Water Water Everywhere And ...

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink ....

Illegal Water Connections - Not Just Cowboys

..... or so Thames Water (London's water supplier|), are fearing is a possible future.

Water Wars Of Tomorrow

It is often said the world's next world war will be fought over water .... 

Fighting Over Water Could Be Worlds Next Big Thing ......

.... indeed its been touched upon in this blog.

The Apocalypse Clock Is Ticking Louder

2050 is the watershed for much of what's going to happen next .... We have mentioned this date in a number of posts as being the moment when the way we live will change for ever.

The Clock Is At Ten To 2050

The latest forecast to make the headlines is that after 2050, the South-west and the Central Plains of the USA would likely shift to drought conditions that exceed even the great drought epochs of the so-called "Medieval Climate Anomaly" in the 12th and 13th Centuries.

 

The Drink That Really Satisfies

Scientists have created a teabag that purifies water ..... It sits inside a tube that can be fitted on top of a bottle and purifies water as it is poured on a cup.

A Million Lives Could Be Saved By This

This could save thousands of lives across the third world (and in disaster zones such as Pakistan) so three cheers for science, which too many are prepared to abandon, in favour of a mythical being.

Worlds Rivers Drying Up

As any reader of my Blog knows, I am fairly convinced that the world is heading for destruction this century .... I have pinpointed 2050 as the moment when the shit hits the fan .... so the news that many of the worlds major rivers water levels have declined significantly over the past 50 years is no great surprise.

The only area with a significant increase in water flows was the Arctic and Himalayas, due to a greater amount of snow and ice melting, and that's a disaster as well, because once the glacial ice has gone, its gone, and India and China will lose 30% of their fresh water supplies.

From the Yellow river in northern China, to the Ganges in India, to the Colorado river in the United States - US scientists say that the major sources of fresh water for much of the world's population are in decline.

We laughed at those 'Survivalists' but they may be the last ones standing.

Enough To Make You Turn In Your Grave

This blog has followed the approach of 'The Apocalypse' in a series of articles 

Apocalypse

•  Malthus and the Four Horseman
• Predictions of Disaster
• When Chickens come Home to Roost, and the ever popular
• End of the World is Nigh

But always with the blasé assumption, that I personally wouldn't be around when it all happened, and that I would be safely tucked up in my grave when it arrived.

Australia's "Big Dry"

Most people will be aware that Australia is prone to Wets and Drys i.e. a cycle of rain and droughts, that usually balances out over a long enough period.

Always something of a joke, Australians have often played on the 'parched' thirst jokes e.g.

Its so dry in Australia that .....

If the England cricket team wasn't touring we'd never see ducks.

The Red Cross has launched a wet blanket appeal.

We're actually drinking the new Vanilla Coke

You're only permitted to eat watermelon between 8pm and 8am.

The Government has introduced a water pistol buyback scheme.

Thieves are siphoning off radiators instead of petrol tanks.

I'm encouraging the kids to wee in the pool.

Jesus has turned the wine into water

We are having to hand feed the rocking horse.

Everyone is now an expert - because you can't find anyone who is wet behind the ears.

All the bottom of the harbour tax schemes are re-surfacing.

I saw two trees fighting over a dog.

All the Baptists have become Anglicans.

When my daughter fainted it took three buckets of sand to bring her around.

All the dogs are marking their territory with chalk.

Some of the 4 wheel drives in Toorak have actually got dust on them.

and many books have parodied the lack of rainfall e.g The Lost Continent by Terry Pratchett.

However for the last decade, Australia has been living through the "Big Dry" - the most severe drought in a century. This has reached the point where the very ecosystem is in danger of collapse across large areas of Australia and is having far reaching social consequences.

Maybe the most surprising, is that despite their reputation for water shortages, Australia has so far refused to recycle water for drinking i.e. they only use recycled water for agriculture, and not for drinking.

Well guess what, they are going to have to use water properly, like the rest of the world - drinking water shortages are the biggest threat to humanity and for one continent to act as though it isn't affected, is plainly daft.

Recycled effluent water is not straight from the sewers, and then back into the drinking supply .... its a process like this...

1. Waste water is pumped into a clarifier
2. After passing through filters it is then disinfected with UV light
3. The water is then pumped into rivers or lakes, to be taken back into the water supply later as part of the natural cycle.

Aussies, remember that your river water has

• Dead fish,
• Dead animals
• Animal and fish faeces,
• Industrial waste, and
• Pesticides

in it, before you treat it and drink it ..... how can human waste make that worse?

Malthus and the Four Horsemen

All the signs are that we are heading to a depressing future.

Visions Of Disaster - With the Four Horsemen Riding Forth

.... the signs of this are all around us. Overpopulation, Pandemics, Freak Weather and War.