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
THE book to read on #WorldWaterDay2024
In just four decades, bottled water ... sits at the convergence of a mounting ecological crisis of single-use plastic waste and climate change, a social crisis of affordable access to safe drinking water, and a struggle over the fate of public water systems. Unbottled examines the vibrant movements that have emerged to question the need for bottled water...
A refreshing World Water Day!
It is held every year on 22 March, and is a United Nations (UN) day focused on raising awareness of the importance of freshwater.
This year's theme is Water for Peace. The aim is to highlight the tensions that can emerge over resources like water, leading to potential instability and conflict, but also the role that water can play, if carefully managed, in promoting peace.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/03/world-water-day-freshwater-march-2024/
#WaterIsLife #WaterIsHealth #Water #FreshWater #WorldWaterDay2024
While World Water Day is celebrated on March 22, 2024 and the United Nations has set this year’s theme for WWD as “Water for Peace,” at WPLC every day is a day where we have the honor and responsibility of working to protect the Water - to defend Indigenous Peoples, ancestral lands, and those that work to defend the Earth. We are dedicating this month to the life-giving force that is Water.
https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=219a2239564e69b3f7671537b&id=866c663d9c
#WaterIsLife #WaterIsHealth #Water #FreshWater #WorldWaterDay2024
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