03/22/21 is World Water Day
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And let us not forget 13.0.8.6.12 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
Water Pollution
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
It is World Water Day It's also 224 miles from Flint Michigan to Cleveland Ohio, about three and a half hours by car.
Potable water is getting scarcer and scarcer, especially on a per capita basis. Aquifers and water tables are dropping and even if they weren't we're poisoning them, along with our rivers, lakes, seas and oceans and it's not something one can fix with a little bit more chlorine.
While the US is far luckier than many other places such as India, things still aren't at all rosy. The Oglalla Aquifer which supplies about 30% of the groundwater used for irrigation in this country and about 80% of the drinking water for about 2.3 million people could be depleted by 2028. 2028 - 2021 is simply too damn soon for comfort.
Consider that it takes twice as much water to make a plastic water bottle as it will eventually hold, and, in the end, almost all of them are simply thrown away. Of course, some water is wasted in filling and shipping them too. An interesting overview on the hidden water in things may be found here: https://www.watercalculator.org/footprint/the-hidden-water-in-everyday-p...
On this day in history:
1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon made Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
1622 – Algonquians killed 347 English colonists around Jamestown in reprisals for colonist raids, attacks and massacres.
1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 – Anne Hutchinson was exiled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy
1713 – The Tuscarora War came to an end
1739 – Nader Shah occupied Delhi, sacked the city, and stole the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1765 – The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act
1784 – The Emerald Buddha was moved to its current location
1794 – The Slave Trade Act of 1794 banned the export of slaves from the US
1872 – Illinois became the first state to require gender equality in employment.
1873 – The Spanish National Assembly abolished slavery in Puerto Rico.
1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrated movie film technology for the first time in public.
1945 – The Arab League was founded
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes received the first patent for a laser.
1972 – The United States Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1972 – The Supremes ruled that unwed persons have the right to own contraceptives.
1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned to earth after 438 days in space.
2004 – The Israeli Air Force murdered Ahmed Yassin, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders using Hellfire missiles.
Born this day in:
I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.
~~ Caroline Norton
1394 – Ulugh Beg, astronomer and mathematician
1503 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author and educator
1517 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer
1599 – Anthony van Dyck, painter and etcher
1615 – Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, scientist
1785 – Adam Sedgwick, scientist
1808 – Caroline Norton, feminist, social reformer, and author
1812 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, Aauthor and activist
1822 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist
1846 – Randolph Caldecott, illustrator and painter
1868 – Robert Andrews Millikan, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1884 – Arthur H. Vandenberg, journalist and politician
1892 – Charlie Poole, banjo player
1901 – Greta Kempton, painter
1902 – Johannes Brinkman, architect, designed the Van Nelle Factory
1903 – Bill Holman, cartoonist
1908 – Louis L'Amour, novelist and short story writer
1909 – Gabrielle Roy, author and educator
1910 – Nicholas Monsarrat, sailor and author
1912 – Agnes Martin, painter and educator
1914 – John Stanley, author and illustrator
1917 – Irving Kaplansky, mathematician and academic
1919 – Bernard Krigstein, illustrator
1920 – Fanny Waterman, pianist and educator
1920 – Katsuko Saruhashi, geochemist
1923 – Marcel Marceau, mime and actor
1924 – Al Neuharth, journalist and author
1929 – Yayoi Kusama, artist
1930 – Stephen Sondheim, composer and songwriter
1931 – Burton Richter, physicist and academic
1935 – Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova, test pilot and aerobatics champion
1936 – Ron Carey, trade union leader
1936 – Roger Whittaker, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1937 – Jon Hassell, trumpet player and composer
1940 – George Edward Alcorn, Jr. physicist and inventor
1941 – Billy Collins, poet
1941 – Jeremy Clyde, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Jorge Ben Jor, singer-songwriter
1943 – George Benson, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Keith Relf, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1946 – Rudy Rucker, mathematician, computer scientist, and author
1946 – Harry Vanda, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer, cat fancier, and director
1957 – Stephanie Mills, actress and singer
1973 – Beverley Knight, singer-songwriter and producer
Died this day in:
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1144 – William of Norwich, child murder victim
1602 – Agostino Carracci, painter and educator
1772 – John Canton, physicist and academic
1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat
1840 – Étienne Bobillier, mathematician and academic
1976 – John Dwyer McLaughlin, painter
1991 – Dave Guard, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1994 – Dan Hartman, singer-songwriter, and producer
1994 – Walter Lantz, animator, director, and producer
1996 – Don Murray, drummer
1996 – Billy Williamson, guitarist
2004 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, astronomer and academic
2005 – Rod Price, guitarist and songwriter
2005 – Kenzo Tange, architect
2006 – Pío Leyva, singer and author
2007 – U. G. Krishnamurti, philosopher and educator
2008 – Cachao López, bassist and composer
2010 – James Black, biologist and pharmacologist
2012 – David Waltz, computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
2013 – Bebo Valdés, pianist and composer
2013 – Derek Watkins, trumpet player and composer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
World Water Day (International)
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Gioseffo Zarlino
Charlie Poole
Chico Marx
Roger Whittaker
Jon Hassel
Jeremy Clyde
George Benson
Keith Relf
Harry Vanda
Stephanie Mills
Beverley Knight
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Comments
Good morning...
We're fortunate to have a good well and a large spring on our place...one of the reasons we wanted to live here.
Hope you're enjoying your travels!
I've got to go to Rome, GA today, but it isn't a bad trip...about and hour each way.
Everyone have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for the thought provoking essay for this morning!
Water use is something I ponder on a daily basis and ways I can improve my footprint. Projects that have been on my “to do” list for my place in Texas are getting the cistern on my property lined and put to use and possibly opening up the well that has been out of use for years.
The water calculator was nice to actually see areas where I could improve my use. Thanks for always provoking my thoughts.
I am leading my book group in a discussion of “Secondhand, Travels in the New Global Garage Sale” but am re-reading to see how they deal with the issue of water consumption in the re-use category.
Hope all have a good day and we are hoping for some rain that is predicted but not always forthcoming.
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
We are having one of our gray
drippy days. Everything is wet. It isn't raining at the moment, but the sky is gray and it will rain a little off and on all day probably, a typical northwest day. We need the rain. The whole west coast probably needs what the weathermen call a Pineapple Express when the storms come in from straight across the Pacific, one after another for days.
I put a brick in my toilet tank once.
They try to make the ordinary householder feel guilty for using to much water.
Like it's our fault.
Actually it's mining and agriculture.
That's who uses most of the water in Arizona.
I will not turn off the faucet when I shave or brush my teeth.
I won't feel a bit guilty about it.
There's too many people on the planet.
Not my fault.
My wife and I had one child, not a dozen.
We did our part.
I'll use all the water I need and eat beef when I feel like it.
No guilt. I'll be gone soon enough.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
I have to admit that
I feel exactly the same way. My wife pointed out a truth to me: "it's not a real drought until the golf courses turn brown".
Between an HOA that flat-out demands that everybody have exactly the wrong plantings for this climate, and pay out the ass to keep them green (or get fines and liens attached to the property), and the fact that large volume users like municipalities spray untold gallons of potable water onto their roadway median landscaping (and mostly the pavement of the roads, since they never seem to have learned how to *aim* the sprinklers), I'm not particularly moved to cut down my handwashing time. I won't be around long either.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Lots of water in Australia
Morning y’all
NSW flooding: disaster zones declared as 18,000 people evacuated in Sydney and mid-north coast
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/22/nsw-flooding-rain...
Be well everyone!
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There are more problems
surrounding the issue of water than I can count.
Two recent articles in ProPublica highlight very different water issues but both are disastrous. The first is about how easy it is to poison a city's water supply by hacking into the computer system of the utility. The other is about how our own industry poisons our water supply.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hacking-water-systems
https://www.propublica.org/article/coal-ash-georgia-power
That's only two reports out of many, the list is long.
Oh, not having water is death, and not having accessible
water is not normal life. Not having drinkable water is surreal.
I went through a couple of these conditions for 2 weeks during the icy storm in Texas.
The low water levels or poisoned water is never caused by the 99.
Even if I do not pay to recycle paper and plastic, my carbon footprint is nothing compared to industry and the military. Nothing I can do mitigates the harm.
The water in the lake near my home is too polluted to make the fish safe to eat. Not because of the 99%. It is polluted by industrial wast in the Dallas area, and comes within a 1/2 mile of me.
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