[CosmoQ]

A very useful post, thank you very much for all the excellent information, and the reminder of how important pure water is to our survival.

Where I live in Canada (British Columbia), we have an enviable supply of fresh water, but the utter disregard for conservation is appalling. Until very recently, Victoria and Halifax have been dumping all their untreated sewage into the ocean every day; the Tar Sands are not only laying waste to huge swaths of land, the devastation also extends hundreds of miles downstream, all the way to the Arctic Ocean; BC has just issued free permits for literally billions of liters of water, to be mixed with undisclosed (but certainly not benign) chemicals and forced underground for gas fracking operations. And on, and on … all of our glaciers are retreating too, but the 1% seems totally oblivious to any thought that this can’t go on forever.

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