide.

Rayelan


An Analysis of THE WORLD BANK* WATER POLICY
*(International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) which was originally set up to rebuild Europe after the devastation of World War II.

Why does the World Bank have its hands in everybody's business and personal life around the world?

Remember George Orwell's warning when reading any document: "You can read people's intentions by their use of the language. If the words are so long and fuzzy that we cannot understand what is being said, or if we can surmise that they are saying nothing at all . .
. . . we can be fairly sum the speaker is trying to swindle us!"

Well folks. . the international elitists are calling for what they say is a new approach to how they manage your water. In fact their plan calls for managing your water, your land, and you!

The WORLD BANK "claims" that their overall objective is to reduce poverty. Now that's very interesting. Why is the WORLD BANK involved in "social engineering"?

In fact, all of the WORLD BANK programs are involved in redistribution of land, resources and wealth! It would appear that the wonderful folks at the WORLD BANK are ignoring the truism -- "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day ... teach him how to fish and he will learn to feed himself."

Of course if their real objective is to starve all of us, they're on the right track to: Land starvation, Resources starvation, and Wealth starvation!

Who does the WORLD BANK blame for all this poverty and starvation? Why, all the current governments of course. The WORLD BANK specifically points out the total mismanagement of water by all the governments. Explaining of course that the BANK is destined to be the savior of the water. . All the water ... Everywhere!

The WORLD BANK will use "Estimated Opportunity Costs"(EOC)* to set the price for water!

*The WORLD BANK defines EOC as"the value of goods or services forgone, including goods and services, when a scarce resource is used for one purpose instead of for its next best alternative use".

How's that for a mouthful of fuzzy words? .... Heed George Orwell's warning!

The WORLD BANK "claims" that all the current. governments have the following faults:
1 . Mis-allocate and waste water. [page 9]
2. Permit damage to the environment due to weak and distorted policies.
3. Neglect financial accountability. [page27]
4. Neglect user participation.
5. Charge too low a price for water. (They aren't charging for "Estimated Opportunity Costs.")
6. Ineffective delivery of water to users, especially the poor.
[page 12]
7. Operate under centralized structure.

The WORLD BANK then makes the following proclamations:
1 . Water is essential for life. (Now here's a bold statement of the obvious!)
2. Water has an Economic Value and is recognized as an Economic Good. (p. 24]
3. Water is a scarce natural resource. [page 21] (I believe the old saying is: "Figures don't lie but LIARS figure." i.e. using half truths.)

Get ready for all kind of "fees" regarding water ...Especially since the WORLD BANK will be certain to charge a "high enough proper" price for water. (And you thought Perrier was expensive!).

1. SOCIAL FEES: Those who have worked hard to better themselves will have to come up with subsidies for the poor. [pages 15, 72]
2 BENEFIT TAXES: If you receive any benefit whatsoever from your land, you will be taxed on that "benefit." [page 85]
3. POLLUTION CHARGES: You will be charged a pollution tax for any pollution on your land. [page 16] [The poop left by your pet on your land is going to cost you big time!]

The WORLD BANK wants to terminate, (with extreme prejudice), the federal structure in all countries. The WORLD BANK will not permit sovereign states within a "Federal Structure" to have any authority over the water. The WORLD BANK plans to do this by replacing all country and state political boundaries with geographical RIVER BASINS BOUNDARIES. [page 28,71]

The WORLD BANK plan calls for the transfer by contract of all water jurisdiction by governments to Private Corporations and "User Associations" These corporations and user associations will of course be mandated to meet all WORLD BANK regulations and prohibitions. [page 11]

[These "Private" entities will operate at the River Basin level. States will NOT have any control. Please note that a "river basin" includes all surface and underground water flowing into a common area. They simply march from the wetlands, up the river, up the streams, to the headwaters which are typically runoff or springs.

This includes any water in the ground along the way, and any land which would allow water to run into the river basin "area". By the way, the WORLD BANK requires an environmental impact and assessment of the entire river basin system. The "river basin" organizations will be assisted by the Global Environmental Facility in collaboration with UNDP, the United Nations Development Program.] [page 14,19]

These WORLD BANK contracts will comply with each country's national objectives which are of course the objectives of the WORLD BANK. The WORLD BANK "objectives" are stipulated in the water project loan agreements for country. The WORLD BANK water projects loans clearly spell out that--"In acceptance of the monies of the WORLD BANK, the countries MUST participate in the international initiatives": i.e. United Nation's Conventions, Treaties, Agreements, and they MUST implement the WORLD BANK Policies on WATER and LAND USE!!!!!! [page 13]

The WORLD BANK Water Resources Management Program is structured similar to a Medieval Feudal system. The WORLD BANK is at the top of the pyramid as the Lord and Master dictating how the water will be used through "Demand Management."

Demand Management consists of:
1. Price-based incentives to enforce low water usage. (How's that for a fancy way to say raise the price to whatever level it takes to achieve the WORLD BANK goals.)
2. Water Rationing.
3. Water restrictions on specific usage. (Determined by the WORLD BANK of course).

Beijing, China is given as an example:
1. Quotas on water consumption
2. Fines on excessive water use
As outrageous as the following may sound, it is a quote by David Rockefeller: "Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high moral and community of purpose. The SOCIAL EXPERIMENT in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history." [Quote after visiting Mao Tse-Tung. . . ."From a China Traveler," New York Times August 10, 1973]. Please read David Rockefeller's quote once more just to get a glimpse into the distorted mind of a true elitist. One wonders how the dead or jailed victims of Tiananmen Square would evaluate Chairman Mao's Social Experiment?

The Framework for the WORLD BANK Water Resource Management is consistent with two documents.
1. The 1992 Dublin, Ireland statement from the International Conference on Water and the Environment (UN). [page 10]
This insidious but "friendly sounding" document has four guiding
principles:
A. The Holistic approach tying social and economic development with Protection of Natural Ecosystems including Land and Water LINKAGES across catchment areas or groundwater aquifers.
B. Use of a "participatory approach" with users, planners, and policy-makers input. (Please be aware that they are talking about the "consensus" method where the final decision has already been decided by the "facilitator" and the participants only function is to be led by the facilitator to say yes to the pre-determined "decision")
C. The women in each community are to be given the "responsibility" for providing, managing, and safeguarding the water according to the WORLD BANK policy. [page 16]
[The WORLD BANK is using the "empowerment of women" as their carrot on a stick to entice the women of the world to go along with the WORLD BANK scheme. The WORLD BANK is using the standard Sun Tzu tactic of "divide and conquer." This can be seen in many areas where a wedge is being driven between men and women]
D. Water has an economic value and is an economic good. [How much water would you use at $ 1.00 per gallon?] .... and if that's not high enough to reduce your total water usage, the WORLD BANK will raise the price to what ever it takes to reduce your water usage to their preset level of 40 liters/person/day. That's 10.57 gallons/person/day for ALL water usage. (from Agenda 21, "Fresh Water") "Full cost recovery" is mandated by the WORLD BANK to properly compensate the "Water Agencies"
2. AGENDA 21 from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit 11) is using the guiding principle of Demand Management to control the use and distribution of water by: The use of Price, Volume Restrictions, and (Invasive) Regulations.

The WORLD BANK supports land use policies that restore and "protect" the quality of ground water, E.D.I., the Economic Development Institute division of the WORLD BANK, will train and supply the planners, managers, technicians, and country policy analysis. This of course means that "Resettlement of People" will be required. [page 17] [Although the WORLD BANK tries to soft peddle this feature of their plan, it is occurring around the globe.]

The WORLD BANK works with the following U.N. Organizations (page 22] UNDP The UN Development Program.


RE: Water Resource Management
FAO Thee Food & Agricultural Organization.
RE: Sustainable Agriculture
WHO The World Health Organization
RE: Quality of Water
UNICF The UN International Children's Fund.
RE: Rural Communities
WMO The World Meteorological Organization.
RE: Hydro Assessment
UNESCO The UN Educational, Scientific & Cultural Org
RE: Protected Land
UNEP The UN Environmental Program
RE: Protected Ecosystems
UNDESD The UN Dept. of Economic & Social Development
RE: Its Science, Technology, Energy,
Environment, and Natural Resources Division formulates policies
and projects including RURAL WATER SUPPLY, RIVER
BASINS, POLLUTION CONTROL, and hosts the Intersecretariat
Group for water resources.
The largest users of water ----
Agriculture 69% (Worldwide) [page 26]
Agriculture 80% (Third World Countries)
Industry 23%
Household 8%

The WORLD BANK states that Agriculture uses too much water. They also claim that cattle (in fact all gazing animals), are the leading cause of desertification. i.e. turning the land into a desert! [Now this is the largest load of cow pie I've heard in a long time. The "cubicle freaks" who live in the dark bowels of the WORLD BANK and come up with nonsense like this have obviously never been past the city limits. Cow manure is fertilizer. The land grows better with fertilizer. People in the city are more than happy to bring home several bags of this "fertilizer" for their home lawns, flower & vegetable gardens.]

The WORLD BANK claims that farmers & ranchers do not pay enough for water. The most water intensive crops are alfalfa, rice, sugarcane, and corn for silage (livestock feed). [page 301]

The WORLD BANK feels that farmers & ranchers should be charged 300% to 500% more! In addition, the WORLD BANK states that when water is diverted upstream for irrigation and other uses, downstream areas that support "sensitive water dependent ecosystems, including wetlands, become less able to fulfill these valuable biodiversity functions. [page 34]
[That's right folks, all you humans are in the way of the grand plan of the WORLD BANK]

The WORLD BANK calls for the DE-CENTRALIZATION of water management. They claim that the problem is that each different water use is managed by a separate department i.e. irrigation, municipal, power & transportation. Then, in classic "fuzzy" worded language, they call for ecological, social, and economic water system policy & regulations to be dictated by the WORLD BANK. [page 27] [Gee, that sure sounds like centralized management to me!]

The WORLD BANK claims that it is difficult to solve water problems when state or local governments have authority over the water. [page 28] [Those darn constitutional folks are always getting in the way of a tyrant on the march.]

The WORLD BANK feels it would be a lot easier to achieve its goals if a national water agency following the WORLD BANK plan were to run the water policy through lower levels of government, community organizations, private sector units and NGO's. [page 28,30]

I know its hard to wade through the fuzzy language but here we go again.... [page 42]

Per the WORLD BANK; within a decentralized central system, adequate charges ($) would endow the WORLD BANK water entities with operational and financial ($) independence. [It's real easy folks, we pay the water entity for whatever water they will sell us at whatever price they choose. They operate in collaboration with the IUCN with complete impunity.... On January 18, 1996, by Executive Order # 12986, President Clinton gave diplomatic immunity to IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, and its umbrella land & water organizations..... CAN YOU SPELL TYRANNY ?]

The WORLD BANK wants Institutional Reform. [page 14, 44] They want to ensure that their rules and regulations are coordinated and ENFORCED! They state that historical private and local water rights need to be brought into compliance. [In other words, the WORLD BANK doesn't believe that you know how to use your water properly].

The WORLD BANK states that the rights to water need to be clearly defined, with due concern shown for the interests of indigenous people, the poor, and other disadvantaged groups. [Now that's more fuzzy, snake-tongue talk. Our wonderful Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbett tried to buy the water rights of the Ute Indian Nation for $272 Million! Fortunately the Indians learned their lesson after the beads-for-land-deal. The Ute Indians just said NO!]

The WORLD BANK then goes on to say that they need to be in charge of the water because otherwise, bad people might try to form a water monopoly! [And exactly what would you call what the WORLD BANK is trying to do .... ?] Then the WORLD BANK goes on to repeat that the "River Basin Organizations" need to have "dictatorial" water policy power!

The WORLD BANK points to the French Water System which has been in place for 25 years. There are 6 river basin financial agencies which collect fees, implement policy, and make grants and loans. The 1st fee is based on the amount of water use . The 2nd fee is based on the level of pollution at each point source. The regulation & enforcement is done by National Ministries. [page 46] [This is supposed to be an example of de-centralization???]

Water is rated according to its "usage value". [Page 31, 48] Highest Value Water Usage: Wetlands, Ecosystems, River Fisheries, Deltas [page34] High Value Water Usage: Domestic, Industrial [page 48] Low Value Water Usage: Agriculture [page 31]

Of course the WORLD BANK determines what is high or low value water usage. In order to save water for the wetlands, the WORLD BANK suggests that people, [just us common folks of course], drink processed toilet & sewer water. The WORLD BANK euphemistically refers to this activity as "water reuse in various economic activities." [page73]

The WORLD BANK states that they have increased their focus on issues such as poverty alleviation, resettlement, and women's roles in development. [page 131] [This sure is a massive departure from their initial stated role as rebuilder of war damaged Europe. Again, their actual name is INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT]

The WORLD BANK, using their standard "smoke & mirrors" technique, is promoting women's traditional role in securing water, and their potential role in "educational training" and informed participation in planning development projects. [page 62] [Remember the "retraining" camps in Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, and China.]

On page 121 of the WORLD BANK water policy manual they state that their policy is to be open about its activities. [This is totally inconsistent with their actual policy. One is faced with the no admittance statement "FORBIDDEN" when trying to retrieve the WORLD BANK water policy manual on their internet site. After reading their water policy manual I understand why!]

In order to create the illusion that the local or federal government is in charge of the water, the WORLD BANK Water Policy has a section entitled: "The Case for Government Involvement in Water Management" [Page 28] In regards to River Basins, the WORLD BANK states that 7 "The uses of H2O within a river basin or aquifer are interdependent. Pollution by one user affects others in the basin, especially located downstream. All users of H2O are to agree to the 'rules of the game' (i.e. User Associations). " [At first glance this sounds like it makes sense. i.e. everybody working together to have clean water etc. However, remember that, the WORLD BANK creates the rules. And like the satirical version of the "Golden Rule" motto "He who has the gold, makes the rules."

In this case, "He who has the water makes the rules", and rules your life ... That is unless you've discovered a way to get along without water!]

"If the land owners will not join a User Association, then the government WILL impose REGULATIONS, TAXES, or BOTH. This would improve the social value of H20 resources". In other words, The WORLD BANK will use the government as its POLICE FORCE! (Once again, remember George Orwell's warning)

The following is a quote by Carl Bloice, a close friend of Mikhail Gorbachev, and a leading U.S. Communist. He was the Associate Editor and Moscow correspondent for the People's Daily World. "The Environmental Movement promises to bring greater numbers into our orbit than the 'Peace Movement' ever did."

To obtain a copy of the insidious World Bank Water Policy: The World Bank"Water Policy Paper" 1993 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development /THE WORLD BANK, 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433 U.S.A. , First printing September 1993 Third printing August 1995, Library of Congress, Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN 0-8213-2636-8ISSN 1014-8124


Informant: Allan

BOSTON, MA: A series of educational events on the topic, “Water for Life, Not for Profit,” will be held Friday to Sunday, July 23-25, during the Boston Social Forum at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. The Forum’s “Water Track” will bring together water activists from the US and Nicaraguan activist in a series of seminars, panel discussions, workshops, and films.

“Multinational corporations are seeking to control access to limited freshwater supplies by laying claim to groundwater resources and seeking to take over municipal water systems,” says Arnie Alpert of the New Hampshire American Friends Service Committee and a member of the Water Allies Network. “But all over the world, grassroots movements are fighting back, saying ‘Our Water Is Not For Sale.’”

Topics for different events include: water struggles throughout world; campaigns against municipal privatization and bottled water companies; the impact of international trade agreements and financial institutions; and how grassroots groups can take on the “water barons.”

The Water Track, one of 30 separate tracks at the Boston Social Forum, has been organized by the Water Allies Network, a multi-cultural, multi-racial network of over 50 grassroots organizations nationwide.

“The Water Allies Network hopes to use the Boston Social Forum as an opportunity to identify and inform more people who care about ensuring secure and equitable access to clean water as a human right to be protected for all generations and for all living things,” said Ali Hebshi, a union organizer from Connecticut who is active in the Water Allies Network.

The Boston Social Forum is organized by dozens of progressive organizations and unions, to help activists articulate their vision of a better society and map out strategies for change. It will bring together thousands of people for hundreds of educational and cultural events, all at UMASS Boston during the weekend prior to the Democratic National Convention.

For more information about the Boston Social Forum, or to pre-register, visit http://www.bostonsocialforum.org . For more information about the Water Track, e-mail: watertrack@bostonsocialforum.org


Informant: arnie alpert

Arbeiten an Beweis für das Erinnerungsvermögen und die positive Wirkung von Wasserfällen bei den Salzburger Wassertagen

Salzburg - Hat Wasser ein Gedächtnis? Dieser Frage geht der Biologe Peter Christian Endler vom Interuniversitären College für integrative Gesundheitsförderung in Graz in seinen Forschungsarbeiten nach. Und der Forscher beantwortet sie mit Ja. Bei den Salzburger Wassertagen präsentierte er am Freitag Ergebnisse. Anhand zoologischer Versuche arbeitet Endler seit Jahren an einem Beweis für das Erinnerungsvermögen von Wasser.

Ausgangspunkt seiner Überlegungen ist die Homöopathie. Auch in extrem hoher Verdünnung, in der theoretisch keine Moleküle der Ausgangssubstanz mehr im Testwasser zu erwarten ist, zeigten sich Wirkungen auf lebende Organismen. Endler arbeitet in seinen Versuchen mit dem Schilddrüsenhormon Thyroxin. Es spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei der natürlichen Entwicklung der Kaulquappe von der zwei- zur vierbeinigen Froschlarve. Thyroxin beschleunigt die Entwicklung: Normalerweise benötigen die Kaulquappen zehn Tage, um sich zum Vierbeinstadium zu entwickeln, erläuterte Endler. Setzt man die Tiere einer zusätzlichen Thyroxinbehandlung aus, dann verkürzt sich die Entwicklungszeit auf acht Tage. Ursache dafür ist eine Art "Thyroxin-Vergiftung", die in ihrem Symptomen einer Schilddrüsen-Überfunktion entspricht.

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Endler hat nun für seine Versuche das Schilddrüsenhormon wie für eine homöopathische Lösung verdünnt und verschüttelt. Chemisch gesehen handelte es sich dabei um reines Wasser. In Analysen könnte Thyroxin nicht mehr nachgewiesen werden. "Wenn dieses Testwasser eine bestimmte Wirkung haben sollte, dann muss diese mit seinem Gedächtnis, seiner physikalischen Erinnerung an das Schritt für Schritt herausverdünnte Thyroxin zu tun haben", erklärte der Wissenschafter.

Das Ergebnis: Kaulquappen, die zuvor mit Thyroxin behandelt wurden und dann dem Testwasser ausgesetzt wurden, brauchten nicht acht, sondern wieder zehn Tage, um sich voll zu entwickeln. Die Erklärung des Forschers: Das Testwasser, welches Thyroxin in homöopathischer Verdünnung enthielt, "heilte" die Tiere von jenem Stress, den sie durch die "Vergiftung" mit dem Schilddrüsenhormon erlitten hatten. Sie konnten sich - im Gegensatz zu jenen Tieren, die nach ihrer Thyroxin-Behandlung in normalem Wasser aufwuchsen - wieder in der Normalzeit entwickeln. Fazit Endlers: Das Wasser scheine ein Gedächtnis zu haben.

Gestörte Information

Die Forschungsarbeiten, die seit zwölf Jahren laufen, stünden auf sehr breiter Basis und seien in Kooperation mit Zoologen, Zellbiologen und Veterinärmedizinern entstanden, sagte Endler zur APA. Nachdem man nun sicher sei, dass es ein Gedächtnis des Wassers gebe, wende man sich nun der Frage zu, wie dieses Gedächtnis gestört werden könnte. So habe man beispielsweise festgestellt, dass Elektrosmog solche Informationen im Wasser zerstören könne. Deshalb sollten homöopathische Lösungen Endler zufolge vorsichtshalber nicht auf Elektrogeräte gestellt werden.

Positive Wirkung von Wasserfällen

In den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren war die positive Wirkung von Wasserfällen auf die Gesundheit schon einmal Forschungsobjekt. Damals gelang es Wissenschaftern der Stanford University nachzuweisen, dass die negativen Luft-Ionen, die dort in sehr hoher Konzentration vorkommen, Allergikern und Asthmatikern helfen und Schmerzen von Brandwunden lindern können.

Versuchsreihe

In einer Versuchsreihe, die im Sommer bei den Krimmler Wasserfällen geplant ist, will Maximilian Moser vom Joanneum Research Institut für Nichtinvasive Diagnostik, an die früheren Ergebnisse anknüpfen. Bei den Salzburger Wassertagen sprach er über die Wiederentdeckung des Wasserfalls als Gesundheitstank.

In Städten liege die Konzentration von negativen Luft-Ionen bei 500 pro Kubikzentimeter, erklärte Moser im Gespräch mit der APA. Im Wald könne man eine Anzahl von 2.000 pro Kubikzentimeter nachweisen. Bei den Krimmler Wasserfällen kommen sie in einer Konzentration von 70.000 pro Kubikzentimeter vor, weiß der Wissenschafter. "Auch Urlauber sagen, dass ihr Asthma sofort besser wird, wenn sie die Krimmler Wasserfälle besuchen", erzählt Moser. In den Versuchsreihen soll nachgewiesen werden, was sich durch die Konzentration der negativen Luft-Ionen im Körper verändert. Erste Ergebnisse werden im Herbst vorliegen.

Für eine neue Therapieform

Moser geht es darum, den gesundheitlichen Nutzen natürlicher Wasserfallelektrizität zu ergründen. Es gebe alte Berichte, dass die Krimmler Wasserfälle schon vor 200 Jahren als "Gesundheitstank" genutzt wurden. Dieses alte Wissen will Moser mit wissenschaftlichen Daten untermauern und so den Weg zu einer neuen Form der Therapie frei machen.

Der gesundheitliche Nutzen gelte im Prinzip für alle Wasserfälle. Durch die Fallhöhe der Krimmler Wasserfälle ergebe sich aber eine besonders hohe Konzentration der negativen Luft-Ionen. Bei kleineren Wasserfällen liege sie bei etwa 10.000 Luft-Ionen pro Kubikzentimeter. Die Wasserfallelektrizität entstehe durch die Bewegung der Teilchen in der Luft. Durch einen Aufprall entstehen die Ladungstrennungen, die für die negativen Luft-Ionen verantwortlich sind, weiß Moser. An den kleinen Tropfen könnten sich negative Luft-Ionen ansetzen und so ein Elektroaerosol bilden, das besonders wirkungsvoll sei. Es gebe "erstaunlich positive Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit", so der Wissenschafter. (APA

14.5.04

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