Y'all should NOT have made me very, VERY angry!
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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It's just gonna stay UP there in the sky?
Golly!
Many items destined to be in a junkyard tomorrow are driving down our streets and parked in our driveways TODAY!
GM do! TA.
When my server floods I get dialup speeds again!
Good idea!
Let's be sure that the Department of Redundancy department puts its stamp of approval on it!
...which are NOT to be confused with 'homophobes'.
Y'all should NOT have made me very, VERY angry!
Not in Californicatia!
SHOW ME official literature from ANY municipality advising this.
All my life it’s been DO NOT FLUSH your unused meds. The local Police Departments accept them on a drop-off basis, and what they take in is incinerated.
If your municipality is advising you to flush excess medications, THAT would warrant a call to the State AG, and likely the EPA.
The globalist Nomenklature want all the water for their moats. And too make their wine.
Deport all illegals and anyone that came to the US in the last 25 years. That will free up resources for Americans, reduce water demands, reduce pollution, help fight global warming. And anyone pushing global warming should be sent to China and India.
UN to restrict showers to 1 a week.
Meanwhile the democrats will continue to drain water out of the reservoirs to continue the democrat made drought.
Your point? It used to be business as usual dumping junk into ditches or bodies of water.
They hauled the cars, rail cars, big trucks and basically anything metal to the salvage lots on the riverbank piled them high with cranes with huge electromagnets, the same crane would then load barges with the junk to be shipped north to be recycled into cars we drove in the 60’s-early-mid ‘70’s until the people got tired of dumping stuff into the rivers and streams and found better, cleaner ways to recycle junk.
Usually, there would be a burn pit on location to burn non-recyclable materials from junk cars too. Stuff like soybean based composite steering wheels from that era, insulating fabrics from the seats and door panels and who could forget the rubber gasket materials and tires.
At least now, we don’t store junk on the riverbanks or shallow ponds like back then. You sound like a good eco-warrior, have you stopped owning automobiles and use public transit exclusively? Not that being a public transit consumer has any virtue either, where do they take transit coaches when they wear out?
Break up the UN.
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Oh wait...
HOW ISRAEL USED INNOVATION TO BEAT ITS WATER CRISIS
How did Israel, a country that is more than half desert, frequently hit with drought, and historically cursed by chronic water shortages, become a nation that now produces 20 percent more water than it needs?
Below: An aerial view of the world’s largest desalination plant at Hadera in Israel.
P.S. Why the f**k aren't we doing this?
Okay, so maybe they should build sanitation facilities already. Just a thought. It's not rocket science. Granted it may be difficult in some third world places like San Francisco but the rest of the world can do it.
I recommend relocation to the continent of Antarctica among the penguins
it’ll be REALLY expensive to do this in Indiana.
Now do “lose” and “loose”.
Incorrect language is just one more sign of our declining civilization.
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