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If you have been reading this blog then you know that I have been searching for a solution to pump water from a deep well that doesn’t require 220 power. Well, here it is. I can hook the air compressor that runs this system into a small solar generator and have all the water I need or want sans the power company. Thank you Mike Adams, the Health Ranger at naturalnews.com Video at site

Capt. Sara Woods, chief of Civil Affairs Team 31, unscrews a lid to check a water pump filter in a sunflower field near Mahmudiyah, Aug. 9. Photo by Sgt. Jon Soles, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. BAGHDAD — Capt. Sara Woods calls it "sweet water;" the clean, potable ground water that hides under the dusty farmland here at a depth of about 20 meters. That sweet water is the key to helping many rural Iraqis enjoy greater health and raise much more productive livestock. Woods is the chief of Civil Affairs Team 31, currently attached to the North Carolina National Guard's...

Syria is experiencing an economic holocaust. There is no other way to describe what the Syrian regime is so much trying to hide. The country is drying up, and no less than 250,000 farmers were forced in the past three years to abandon their land and migrate to the large cities. They live in tents there, completely neglected by the regime. These figures appeared in a special study undertaken by the United Nations and published on the al-Arabiya website. The immense Euphrates River, Syria’s main source of water, is drying up. The Turks are stopping its water in their territory,...

Abstract: Prior studies have estimated that a liter of bioethanol requires 263−784 L of water from corn farm to fuel pump, but these estimates have failed to account for the widely varied regional irrigation practices. By using regional time-series agricultural and ethanol production data in the U.S., this paper estimates the state-level field-to-pump water requirement of bioethanol across the nation. The results indicate that bioethanol’s water requirements can range from 5 to 2138 L per liter of ethanol depending on regional irrigation practices. The results also show that as the ethanol industry expands to areas that apply more irrigated water...

Hoping to protect one of the Bay Area's main water supplies after the next major earthquake, construction crews will soon embark on a job that sounds like something out of a Jules Verne novel: building a massive, 5-mile-long tunnel underneath San Francisco Bay.The project is believed to be the first major tunnel ever built across the bay.Using a giant boring machine, workers will carve a 14-foot high corridor through clay, sand and bedrock from Menlo Park to Newark as deep as 103 feet below the bay floor. They'll then run a 9-foot-high steel water pipe through the middle."All the experts...

Push to fluoridate water in San Jose So far, tooth fairies have had it great in San Jose: The city is the largest in the country that doesn't fluoridate its water. But now a major effort is under way to shed that title. In a push toward better dental health in the valley, advocates have launched a campaign to raise the millions needed to upgrade the city's water infrastructure. Given the controversy that typically surrounds fluoridation efforts, they expect progress to be slow. So on Wednesday backers of the effort brought a top engineer from the Centers for Disease Control...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - New TV ads are encouraging Brazilians to save water _ by urinating in the shower. Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica says the campaign, running on several television stations, uses humor to persuade people to reduce flushes. The group says if a household avoids one flush a day, it can save up to 4,380 liters (1,157 gallons) of water annually. SOS spokeswoman Adriana Kfouri said Tuesday that the ad is "a way to be playful about a serious subject." The spot features cartoon drawings of people from all walks of life _ a trapeze artist,...

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2009 – Renovations have begun on a water treatment plant near the villages of Hitaween and Adamiyah, Iraq. Army Lt. Col. Mark Solomons, commander of the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, receives a tour of the Hitaween, Iraq, water treatment plant, July 27, 2009. Coalition forces are funding some renovations to the facility, which will be carried out by Iraqi contractors. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joshua Risner  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The sparsely populated, rural patch of land west of Baghdad relies heavily on the facility...

[SNIP] San Antonio, which relies on the Edwards Aquifer for its water, is enduring its driest 23-month period since weather data was recorded starting in 1885, according to the National Weather Service. The aquifer's been hovering just above 640 feet deep, and if it dips below that the city will issue its harshest watering restrictions yet. The city's not just sitting around, though. A total of 30 off-duty officers and other employees are working overtime to patrol the city looking for people illegally watering. Since April, about 1,500 people have been cited and ordered to pay fines ranging from $50...

Chief Petty Officer Edward M. Lubas examines the drive shaft of a canal pump along with Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority engineers outside Baghdad International Airport, July 23. Photo by Staff Sgt. Luke Koladish, 114th Public Affairs Detachment. BAGHDAD — A team from the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade (CAB) stood, July 23, at the edge of an empty canal that disappeared into the horizon.  They listened as the diesel back-up generator was fired up, popped, sputtered and then died. After a few adjustments were made by Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority mechanics, the pumps were primed. Water progressed from a muddy trickle...

The Tall Ashier water station manager inspects the flow of clean water from his station. Ribbon cutting ceremonies were held for two water stations built in the Qayyarah sub-district of Ninewa province, south of Mosul, July 23. Photo courtesy of 1st Cavalry Division. MOSUL — Ribbon cutting ceremonies were held for two water stations built in the Qayyarah sub-district of Ninewa province, south of Mosul, July 23. These projects will dramatically increase the amount of homes that receive water and are a part of an ongoing campaign to provide the people of Iraq with essential goods and services.The first ribbon...

San Joaquin Valley farms are laying off workers and letting fields lie fallow as their water ration falls. Reporting from Mendota, Calif. -- Water built the semi-arid San Joaquin Valley into an agricultural powerhouse. Drought and irrigation battles now threaten to turn huge swaths of it into a dust bowl. Farmers have idled half a million acres of once-productive ground and are laying off legions of farmhands. That's sending joblessness soaring in a region already plagued by chronic poverty. [snip] This year has been even drier after a federal court ordered that pumps moving water through the system be turned...

In 2005, NASA's Cassini probe, orbiting Saturn, made a tantalizing discovery: Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, was venting something -- possibly liquid water -- into the airless space around it.

A wheeled excavator, donated by U.S. forces, dumps dirt before being loaded onto a flat-bed truck during a meeting on a military compound in Baghdad, July 15. Americans donated the much-needed equipment to the office of the Abu Ghraib Director of Irrigation in an attempt to aid the flow of Middle-Eastern country's water supply. Photo by Sgt. Jeffrey Ledesma. BAGHDAD — It's a place that is tainted with seven years of conflict, where dust storms are commonplace, and clean, refreshing water is a scarce commodity.U.S. forces donated much-needed equipment to the office of the Abu Ghraib Director of Irrigation in...

he news is depressing these days as people fear losing their homes or jobs and worry about family members deployed in military operations overseas. So what are members of Congress worried about? They fear the “grave” threats posed by--bottled water. Now that’s crazy. Supposedly consumers are at risk from, or are being duped about, bottled water quality. Lawmakers think the solution is more detailed labeling mandates that include listing the traces of chemicals that water might contain. We don’t ask other food producers to list every possible contaminant in their products. In fact, FDA regulations actually allow a certain level...

The Fallujah Wastewater Treatment Plant construction continues at one of the 45 different contracts comprising one of the most complex projects the Gulf Region Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has undertaken in Iraq. GRD photo by Kendal Smith. BAGHDAD — Sewer projects and other capacity-building projects managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division are positively affecting the environment in Iraq, according to the commander of the corps' Gulf Region Central District here. For example, solar-powered street lights installed in Fallujah use the sun's renewable energy, balancing the needs of the environment and communities by providing...

BAGHDAD, July 17, 2009 – Sewer projects and other capacity-building projects managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division are positively affecting the environment in Iraq, said the commander of the corps’ Gulf Region Central District here. For example, solar-powered street lights installed in Fallujah use the sun’s renewable energy, balancing the needs of the environment and communities by providing power, conserving natural resources for other uses, and improving air quality through reduced air emissions, Army Col. Ronald N. Light explained. Environmental conservation was not practiced during Saddam Hussein’s regime, Light said, but he’s seen progress during...

July 17, 2009 An entertainer learns a lesson William D. Zeranski Working for the common good is noble, but naïve support of nice-sounding causes can have its drawbacks, as actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez learned the hard way: In recent months, actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez has made known his defection from the Democratic party (sic) because of the party's lack of interest in helping drought-stricken farmers like himself in California who have had water denied to them by court order under the Endangered Species Act to save an endangered fish, the delta smelt. [...] "I always saw myself as...

In recent months, actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez has made known his defection from the Democratic party because of the party's lack of interest in helping drought-stricken farmers like himself in California who have had water denied to them by court order under the Endangered Species Act to save an endangered fish, the delta smelt. As he addressed the 2009 Annual California Republican Assembly Convention in May, Rodriguez complained that the fundraising support he has given to environmental groups in the past has come back to hurt him and his family: "I always saw myself as an environmentalist. ... I’ve...

The House could start work as early as today on a bill funding energy and water projects in the US. It funds 1,866 earmarks - most of them from President Obama. Here is the raw list for you to look through. You will notice that some projects don't have any monetary amount associated with them. Those are funded by the Corps of Engineers as money is available. The description of the project is followed by the cost and the sponsor

Where did all the water come from? --snip-- Noah’s Flood was a one-off event and we did not see it happen. Even so, the sources of water recorded in the Bible are consistent with our understanding of the structure of the earth...

SEATTLE – It's one of the great American summer pastimes: Pulling the car onto the driveway on a sun-drenched Saturday afternoon, lathering it up with soap, rinsing it off and watching the sudsy water flow toward the storm drain. Now, officials in Washington and elsewhere are telling residents to either take that old ride to the car wash, or hold the soap and wash the car over gravel or grass to filter the dirty water. The officials are trying to prevent the runoff, with all of its soap, grim and metals from the car, from reaching rivers and streams and...

The 50th anniversary this year of the shooting of Hitchcock's film Psycho will be employed to demonstrate how a one-minute shower will help conserve water and the environment.The Royal Society of Chemistry is seeking a lookalike of Janet Leigh, who played the part of Norman Bates' shower victim in the celebrated horror movie.The RSC is to make a tasteful video, called Shower Murder, to go on its website to illustrate how a shower can be taken effectively in just 60 seconds, so avoiding the huge wastage of water and the contamination that many in Britain cause currently.   RSC chief...

Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they can drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, congressional investigators and nonprofit researchers say in new reports. Both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, recommend in reports released Wednesday that bottled water be labeled with the same level of information municipal water providers must disclose.

Lt. Col. Michael Fadden, the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment commander, speaks with civilians hired to assist with the renovations of one of the water stations his civil affairs unit just finished renovating. Photo by Pfc. Jared Sollars, 145th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. MOSUL — In the rural areas outside this city, U.S. Soldiers are helping local villagers obtain running water by repairing and building water pumping stations in eight different locations of the Qayyarah Sub-District in Ninewa province. Four of the water stations were completed June 27, which included a ribbon cutting ceremony at each of those stations.Lt. Col....

A landmark desalination project gained final approval from regulators Wednesday, bringing the promise of an entirely new supply of water to San Diego County ---- and perhaps one of many in water-short California. But opposition to the plant, including legal action, continues. And the company that wants to build the $300 million plant in coastal Carlsbad still needs to raise the money. On Wednesday, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control board unanimously approved a permit for the plant. It had already considered the proposal twice this year. The permit approves a plan by Poseidon Resources Corp. to reduce the...

DATE: June 25, 2009 16:09:40 EST Document Number: 491 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Office of Public Affairs U.S. Coast Guard News Release Date: June 25, 2009 Contact: Lt. Nadine Santiago(202) 372 - 4644 Coast Guard, NASBLA to enforce Operation Dry Water WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard  is partnering with the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators to enforce a boating safety operation throughout the nation, June 26-28 with the goal of fostering a stronger and more visible deterrent to alcohol use on the water. Operation Dry Water will focus on areas of recreational boating and increase patrols in 49 states and U.S. territories searching for boaters under...

Two long sought-after phases of ultra-cold water may have been trapped between crystals of ice. Water — not as transparent as it seems.Punchstock Researchers in India and Italy say they have seen two types of liquid water that have long been suspected to exist below water's normal freezing point.Water is undoubtedly a strange liquid. Unlike most liquids, it becomes less rather than more dense when it freezes — and it is densest not when it is coldest (at 0 °C, just before it freezes) but at 4 °C. These are just two of water's host of anomalous properties, some of...

MINNEAPOLIS - The city of Minneapolis is spending nearly $200,000 to sell something that would seem to sell itself: tap water. With her bottle of water in hand, Susan Davis was feeling hot and a little guilty. “It would be great if everyone did drink the tap water,” said Davis. “I think the tap water in Minneapolis is just fine.” Tap Minneapolis is the city's new web site, and PR campaign to promote the city's tap water. But unlike tap water, it's not cheap. The web site costs $75,000. The total cost paid to the PR firm was $180,000.

Green-friendly washing machine uses just one cup of water Bill Westwater, chief executive of Xeros Peter Stiff Hippies may not be the most frequent visitors to the launderette, but soon they will have no excuse not to wash their clothes, thanks to a new environmentally friendly washing machine — that uses only one cup of water and leaves clothes virtually dry — set to go on sale next year. The technology, developed at the University of Leeds, aims to save up to 90 per cent of water used by conventional machines, use 30 per cent less energy and have the...

WASHINGTON -- Stop complaining about your utility bills. Jeannette Cohen's water bill jumped almost 4000 percent. The 99-year-old northwest Washington woman insists it must be a mistake. Usually, her water bill is $30. In March, she did a double take. "I got my usual bill and opened the envelope and looked at the amount," she said. "Huh? I looked again." It was $1,181. Cohen complained and had plumbers check her house twice. Usually, she uses about 3,000 gallons of water per month. D.C. Water and Sewer Authority's records show that 139,876 gallons went into her house that month, and they...

Sen. Barbara Boxer and company are going to bring the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) up for full committee mark-up and vote in their Thursday 18 June business session scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in the EPW Hearing Room, 406 Dirksen. This is Sen Russ Feingold’s S.787 which was introduced on April 2. With the Democrats having nationalized the financial, banking and automobile industries–bringing a strong layer of socialism to the key portions of the US economy, they are now moving to nationalize the American land and water. Under the Clean Water Act (CWA) the Federal government only had the authority...

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People who say that nothing's harder to get rid of than a bad penny must never have met Keith Brackpool. The British-born promoter, who has spent the last dozen years pushing a scheme to pump water to Southern California from beneath 35,000 acres his Cadiz Inc. owns in the Mojave Desert, just won't go away. ... In the past his posse has included ex-Gov. Gray Davis and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Now he has added Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who last week publicly endorsed the scheme as "a path-breaking, new, sustainable groundwater conservation and storage project." The endorsement was embedded...

TIKRIT — Standing on the banks of the Tigris River, most Americans would not believe any clean water would be produced from the fast moving khaki colored water -- this is, however, the main source of water for Iraq. Coalition forces and Bayji Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) recently investigated how water from the Tigris ends up flowing out of the faucets of local Bayji homes In Bayji, obtaining potable water is like anywhere else--a necessity. Unfortunately for some Iraqi families, usable water is not readily available. The Salah ad-Din provincial leadership, Coalition forces and PRTs are working to change this....

A new Federal Opinion puts salmon - steelhead - sturgeon and delta smelt ahead of Valley Farmers. For many valley farmers crippled by a three year drought the opinion means: No Water - No Food - No Jobs. The plan would – provide more water for spawning fish.

Justice: Sonia Sotomayor fits the administration's requirement for bringing empathy to the law. The problem is that it isn't always for human beings and law-abiding citizens. Fish gotta swim and criminals gotta vote.During his 2005 confirmation hearing, Chief Justice John Roberts said a judge should be like an umpire in baseball: Just call the balls and strikes and don't alter the rules of the game. And don't feel sorry for the first baseman. As President Obama likes to say about the election, he won. He gets to pick judges who have "a little bit of a common touch and a...

When the Irvine Ranch Water District computes how much water you really should be using, the maximum allocation is based on that happy-family-of-four model. Now, should you have more than four people in your (single family detached) household, you may request what is called a formal variance. But be prepared. Officials won’t just take your word for it. “Attach proof of permanent residency for each person in the household,” .. “Proof may be children’s birth certificates, school records, blank checks with preprinted name and address, copies of income tax returns, drivers license, lease agreements, etc.”

Republicans Call for Action to Address Man-Made Drought Projections: Up to 35,000 Jobs Lost and 300,000 Acres of Farm Land Unused Ranking Member Doc Hastings, along with Representatives Devin Nunes, Tom McClintock, Kevin McCarthy, Ken Calvert and George Radanovich, hold a press conference to highlight the man-made California drought and policies that provide water for fish (like the three-inch smelt shown above), but not people. WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Natural Resources Committee held a full committee hearing today on the "The California Drought: Actions by Federal and State agencies to address impacts on lands, fisheries and water users." Witnesses,...

BY CHRIS CASTEEL Published: May 10, 2009 WASHINGTON — Former Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts, who is contemplating a race for governor next year, is a lobbyist for the north Texas water district that is suing Oklahoma state officials for the right to purchase water. Watts and other members of his Washington-based company have been registered lobbyists since the fall 2007 for the Tarrant Regional Water District, which supplies water to more than 1.7 million people in Fort Worth, Arlington and other cities in north central Texas. The water district, which sought unsuccessfully to buy water from the state to meet...

Farmers in California are mad. Wine prices set to rise as farmers scramble to find alternative sources of water. Food prices next. http://www.butasforme.com/2009/03/31/abc-judge-cuts-water-to-california-farmers-to-save-endangered-fish/

Citing financial and environmental reasons, Gov. David A. Paterson signed an executive order on Tuesday directing state agencies to phase out the purchase and use of bottled water at government workplaces. As a result, the state will gradually stop buying single-serve water bottles and larger, cooler-sized water bottles. Each executive agency will have to provide alternative sources, like fountains and dispensers for tap water. In June 2007, San Francisco’s mayor, Gavin Newsom, prohibited spending city money on single-serving bottled water. Other jurisdictions have followed suit, according to Corporate Accountability International, an advocacy group that tries to halt what it regards...

Worldwide FLOOD Worldwide EVIDENCE When the Bible refers to a worldwide Flood in Genesis 7–8, that’s exactly what it means. Not local, not metaphorical, not some crazy dream—the waters covered the whole earth. Don’t just take our word for it, though. Take a look at the evidence right beneath your feet...

CHOMAN — Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Irbil Resident Office and the Irbil regional government literally turned on the tap of a project that will provide much needed potable drinking water to the village of Choman, which is located in the northeastern mountains of Iraq. Gary York, USACE’s resident engineer in Irbil; Nawzad Hadi Mawlood, the Irbil provincial governor; and other local dignitaries presided over an April 22 ribbon cutting ceremony at the site of the water system’s reservoir tank near Chamon. As part of the ceremony, York and Hadi opened the main valve to release the...

Sen. Feingold seeks to restore with unlimited powers the Clean Water Act(CWA). The new CWRA (s.787) will extend the federal government power to regulate all interstate waters, including non-navigable waters leaving property owners vulnerable to federal land grabs.

BAGHDAD, April 29, 2009 – Close to a thousand families in the Khandari area west of the Iraqi capital now have clean water for everyday use, as the Khandari Water Treatment Facility opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 27 in the Abu Ghraib district. Kamil Abbas, chairman of the Abu Ghraib District Council, cuts the ribbon at a ceremony signifying the opening of the Khandari Water Treatment Facility in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, April 27, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Dustin Roberts  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Contracted through the local government and Multinational Division Baghdad, the facility,...

Recession-hit restaurants are helping themselves to your wallet by serving you an extra side of super sneaky charges. The Post last week found city eateries subtly billing customers for things usually free -- including bread and butter. Although managers claim the prices are clearly marked on menus, the outrageous charges can backfire on restaurants, experts said. Unexpected costs found by The Post include: * A $1-per-person charge for water at West Village restaurant Bobo -- noted on the menu but not mentioned by waiters. The drink is filtered tap water. Staff said the money funds the filtration. "If anyone doesn't...

NUMANIYAH — The Logistics Military Advisor Team (LMAT) at An Numaniyah Military Training Base (ANMTB) continues to advise and enable Location Command (LC). Iraqi Army Col. Haider Sahib Abed Ali, the ANMTB Public Works officer, has been working closely with Coalition personnel on various water conservation and utility repair projects. Water conservation initiatives came about after joint infrastructure inspections by LC and LMAT engineers led to the discovery of several major leaks in the water distribution system. On April 4th, repairs were completed on several damaged water mains and valves. In addition, the Engineering section has also begun installing float...

Scientists at Harvard University have found that tropical cyclones readily inject ice far into the stratosphere, possibly feeding global warming. The finding, published in Geophysical Research Letters, provides more evidence of the intertwining of severe weather and global warming by demonstrating a mechanism by which storms could drive climate change. Many scientists now believe that global warming, in turn, is likely to increase the severity of tropical cyclones. "Since water vapor is an important greenhouse gas, an increase of water vapor in the stratosphere would warm the Earth's surface," says David M. Romps, a research associate in Harvard's Department of...

The city of Los Angeles will be instituting harsh new rules for individual water usage due to the state’s current shortage. The LA City Council approved new water conservation measures regarding sprinkler systems in particular. Automatic sprinkler systems may only be used on Mondays and Thursdays. A water conservation force will wander the neighborhoods of LA looking for violators to cite – if you happen to run the sprinklers on a Sunday, you’ll get a warning; a second time, and you’ll get a fine that can run up to $600. The price of water will also be rising. Read more...