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motorfirebox
Interesting article on the fight to get water recognized as a basic human right. Need to crash, so I'm just going to post a few excerpts for now.
A long outstanding proposal to recognise the right to water as a basic universal human right is threatening to split the world's …
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fountainofdreams:
He's in Lake Michagan. Or rather he's fish shit laying as sediment in Lake Michagan. And yet the public get's to pay the $500,000 to replace that barn and other damages. Woohoo. Give up your quest for the holy grail FBI.
phedg:
hahahahaa
hunkpapa
I honestly don't remember much about Paul Lake, either his talent or the problems he's had, but this article was interesting and is worth a read.
Any Citeh fans got any memories of seeing Lake play?
Any Citeh fans got any memories of seeing Lake play?
themaninblack
I just found out I got a job at 10,000 Lakes Fest in Detroit Lakes next month and I'm not going to know very many people there. Is anybody else going? You can get info at 10klf.com. The bill includes Widespread Panic, The Black Crowes, Les Claypool, Trey Anastasio, …
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went to Calaveras Lake last night. Good gamble - it was only raining in the city, and everywhere around the lake, but not a drop at the lake - which is odd, because if it's raining anywhere, it's always the lake.
Camped out. Didn't catch anything all night, but just before sunrise started catching catfish. Was trying for Reds, but kept landing channels. Fun, nonetheless....
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Camped out. Didn't catch anything all night, but just before sunrise started catching catfish. Was trying for Reds, but kept landing channels. Fun, nonetheless....
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GyPsie LakE (8:49:21 AM): very true
GyPsie LakE (8:49:33 AM): and this is why you have happy gfs
GyPsie LakE (8:49:44 AM): well, x gfs with alot of memories of you
GyPsie LakE (8:50:11 AM): i bet you that jackie and hallie can't pass a claw machine with out thinking of you
Some part of me hopes they remember me fondly...I wonder why.
GyPsie LakE (8:49:33 AM): and this is why you have happy gfs
GyPsie LakE (8:49:44 AM): well, x gfs with alot of memories of you
GyPsie LakE (8:50:11 AM): i bet you that jackie and hallie can't pass a claw machine with out thinking of you
Some part of me hopes they remember me fondly...I wonder why.
http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/28/great-lakes-great-wars/
It started as a question of "mine, you can't touch it" and evolved into environmental issues.
brazenfait said:
The Great Lakes in the U.S. have struggled for years against loosing the natural resource they happen to border to the needs of less gifted states.
http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/28/great-lakes-great-wars/
It started as a question of "mine, you can't touch it" and evolved into environmental issues.
erm? It really isn't "mine you can't touch" it's more along the lines of "we have to maintain the Great Lake Basin we want to to do it as a whole entity rather than separately" and "we want to know what everyone is doing".
Ohio spends millions of dollars a year to maintain the Great Lakes, including environmental testing, environmental clean up and dredging to keep shipping lines open, on top of keeping an eye environmentally on what the shipping industry and dredging is doing to Lake Erie.
The Lakes provide us with a lot of our income, we have some spectacularly pretty little towns along the shore on top of a small tourism trade (in comparison to something like Disney) that relies on Lake Erie, as do the surrounding states and provinces.
The Great Lakes Charter gives us the ability to find out what is happening with the Great Lakes and share the information, such as consumption, who is consuming the most, permits to consume large quantities and so on.
The Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement builds on that charter, The Great Lakes Compact became federal law in 2008.
Basically we have a committee amongst all the bordering states and provinces that share information about what is happening on their end of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes compact actually prevents states and provinces from fighting over and selling water.
If you start diverting or removing large portions of water, it is going to have an effect on the ecology of the Lakes and everything living in the Lakes. I am by no means saying we shouldn't share with bordering states, or even southern states, but i definitely like the idea that it is being closely regulated by the states and provinces it is going to effect the most.
The lakes are finally starting to recover after a century of dumping pollution into them. The Clean Water Acts helped that immensely. They're far from what they once were due to pollution, overfishing, invasive species and other such things, but they're making a comeback. To just start screwing with that, unregulated, again would be detrimental to everything they have done to revive them.