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FOR LACK OF WATER, I’M SO DRY, I CAN’T SPIT

By Frosty Wooldridge

“Water is essential for all dimensions of life. Over the past few decades, use of water has increased, and in many places water availability is falling to crisis levels. More than eighty countries, with forty percent of the world’s population, are already facing water shortages, while in this century the world’s population will double. The costs of water infrastructure have risen dramatically. The quality of water in rivers and underground has deteriorated, due to pollution by waste and contaminants from cities, industry and agriculture. Ecosystems are being destroyed, sometimes permanently. Over one billion people lack safe water, and three billion lack sanitation; eighty per cent of infectious diseases are waterborne, killing millions of kids each year.”

World Bank Institute

We owe our children, and theirsa sustainable future.

We owe our planet-home reasonable and responsible behavior that complies with the laws of nature. As the most prolific species on earth, we face harsh realities.

First question: what provides the most important aspect of human existence? Answer: clean water!

The latest warning signs manifested at Lake Lanier, Georgia in November 2007. One reporter stated to ABC’s World News Tonight anchor Charles Gibson, “They need a lot of rain because they are down to the last 36 days of supply for the Atlanta area.”

“How much rain?” Gibson shot back.

“Four months of rain would be a good start,” the reporter said.

If ever a wake-up call, the vanishing waters of Lake Lanier portend water shortages for five million peopletoday! Nonetheless, the Peach State expects to grow from 8.2 million people in 2009 to 16.4 million by 2050. Hello! Knock, knock! Anybody home?

Two thousand miles west of Georgia, Charles Gibson on a February 8, 2008 broadcast, said, “Scientists state Lake Mead, which provides water for millions in the west, expects to go dry by 2023. It’s caused by drought, climate change and human population growth.”

On February 21, 2008, anchor Brian Williams at NBC reported that Georgia legislators wanted to extend that state’s northern border two miles north in order to annex the Tennessee River. That would grant them to stick a huge pipe into a new water source.

As Goober of “Mayberry RFD” might say, “That’s like tryin’ to milk a cow while sittin’ on a stool