WATER – Water shortage the biggest environmental concern
From Newsweek Aug 24 – 2009
After three years of drought, California’s legendary water wars are flaring once again, and towns like Mendota, San Joaquin, and Firebaugh are getting a first glimpse of what their future might look like. Farmers blame the area’s blight on a “man-made drought” brought on by increasingly strict environmental regulations, but that is only the beginning of the story. There’s also the crushing confluence of political negligence, drought, and a century’s worth of unbridled growth.
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Decision on survival has to be made now. Survival for the future means water, clean, safe drinking water. Federal, provincial and regional governments are slow to act when the pay off is not instant and financial. By Salmon Arm a developer is facing prosecution over possible river destruction where salmon spawn. Pesticide, herbicide use is rampant, animal and human waste contaminates the source of the water we drink. Medicines remain in the water after passing through us. And then the ever increasing stories of shortages.
All Headlines are from Aug. 20 09
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