Clean Water
Water Tables and Aquifers

Blue Gold and Future Wars

The largest aquifer in America stretches from the Dakota's down into Texas, it covers 174,000 square miles across eight states, and holds over 978 trillion gallons of water. Since the 1950's the Ogallala has sustained a net loss of 120 trillion gallons—11% of its volume, if drained it would take 6,000 years to refill the reservoir.

Snow and rain on land is influenced by mankind involved in agri. and industry, also the general population spreading polutants and dangerous organics or chemicals, this leaches into water tables and aquifer's of successive depth's. Clean water accounts for 3% of the total water on earth, presently 2/3 found in mountain and polar glaciers, leaving 1/3 for consumption by everything that depends on clean water.

Example of a potential problem or devestating consequence:
1. Keystone Project (BP Oil) laying a massive oil-pipleline crossing the Ogallala
2. Nuclear Dump being set up on Texas border very near the Ogallala


Terms concerning natural water movement and water condition:
  1. Aquifers - natural rock formations, which contain ground water.
  2. Recharging - The natural process of snow and rain entering and replenishing a reservoir.
  3. Eutrophication - The process of slowly filling in a water body with sediments and organic matter.
  4. Non point source - delivers pollutants indirectly through environmental changes. One way in, which this occurs, is through run-off.
  5. Pathogens - or disease producing organism.
  6. Point source - occurs when harmful substances are emitted directly into a body of water. One way in which this occurs, is when someone throws a coke can into a body of water.
  7. Pollution - to make foul or unclean; dirty.
  8. Sediments - minerals or organic matter deposited by water, air, or ice...matter which settles to the bottom a liquid.
Typical aquifer in America as found in Texas, the Texas 'Edwards Aquifer' is very important to the agri-industry from which much of our food products are grown and shipped around the entire nation. These aquifers because of growing usage are all seeing gradual depletion.
Another of somewhat more unusual formation is found in the South-Western area of the nation and called the Florida Aquifier.

This aquifer when depleted by pumping faster than can be recharged by normal rains, points out the problem of drawing in salt water from deeper regions or shoreline into the aquifer and poluting the supply.
Ground water is the source of life...
United Nations and clean water...
Certainly as the photo below shows, because of the heavy depletion by pumping great quantities of water from these aquifers, areas including Florida, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania are experiencing ever larger sinkholes.
This map shows rock types throughout America,
soluble rocks after millennia develope water flow,
much like rivers some with great quantities of water.


Clean Water Problem Growing...This is not only in America but especially in areas of the world with large and growing populations, also those in Southern latitudes such as Africa where shifting weather conditions are seeing a substantial drop in rainfall...
America is not the only nation and continent realizing overuse and polution of their natural aquifer, the third largest in the world is beneath several South American nations, it is being depleted at an unsustainable rate.

Rain Forest's are also being eliminated for agriculture, the land mass involving considerably more acerage than needed to feed the local population. Also Western Mining corporations clear land to get at the rich resources, in the process despoiling it for the peoples and tribes that live on this land.
A full scale attack by EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to take control of all water from any source whatsoever is under way. What these agencies are attempting is an end run around water and land rights. These agencies are constructing regulations and fictional jurisdictional control. We cannot depend on our courts or the federal government to reign in and control these agencies as they are both privately owned corporations that masquerade as public service agencies. While congress may express their concerns about the police state actions being constructed, they have no authority or power to dictate what these agencies do under private contract law.

Adding to this problem is Mega-Corp 'Privitation' of Water Utulities world wide backed by agencies like IMF and World Banking institutions. This 'Blue Gold' as it becomes less in supply (clean water) is being grabbed up at the detriment of all consuming citizen's in many nations.
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