Flint, MI and Saudi Arabia...Water and Oil

Originally Posted by GreggP

The Global water problem is being solved as I type this post.

Gregg

Respectively I would submit it is not being solved...

70% of the produce sold in supermarkets here in Canada comes from California where they are irrigating their crops with treated fracking wastewater. The cases involving contamination with E. coli and samanala poisoning are on the rise. And we are all aware that some of this wastewater has been leaked into the acquafiers where people are getting their fresh water from... except for what Nestle hasn't already bought up. They are also buying clean water here in Canada for re-sale from places where it shouldn't be taken.

Of course the problem doesn't stop with contaminated fresh water. Waste treatment plants around the world are adding a lot of toxicity to the oceans and we in turn wind up eating the seafood that has been contaminated but not tested.

An article on Water Encyclopedia claims, "A major public health concern is the safety of seafood as it relates to the chemical pollution of waters used for commercial and recreational fishing and mariculture. Heavy metals (e.g., copper, lead, mercury, and arsenic) can reach high levels inside marine animals, and then be passed along as seafood for humans. A well-known case of human poisoning occurred in Japan, where one industry dumped mercury compounds into Minimata Bay from 1932 to 1968. Methyl mercury that accumulated in fish and other animals was passed along to humans who consumed them. Over 3,000 human victims and an unknown number of animals succumbed to what became known as "Minimata Disease", a devastating illness that affects the central nervous system."

Stefan Morales, co-director of the Wayward School, was a student in the late ’90’s at Acadia University in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. His thesis for his degree was based on biosloids, and since he was living in Nova Scotia at the time, it was also based on biosolid use in this province. He said there are "at least 21 known carcinogens, 30 heavy metals, flame retardants, steroids, hormones and so on, all adding up to around 60,000 chemical substances and pollutants to be found in biosolids." Before this is made into biosolids, it has already gone through the wastewater treatment plant... but they only test for a handful of chemicals after it has been processed.

My interest in this is was the concern of fracking wastewater being mixed into it by N-Viro, down towards Halifax. It gets processed and packaged as grade "A" fertilizer and sold to farmers around the province.

The Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in New Brunswick has leaked chemicals into the bay a few times, but the authorities claim there hasn’t been any damage done. Still, the DFO (Dept. of Fisheries) has been monitoring the situation for several years since. They claim levels of Caesium, (which would also be in contaminated fish hitting the west coast from Fukushima) is a carcinogenic and attacks soft tissue like your liver, heart, etc....

As well, from all of the pollution we have oceans that are being acidified. Ocean acidification is creating dead spots, even off of Nova Scotia. This makes a lot of the food we eat more susceptible to disease. This is evident from all of the articles we read about declining fish stocks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have documented the decline of two types of mussels, and although it offers several causes it says hydrofracking, spills of untreated fracking flowback water, and development of infrastructure associated with natural gas extraction has been one of the main causes.

See this Youtube video for more info: https://youtu.be/0JnKkit5ocI

Here in Canada we are seeing the decline of several types of fish including bass and salmon, so it isn't limited to only shellfish.

I'm not seeing a solution to our global water problem yet. From some of the info I've been reading COP21 might have been a waste of tax dollars sending delegates there. But I have hope for future generations and there are some bright young people coming along with innovative solutions to combat the environmental mess we're leaving for them. If there really is a supreme being that looks after us... please bless these young people.

Regards,
Steve