Ignoring Drought,
U.S. to Divert Water to Mexico for Environmental Project
by Joel B. Pollak 17 Mar 2014
On
March 23, one percent of the flow of the Colorado River will be released into Mexico,
to flow into the river delta and the Gulf of California as part of an
experiment in environmental restoration over several months. The agreement,
known as Minute 319, was signed between the U.S. and Mexico in late 2012 at the
urging of groups like the Environmental Defense Fund. The transfer will
occur despite intense drought in the southwestern U.S.
The
Colorado River is a major source of water for farms and households in the
southwest, including California. The language of the agreement provides for a
five-year joint "pilot project" starting in 2013, and allows the
delivery of Colorado River water "tentatively during 2014 but no later than
2016."
It
was possible, therefore, to delay the pilot project for at least two years,
giving the region a chance to recover from drought. No such delay was made.
It
has been more than half a century since the Colorado River flowed regularly to
the delta.
The
Environmental Defense Fund has pushed
back against criticism of the project's timing. "Some may
grumble that this is not the time to send water to the environment, but that
objection ignores the broader context of the recent binational agreement and
the many benefits it brings to both countries," wrote Jennifer Pitt,
director of the Fund's Colorado River project.
Engineers
will open the floodgates of the Morelos Dam, which straddles the border, and
will do so again several times throughout the spring months to mimic the
natural floods of the region, the Associated Press reports.
The hope is not only to restore species habitat and the region's natural water
flow, but also to provide water that once sustained broader agriculture in the
region, and build cooperation for future joint water management.
Not called "toilet-to-tap"!
Nasty name shed, unanimous vote moves Pure Water plan
forward
By Dave Rice, Nov. 19, 2014
The San Diego City Council on
Tuesday, November 18, unanimously voted to move forward with the implementation
of Pure Water San Diego, a 20-year plan that could result in a significant
portion of the region's water supply sourced from a local wastewater-recycling
program.
Drought Emergency Declared In
California Gov. Brown
January 20, 201412:00 AM ET
Jerry Brown says the state is facing possibly the worst drought it
has ever seen since record keeping began about 100 years ago. For more on the
drought and its impact, Renee Montagne talks to Michael Hanemann, professor of
agricultural and resource economics at University of California, Berkeley.
Mexico
Ernesto
Zedillo was the president of Mexico,
and a board member for the International
Crisis Group.
Note: Ricardo Lagos is
a board member for the International
Crisis Group, a trustee at the Environmental
Defense Fund, and was the president of Chile.
George
Soros is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee, the founder of the Soros
Fund Management, was a benefactor at the Harlem Children's Zone, married
in 2013, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), the Natural
Resources Defense Council, the New America Foundation, the Aspen Institute (think tank), the
Sundance Institute., and the Tides Foundation.
Thomas
H. Kean is a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee, and a trustee at the Environmental
Defense Fund.
Stanley F.
Druckenmiller was a managing director at the Soros Fund Management, is the chairman & benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a trustee
at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Gavin
Newsom was invited to George Soros’s
2013 wedding reception, and is the lieutenant governor for the California state government.
Julian H. Robertson
Jr. was invited to George Soros’s 2013
wedding reception, Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was his lobby firm, and is a trustee at the Environmental Defense Fund.
James F. Collins
was a senior advisor for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a member of
the Bretton Woods Committee, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
J. Stapleton Roy
is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), and was a U.S. ambassador for Singapore.
Flush it, process it, drink it. Repeat.
Tiny
island of Singapore seeks water independence through recycled toilet water
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/flush-it-process-it-drink-it-repeat
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and Laura
Turner Seydel’s father.
Laura Turner
Seydel is Ted Turner’s daughter,
a trustee at the Waterkeeper Alliance,
and a board member for the Environmental
Working Group.
Colorado Riverkeeper
Description
Colorado Riverkeeper
empowers a movement to instill a new ethic of achieving ecological restoration,
balanced with meeting human needs.
About
"Waterkeeper Alliance"
Founded in 1999 by environmental
attorney and activist Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr., and several veteran Waterkeepers,
Waterkeeper Alliance is a global movement of on-the-water advocates who patrol
and protect over 100,000 miles of rivers, streams and coastlines in North and South America,
Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa.
Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. is a director at the Riverkeeper,
was the founder of the Waterkeeper
Alliance, and a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Ann
Colley is a director at the Riverkeeper,
and a trustee at the Waterkeeper
Alliance.
George M.
Woodwell is a trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, and was a trustee at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Wendy
Schmidt is a trustee at the Natural
Resources Defense Council, married to Eric
E. Schmidt, the president & co-founder for the Schmidt Family Foundation, and was a major opponent for the California Proposition 23.
Natural
Resources Defense Council was a major opponent for the California Proposition 23.
L.
John Doerr was a major opponent for the California Proposition 23, a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and married to Ann Doerr.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Ann
Doerr is married to L. John Doerr,
and a trustee at the Environmental
Defense Fund.
Eric E. Schmidt is married to Wendy Schmidt, the chairman of the New
America Foundation, a co-founder
for the Schmidt Family Foundation, was a funder for the New America
Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Terry Tamminen
was a senior fellow & climate policy director at the New America
Foundation, the secretary
for the California Environmental Protection Agency, and a special
assistant for energy and environmental technologies, cabinet secretary for the
former California state government governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,
and is a board member for the Waterkeeper
Alliance.
Schmidt
Family Foundation was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Environmental Working Group, and
the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Anna
Getty is a board member for the Environmental
Working Group, and was a board member for Global Green USA.
Leonardo DiCaprio
is a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and was a board member for Global Green USA.
Patricia E.
Mitchell is a board member for Global
Green USA, the vice chair for the Sundance
Institute, and an honorary board member for Green Cross International.
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross
International.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is the founder of Green Cross
International, and was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Robert Redford is an honorary board member
for Green Cross International
Robert
Redford is an honorary board member for Green Cross International, a trustee at the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and the founder
& president of the Sundance
Institute.
Jeanne
Donovan Fisher is a trustee at the Sundance
Institute, and was a trustee at the Environmental
Defense Fund.
Mellody L. Hobson
was a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and the chairman for the DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc.
Kathleen L. Brown
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, California state government
governor Jerry Brown’s sister, and
was the California state government
treasurer.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
a friend of Wendy M. Abrams, and was
the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Wendy M. Abrams
is a friend of Rahm I. Emanuel, and
a board member for the Waterkeeper
Alliance.
Roger
A. Enrico was the chairman for the DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc., and a trustee at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Katherine Kendrick
was the general counsel for the DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc., and a trustee at the Waterkeeper Alliance.
Laura Turner
Seydel is a trustee at the Waterkeeper
Alliance, a board member for the Environmental Working Group, and Ted Turner’s daughter.
Ted
Turner is Laura Turner Seydel’s
father, a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and an honorary board member for Green Cross International.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross
International.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is the founder of Green Cross
International, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Robert S. Strauss
was the U.S. ambassador for the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and a senior adviser for
the Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget.
Committee
for a Responsible Federal Budget was housed at the New America Foundation.
James F. Collins
was a senior advisor for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
Julian H.
Robertson Jr.’s lobby firm was Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, was invited to George Soros’s 2013 wedding reception, and is a trustee at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Schmidt
Family Foundation was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Environmental Working Group, the
Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Tides Foundation.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the New America
Foundation.
Christopher
Edley Jr. is the U.S. program advisory panel member for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
and the law school dean at the University
of California, Berkeley.
John
A. Powell is a professor at the University
of California, Berkeley, and a director at the Tides Foundation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Tides Foundation.
George Soros was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is a board
member for the International Crisis Group.
Ernesto
Zedillo was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and the president of Mexico.
Ricardo
Lagos is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, a trustee at the Environmental
Defense Fund, and was the president of Chile.
Kofi
A. Annan is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the chairman for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,
and Gregory B. Craig’s was his
lawyer.
From Toilet to Tap for Water
Scarce City
By Brendon Bosworth
KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa, Oct
1 2013 (IPS) - In a few years, residents of the eThekwini municipality in the
port city of Durban in South Africa could be drinking water that was once
flushed down their toilets, as authorities are planning to recycle some of the
municipality’s sewage and purify it to drinking quality standards.
Gregory
B. Craig was Kofi A. Annan’s lawyer,
the White House counsel for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted
Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), and Laura
Turner Seydel’s father.
Laura Turner
Seydel is Ted Turner’s daughter,
a trustee at the Waterkeeper Alliance,
and a board member for the Environmental
Working Group.
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