LETTER WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 2070.

[The letter was published in the magazine "Crónicas de los Tiempos“, in April 2002]

This is the year 2070
I have just turned 50,
but I look and feel 85.
I suffer from serious kidney problems, because I do not drink enough water.
I’m afraid I do not have much time left to live.
I am one of the oldest people in this society.
I remember when I was a child of 5.
Everything was very different.
There were lots of trees in the parks, houses with beautiful gardens,
and I could enjoy having a shower for half an hour.
Nowadays we use towels with mineral oil to clean our skin.

Before, women had beautiful hair.

Now, we have to shave our heads to keep them clean without the use of water.

Then, my father washed his car with water
coming out of a hosepipe.
Now, my son does not believe that water could be wasted that way.

I remember there were
SAVE WATER
warnings on outdoor posters, radio
and TV, but nobody paid attention.
We thought that water was to last forever.
Now, all the rivers, lakes,
dams and underground water beds
are either dry or contaminated.

Industry came to a standstill, unemployment is sky high.
Desalination plants are the main source of employment
and workers receive part of their salary in drinkable water.

Assaults on the streets for a can of water are very common.

Before, it was recommended an adult drinks 8 glasses a day.
Nowadays, I am only allowed half a glass.

We now have to wear disposable clothing,
and this increases the amount of litter.
We are using septic tanks, because the sewerage system does not work for lack of water.
All the people look horrible: wrinkled due to dehydration, full of sores caused by ultra violet radiation, as the ozone layer is almost gone.

Skin cancer, gastrointestinal infections and of the urinary tracts are the main causes of death.
Due to the excessive drying of the skin young people of 20 look like 40.
Scientists have no solution to the problem.
Water cannot be produced, oxygen is not sufficient due to the lack of trees and vegetation, and the intellectual capacity of the younger generations is severely impaired.
The morphology of spermatozoa in many men has changed.
As a consequence, babies are born with deficiencies, mutations and physical deformities.

The average life expectancy is 35 years.
Water became a very coveted treasure.

Any green zones crossed by rivers are guarded by armed soldiers.
Where I live, there are no trees, because it seldom rains. If it does, it is acid rain.
We were warned to look after the environment, but nobody cared.
I tell my son about the green fields,
the beautiful flowers, the rain, how we swam and fish in the rivers and dams, drinking all the water we could, and how healthy people were.
He asks:
Daddy! Why there is no water?
Was I guilty ?
My generation destroyed the environment. We did not heed the warning signs.
Now our children pay a very high price!
Soon, I think, life on earth will not be possible,
as the destruction of nature has reached an irreversible stage.
How I would like to go back and make mankind understand…

……….that we still had time to save our Planet Earth.

*All such words need to spread globally. Words must be backed up by actions.

The World of Water Charity needs a lot more practical support so if you can help in any way, contact us.

Let’s get together fast to make sure the letter above is NEVER written :

Please think of Waterlife and your Water use everyday.

Please SUPPORT the educational work of our  Charity; visit our DONATIONS page  at:  http://www.thehobb.tv/wow/donations.html

No Clean Water – No Life.

<*))))))><
Grant
World Clean Water Campaigner

World of Water. Registered UK Charity No. 327188

All people of all Nations, make clean water your passion. For without it we will perish. Do not let greed, ignorance, lack of care, shortage of resources or weakness bring about the death of our race through the destruction of the present environment.

We people of the World often tread uncertain of our position with each other, but we must ever be certain of our relationship with the countless millions of species at work balancing Nature on this blue planet – all co-existing as one Earth, with one shared supply of water which must remain clean for all.

World Clean Water Campaign

As I search through the information on other regular topics, I always collect some ENVIRONMENTAL information in addition, as the environment is obviously unavoidable wherever we go. The following web pages were found in my recent search for information on CHEMICAL-MANUFACTURING.

The following site can help you to obtain the contact-details of any CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS in the world. You might at any time be interested in one of those who are considered particularly kind (or otherwise) to the ENVIRONMENT.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/chemcomps1.html (VIRTUAL LIBRARY)

(The Virtual Library is always useful for “scientific” information.)

The following site contains a lot of USEFUL LINKS, categorised as follows: INTERNATIONAL SITES, INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS, PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (e.g. World Health Organization, International Conference on Harmonisation). Some of them cover serious regulatory matters and controls on quality. You will find it very useful to have such an informative list of “educational” links.

http://www.pqg.org/information/committee.php (THE PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY GROUP)

The following ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY web pages are also available.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru/resfinds/gjsr-06.asp (SCOTLAND’S GREEN JOBS STRATEGY REVIEW)

http://www.envirobiz.co.uk/Website_files/Intro_to_EBC_and_team.pdf (A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT) (EBC)

http://www.uwtc.tay.ac.uk/Site/aboutUWTC.htm (THE URBAN WATER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE) (UWTC)

On the subject of WATER, there is a wide variety of GOODS and SERVICES available on the following site.

http://www.water-waste-environment-marketplace.co.uk/category.asp?f=226&r=15&id=12&ix=0
http://www.water-waste-environment-marketplace.co.uk/category.asp?id=12

In the WATER-WASTE-ENVIRONMENT-MARKETPLACE, if you find any of the items listed particularly worthy of mention for any reason whatsoever, please do not hesitate to inform us.

The EDIE website offers a wide variety of ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS and SERVICES.

http://www.edie.net/

EDIE, Faversham House, 232a Addington Road, South Croydon, Surrey, CR2 8LE
Tel : 020 8651 7100, Fax: 020 8651 7117, ISDN: 020 8651 1471
MAP: www.streetmap.co.uk

ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY PRODUCTS AND SUPPLIERS (TRAINING AND LIBRARY SERVICES ALSO AVAILABLE)
http://www.edie.net/contact.asp

The following words appear on the website.

“For general comments/feedback please use our FEEDBACK form at http://www.edie.net/feedback/index.asp”

“Check out EDIE’S recommended list of useful and interesting SITES. These start with internationally relevant sites, and then move on to country specific sites. This section will gradually be expanded with high quality links – all suggestions are WELCOME.”

http://www.edie.net/links/index.asp?channel=0 (EDIE LINKS)

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.

Hello again Grant.

The following list of organisations and addresses came my way recently while I was looking into GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES in Tamil Nadu, India. Some of them include WATER-SYSTEMS and the others are based on similar ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.

GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU, MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION AND WATER SUPPLY DEPARTMENT
TAMIL NADU URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT – II
http://www.tn.nic.in/tnudp/feedback.htm (CONTACT FORM ON SITE)
OUR CONTACT Project Director, TAMIL NADU URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT-II
Ezhilagam Annex, Canteen Block, II Floor, Chepauk, Chennai 600 005.
Telephone: +91 (44) 8516718, Fax: +91 (44) 8516651
http://www.tn.nic.in/tnudp/

CENTRAL GROUND WATER BOARD SOUTH EAST COASTAL REGION
Rajaji Bhavan, Besant Nagar, Chennai – 90.
Phone: 24914494 Email: cgwb@tn.nic.in
http://www.cgwbsecr.tn.nic.in/ (LOG-IN FOR FORM AND FEEDBACK)
http://www.cgwbsecr.tn.nic.in/default.htm

AQUACULTURE AUTHORITY, Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture, Shastri Bhavan Annexe, (Second Floor), 26, Haddows Road, Chennai – 600 006, Tamil Nadu (Phone:+91-44-28216552)
Fax +91-44-28216552, Email: aquaauth@vsnl.net
http://aquaculture.tn.nic.in/feedback.htm (CONTACT FORM ON SITE)
http://aquaculture.tn.nic.in/notification.htm (WATER POLLUTION section included.)
http://aquaculture.tn.nic.in/

“THE ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (ENVIS) Centre (of the Department of Environment), Tamil Nadu, Chennai has been established under the ENVIS – Environmental Management Capacity Building Technical Assistant Project (EMCBTAP) of the Ministry of ENVIRONMENTAL and FOREST, Government of India, to facilitate generation and dissemination of information on various facets of ENVIRONMENT of Tamil Nadu.”
http://www.envis.tn.nic.in/

District Informatics Officer, NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE, Chennai District Unit, District Collectorate, 32 Rajaji Salai, Chennai-600001

GIS DIVISION – NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE, E-2A, Rajaji Bhavan, Besant Nagar, Chennai-90
collrchn@tn.nic.in

CENTRE FOR WIND ENERGY TECHNOLOGY (An Autonomous Research & Development Institution under the Ministry of NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES), GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Velachery – Tambaram High Road, Pallikaranai, Chennai – 601 302
Phone : +91-44-2246 3982/ 2246 3983 / 2246 3984, Fax : +91-44-2246 3980, E-mail : info@cwet.res.in
(RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT and GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS are listed.)
http://www.cwet.tn.nic.in/

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.

Books, Web sites, media, leaflets, posters, meetings, talks – all part of the mix. Do you know any great writers?

All best wishes

Grant of the HoBB
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Tue, 12 Apr 2005, 11:54 – John C. Jones TO GRANT AND JAN
TO GRANT AND JAN

What about the idea of BOOKS, as suggested in my message of April 2nd?

Best Wishes.

J.
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Sat, 2 Apr 2005, 12:12 – John C. Jones TO GRANT AND JAN

Hello again gentlemen.

General standards of literacy are very low in the U.K. and people do not read or write as often as they might. Do you not think that our work would be a lot easier in many respects if THAT problem were also seriously tackled at the same time? Simple education paves the way for a wider knowledge of all aspects of life (perhaps), so people’s behaviour might alter drastically if they educated themselves a little through reading.

Perhaps you could publish some SIMPLE books on the subject of WATER, so that the public might also practise reading from them.

There again, perhaps you couldn’t. Please let us know. The suspense is killing me.

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.

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Tue, 29 Mar 2005, 12:12 – John C. Jones REPLY TO JAN AND GRANT
REPLY TO JAN AND GRANT

Hello Jan, Grant and friends.

As we are all in favour of “good water for all”, perhaps you would like to give us your ideas on strategies which you think would lead to such a situation. Given that everyone in the world must surely be in favour of ALL action in this direction, how should we actually go about solving the problem on a world scale, even if we DO have the technology and the resources?

If we do NOT have them, how can we combine our ideas to overcome that aspect of the problem?

By combining our ideas here in this Forum, we can generate more useful debate on the subject of water and we can actually do something about improving its quality on a worldwide scale. As soon as we agree on a strategy, we can get on with the work, perhaps. What has prevented this from happening up until now?

I find your interest very encouraging. This topic should be high on the world’s agenda.

J.

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Sun, 27 Mar 2005, 11:48 – Grant of the HoBB
REPLY to John C. Jones

Drop by drop is the only way to educate a World that has been influenced, drop by drop, by too many ‘off track’ messages.

We are no longer ignorant of the harm we are doing to the environment.

Evidence exists everywhere to show where we are developing in an uncaring manner. People like Jan de Koning and Dr. Ed Ramsey (See below) are working to solve problems but we must all work to solve global problems, together.

I am a great devotee of ‘people power’ but all the people of the world need to work as ‘one’ on common interests. CLEAN WATER is a common interest as the world shares the very same water supply.

~~~~Grant of the HoBB~~~
~~~~ ~World of Water ~~~~

There is no plug at the bottom of the Sea to let out the dirty water, yet every day we wash muck off our lands into our shared sea.

There’s no new supply of ‘fresh clean water’ being delivered to planet Earth – we have to keep that which we have, “clean”.

MORE >>
http://www.thehobb.tv/postings/000112.php

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Sun, 27 Mar 2005, 11:32 – Grant of the HoBB
REPLY to Jan de Koning

Marketing is always a “drip feed” process. Drop by drop the message gets around and those inventions that need to surface, will do.

Networking is always the best way of marketing, and often the most unexpected results can come from contacting strangers and making them friends.

You could say hello to Dr. Ed Ramsey of ‘Critical Solutions Technology Ltd. (CST) for his company is in the process of making many ripples around the World thanks to his device that detects potentially harmful pollutants in the World’s Water Supply.

His web site is: www.critsoltech.com

I Chair the Reg. UK Charity, “World of Water” (No. 327188) always promoting individuals, companies and organisations to KEEP WATER CLEAN.

All work to clean-up water is vital. We also need to adapt to better water-saving lifestyles and there are many manufacturing processes that need improving so that they do not produce pollutants.

The work needs to be done.

Water must remain clean to provide a habitat for water-life.

As all life depends on clean water, ‘Water-Life’ includes humans. This is the Natural Law we cannot ignore.

Gran

MORE> See the Water Lore Project
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Thu, 24 Mar 2005, 13:55 – Jan de Koning

Folks thanks for all the reactions.
About the impurities in water in general.
We developed indeed a system to clean industrial wastewater without adding additional chemicals !.
This very simple and effective technology meets a lot of resistance from powerfull organisations and nobody can expect from us that we fight the world.
So we have to stick to our re-invented solar still and that in itself is already difficult enough to get on the market.

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Thu, 24 Mar 2005, 12:12 – John C. Jones
REPLY TO GRANT

How can we educate the world in this respect?

J.
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Wed, 23 Mar 2005, 08:54 – Grant of the HoBB
REPLY TO JOHN

True John. There’s plenty of water about.

A lot of this water is made un-useable and un-drinkable.

“Water water everywhere but none of it I’d drink” This surreal concept of low quality and high quantity is becoming all too common. Most pollution takes place with the blessing of Companies and their shareholders for it would be a drain on profits to spend on the needed “clean-up” processes.

We all contribute to the problem, most, unknowingly. Those that willfully pollute, break the laws in many Countries but such criminals have to be caught early and by ‘early’, I mean during their school years.

Education is the key. We need to teach all to understand that “caring” is not an option, it is a requirement.

The topic of Water is the world’s largest one that cannot be swept under the carpet and needs to be tackled in a holistic, world-agreeing’ manner as we all share the same supply. It may be the first single topic that brings the world’s countries into an agreement that is logical to keep thus illogical and unlikely to be broken.

No country is ‘thick’. Only a Country that aims for short term gain at the expense of the environment would pollute. The products from such a Country could be blocked from trade if the World Community was strong enough to act-as-one over an issue so vital as this clean Water one.

Grant
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Tue, 22 Mar 2005, 12:01 – John C. Jones REPLY TO GRANT AND TO JAN

It seems to me that the problem can be solved in one way only, and that is for humans to stop polluting water in the first place.

Only then can we go forward to the matter of supplying it to every living being that needs it. That seems actually to be the less difficult part of the problem to solve.

Let us have more ideas please.

Best Wishes,

J.
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P.S. Sat, 19 Mar 2005, 14:22 – Grant of the HoBB

And, Jan de Koning, if you can invent ways to stop impurities entering natural (clean) water supplies, this would be most welcome as the REAL Solutions needed for the planet are holistic ones.

It is wonderful to produce drinkable water for human consumption – it is magical to ensure the water environment is in a fully usable state for the entire water life of this Planet.

More best wishes to you and your team,

Grant

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REPLY to Jan de Koning (Sat, 19 Mar 2005, 14:17 – Grant of the HoBB)

Jan, your Company, Zonnewater Ltd., only exists because there IS a problem. You have designed a way to de-salinate water but you have not designed a way to de-pollute it yet. I look forward to your next innovative solutions for your work is clearly moving in the right direction.

Thank you for your contribution to this web site. You may be interested in ensuring that information about your product is lodged with the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Wales.

Best wishes from Grant

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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, 10:29 – Jan de Koning wrote:

There is no global water issue!

If there is sun and a water source (salt,brakish) plus some cheap and simple materials you can make pure fresh water ANYwhere.
See for pictures and details http://www.zonnewater.net