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Let's Stop Watering Golf Courses. There is a Drought in The Entire Western USA and Golf is a Total Waste of Water. Even Rich People Ought to Do What is Right!

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https://wateruseitwisely.com/100-ways-to-conserve-water/

https://www.epa.gov/greeningepa/water-conservation-epa

Water Conservation at EPA

Pie chart showing typical end uses of water in an office building, including 37 percent for sanitary use, 28 percent for cooling and heating, 22 percent for irrigation, and 13 percent for the kitchen/dishwashing. — View a larger version of this image.

The U.S. population has doubled over the past 50 years, while our thirst for water has tripled. With at least 40 states anticipating water shortages by 2024, the need to conserve water is critical.

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Climate Change in Central America is Making Farmers WALK NORTH. No Rain Causes Starvation. Secretary of State Pompeo Recommends Everyone Move North to "Solve" Global Warming Problems... Of Course, That Plan Fails When We RUN OUT OF NORTH to Move To...

He recommends Americans go to Canada and Alaska to avoid disasters Like Hurricanes in New Orleans and Wild fires in California. GOOD PLAN, for about TEN Years... and then we simply run out of NORTH when we are all living on the poles... Can't go any further than the North Pole and when that becomes Uninhabitable... Extinction... Hey, maybe he's looking at his own lifespan and making a plan for ten years is excellent when you are OLDER THAN DIRT... We need to get all the Old White Men out of Running the Government and Industry. We have a limited Knowledge Base and CANNOT THINK UP A SOLUTION to problems that we caused... I Know... I am an old white man and... Thinking up NEW ideas simply does not happen to Elderly People... Look at Rock Musicians like Pete Townsend... He hasn't written a song in 30 years... I haven't written a song in sixteen years... I had a really creative period in the 1980s and the early 2000s but the well has gone dry... WE NEED YOUNG PEOPLE TO THINK UP NEW PLANS for solving these problems... I remember that when I was a kid we drove all over the place just to hear another Grateful Dead Concert... All that driving around CAUSED air pollution that caused Climate Change. NO, It's not the oil companies that are to blame... it's the people buying gas... It's people driving driving driving on vacation and every day to work. What IF we moved the OFFICE Closer to home? Then commuting to work would be shorter. What IF we just filled all those empty shopping malls with light industrial factories?

What about a Cultural Shift? Car races would be NO LONGER FUN if everyone knew that extinction was caused by driving. Who would want to go to the Daytona 500 or Indianapolis if Cars Were Not Socially HIP? I remember that on Friday and Saturday nights they had car races at the Fairgrounds in the Summer. I could hear them and they sounded like angry bees. Definitely a Bad Sound. AND YET, people were buying tickets to go to the races... ABSURD! The sound is the sound of death. Chainsaws also sound like death. Leaf Blowers sound like death. Motorcycles Sound Like Death. and they all smell like death... Just attach a hose to your car's tailpipe and force the exhaust in thru a window that's rolled down two inches... turn on the engine and sit inside with all the other windows rolled up. That's a standard way to commit suicide. In a larger view... We are All in a closed system... the atmosphere of planet earth is just like the inside of a car with the windows rolled up. We are pumping pollution into the air... Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide... totally fatal if breathed in sufficient quantities... Burning Coal to make electricity releases Fatal Exhaust also. WE NEED TO USE LESS ELECTRICITY until the time when it is all generated by Solar, Wind, Hydro and BIOMASS. Biomass uses waste wood, sawdust to generate electricity... It is important to get rid of that waste somehow... and Biomass power plants are better than putting it in the City Dump. Use less electricity by simply turning the light switch off when leaving the room... Just like your mother taught you... What if we had Motion sensor lights everywhere? Lights come on when people are in the room ONLY. What if we removed HALF of the streetlights? What IF we unplugged all those transformers that power our modems and computers and televisions and phones? Transformers GET WARM even when the machine they are powering is turned off. WARM? WHY? There is A Coil of wire sucking up alternating current all day every day... it's used to convert 110 volts AC to 12 volts DC... But you pay for it on your electric bill even when you are not using it! Computer GEEKS call the Wall Warts. Plug them all into a power strip with a switch and when you are done, flick the damn switch... You Planet Will Thank You...

What IF Amazon, Microsoft or Warren Buffet pays a Billion Dollars to invent a Better Air Conditioner? Everyone wants to be cool in the Summer and Every Air Conditioner Uses a LOT of Power... I read that the Univesity of Singapore is doing groundbreaking research... WHAT IF we behaved Smart? Invest in something Useful? Stop inventing new Drone Bombers... There is no need to find a faster way to kill people. Lockheed, Raytheon and General Atomics are Merchants of Death. NOW, a Raytheon Employee is Acting Secretary of Defense... Wow, Obvious Corruption or WHAT!

I see TV advertisements for Brand New Giant Trucks and Insurance and... I just laugh... I don't own a car... I'm not going to buy one anytime soon... It makes no difference at all how wonderful the tailgate on a truck is... I don't care, I don't Care, I don't CARE, I JUST DON"T CARE! Limu-EMU? Nope... Not My Bird...

Trumpnik Steven Miller questions if the Words on the Statue of Liberty are Valid Anymore. Maybe they made sense when Irish Peasants were coming to America but... Now those people have Brown Skins and Doesn't that change everything? Yes, we welcome immigrants from White Countries like Slovenia but... People that don't speak English? NO! Walk South... That's what CZAR Donald the First Recommends. CRAZY. What we should be doing is welcoming immigrants and helping them integrate into American Society. Help the find Jobs and places to live and teach their Children how to speak English... The SECOND Generation does very well in the USA. Witness the Success of the HMONG and Vietnamese. The Success of the Germans and the Poles. The Italians and the Puerto Ricans...

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Photos of Where I Live in Orangevale, CA - and the Swamp Across the Street... Part of my Daily Morning Walk to Admire the Open Space Preserve.

Photo of Where I Live.

Photo of the Swamp Across the Street.

Photo of the Swamp Across the Street.

Photo of MY Tree - Dry and Thirsty - Late August in Orangevale, CA

I Call this MY TREE because I Look at it Every Day.
It's Right Outside My Bedroom
Where I do Exercises on the Back Porch.
It Is DRY and Thirsty. Normal Drought in August 2019.
Chicken Coop on the Left.

Don't tell Facebook where I Live... They Think I'm in Oxon Hill, Maryland... and I haven't lived there since the 1990s... but as a Matter of Policy, I Lie to Facebook whenever possible... I Don't Use My Real Name... No Phone... Etc... No Photos of my Pretty Wife... Basic Security! and Put a Piece of Duct Tape over the Camera on Your Computer... People can Watch You...

Solar Powered Drinking Water Systems Could Simpy SOLVE Southern California's Water Shortage. Convert SEA WATER into DRINKING WATER... Cheaper Than Piping Water from the Sacrament River in Northern California to LA.

These solar-powered water purifiers can produce 30,000 gallons of water per day... This is "Off the Shelf" technology that people can simply Buy and Install... Purifies Water including Water from the Ocean... Why Not Install MANY of these Machines on Camp Pendleton near San Diego. There is PLENTY of Unused Land... and plenty of Thirsty People, Animals, Gardens, Swimming Pools...
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/quench-water-solar-powered-water-purifier/

HOW TO BUILD A SOLAR-POWERED WATER PURIFIER
BOOK: Solar Power Your Home For Dummies, 2nd Edition
By Rik DeGunther

Using the sun to purify drinking water is a great solar project for the do-it-yourselfer. A solar-powered purification system the size of a microwave oven can yield up to 3 gallons of purified drinking water on a sunny day.
https://www.dummies.com/home-garden/green-building/how-to-build-a-solar-powered-water-purifier/

HEADLINE: Standalone system to produce drinking water via solar energy
by Asociacion RUVID

Researchers from the University of Alicante's research group in applied electrochemistry and electrocatalysis have developed a standalone system for desalinating and treating water through electrodialysis. The system is directly powered by solar energy and can be applied in off-grid areas.

Designed only for desalinating water, it is a sustainable, eco-friendly technology powered by solar photovoltaic panels in a CO2-free process, thus not contributing to climate change.

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-standalone-solar-energy.html

Mount Shasta - Panther Meadows - Sacred Spring Water - Summer 2014 - Almost No Snow, Drought let me drive all the way to the end of the road...

A Sacred Mountain.

as far as you can drive... Mike Jensen and my Ford Windstar

Arranged Rocks on Mount Shasta

Trailhead Rock Sculpture

On the way UP...

Mike Rode a Bicycle down from the mountaintop.

He says it was really cold riding down due to wind chill.

Holy Water

Our Motel - Nice People Work There

Drive North on Highway 5 and take exit 737, Mount Shasta City

Mt. Shasta Lore

Indigenous people from Northern California and Southern Oregon are primarily the Pit River Indians, Modocs, Wintu, Karuk, Hupa, Shasta and Yurok tribes.

Mt. Shasta’s peak has been used as a spiritual and geographical locator. At 14,179 ft. elevation and an active volcano, Mt. Shasta towers above all other surrounding mountains. Native people do not reside on Mt. Shasta because it is considered so powerful. Spiritual ceremony is conducted in areas below the timberline and when finished, the surroundings are returned to nature, with nothing left behind. Medicine men and shamans are often taken to Mt. Shasta for training. There is much Native lore telling how the mountain has healed through prayer, songs, dancing, doctoring and through nature. The mountain yields a sacred spring and areas for collecting plants and herbs for ceremony and healing. The mountain is called ‘grandfather’ as it represents the paternal grandparents of the Pit River Tribe. Their powerful spirit called Mis Misa is said to live inside the mountain and serves to keep the universe in balance. They consider Mt. Shasta the beginning of all life and the end of all life, where one can ascend into the sky along the Milky Way to the beyond.

The Native peoples report many tunnels within Mt. Shasta. The Wintu say the mountain generates sound that provides information and guidance. The Wintu lore says another realm exists inside the mountain and access might come through doorways, such as vents in caves. Mt. Shasta must be approached with great care and respect as it is guarded by certain spirits. Mt. Shasta is so powerful that only short visits are appropriate. It is said that “It has it all”. During ceremony, the Wintu frequently hear and know the presence of the “little people”, called the Mountain Boys, who live deep within the mountain. A shaman can communicate with the little people. The shaman also uses the bubbling brook on the mountain to gain spiritual information.

When visiting the mountain, silence is important for meditation and fasting. The mountain spirits command respect.

METAPHYSICAL LORE

As early as the 1880s, writers began their association of the lost continent of Lemuria with Mt. Shasta. Even though these theories cannot be proved, the power of the mountain remains supreme. People worldwide visit Mt. Shasta to be close to its spiritual energy, to meditate, to communicate with the spirit world and to be healed. The concept of Lemurians living within the mountain has become widely popular and anyone visiting Mt. Shasta will be amazed by the abundance of literature on the topic as well as practitioners working within the vortex of an important spiritual community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Mount_Shasta

Solar Desalinization Project - Makes Pure Water, Salt and Electricity.

When the Steam cools, it falls from the sky as rain.

Create distilled water with this giant Solar Desalinization Machine. Black Pipe to be at least One Foot Diameter. Steam condenses into rain. Climate Change Cooler, Wetter. http://vandergreg.blogspot.com

Solar Desalinization Project

Solar Desalination would change Seawater into Steam + Salt + Electricity. Generate pure Water for plants, livestock, drinking, bathing, washing cars or creating perfect ice cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks... Since this is distilled water, there maybe there is a way to bottle it and sell it to factories or Nestle... It could be the base for a series of beverages with natural flavorings... fennel for a licorice taste or cinnamon, nutmeg, tea, lemon peels etc. etc. etc.

Please share this information... If we built a hundred of these Solar Desalination plants all along the coast of California, Oregon and Washington we could create a moist rainy climate downwind. Much better than wildfires.

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http://vandergreg.blogspot.com/2015/08/solar-desalinization-project.html

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom asked for Ideas about what to do about California's Drought... I emailed this to him at:
http://www.gavinnewsom.com/contact/