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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In the corner to my left....
"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.
...and in the corner to my right...
EPA: No evidence of toxins in soil from controlled tanker burn in East Palestine
When cult members make the swing their all in for it.
Man the purple sheets wait for comet.
Total BS.
Nothing has changed the laws of physics in regard to evaporation and condensation.
ENOUGH ALREADY with this sh*tty English!
There are three words that exist and are pronounced nearly the same. They’re known as ‘homonyms.’
1. There - usually refers to something further away from “here”.
2. Their - 3rd person possessive pronoun.
3. They’re - a contraction of “they are”.
Learn ‘em and use them correctly, please
The Marianas Trench works for me. Subduction zones clean up after themselves.
"We are draining humanity's lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use, and evaporating it through global heating," Guterres, whose job depends on saying stupid sh-- like this, told the conference.
Over consumption??!
So is that why the French don’t shower or bathe
ENOUGH ALREADY with this sh*tty English!
Words of advice form somebody from California it rich.
Melt those glaciers, we need more water. Burn oil everwhere!
Quote from Chicken Little.
Where does the water go?
Outer Space....Aliens!
If I vote Lib then the Demokraps get in. Very bad.
UN Chief only. speaks English in untrue hyperbole
If I vote Lib then the Demokraps get in. Very bad.
CONTAMINATION:
1. We are told every day to ‘dispose’ of unused prescription drugs by flushing them down the toilet.
2. Many people are using all kinds of different dangerous, illegal drugs-— HOW MUCH of those drugs stays in the body of the user-—and HOW MUCH is flushed down the toilet???
3. I Live rural-—was under pressure some years ago to give up our private wells & be put onto a “Municipal” system which would have been VERY expensive & wells were to be DISABLED. Most of us have livestock. I was very concerned-—I didn’t need a 1100# horse suddenly getting a gram or 2 of METH-—
One man in our group tried to find WHAT FILTERS or METHODS water companies used in their ‘water treatment plants’ to REMOVE such drugs ‘going thru the body’, creating CLEAN water.
THERE ARE NONE according to what he could find out & he knew how to research-—
SOOOOO—WE are told to FLUSH our unused meds & Drug users are also contaminating our water supply.
The meds being put into the landfills isn’t so bright, either.
SOOOOO-—The contamination is the direct result of ADVICE being given out by Government officials & the same OFFICIALS NOT STOPPING THE FLOW OF ILLEGAL DRUGS INTO THE USA.
END the UN-—FORGET relocation.
They will continue to SUCK money from the productive no matter where they are.
Truly an “Experiment” that failed.
Those ‘freshwater’ lakes have another purpose—before recreation-—
They hold back flooding water in heavy rainy seasons-—and they hold water for irrigation for farming...
ADD to that:
The GROUND is OUTSIDE-——There is no “FLOOR” there
THE FLOOR IS INSIDE——There is no “GROUND” there
Reporters constantly refer to events INSIDE DWELLINGS as “They were on the GROUND”.
Makes me nuts.
OMG - water evaporates? Just goes into the sky and disappears? The horror... we're doomed. Maybe LESS than AOC's 12 yeas. /s
(This idiot didn't get his job based on merit... Was it sexual kink, pigmentation or 'family connections'?
Bull-loney!
He said “global”. Next?
Whatever drugs this clown is on must be som kind of strong hallucinogenics.
Probably bought em from the WEF... /s
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