😔 I just read this:
"Trump pauses funding for anti-HIV program that prevented 26 million AIDS deaths" https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/25/g-s1-44762/pepfar-trump-hiv-foreign-aid
This is going to break havoc and destroy year of #health work, and people will die because of this measure by #USA. Sad, sad times, compounded by all the other negative political, social and cultural stuff going on in the USA right now.
Nestlé / BlueTriton should Not be allowed to profit off siphoning Public land water, whereas the San Manuel People should have the right to its’ personal use.
In a decision that could end a years-long battle over commercial extraction of water from public lands, the U.S. Forest Service has ordered the company that sells Arrowhead bottled water to shut down a pipeline ...in the San Bernardino Mountains.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-07/arrowhead-bottled-water-permit
A most important issue for our times.
White House Looks to Safeguard Groundwater Supplies as Aquifers Decline Nationwide
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is working with local stakeholders to determine how the federal government can help communities dependent on groundwater protect the dwindling resource.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072024/federal-safeguards-for-dwindling-groundwater-supplies/
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is working with local stakeholders to determine how the federal government can help communities dependent on groundwater protect the dwindling resource.
Groundwater Is Key
“We need to acknowledge that groundwater is critical for many ecosystems,” “Groundwater is being pumped at rates higher than it can be replenished, but we aren’t managing or regulating it to the extent necessary to prevent further ecosystem impacts. If we want to achieve our global biodiversity goals and our climate goals, then we need to connect the dots between groundwater and ecosystems.”
https://www.eurasiareview.com/18072024-groundwater-is-key-to-protecting-global-ecosystems/
Where hidden water tables meet the Earth’s surface, life can thrive even in the driest locations. Offering refuge during times of drought, shallow groundwater aquifers act like water savings accounts that can support ecosystems with the moisture required to survive, even as precipitation dwindles. As climate change and human water use rapidly deplete groundwater levels...
The Navajo Nation has reached a historic water rights settlement for all of its water rights claims in the State of Arizona, including to the Colorado River upper and lower basins, and the Little Colorado River Basin.
Through the settlement, the Nation will affirm and quantify its enforceable rights to water in Arizona
The Navajo Nation has reached a historic water rights settlement for all of its water rights claims in the State of Arizona, including to the Colorado River upper and lower basins, and the Little Colorado River Basin.
Tyson Foods dumps 87BILLION gallons of toxic waste including cyanide, blood and feces into US rivers and lakes...
'With this biological load compounding the oxygen-depleting effects of its nitrogen and phosphorous pollution, Tyson is truly sucking the life out of aquatic habitats,' the report's authors wrote.
The 90-year-old company sits on the Fortune 100 index and earned $53 billion in 2023
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, started by Pete Seeger in the 1960s, is fighting to keep its emblematic ship and education program afloat
We Don’t Charge People for Air. We Shouldn’t Charge for Water, Either.
If most people can agree that speculation on water rights in a time of drought is wrong, perhaps we should rethink the morality and legality of buying and selling water at all. Why should private commerce be involved in water, ever? It shouldn’t. Water, essential to life, should be a public good.
https://newrepublic.com/article/181054/elizabeth-warren-ro-khanna-water-futures
Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪
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