Is this a message from the year 2070AD

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.

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Grant
World Clean Water Campaigner

World of Water. Registered UK Charity No. 327188

Hello again Grant.

As always, your words are a pleasure to read. It is wonderful to witness the determination and dedication with which you carry out your work.  “World of Water” charity  certainly deserves everyone’s support and the underlying principle will continue to occupy a place in my mind, as it has done for as long as I can remember.

“As we are” is most definitely no solution and there are millions, even billions, of us who are well aware of that fact. Unfortunately, too many people resign themselves to thinking that nothing can be done to improve the situation. I will never be one of them, as I KNOW that a lot can be done. The “solution” reveals itself to me moment by moment, as it also does to you. The truth will always reveal itself to those who pursue it so unwaveringly.

The apparent difference in our basic viewpoints is actually the result of nothing more than the frailty of language. As is the case with many of the tools at our disposal, it can be both helpful AND obstructive. Consequently, I will always favour TELEPATHY and I prefer to let a person’s ACTIONS reveal the thoughts being expressed.

Even though I like the idea of a COMMON STRATEGY, I most definitely share the view expressed by your words “As each of us search …………….. to do the greatest good for all.” (I would use the word “impossible” instead of “unlikely”.) This can be explained as follows.

I have observed the effectiveness of adopting a strategy which is NOT understood by all, but which is designed by someone whose knowledge and sincerity is respected and accepted by all. Rather than spend time trying to understand the reasoning behind the ideas involved, people can then simply follow the recommendations of the chosen leader. Some might call this concept a “benevolent dictatorship”. Whatever they call it, I have seen that it gets the job done and that is good enough for me. I have never been a supporter of the so-called “democratic” style of debating, arguing and discussing every tiny detail of the plan to such an extent and for such a long time that almost nothing ever actually gets done. I see THAT method of operating as merely a game designed by those in power in order to prevent effective action from being taken. It seems far more sensible to me to allow the leader in any given field to simply issue instructions. Everyone seems to agree with this idea of a common strategy in times of “agreed emergency” when ACTION needs to be taken urgently.

You must have noticed that few queries arrive here asking for suggestions on what to do to improve the quality of WATER-SUPPLIES WORLDWIDE. You are obviously the person who knows and cares about this matter more than anyone else here. Consequently, I am of the view that far more would be achieved if most other people abandoned their own unsuccessful strategies and followed YOUR recommendations (or those of someone else that you might care to suggest).

We could all ADOPT that strategy as the COMMON STRATEGY without wasting time arguing over whether the underlying reasoning was correct or otherwise.

You are well aware of the fact that I am not in the habit of asking someone to tell me what to do. However, I do recognise the fact that there ARE some people in the world whose knowledge and sincerity are sufficient to prompt me into breaking that habit occasionally.

This and my previous message are in no way intended to influence your method of operating. I am merely taking the opportunity to write something on a topic that is of great interest to me. I will always support your continuing efforts.

Whilst remaining very interested in the condition of the planet and the benefit of its population, I am happy with the thought that the universe will continue to cope, with or without either of them. They are only tiny specks in the infinity of existence.

That thought suits ME. It might not suit anyone else and I do not expect anyone else to understand it.

Best Wishes for ever.

The one and only J.
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COMMON STRATEGY. Comment to John from Grant

“As we are” – is no solution.

The ‘solution’ is that which we find as we seek it.

As each of us search in a different manner and as we all process our findings in an equally individual way, it is unlikely that a common strategy will be born of all, understood by all and actioned by all.

It is the few who see the greatest picture that must drive their hearts to do the greatest good for all.

Where there is WATER, life,
where there is LIFE, hope
where there is HOPE, strength
where there is strength, – FUTURE

(A North American Indian Proverb)
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John C. Jones
REPLY TO GRANT

Hello again Grant.

I could not agree more than I do with your main point. Care for other people and the environment come from the same area of awareness and they are actually inseparable. The one automatically leads to the other, whichever of the two we start with.

I also try to avoid aiming criticism at others, based on the same “plank and splinter” principle that you so aptly quote.

However, we can all do no more than our best and one man’s best efforts are sometimes equal to another man’s worst.

A fully-grown weakling can sincerely make a great effort when lifting what even a small child might be capable of easily lifting.

Is it not true that the mere mention of ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS will at least stimulate others to join the “debate” (if it can be termed as such)?

We are all a part of the “master plan” and we all have our own particular role to play. Consequently, we must all try our best to understand those whose intellect is not in the same condition as ours.

As I have written previously, I feel that our “movement” would benefit from a COMMON STRATEGY so that all your supporters could focus their efforts in the same direction, as our common “enemy” does.

In my view, that is the biggest hurdle to be overcome — the lack of a COMMON STRATEGY.

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.
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Posted by Grant

Whilst organisations throw words at other organisations, the problems within our World of Water do not lessen.

This reminds me of the saying :

Take the plank out of your own eye before you take the splinter out of another’s

The journey we all have to take is the one within us – the one that is pushed aside too often by matters of commerce and achievement.

The World will only improve when individuals do their best and care for the environment and their neighbours as they proceed.

<*))))))><

Grant
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John C. Jones
GENERAL INFORMATION

A report just published by the environmental charity WWF-UK suggests that the government is actually doing very little to alleviate the problems of climate-change and damage to the environment.

http://www.wwf-uk.org/core/index.asp

http://www.wwf-uk.org/news/n_0000002053.asp

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.
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John C. Jones

REPLY TO GRANT

Hello again Grant.

I am sure that every thoughtful person on earth will support your efforts when your work receives sufficient publicity. I am merely one of those who have already chanced to find out about your “WORLD OF WATER”. Eventually, the whole world will be aware of what you are doing to try to educate us all. I can only add further words of support to what you have just written.

The word “business” should mean only that (i.e. being busy, doing something useful). The concept of “growth” (per se) is, by definition, unsustainable, as there is a point at which it becomes nothing but “growth for growth’s sake” (i.e. because it sounds good to the listening public). For example, should we continue building roads until the whole land-mass of the planet is covered by them? The answer is that we obviously should not. Similar reasoning can be applied to a vast number of industries.

To live without a struggle, all people have the same basic requirements. We all need sufficient food, shelter and clothing. Having provided those basics, who can claim to be suitably qualified to decide what we should do next (i.e. what businesses we should run)? Who can honestly say that he (or she) has the master plan? Would it not be a good idea for everyone to stop for a while and have a careful think about it?

Those in power have not yet even defined the aim of all this “developmental” activity. Consequently, they propagate the concept of “economic growth”, as if it is part of our “natural law” and, therefore, beyond question. What has this policy brought us, other than war, illness, pollution, traffic jams and the like? Do the benefits really outweigh the detriment? Would an unbiased viewer from another planet be able to comprehend the underlying purpose of all the so-called “economic activity” that takes place on earth? Are we all working long hours just for the sake of it? Can no-one think of anything more interesting to do?

There is no need to offer a prize in order to obtain the correct answers to those simple questions.

Until the whole world has been provided with SUPPLIES OF CLEAN WATER, how can anyone in power claim to be civilised and making progress?

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.
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Thank you John for your support (By Grant)

Business must get down to business and the business of the day is ‘growth’ but we can’t allow “growth at any cost”.

I really don’t want the “truth” of the matter to hit the World in the eye or trip it up in anyway. The reality of our situation on this Planet is plain … this is our ONE shared home.

We break its balance and we all get it in the neck no matter what our belief systems or attitudes may be.

I do not want “time to tell”. I have no wish to “wait and see what happens” whilst I can see what it happening NOW.

Eyes fully open we’ll go forward… eyes partially closed, we’ll trip up
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John C. Jones
REPLY TO GRANT

Hello again Grant.

Breaking the rules of conformity has proved to be necessary over the years in man’s desire to make real progress. As you suggest, it always makes me smile when I see what little attention is paid to this pressing question of WATER and other environmental issues.

The pursuit of monetary gain is the very cause of the problem. People need to be educated into understanding that PRIORITIES must be reordered if progress is to be made in this direction.

When everyone agrees on the need for nothing but environmentally-friendly activities, the problem will be solved independently of the money available to anyone.

This planet existed perfectly happily for a long time before the invention of money.

Thank you for your continuing determination to make people aware of the truth.

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.

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Grant of the HoBB

The Trustees of WoW have just been given the opportunity to add a Financial profile to the new Charity Commission supported site called www.guidestar.org.uk

For me, personally, I feel that a ‘charity’ should give help and to really help, it needs to give time and effort.

I duly wrote a WoW-style Financial Profile and uploaded it to the Guide Star Site thinking that their webmaster would remove it for breaking the rules of “Conformity”. I haven’t checked to see if it’s still there.

For those who can’t wait to read the profile, here it is:
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WoW Financial profile
Introduction :
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We are a Registered Charity and each time we receive a donation, it helps us to promote our message further afield into the hearts of more and more people across the World. Whilst we do not jangle collecting tins in the street, we do have a verified paypal account (Click button and bottom of our Donations Page)

We also need you to donate your “caring” – a priceless gift that will not show up on a balance sheet but will help to keep the World in balance.

We need you to donate your “support” and there are lots of ways you can help. We need the support of everyone from the business ‘gurus’ in London to the villagers on the poverty line along the banks of the River Ganges. It will take the support of everyone, to bring about the sea change required to keep this planet fit for purpose – sustaining quality life.

MONEY donations to our Charity
If you wish to support us in the future, send a promissory note or email to us at World of Water, stating how much money you would like to donate. We will hold your note and work with you to discover the sort of projects you will ENJOY supporting. For us, it is so very important that people see and experience direct results from their donations and do not “donate to a growing pot of general funds”.

There was a song that went …. “Money makes the World go around” – at World of Water we know that the energy comes from a stronger spirit and it is THIS spirit we all need to invest in, to maintain perpetual long-term sustainable growth.

There is no doubt that money oils much of the 21st Century workings. There is no doubt that money has flowed to built that which we see around the World’s power houses today, including the fine web site at Guide Star, but the guiding star we are following is the one that helps ALL lifeforms for we realise that money alone will not come up with all the required cache.

Thank you for your support, at all times.

<*)))))))><

Grant

More on our main Donations page

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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

On May 13th,  I emailed the following list of websites in reply to a query on IRRIGATION, WELLS and RESERVOIRS.
http://www.gefweb.org/ (GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY, FUNDING FOR PROJECTS)

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/ (UNITED NATIONS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT)

http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html (SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, LINKS)

http://www.water-people.com/ (“PROVIDING PEOPLE FOR THE WATER INDUSTRY”)

http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/hydro.htm (JOBS IN WATER SCIENCES)

http://www.waterjobs.co.uk/ (STAFF PLACEMENT IN THE WATER SECTOR)

http://www.groundtechjobs.com/ (GLOBAL LINKS, ENVIRONMENT AND WATER)

http://www.deb.uminho.pt/fontes/enviroinfo/conferences/upcoming.htm (ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SOURCES)

http://www.iisd.ca/upcoming/ (LINKAGES, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT)

http://www.civil.ubc.ca/faculty/Chieng/Chieng.html (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA)
E-MAIL chieng@interchange.ubc.ca (DR. SIETAN CHIENG)

http://www.thewateracademy.org/news/index_Mayn.html?keyDocument=165 (THE INTERNATIONAL WATER ACADEMY)
E-MAIL thewateracademy@thewateracademy.org

http://www.vigyanprasar.com/comcom/develop46.htm (THE CENTRAL WATER AND POWER RESEARCH STATION, PUNE, INDIA) E-MAIL director_cwprs@vsnl.in (MRS. V. M. BENDRE)

http://earthtrends.wri.org/ (WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE, EARTH TRENDS, ENVIRONMENT)

http://www.serd.ait.ac.th/ (ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, THAILAND)

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.

A company named SOLAR TWIN, based just outside Wales, is offering an interesting product for providing homes with hot water by using SOLAR POWER. You will find more information on their website.

http://www.solartwin.com/

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.

Hello again Grant.

I found the following information while looking for something about ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT.

This opening paragraph attracted my attention, from the “World of Water” point of view. (I quote from the site.)

“A FREE service based at HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, OEIS gives information about publications and meetings dealing with: oil and gas exploration and production; offshore health, safety and environmental protection; resources of the seabed and renewable energy; and marine technology. OEIS is made available via EEVL, the Internet guide to ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS and COMPUTING.”

OFFSHORE ENGINEERING INFORMATION SERVICE (OEIS)
Heriot-Watt University Library, EDINBURGH EH14 4AS (e-mail oeis@hw.ac.uk)
Tel +44 (0) 131 451-3579, Fax +44 (0) 131 451-3164

I found a wide variety of useful information on the associated web pages, so these two web addresses will probably be sufficient:.

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html SUBJECT LAUNCHPAD FROM HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY

http://www.eevl.ac.uk/engineering/index.htm LINKS FOR ALL TYPES OF ENGINEERING (Environment, Sustainability etc.)

WATER, RAINWATER AND BIO-ENGINEERING are also covered. Please see the following site.

http://www.eevl.ac.uk/engineering/engbrowsepage.htm?my_tree_id=568&action=Class+Browse&leafdata=361&my_tree_parent=1&browsestart=568 (FOR BIO-ENGINEERING)

This next site gives information on DOMESTIC WATER CONSERVATION (Greywater, Rainwater and Other Innovations). It was released in February 2004, but most of the information is relevant today.

http://www.csa.com/hottopics/water/overview.php

That is all for now.

Best Wishes.

The one and only J.

http://www.freerain.co.uk/

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This curious Watery link was sent into us recently – you may be surprised by what you read there …. WATER may never feel the same again.

Dr. Masaru Emoto explores the potential WITHIN the very memory of its being at:
http://www.hado.net/index2.html

Any Comments welcome but view Dr. Emotos work with a very open mind – the unknown has always been a source of great wonder through history until some scientist or other discoverer starts to define it.

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.