Thursday, October 14, 2010
Understand More About Environmental Toxins and What to do to Minimize Harm
This link is a must to view for a better understanding of environmental pollution and health.Please view and pass on to others Thanks
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Lessons We Can and Must Learn From an Engineered Hole Deep in an Ocean Bottom That Gushes Poisons and Carcinogens
Humans are without doubt the strangest residents on Earth. We are like a swarm of viruses that devour all they infect until the host dies and than the viruses are without a home. Maybe they can find another host to infect before they too die. We humans behave as if we can always find another home if our present one, Earth, is consumed by our own neglect. We seem unable to care until something hits us in our pocket book. The "engineering oil disaster" in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest example of our response to environmental contamination after the genie bites us in the pocket book. Fisherman are losing jobs and income, tourists are staying home as beaches become tar infested and hotels and restaurants stay vacant, amusement events along the shores close, and the hole BP drilled into the ocean floor gushes oil at the rate of 250,000 to possibly 2,500,000 gallons per day into the surrounding seas and shores of the south east USA.
Suddenly politicians who scoffed at environmental pollution and global warming caused by man made contaminants are becoming environmentalists because their constituents are losing their income, jobs, and the environmental enjoyment of clean beaches that they took for granted.Scoffers of global warming now believe that their own backyards must be shielded from environmental harm. They are of course correct. And maybe, just maybe, they will begin to accept the fact that all of Earth is our and their backyard, and the well being of all life on our planet depends upon what is provided by a life-sustaining environment. Perhaps this oil catastrophe will stir the retarded brains of people who claim or think that the Earth's environment is too vast to be harmed by human activities. Human activities generally harm the Earth's vast oceans , air, lands, and near- space atmosphere. Just as the oil gushing out of a giant hole that was drilled into the ocean floor about one mile below the sea surface is now causing toxic contamination of a growing area of land in densely populated parts of our country. We regularly poison our planet's air, fresh water, soils, oceans, and the space our planet occupies and needs to maintain in a way nature intended,without a second thought. Unless of course our source of income is threatened, and then we all become environmentalists. As soon as business resumes we forget the environment and start polluting again. Our memories are short and our interest in the natural environment becomes diverted by the pleasures that technology and engineering offers.
We are now witnessing an environmental disaster that was inevitable. As discussed in a previous blog, engineering as a discipline consists of designing and making things that have a useful life and eventually fail. Everything designed and produced by us has a finite and often unpredictable period of operational use, beyond which some type of failure is absolutely certain. From simple bread toasters to the most technical space ship failure is inevitable if the product is used at all. When failure does occur it can be innocuous or catastrophic. If a toaster develops a shot circuit a home can burn down and kill the occupants. If a space ship hydrogen tank develops a leak and ignites because a simple seal fails all of the astronauts perish in a hydrogen explosion that capture the tears of millions of TV onlookers. When a welded steel gusset used to support the traffic driving across a major bridge breaks, because of accumulated load damage, and the structure collapses killing drives and passengers who happened to be their at the worst possible time it is just the inevitable failure of another engineered product.If a turbine blade in a passenger aircraft engine fails and cause the aircraft to crash and kill all occupants we seem shocked to think how such a thing could happen.
We seem to believe that engineered things are permanent and cannot fail. The bigger they the more permanent they are perceived to be. Often the opposite is the truth. They are not and cannot be permanent. Everything humankind designs and engineers will eventually fail in some manner, and generally unexpectedly. When inevitable failure occurs the consequences may be trivial or disasterous depending upon the engineered thing and its use by humans.
The gigantic hole drilled in the bottom of the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico, about one mile below the surface, continues to spew oil as a result of a component in the towering oil rig. Until the flow is exhausted on its own or somehow plugged, we will probably witness one of the worse "engineered failures" since the industrial revolution began about 200 years ago. It may become the worse failure ever because the consequences are so devastating to all life, plant and animal, human and otherwise. All life poisoned by the organic chemicals contained in the gushing oil will die or become diseased. Death will occurs as plants and sea animals and birds ingest and are coated with the poisons. Fresh water supplies will gradually become contaminated with carcinogenic toxins contained in the crude oil as natural poison and carcinogenic chemicals are released into the environment. The wetlands will become progressively contaminated, and toxic rain water that picks up evaporating toxins from the ocean surface laden with dispersed and wave driven oil will contaminate inland areas as well as the shores. Eventually all life near shores where the oil poisons are washed will become too dangerous to occupy. This scenario is already evident in parts of Louisiana and is also becoming evident elsewhere along the gulf shores as the oil poisons are driven by ocean currents, wind, and poison rain and evaporating vapors.
Perhaps this " inevitable engineered oil disaster" will stimulate our understanding of the fragile nature of our dependence upon the Earth's environment and the sustenance of all life. We cannot continue to ignore or pretend the consequences of our blind acceptance of any technology as if it is always beneficial. Engineering can be and is often beneficial if used appropriately. Risk always prevail, and inevitable failure of all engineered devices and things can and will occur. We must understand the risk and prevent environmental disasters by never allowing the engineering of anything whose failure can threaten our very environment, upon which we all depend. This is everybody's responsibility. Do not allow politicians to tell you what is right or wrong environmentally. Think for yourself and always demand a path toward a cleaner environment where life can flourish and the oceans, lakes, rivers, aquifers, lands, and air can support life.
We must control the spread of technology and engineering for the sake of profit and pleasure and war. We must learn to apply technology and engineering for the benefit not the detriment of life. We all must work to restore our environment to a more natural condition, and prevent stupid and greedy exploitation of the Earth's natural resources for the benefit of the few. We must defend Earth's environment and try to restore it for future generations. If we can learn this from the Gulf engineering oil failure we will see a new day when environmental protection and sustenance becomes the highest human priority! We must, because without a safe and clean environment all life may perish.
Suddenly politicians who scoffed at environmental pollution and global warming caused by man made contaminants are becoming environmentalists because their constituents are losing their income, jobs, and the environmental enjoyment of clean beaches that they took for granted.Scoffers of global warming now believe that their own backyards must be shielded from environmental harm. They are of course correct. And maybe, just maybe, they will begin to accept the fact that all of Earth is our and their backyard, and the well being of all life on our planet depends upon what is provided by a life-sustaining environment. Perhaps this oil catastrophe will stir the retarded brains of people who claim or think that the Earth's environment is too vast to be harmed by human activities. Human activities generally harm the Earth's vast oceans , air, lands, and near- space atmosphere. Just as the oil gushing out of a giant hole that was drilled into the ocean floor about one mile below the sea surface is now causing toxic contamination of a growing area of land in densely populated parts of our country. We regularly poison our planet's air, fresh water, soils, oceans, and the space our planet occupies and needs to maintain in a way nature intended,without a second thought. Unless of course our source of income is threatened, and then we all become environmentalists. As soon as business resumes we forget the environment and start polluting again. Our memories are short and our interest in the natural environment becomes diverted by the pleasures that technology and engineering offers.
We are now witnessing an environmental disaster that was inevitable. As discussed in a previous blog, engineering as a discipline consists of designing and making things that have a useful life and eventually fail. Everything designed and produced by us has a finite and often unpredictable period of operational use, beyond which some type of failure is absolutely certain. From simple bread toasters to the most technical space ship failure is inevitable if the product is used at all. When failure does occur it can be innocuous or catastrophic. If a toaster develops a shot circuit a home can burn down and kill the occupants. If a space ship hydrogen tank develops a leak and ignites because a simple seal fails all of the astronauts perish in a hydrogen explosion that capture the tears of millions of TV onlookers. When a welded steel gusset used to support the traffic driving across a major bridge breaks, because of accumulated load damage, and the structure collapses killing drives and passengers who happened to be their at the worst possible time it is just the inevitable failure of another engineered product.If a turbine blade in a passenger aircraft engine fails and cause the aircraft to crash and kill all occupants we seem shocked to think how such a thing could happen.
We seem to believe that engineered things are permanent and cannot fail. The bigger they the more permanent they are perceived to be. Often the opposite is the truth. They are not and cannot be permanent. Everything humankind designs and engineers will eventually fail in some manner, and generally unexpectedly. When inevitable failure occurs the consequences may be trivial or disasterous depending upon the engineered thing and its use by humans.
The gigantic hole drilled in the bottom of the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico, about one mile below the surface, continues to spew oil as a result of a component in the towering oil rig. Until the flow is exhausted on its own or somehow plugged, we will probably witness one of the worse "engineered failures" since the industrial revolution began about 200 years ago. It may become the worse failure ever because the consequences are so devastating to all life, plant and animal, human and otherwise. All life poisoned by the organic chemicals contained in the gushing oil will die or become diseased. Death will occurs as plants and sea animals and birds ingest and are coated with the poisons. Fresh water supplies will gradually become contaminated with carcinogenic toxins contained in the crude oil as natural poison and carcinogenic chemicals are released into the environment. The wetlands will become progressively contaminated, and toxic rain water that picks up evaporating toxins from the ocean surface laden with dispersed and wave driven oil will contaminate inland areas as well as the shores. Eventually all life near shores where the oil poisons are washed will become too dangerous to occupy. This scenario is already evident in parts of Louisiana and is also becoming evident elsewhere along the gulf shores as the oil poisons are driven by ocean currents, wind, and poison rain and evaporating vapors.
Perhaps this " inevitable engineered oil disaster" will stimulate our understanding of the fragile nature of our dependence upon the Earth's environment and the sustenance of all life. We cannot continue to ignore or pretend the consequences of our blind acceptance of any technology as if it is always beneficial. Engineering can be and is often beneficial if used appropriately. Risk always prevail, and inevitable failure of all engineered devices and things can and will occur. We must understand the risk and prevent environmental disasters by never allowing the engineering of anything whose failure can threaten our very environment, upon which we all depend. This is everybody's responsibility. Do not allow politicians to tell you what is right or wrong environmentally. Think for yourself and always demand a path toward a cleaner environment where life can flourish and the oceans, lakes, rivers, aquifers, lands, and air can support life.
We must control the spread of technology and engineering for the sake of profit and pleasure and war. We must learn to apply technology and engineering for the benefit not the detriment of life. We all must work to restore our environment to a more natural condition, and prevent stupid and greedy exploitation of the Earth's natural resources for the benefit of the few. We must defend Earth's environment and try to restore it for future generations. If we can learn this from the Gulf engineering oil failure we will see a new day when environmental protection and sustenance becomes the highest human priority! We must, because without a safe and clean environment all life may perish.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Act Now to Protect Yourself from Oil Leak Toxic/Carcinogenic Drinking Water
While President Obama, Senate Committees,Secretary of the Interior Salazar, and Republican Drill Baby Drill advocates continue to point fingers and play the blame game those who live along the Gulf Coast will be drinking toxic, carcinogenic water poisoned by enormous the oil leak. As the oil saturates wet lands along the coast, not only will sea life perish and sicken but so will human lives gradually be poisoned. The wetlands are filters that ordinarily helps purify water that enters ground water aquifers that become drinking water sources. The aquifers that are fed by ground water drainage through coastal wetlands will become more toxic daily as organic chemicals contained in crude oil continually enter the aquifers. The carcinogenic contaminants will inevitably pollute drinking water in Gulf communities that depend upon ground water. Municipal water treatments cannot remove all of the toxins and slowly they will accumulate in humans causing irreparable harm if individual actions are not taken. Everyone using municipal or well water must purify the water they drink and use for cooking, etc. as soon as possible. Consult your local companies that specialize in home water purification systems and get one for your home now. Also purchase a TDS (total dissolved solids) monitor to get a measure of purification effectiveness.
Act now to help protect your health and your loved ones. Do not rely on either local or federal government assurances that all is well. They will be misleading you if that is what they tell you. Protect yourself while the blame game continues.
Act now to help protect your health and your loved ones. Do not rely on either local or federal government assurances that all is well. They will be misleading you if that is what they tell you. Protect yourself while the blame game continues.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Drinking Water--Here Today, Gone Tomorrow--Unless We Take Action Now
What is shared by all human life and for that matter all life? The only answer is WATER. We humans consume about 5 to 8 gallons a day if it is available. We drink what is available where we live or what we buy bottled (usually in plastic and usually municipal water that may or may not be purified additionally and then shipped from distant locations , stored, and gradually contaminated with harmful chemicals that continue to leach out of the plastic containers into the water that we eventually drink. If we are able to use municipal water for which we pay a regular monthly fee we also drink contaminated water that contain both regulated and unregulated toxins at usually very small concentrations. Each sip of water we take contains a veritable cocktail of micro contaminants that can slowly accumulate in all of our body organs and individually or synergistically kill life sustaining cells or cause cancerous mutations and disease, disability, and death. If you doubt these facts read many sources of information that I have discussed in previous blogs.
You can start with the Water Quality Report that your water utility department issues annually. Don' stop there because it will not contain much really useful information. Follow up with resources from the EPA, National Institute of Health, Environmental Working Group, and many books dating from Rachael Carson's, "Silent Spring" in published in 1962 to my book, "A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water" published in 2006, and other more recent reports available from the Sierra Club and others. After studying these sources you should begin to understand the devil of a problem that you unconsciously ignore as you consume more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals with every drink of water you imbibe or ingest.
The high incidence of cancer raises the obvious:"Why is cancer so prevalent?" Why are medical problems that harm vital organs so common? Why are newborn infants, who have obtained all the life support for 9 months from their mothers body, often born with cancer, various diseases, and physical defects? Read and study the overwhelming evidence that implicates and sometimes pinpoints manmade chemicals as the direct cause. Read independent Medical Reports from Medical Colleges and Institutions, reports from the Center for Disease Control, and National Institute of Health as well as reports from diverse environmental groups involved in protecting the vital fresh water supplies on Earth from more accumulative contamination. Educate yourself. Educate others. Your life may very well depend upon what you and others learn.
We, human beings, often ignore or dismiss factors that determine our physical well being if we cannot experience an immediate cause and effect between that factor and our health or sickness. Our consumption of water and the effects of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are shrouded in that category of unrecognizable influences that are not detected by our normal sensory means. We ordinarily can't see any micro contaminants in the water we consume. We can't feel or hear them. We generally cannot taste them. We, therefore, are unaware of sensory undetectable things. We also often fail to understand the connection between the contaminated water we all drink and ingest with our foods, and the potential diseases that incubate over varying durations of time in our bodies without any symptoms, often until it is too late to treat or cure. We almost never know what or why the particular disease struck. Why me? Why you? For the same reasons millions of others are harmed by chemicals that were never intended by nature to be in our bodies. These unwanted and harmful chemicals are like ticking time bombs ready to explode without prior notification. They are deadly and the fuse can ignite at any time.
Our ignorance is understandable but not excusable. Become informed and then take action to improve the quality and safety of the water we and everyone needs, and take action to prevent future contamination of our limited fresh water supplies. Myriad diseases and often treatable but incurable cancers are caused by contaminants in the water that all of us consume. Billions of dollars of unnecessary medical costs are incurred annually because of contaminated water that poses as drinkable because our local water municipality says that they adhere to Federal standards. Who can vouch for the adequacy of the very limited Federal standards when barely 100 chemicals are regulated out of the many tens of thousands of man made (as many a thirty thousand or more in active use today) chemicals that contaminate most fresh water sources on Earth.
Water treatment technology in use today is incapable of completely removing any of the many tens of thousands of micro constituents that poison fresh water sources everywhere. Most of the inhabitants of Earth are blindly consuming water that has have been contaminated with deadly manmade chemicals that were concocted and made and used mainly over the last eighty years. The petro-chemical industries, agricultural pesticide and herbicides companies, specialty chemical producers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, power generating industry, electronic and computer industry, and many other types of manufacturers and processing operations continuously discharge and distribute products that are made and used worldwide and that are steadily increasing the concentration of toxins and carcinogens in Earth's fresh water sources and oceans.
Since detoxification processes cannot remove the thousands of contaminants that currently are in Earth's water, the rate at which ongoing contamination is occurring makes the problem greater and more dangerous day by day. We are poisoning ourselves and the Earth with toxins and carcinogens that have already had deadly consequences, and the situation worsens and will do so until our planet becomes unable to support life as we know it. To prevent this eventually calamity the production and use of deadly man made chemicals must be substantially curtailed and cease in the relatively near term.
This critical problem is currently ignored by most of the world's leaders and populace, while instead being preoccupied with political and economic issues that are meaningless by comparison. The industrialized countries of the world are responsible for almost all (excluding natural substance that are toxic) poisons and carcinogens that contaminate water. The economically poorer countries of the world, that often already suffer from water shortages and natural contamination, are further harmed by the economically advantaged countries that produce or control production (wherever it occurs) of virtually all man made toxic chemicals that are commonly used for seemingly mundane purposes without our awareness of their deadly potential. While headline grabbing issues divert our attention from major environmental issues that confront our planet,including the well debated issue of climate change that ignorant leaders and others often dismiss as inconsequential or not factual, we engage in endless political rhetoric, war making, and relatively insignificant issues, while life determinant issues are often ignored by leaders and by the majority of people who are supposedly educated, and often entirely ignored by those who are not educated. Many of us are not informed and/or do not want to be informed about vital issues that will determine the viability of life on our planet. We are too easily distracted by inconsequential matters and and entertainment that saturates the media while ignoring really vital issues that require thought and study.
Each of us has the responsibility to protect the fresh water sources that we all depend upon. Get informed about the reality of how we are making our planet's water deadly and the threat to all life that is inevitable if action is not taken soon. Force the political and government leaders to give vital environmental issues the highest priority. Think beyond your locality and state boarders and beyond national boundaries. Think globally about the Earth's future. Humans are the only ones who can take that necessary action to protect all life on Earth now and into the future. Do not pass up this once in a lifetime chance to do something for the benefit of all living things including ourselves and future generations who depend upon what we do, or what we do not do, now. Drinking water is here today and will be gone tomorrow unless we take action now.
You can start with the Water Quality Report that your water utility department issues annually. Don' stop there because it will not contain much really useful information. Follow up with resources from the EPA, National Institute of Health, Environmental Working Group, and many books dating from Rachael Carson's, "Silent Spring" in published in 1962 to my book, "A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water" published in 2006, and other more recent reports available from the Sierra Club and others. After studying these sources you should begin to understand the devil of a problem that you unconsciously ignore as you consume more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals with every drink of water you imbibe or ingest.
The high incidence of cancer raises the obvious:"Why is cancer so prevalent?" Why are medical problems that harm vital organs so common? Why are newborn infants, who have obtained all the life support for 9 months from their mothers body, often born with cancer, various diseases, and physical defects? Read and study the overwhelming evidence that implicates and sometimes pinpoints manmade chemicals as the direct cause. Read independent Medical Reports from Medical Colleges and Institutions, reports from the Center for Disease Control, and National Institute of Health as well as reports from diverse environmental groups involved in protecting the vital fresh water supplies on Earth from more accumulative contamination. Educate yourself. Educate others. Your life may very well depend upon what you and others learn.
We, human beings, often ignore or dismiss factors that determine our physical well being if we cannot experience an immediate cause and effect between that factor and our health or sickness. Our consumption of water and the effects of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are shrouded in that category of unrecognizable influences that are not detected by our normal sensory means. We ordinarily can't see any micro contaminants in the water we consume. We can't feel or hear them. We generally cannot taste them. We, therefore, are unaware of sensory undetectable things. We also often fail to understand the connection between the contaminated water we all drink and ingest with our foods, and the potential diseases that incubate over varying durations of time in our bodies without any symptoms, often until it is too late to treat or cure. We almost never know what or why the particular disease struck. Why me? Why you? For the same reasons millions of others are harmed by chemicals that were never intended by nature to be in our bodies. These unwanted and harmful chemicals are like ticking time bombs ready to explode without prior notification. They are deadly and the fuse can ignite at any time.
Our ignorance is understandable but not excusable. Become informed and then take action to improve the quality and safety of the water we and everyone needs, and take action to prevent future contamination of our limited fresh water supplies. Myriad diseases and often treatable but incurable cancers are caused by contaminants in the water that all of us consume. Billions of dollars of unnecessary medical costs are incurred annually because of contaminated water that poses as drinkable because our local water municipality says that they adhere to Federal standards. Who can vouch for the adequacy of the very limited Federal standards when barely 100 chemicals are regulated out of the many tens of thousands of man made (as many a thirty thousand or more in active use today) chemicals that contaminate most fresh water sources on Earth.
Water treatment technology in use today is incapable of completely removing any of the many tens of thousands of micro constituents that poison fresh water sources everywhere. Most of the inhabitants of Earth are blindly consuming water that has have been contaminated with deadly manmade chemicals that were concocted and made and used mainly over the last eighty years. The petro-chemical industries, agricultural pesticide and herbicides companies, specialty chemical producers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, power generating industry, electronic and computer industry, and many other types of manufacturers and processing operations continuously discharge and distribute products that are made and used worldwide and that are steadily increasing the concentration of toxins and carcinogens in Earth's fresh water sources and oceans.
Since detoxification processes cannot remove the thousands of contaminants that currently are in Earth's water, the rate at which ongoing contamination is occurring makes the problem greater and more dangerous day by day. We are poisoning ourselves and the Earth with toxins and carcinogens that have already had deadly consequences, and the situation worsens and will do so until our planet becomes unable to support life as we know it. To prevent this eventually calamity the production and use of deadly man made chemicals must be substantially curtailed and cease in the relatively near term.
This critical problem is currently ignored by most of the world's leaders and populace, while instead being preoccupied with political and economic issues that are meaningless by comparison. The industrialized countries of the world are responsible for almost all (excluding natural substance that are toxic) poisons and carcinogens that contaminate water. The economically poorer countries of the world, that often already suffer from water shortages and natural contamination, are further harmed by the economically advantaged countries that produce or control production (wherever it occurs) of virtually all man made toxic chemicals that are commonly used for seemingly mundane purposes without our awareness of their deadly potential. While headline grabbing issues divert our attention from major environmental issues that confront our planet,including the well debated issue of climate change that ignorant leaders and others often dismiss as inconsequential or not factual, we engage in endless political rhetoric, war making, and relatively insignificant issues, while life determinant issues are often ignored by leaders and by the majority of people who are supposedly educated, and often entirely ignored by those who are not educated. Many of us are not informed and/or do not want to be informed about vital issues that will determine the viability of life on our planet. We are too easily distracted by inconsequential matters and and entertainment that saturates the media while ignoring really vital issues that require thought and study.
Each of us has the responsibility to protect the fresh water sources that we all depend upon. Get informed about the reality of how we are making our planet's water deadly and the threat to all life that is inevitable if action is not taken soon. Force the political and government leaders to give vital environmental issues the highest priority. Think beyond your locality and state boarders and beyond national boundaries. Think globally about the Earth's future. Humans are the only ones who can take that necessary action to protect all life on Earth now and into the future. Do not pass up this once in a lifetime chance to do something for the benefit of all living things including ourselves and future generations who depend upon what we do, or what we do not do, now. Drinking water is here today and will be gone tomorrow unless we take action now.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
What's Not Seen Can Cause Death---Invisible Toxins in Water
We are conditioned to believe that all we need do is look, hear, and speak to determine reality. This is largely bunk. We hear endless charades of word from so-called experts about everything from what to not eat to who to vote foe and why. We are fed endless propaganda by purveyors who want us to buy whatever they sell as we are assured that their product are superior to every other similar product. We are often told by government agencies that they have the peoples interest at heart and whatever needs fixing will be fixed. We often swallow this continuous line of assurances as if it is the true gospel.
Swallow it indeed. Every drop of water we swallow contains contaminants that can cause illness and even death that we swallow nonetheless because we assume that what we can't see cant hurt us. Virtually all the water; well sources, municipal water system sources, lakes, reservoirs, rivers and oceans world wide have become contaminated during the last 100 years from man made chemicals that never were found in nature. Many of these thousands of chemical substances cause cancer, and incurable diseases that lead to premature death including infants. Infants absorb toxic chemical that are in their mothers blood during the period of gestation.
The invisible toxic chemicals are often odorless in water and no decontamination process exists that can remove all traces. Household water from municipal water plants is chlorinated to eliminate bacterium but the purification processes do not remove most toxic man made chemicals. The traces that remain accumulate in our body organs over time and can nucleate cancerous cells and other abnormalities without our awareness.
In many parts of the world all drinking water is derived from wells that depend upon ground water aquifers sources. The chemical contamination of these ground waters depends upon what is natural in the sources and what is charged into the ground water from ground and above ground sources. Rain can carry pollution from distant locations and deposit toxic chemicals everywhere. Leaking underground fuel storage tanks can and does poison well water and municipal water sources causing unknown numbers of illnesses and deaths. Most of us live in areas where rain run-off deposits toxins on roadways into the ground water and contaminates all drinking water using the particular aquifers that are supplied by the contaminated run-off. We are subjected to continuous sources of contaminate water wherever we live and in some areas the contamination is very deadly dependent upon the particular chemicals that are present.
Governmental water quality regulations do not provide the necessary protection and many states have their own weak or non-existent regulation governing ground water sources. Underground fuel tanks inevitably leak and discharge their generally toxic contents (petrochemicals containing a large number of carcinogenic and poisonous chemicals) into ground water. In the USA alone their are more than 600,000 underground fuel tanks and about 50% are estimated to be leaking into ground water. No tank material is impervious to either corrosion or rupture and eventually every underground tank will leak their potentially toxic contents into the ground and into our mouths.
What is not seen can cause your sickness and even death. Open your minds and demand facts and action from your state and federal governments to disclose truthful information and facts about the contaminant found in ground water and municipal system sources. DO NOT rely on the WATER QUALITY REPORTS that are usually cited and printed as part of the propaganda charade. Dig deeper and never take anyones word for real facts. You do not have to be a chemist or toxicologist to understand the facts. Just your brains, and, your refusal to accept bunk. Keep your eyes wide shut and your brain wide open.
Swallow it indeed. Every drop of water we swallow contains contaminants that can cause illness and even death that we swallow nonetheless because we assume that what we can't see cant hurt us. Virtually all the water; well sources, municipal water system sources, lakes, reservoirs, rivers and oceans world wide have become contaminated during the last 100 years from man made chemicals that never were found in nature. Many of these thousands of chemical substances cause cancer, and incurable diseases that lead to premature death including infants. Infants absorb toxic chemical that are in their mothers blood during the period of gestation.
The invisible toxic chemicals are often odorless in water and no decontamination process exists that can remove all traces. Household water from municipal water plants is chlorinated to eliminate bacterium but the purification processes do not remove most toxic man made chemicals. The traces that remain accumulate in our body organs over time and can nucleate cancerous cells and other abnormalities without our awareness.
In many parts of the world all drinking water is derived from wells that depend upon ground water aquifers sources. The chemical contamination of these ground waters depends upon what is natural in the sources and what is charged into the ground water from ground and above ground sources. Rain can carry pollution from distant locations and deposit toxic chemicals everywhere. Leaking underground fuel storage tanks can and does poison well water and municipal water sources causing unknown numbers of illnesses and deaths. Most of us live in areas where rain run-off deposits toxins on roadways into the ground water and contaminates all drinking water using the particular aquifers that are supplied by the contaminated run-off. We are subjected to continuous sources of contaminate water wherever we live and in some areas the contamination is very deadly dependent upon the particular chemicals that are present.
Governmental water quality regulations do not provide the necessary protection and many states have their own weak or non-existent regulation governing ground water sources. Underground fuel tanks inevitably leak and discharge their generally toxic contents (petrochemicals containing a large number of carcinogenic and poisonous chemicals) into ground water. In the USA alone their are more than 600,000 underground fuel tanks and about 50% are estimated to be leaking into ground water. No tank material is impervious to either corrosion or rupture and eventually every underground tank will leak their potentially toxic contents into the ground and into our mouths.
What is not seen can cause your sickness and even death. Open your minds and demand facts and action from your state and federal governments to disclose truthful information and facts about the contaminant found in ground water and municipal system sources. DO NOT rely on the WATER QUALITY REPORTS that are usually cited and printed as part of the propaganda charade. Dig deeper and never take anyones word for real facts. You do not have to be a chemist or toxicologist to understand the facts. Just your brains, and, your refusal to accept bunk. Keep your eyes wide shut and your brain wide open.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Politics and Water Don't Mix but You Can Stir Them Up
Our country is bubbling over whether or not to make health care available to all citizens regardless of income and ability to pay. From my viewpoint this issue should not be an issue and instead reality. All of our citizens, like citizens of all other advanced countries who already have universal health care, are inherently entitled to health care when it is needed. As important however is the avoidance and prevention of needless and avoidable diseases. The health care systems are designed to help you recover after acquiring disease, but very ineffectual in preventing diseases. Our country spends about 2-3 billion dollars annually treating diseases, many of which could be prevented if our country and our politicians had the will to do so.
Unfortunately politics and water don't mix, and consequently our people will continue to suffer from avoidable and deadly diseases that are caused by toxic and carcinogenic man made chemical substance that are in drinking water that we all consume and depend upon. All water on Earth has been toxified by our collective ignorance of reality and the ongoing production and widespread use of toxic and carcinogenic substances that are the direct output of the most profitable and ubiquitous worldwide petrochemical industry, and our nearly indiscriminate utilization of substances that poison the very ground we walk on and the water we drink. We blithely ignore the consequences until some noteworthy event exposes a local problem and as soon as it is out of the news we forget and fail to connect the isolated bit of news to the big picture. We seem to assume that we will all be protected by the brotherly arms of local, state, and federal agencies that have the responsibility to assure safe drinking water. Sorry folks, if you believe that then you are just as likely to believe that the tooth fairy will put a gold doubloon under your pillow.
In the same way that the health insurance industry in the USA has hoodwinked many of us into believing that they really aspire to provide affordable health care, the petrochemical multinational corporations have successfully induced us to believe that all the chemical substances they produce and are contained in millions of consumer products are as safe as pure spring water. We have become so gullible that we unconsciously acquiesce and fall into a dream-like trance that enables us to believe the advertisements and propaganda that the chemical industry and their purveyors promote. Since water and politics don't mix our elected officials are very happy to accept bountiful campaign donations from the petrochemical corporations that resist all regulatory action to limit their activities and potentially reduce corporate profits.
For those of you who are skeptical of my remarks please avail yourselves of the opportunity to start to become informed about the most important aspect of health preservation: safe drinking water free of toxins and carcinogens. First, visit your local water department or sanitation office and request all the information that they have regarding water quality. If you don't understand some of the material ask questions until you are satisfied that you understand the material. Than I suggest that you obtain two government publications that are available on line or by regular mail from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of health, respectively. The first is the EPA Toxic Release Inventory Report that contains partial information about toxic and carcinogenic chemical releases caused during production of these substance and is reported annually. Every member of Congress is issued a copy of this report that lists approximately 750 man made chemical substance of the over 3,000 commonly used in every day consumer products. Read it and ask the EPA questions until you are satisfied that you understand the implications and content sufficiently. The second government report is the NIH Report on Carcinogens that also is published annually and submitted to every Congressional member. This report lists about 275 of the thousands of carcinogenic substance found in human beings who have consumed contaminated water and describes the potential cancerous outcomes of exposure. You may not understand some of the medical and chemical terms in these two publications, nonetheless you will certainly begin to get the picture of how these chemicals found in some drinking water threaten our health and how avoidance could help prevent diseases rather than try to cure or remiss them after we get sick.
The purpose of this blog is to engage you in matters that are vital to prevent diseases and disabilities that are caused by man made toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that are in our drinking water at different locations in our country. Future blogs will engage you in more dialogue to promote greater public awareness and stimulate action aimed at political action instead of silence. We must stir up the apparently oblivious majority of Congress and force them to drink the water that they ignore. Perhaps then we will begin to foster preventive health programs starting with the elimination of toxic and carcinogenic chemical production and use.
Unfortunately politics and water don't mix, and consequently our people will continue to suffer from avoidable and deadly diseases that are caused by toxic and carcinogenic man made chemical substance that are in drinking water that we all consume and depend upon. All water on Earth has been toxified by our collective ignorance of reality and the ongoing production and widespread use of toxic and carcinogenic substances that are the direct output of the most profitable and ubiquitous worldwide petrochemical industry, and our nearly indiscriminate utilization of substances that poison the very ground we walk on and the water we drink. We blithely ignore the consequences until some noteworthy event exposes a local problem and as soon as it is out of the news we forget and fail to connect the isolated bit of news to the big picture. We seem to assume that we will all be protected by the brotherly arms of local, state, and federal agencies that have the responsibility to assure safe drinking water. Sorry folks, if you believe that then you are just as likely to believe that the tooth fairy will put a gold doubloon under your pillow.
In the same way that the health insurance industry in the USA has hoodwinked many of us into believing that they really aspire to provide affordable health care, the petrochemical multinational corporations have successfully induced us to believe that all the chemical substances they produce and are contained in millions of consumer products are as safe as pure spring water. We have become so gullible that we unconsciously acquiesce and fall into a dream-like trance that enables us to believe the advertisements and propaganda that the chemical industry and their purveyors promote. Since water and politics don't mix our elected officials are very happy to accept bountiful campaign donations from the petrochemical corporations that resist all regulatory action to limit their activities and potentially reduce corporate profits.
For those of you who are skeptical of my remarks please avail yourselves of the opportunity to start to become informed about the most important aspect of health preservation: safe drinking water free of toxins and carcinogens. First, visit your local water department or sanitation office and request all the information that they have regarding water quality. If you don't understand some of the material ask questions until you are satisfied that you understand the material. Than I suggest that you obtain two government publications that are available on line or by regular mail from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of health, respectively. The first is the EPA Toxic Release Inventory Report that contains partial information about toxic and carcinogenic chemical releases caused during production of these substance and is reported annually. Every member of Congress is issued a copy of this report that lists approximately 750 man made chemical substance of the over 3,000 commonly used in every day consumer products. Read it and ask the EPA questions until you are satisfied that you understand the implications and content sufficiently. The second government report is the NIH Report on Carcinogens that also is published annually and submitted to every Congressional member. This report lists about 275 of the thousands of carcinogenic substance found in human beings who have consumed contaminated water and describes the potential cancerous outcomes of exposure. You may not understand some of the medical and chemical terms in these two publications, nonetheless you will certainly begin to get the picture of how these chemicals found in some drinking water threaten our health and how avoidance could help prevent diseases rather than try to cure or remiss them after we get sick.
The purpose of this blog is to engage you in matters that are vital to prevent diseases and disabilities that are caused by man made toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that are in our drinking water at different locations in our country. Future blogs will engage you in more dialogue to promote greater public awareness and stimulate action aimed at political action instead of silence. We must stir up the apparently oblivious majority of Congress and force them to drink the water that they ignore. Perhaps then we will begin to foster preventive health programs starting with the elimination of toxic and carcinogenic chemical production and use.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Water,Water,Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink
This notice from the EPA was just released regarding remediation of leaking fuel tanks in Indiana. The leakage contaminates ground water that is the source of drinking and household use. The toxins in fuel are often carcinogenic and very dangerous. Here is the notice:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 09-OPA128
EPA awards more than $4 million in Recovery Act funds to clean up underground petroleum leaks in Indiana
EPA: Funds help create jobs and protect Indiana's land and water.
Contact: Karen Thompson, 312-353-8547, thompson.karen@epa.gov
(Chicago, Ill - July 16, 2009) In an effort to protect people where they live, work, and play, EPA announced the distribution of more than $4 million to Indiana under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks. The greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum or other hazardous substances seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly one-third of all Americans.
"We're providing immediate growth opportunities for communities across the nation, as well as long-term protection from dangerous pollution in the land and water," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "EPA is putting people to work by serving our core mission of protecting human health and the environment."
This money is part of $197 million appropriated under the Recovery Act to address shovel-ready sites nationwide contaminated by petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks. The funds will be used for overseeing assessment and cleanup of leaks from underground storage tanks or directly paying for assessment and cleanup of leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling or unable to finance, or the cleanup is an emergency response.
EPA regional underground storage tank programs will enter into a cooperative agreement with Indiana Department of Environmental Management in July 2009. The cooperative agreement will include more detailed descriptions of state spending plans.
"The Recovery Act support for underground storage tank cleanup is a great investment in environmental protection and will provide long-term economic benefits for Indiana," said Bharat Mathur acting regional administrator in Chicago.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009, and has directed that the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can visit Recovery.gov to see how every dollar is being invested.
Learn more about EPA's implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: http://www.epa.gov/recovery/
With this EPA notice as background please continue reading to find out how your back yard may be vulnerable to toxic infiltration from leaking fuel tanks even as you read this.
Those of you who live in Door County near Fish Creek and Ephraim should be very happy to hear that a new 12,000 gallon gasoline tank for leaded aircraft gas is in the process of being installed underground at the Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport off HWY 42 and Maple Grove Road.It will replace an 1,100 gallon above ground mobile fuel tank. Once installed this tank will be preparing to leak sometime in the future. This double walled tank is supposedly leak proof. As an engineer and materials scientist this is impossible. All tanks made by man will eventually leak as corrosion, vibration, freeze-thaw cycles and other factors enlarge small inherent defects into small leaks that gradually become larger. This leaded fuel tank will contain enough leaded gasoline to contaminate all water supplies in the Town of Gibraltar (including Fish Creek) and Village of Ephraim when it leaks and contaminates ground water and aquifers, despite the political assurances that you may get to the contrary.
The shore residences will find toxic gasoline chemicals in the bay, as fish and other wild life suffer and die. The EPA and WI Department of Natural Resources had better have an emergency plan in place along with the WI DOT (who authorized and funded the tank with our tax dollars. The fuel in the tank will be dispersed by individual pilots who need to gas up. Spillage will be uncontrolled but supposedly retained by by appropriate barriers. Of course the concrete barriers will also leak and gradually the uncontrolled and unmonitored spillage will contaminate the ground water also. Get your reverse osmosis water purification systems now if you haven't got one yet.
This is another example of "earmark" giveaway of tax dollars to a special interest group who in this case own private aircraft that occasionally fly in and out of Northern Door County, and serves about 35 aircraft owners who hanger their aircraft at the airport. This and thousands of other boutique airports like it are given grants by the Federal and State governments from our collective tax dollars for their own use. The Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport has received well over one million dollars over the past 5 years and is slated to receive about the same for the next 3 years unless the budget axe falls as it should.
This information is presented as a public disclosure that your elected officials generally prefer to keep quite.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 09-OPA128
EPA awards more than $4 million in Recovery Act funds to clean up underground petroleum leaks in Indiana
EPA: Funds help create jobs and protect Indiana's land and water.
Contact: Karen Thompson, 312-353-8547, thompson.karen@epa.gov
(Chicago, Ill - July 16, 2009) In an effort to protect people where they live, work, and play, EPA announced the distribution of more than $4 million to Indiana under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks. The greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum or other hazardous substances seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly one-third of all Americans.
"We're providing immediate growth opportunities for communities across the nation, as well as long-term protection from dangerous pollution in the land and water," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "EPA is putting people to work by serving our core mission of protecting human health and the environment."
This money is part of $197 million appropriated under the Recovery Act to address shovel-ready sites nationwide contaminated by petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks. The funds will be used for overseeing assessment and cleanup of leaks from underground storage tanks or directly paying for assessment and cleanup of leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling or unable to finance, or the cleanup is an emergency response.
EPA regional underground storage tank programs will enter into a cooperative agreement with Indiana Department of Environmental Management in July 2009. The cooperative agreement will include more detailed descriptions of state spending plans.
"The Recovery Act support for underground storage tank cleanup is a great investment in environmental protection and will provide long-term economic benefits for Indiana," said Bharat Mathur acting regional administrator in Chicago.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009, and has directed that the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can visit Recovery.gov to see how every dollar is being invested.
Learn more about EPA's implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: http://www.epa.gov/recovery/
With this EPA notice as background please continue reading to find out how your back yard may be vulnerable to toxic infiltration from leaking fuel tanks even as you read this.
Those of you who live in Door County near Fish Creek and Ephraim should be very happy to hear that a new 12,000 gallon gasoline tank for leaded aircraft gas is in the process of being installed underground at the Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport off HWY 42 and Maple Grove Road.It will replace an 1,100 gallon above ground mobile fuel tank. Once installed this tank will be preparing to leak sometime in the future. This double walled tank is supposedly leak proof. As an engineer and materials scientist this is impossible. All tanks made by man will eventually leak as corrosion, vibration, freeze-thaw cycles and other factors enlarge small inherent defects into small leaks that gradually become larger. This leaded fuel tank will contain enough leaded gasoline to contaminate all water supplies in the Town of Gibraltar (including Fish Creek) and Village of Ephraim when it leaks and contaminates ground water and aquifers, despite the political assurances that you may get to the contrary.
The shore residences will find toxic gasoline chemicals in the bay, as fish and other wild life suffer and die. The EPA and WI Department of Natural Resources had better have an emergency plan in place along with the WI DOT (who authorized and funded the tank with our tax dollars. The fuel in the tank will be dispersed by individual pilots who need to gas up. Spillage will be uncontrolled but supposedly retained by by appropriate barriers. Of course the concrete barriers will also leak and gradually the uncontrolled and unmonitored spillage will contaminate the ground water also. Get your reverse osmosis water purification systems now if you haven't got one yet.
This is another example of "earmark" giveaway of tax dollars to a special interest group who in this case own private aircraft that occasionally fly in and out of Northern Door County, and serves about 35 aircraft owners who hanger their aircraft at the airport. This and thousands of other boutique airports like it are given grants by the Federal and State governments from our collective tax dollars for their own use. The Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport has received well over one million dollars over the past 5 years and is slated to receive about the same for the next 3 years unless the budget axe falls as it should.
This information is presented as a public disclosure that your elected officials generally prefer to keep quite.
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