''Pesticide-Chemical in Tap Water Linked to Increase in Food Allergies''

From Natural Society
By Mike Barrett

''There is no question that pesticides are fueling numerous health complications; the research shows it time and time again. It’s also interesting that many health conditions such as obesity and cancer are simultaneously escalating with pesticide use, revealing a very serious connection. New research has just shown that yet another health problem is also increasing along with pesticide use – food allergies.''

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CrossTalk: ''Peak Water''

From RT.com

''Global Water Crisis, U.S. Eyes Canada's Great Lakes''

From Market Oracle
By Richard Mills

''The number of people living in areas affected by severe water stress is expected to increase to almost four billion people...''

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''Russia’s Putin eyeing military dominance in Central Asia amid water quarrels''

From StratRisks

''Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are landlocked and mountainous countries—75% and 90%, respectively—in Central Asia. The countries’ mountains provide abundance of potable water, which feed the two major rivers of Central Asia.  The scarcity of other natural resources understandably results in Bishkek’s and Dushanbe’s attempts to use the water more wisely—building hydropower plants (HPP) for generating electricity.  Dushanbe is aiming at erecting the tallest dam in the world—a 335-meter (about 1,000 feet) tall concrete wall on the Vakhsh River (turns into Amu-Darya River).  Kyrgyzstan, meanwhile, is securing Russia’s backing in building a 275-meter dam on the Naryn River (turns into Syr-Darya River).''

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''IS CENTRAL ASIA ON THE VERGE OF A WATER WAR?''

From 'There are no Sunglasses'

''Whether it’s Israel maybe pre-emptively striking Iran, Afghanistan spiralling into sectarian violence, Libya becoming home base for Al-Qaeda, or Syria continuing to be the site of a government-led genocide, there’s no shortage of potential dirty wars and ominous harbingers in the Middle East and Central Asia. While everyone is focusing on the recent turmoil in Benghazi, a new kind of conflict is rising in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan that could eventually lead to the first water war of the 21st century.''

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''Water could spark future conflicts, leaders warn''

From Deutsche Welle

''Water conflicts are bubbling in many parts of the world, from China and India to the Middle East and southern Africa. A group of former world leaders is calling on the UN to make water a top security concern.''

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''Water Deficit May Cause New War In Asia''

From Voice of Russia

''The Middle East is making preparations for the import of drinking water from South America. That is why it is working hastily to create strategic reserves of drinking water. India and Pakistan may enter into a new conflict over water. Experts warn that the water deficit in Asia may trigger new wars there.''

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''Water, an Endangered Global Resource''

From Market Oracle
By Richard Mills

''Our groundwater is being used up at record rates and claims to ownership are becoming increasingly contentious. It won't be long before the first water war begins.

There's a lot of water on the planet we inhabit - an estimated 326 million trillion gallons or 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters.

That makes it hard to believe that there are somewhere between 780 million to one billion people without basic and reliable water supplies and that more than two billion people lack the requirements for basic sanitation.''

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''Why Is Earth So Dry?''

From Space Ref

''With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. And yet, less than one percent of our planet's mass is locked up in water, and even that may have been delivered by comets and asteroids after Earth's initial formation.''

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''The world will be drawn into a war for resources''

From Phantom Report

''Simply put, the Chinese are on a global shopping spree.” State-sponsored Chinese corporations are busy buying up commodities across Africa, North America, the Middle East, South America – anywhere they can – in a concerted strategy to seize control of resources before the rest of the world wakes up to the looming crisis. They’re striking deals with what she calls the “axis of the unloved” – developing countries rich in commodities but poor in political and economic capital – in return for much needed investment, employment and infrastructure.''

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Africa:'' Land Grabs Leave Africa Facing ''Hydrological Suicide''

From All Africa

''A scramble for cheap African farmland by foreign investors threatens to leave millions of people without water and could ultimately drain the continent's rivers, a report warns.

"If these land grabs are allowed to continue, Africa is heading for a hydrological suicide," said the report's co-author Henk Hobbelink, coordinator of GRAIN, an organisation supporting small farmers.''

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''What China really wants in Africa''

From Asia Times

''While a cottage industry of "China-in-Africa" experts has emerged over the past five years, on balance their explanations of why a magnetic like pull exists between the two continents is unsatisfactory. Certainly no one denies an array of state-to-state economic and geopolitical incentives recognized by both sides. After all, the simplified resources-for-infrastructure win-win is rather obvious.

Yet and still neither of those benefits - Africa's gain of badly needed dams, roads, pipelines and bridges and China's receipt of desperately needed oil and minerals - is as compelling as the widely rumored and highly plausible determination that China's mainland can only sustain 700 million persons. Therefore at least 300 million to 500 million of its current 1.2 billion population must go elsewhere. The "elsewhere" is Africa if we are to believe French authors Serge Michel and Michel Beuret, who quote an anonymous Chinese scientist in their book China Safari. 

The reason provided for the necessary exodus of 300 million out of China is environmental degradation and in particular water scarcity - so many rivers have been polluted in China that the resource no longer exists in ample supply to satisfy the needs of a desperate Chinese population.''

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''Are you ready for water inflation?''

a must read........From Denver Post via Market Watch

''Front Range farmers bidding for water to grow crops through the coming hot summer and possible drought face new competition from oil and gas drillers.

At Colorado’s premier auction for unallocated water this spring, companies that provide water for hydraulic fracturing at well sites were top bidders on supplies once claimed exclusively by farmers.''

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'Blue Gold: World Water Wars'

''In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential level as population and technology grows, resulting in the desertification of the earth.
Corporate giants profit by forcing developing countries to privatize their shrinking water supply. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes to turn a global catastrophe into a product. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain, military control of water emerges, and a new geopolitical map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.''

''Asia's Water Wars''

''Brahma Chellaney, author of Water: Asia's New Battleground, says China controls the spigot for much of Asia's water.''

''Water jihads and Moe Howard haircuts''

is water the new oil???

From Delta Farm Press

''A 2011 National Intelligence Estimate report on water security, requested by the U.S. Department of State, said that the use of water as a weapon of war, or a means of terrorism will be increasingly likely beyond 2022. And what locations did the report specify? You guessed it: North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

The UN projects that 30 countries will be “water scarce” by 2025. Eighteen of the 30 are located in the Middle East or North Africa, including the usual suspects: Egypt, Israel, Somalia, Libya and Yemen. Piling on, the UN also predicts that over the next 20 years, the world’s per capita water supply will drop by a depressing third — with the worst strain in the above regions.''

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Corporate Welfare: ''GOP Plan Boosts Pentagon, Cuts Social Programs''

let us nation build here at home.....
From Military.com

''The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January.

The reductions, while controversial, are but a fraction of what Republicans called for in the broader, nonbinding budget plan they passed in March. Totaling a little more than $300 billion over a decade, the new cuts are aimed less at tackling $1 trillion-plus government deficits and more at preventing cuts to troop levels and military modernization.''

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India: ''Solve Water Problems Or Forget Growth''

From Planet Ark

"If this is not attended to, India's growth story will completely go off the rails," Shah said during an interview at the Global Water Summit 2012 conference in Rome.

"There will be water conflicts, conflicts between users, across regions, they will become very serious and a threat to the democratic fabric itself," he said, adding that neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh faced similar challenges.''

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''Peru's Fight For Water''

From Z Mag


"Peru’s 13-year economic expansion is attributed largely to the country’s mining resources. High prices for precious metals have sent export earnings soaring and pushed growth rates to historic highs. Over the next decade, $50 billion in new mining investments are planned. So far, only 10 to 12 percent of the potential mining area has been explored. The inflow of multi-billion dollar investments has given transnational mining companies a huge influence over the country’s future. But the rewards from mining are not permanent as most mines last only about 20 years."

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''Water Is There Enough and Is It Drinkable''

From Brian Williams

''Perhaps even more frightening than the looming shortage of water is the amount of impure water we are drinking. Despite marked improvement since passage of the Clean Water Act 35 years ago, the United Nations estimates that 5.6 million Americans (2 percent of us) drink water that does not meet safety standards. Chemical contaminants are present in all our major streams and in 90 percent of our underground aquifers. Twenty-four percent of Americans refuse to drink tap water. Sixty-five percent take such precautions as treating water in their homes by filtering or boiling it.''

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