Posted on 03/26/2023 6:22:16 AM PDT by Twotone
The future of humanity's "lifeblood" -- water -- is under threat worldwide, the UN secretary-general warned Wednesday at the opening of the global body's first major meeting on water resources in nearly half a century.
"We've broken the water cycle, destroyed ecosystems and contaminated groundwater," Antonio Guterres said at the three-day summit in New York, which gathers some 6,500 participants including a dozen heads of state and government.
"We are draining humanity's lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use, and evaporating it through global heating," Guterres told the conference.
A report by UN-Water and UNESCO released Tuesday warned of too little or too much water in some places, and contaminated water in others -- conditions it said highlight the imminent risk of a global water crisis.
"If nothing is done... it will keep on being between 40 percent and 50 percent of the population of the world that does not have access to sanitation and roughly 20-25 percent of the world will not have access to safe water supply," report lead author Richard Connor told AFP.
With the global population increasing every day, "in absolute numbers, there'll be more and more people that don't have access to these services," he said.
The report also warned that water "scarcity is becoming endemic" due to overconsumption and pollution, while global warming will increase seasonal water shortages in both areas with abundant water as well as those already strained.
Governments and actors in the public and private sectors will present proposals at the conference to reverse that trend and help meet the development goal, set in 2015, of ensuring "access to water and sanitation for all by 2030."
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I think you’re right. Climate alarmism is reaching critical mass.
Beat me to it. Dumbassery is the word I too use describing the climate grift. GMTA.
Seriously, I'll grant them that we've drawn down water tables, sometimes polluted ground water, flushed prefectly good water to the sea (California) and that the growing population is going to need more.
My solutions:
Oh, I’m so afraid. I’m going to collect water vapor in my face diaper to save the earth.
I will give them credit....they absolutely excel at doing that.
Thinking there is a much wider usage. Also assclownery. 😁👍 So much stoopid in so little time.
these nuts cant keep their story straight!
one day they say we will all be under water because of their made up global warming the next, they say their made up global warming will evaporate all the water!
LMAO
Anyone check California lately?
I remember those days. Many junkyards were on the banks of the Ohio River & Pigeon Creek area in Southern Indiana.
We’ve fixed those issues here, they still beach large ocean going vessels in areas of the world for cheap salvaging. Perhaps these “environmental nuts” should go there and clean up their ways of polluting their environments?
Hey environMENTALists, ship your microvan with your COEXIST bumper sticker over there and spread your 💕 around those Muzzie/Commie countries. Mother Earth is depending on you to get it done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_JdxBrNVt8
The clown that wrote the article says that global warming causes water to evaporate. Doesn’t bother to mention the fact that evaporated water returns as rain or snow.
The earth’s magnetic field is diminishing! Film at 10!
The underlying issue is whether you trust a cabal of mass murderers to be stewards of the environment.
“Governments and actors in the public and private sectors will present proposals at the conference to reverse that trend..”
Actors? What proposals, lockdowns? Get the vax? Turn off your AC units? Ban gas stoves?
Correction: Nuclear Powered desalination plants, not dehydration plants.
Last I heard, they were still having severe drought and server flooding. But the drought is better. And I saw a headline about why they can't use rainwater. But I didn't read it.
When was it ever different throughout human existence?
It is amazing how few people know of the existence of primary water that sits as close as 300 feet to the surface of much of the earth. It is renewable, and sits there for the taking, and only a few companies are at work harvesting it.
When does this third worlder, Guterres, get thrown out of the U.N. on his ass. His stupidity and anti-Americanism is getting very old and very tired. Don’t tell me this a lifetime gig like Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg had with SCOTUS.
All you need to do to solve the problem of water is to make car and truck sized desalination plants the size of cars and trucks. These desalination plants can work either independently or snap together with other small desalination plants of the same size and specifications.
Here’s what make it revolutionary.
Make these desalination in the same way musk makes cars and trucks.
That collapses the cost of desalination plants to the point where its economic to use desalinated water for desert agriculture.
That means we could green the US desert southwest and increase the habitable size of the USA by roughly one quarter and double the size of habitable earth.
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