Enough Water
April 9, 2009 by Angela Logomasini, Ph.D.
Filed under News
Cheers to Bill Nemitz for his very insightful piece “Enough Water: Let’s Figure it Out” in the Portland Press Herald. He showed that the amount of water that Poland Spring would have purchased for $900,000 from the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water Districts represents 0.14 percent of the water that falls in the region each year. He rightly criticizes the activist group that prevented that sale for their claims that operation would threaten such resources in the future.
Nemitz’s point applies to a much larger debate. Activist groups are around the nation offer silly arguments about water resources being “finite” and in danger of depletion. But properly constructed bottling operations do not deplete community water supplies. Aquifers, springs and other natural sources replenish via precipitation, a process called “recharging.” Many have been operating sustainably for hundreds of years. A study produced by Keith N. Eshleman, Ph.D. at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science reports that “withdrawals for bottled water production represent only 0.019% of the total fresh ground water withdrawals in the U.S.,” which is far less than what Mother Nature recharges. The fact that communities and consumers can “profit” by enjoying these renewable resources is a good thing!
Water shortages can be a problem in certain areas. But problems usually result from government ownership and mismanagement, including from subsidies mostly to large, politically organized users—particularly agriculture. We need market-based systems to these manage resources. There is no reason to stop using them altogether, particularly where they are plentiful.
This effiort by the extremist environment lobby to ban bottled water is simply the latest outrage in a never-ending litany of absurd, costly, and, even dangerous attacks on our freedoms and the free market system. It has far less to do with limiting water use than it does with attempts to impose a command and control regime on the American population. Theirs is a form of secular religion, blind to facts, evidence and common sense. Rael and Jean Isaac called them the “Coercive Utopians.” An even greater danger is the campaign to impose the complex and absurd “:cap and tax” plan on the United States to combat a non-existent threat. Global warming is nothing less than the mother of all environmental scares, designed to rationalize control over every aspect of our daily lives. I think the tide has turned, however, and more and more Americans are seeing this campaign for what is is. We must drive home the point of its costs to every American family and let this become the noose with which the environmentalists hang themselves.
We don’t have to worry anymore about enough water now and in future . Condensation is the key . We can produce any amount of water out of waste heat . Or just warm air. (50-800F) Humidity is a plus but with our German concept we don’t need it . Heat exchange (cold/hot) is the key. It creates condensation . Our AM30 , lined up to hundreds (400-800) can produce 2-5 million gallons of fresh drinking water a day . Place 10 of this groups around a city and you have up to 50 million gallons a day . Any parking lot (Walgreen size) is fine. A field ,without a building , works ! Easy , cheap and available ! Online in a few month and water runs . Attached to a Coal, Nuclear or Steel Plant it can use the heat waste and increase the water output up to 10x ! We just use what mother natures shows us every day : Condensation !
We proposed for the State of Texas to save the city’s from water scarcity . We will do the same for the State of California . 25-50.000 Units can save each State !
And it cost not more as a month of war in Irag to do it ……….
Ralph
CEO Eurosport Active World Corp.
President Powermax Energy & Business Solutions Inc.