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	Razor Shellfish Habitat Destruction

		The breeding grounds of the Pod Razor Shell (Ensis siliqua) are under attack from commercial gatherers who use mechanical diggers to churn up beaches at low tide, harvesting these shellfish for fishing bait.

This type of habitat damage is going largely unseen as tides quickly hide the outward look of such destruction leaving the beaches looking flat again. But beneath this calmed crippled sand the complex beach structure has been wrecked leaving its subsurface habitats with the long job of recovery.

ACTION: Look out for any destruction you see along the World's freshwater and sea water shorelines. Get together with other members of your local community and 'adopt a beach' so that you can monitor it, care for it and work to keep it a clean natural wildlife habitat for healthy living and for your enjoyment.

ACTION: If you come across anyone over taking Natural wildlife stocks with little or no regard for how Nature will ever replenishes these stocks, encourage them in every way you can towards a 'farming' solution to meet their requirements - you may even be able to help them if you are interested in their business. If these people continue to disregard your solution, gather together the evidence that they are causing unacceptable stock depletion and habitat damage and present them with this evidence. If they remain uncaring, work towards using existing laws or forming new laws that will stop or adapt their business. If you live in a Country where such laws are too slow or too difficult to action, appeal to the World Community and its media. Also email environmental organisations around the World like 'World of Water' and spread the word - your aim is get 'noticed' and get 'results'.

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	Blue Planet - the Future Blues

	Today, we proactively search for universal problems before they occur.

		In the recent history of the World, problems have been tackled in a reactive way - as they have occured.

-Through ancient recorded history, many have tried to warn of problems they somehow knew would arrive. Even nowadays in the English Language, we still have the saying "I can feel it in my Water" which describes this intuitive feeling.

In prehistoric times, we imagine that few saw global problems but many feel that we have always had within us, the ability to 'feel the wider picture'.

ACTION: Tomorrow, as our future encroaches, we will all be able to share the World's Problems, so long as we keep talking about them. You can get to know about 150 people, but you can communicate with millions on the internet so take personal action now and get to know people all around the World that care for this planet. Build your ACTION team for your future.
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ACTION: It was great to see the Blue Planet as first photographed from the Moon's surface by the Apollo Astronauts. In the years ahead we will all face many more great happenings, some fantastic and some tragic. Problems need fixing, that's why they show themselves. On this Blue Planet all the time, through every challenge, water will have been within us, around us and working alongside us, since the beginning without end, and on to the end without beginning.

However to reach out for this great Future, we all need to enjoy being part of the same Solution - Clean Water. Help the World Clean Water Campaign by mentioning it and this site and to all your friends. We need everyone to join so check your membership here .


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"They say my work is just a drop in the ocean.
I say the ocean is made up of drops."
(Mother Theresa)


Water Sport Safety at Sea

		Water Sport Safety should concern the Sport, not the cleanliness of the Water but that's not always the case.
	The latest news from Surfers Against Sewage and Clean Ocean Foundation shows that we all need to direct our concerns more towards ensuring the sea remains clean and safe for Water Sports.

Sea Pollution is out to overtake us and win the race to dominate the sea unless we stop it now. In the effort to clean up freshwater and make sure the land is not contaminated by the waste products and pollution we all generate, the not-so-worldy-wise dumps on the sea and dumps on the sealife therein. Surfers, Scuba Divers, Holiday Makers, Seafood and other Water enthusiasts end up swimming in the muck - there's no plug hole in the ocean floor and it all builds up.

The Sea needs to always be a great living larder and if we kill it, we're all dead ourselves.

'World of Water' say, keep it all clean, stop chucking the muck and wasting resources by creating pollutants. Pollutants are by-products that nobody cares to use because it's too much trouble or not economically viable. Yuck! We say, 'make the effort', be innovative - invent better ways to do things that don't create the waste in the first place. If we do thing efficiently on this Planet we can run a World Wasteless Society.

ACTION: Work to stop those that dump sewage, pesticides, industrial waste, oil, radioactive waste and every other kind of waste in YOUR local Sea or Freshwater Larder.

We all depend upon the sea remaining clean and we all want the Sea to be clean. We want clean seafood and all sealife wants a clean home. It is no good hoping or praying that chlorinated biphenyls or stuff with more catchy names like zinc, lead and copper will magically steer clear of entering the complex seafood chains and get into all our expanding supermarket chains.


	INNOVATIVE THINKING IN ACTION : Bishop's Castle / Spearhead local Wasteless Movement : http://www.wasteless.co.uk

Good for "Surfers Against Sewage" but we must all be against sewage pollution.

Is there a group called "Fisherman and Sea Food Lovers against sewage"? If not, start one.

What about starting "Beach Walkers against sewage"?

We also have to do this for the wildlife that depends upon clean unpolluted water - they cannot do it themselves and start up ...
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"Fish against sewage"; "Plankton agaist Oil Spills"; "Shellfish against Toxic Waste"

Humans all - the buck stops with us for what we do.


	HERITAGE examples angling records aqueducts archimedean screws barometers, natural baths boilers bottle washers bottled waters bridges brine baths


	buoys canals catchment areas cisterns clepsydra conduits dew ponds drains drinking supplies


	drinks earth closets fens ferries field springs fishing foot baths fords fountains

Water Heritage
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'WoW' have outlined the need to survey, catalogue and preserve our Water Heritage for the active enjoyment and education of all.

'Water Heritage' includes items, land, buildings, water environments and data, used to support and promote the understanding of this finite solution.

Project goal
To create global focal points around 'Water Heritage' and use these points to promote understanding of Water and its valuable role in everyday life.

ACTION: The Lord Mayor of Birmingham launched this project at a Special Exhibition and you can help 'WoW' by funding, donating or suggesting any neglected items/ sites which you consider are fundamental to our inseparable relationship with water through the centuries. Contact us for our growing list of examples of the Water Heritage all around us.


	Splashback COMMENT

	Once water was seen as 'special' for its magical powers and it is understandable why some 'hard-line' leaders of the past destroyed wells and forbad the 'worship' of water spirits by water cults. In those Medieval days it was all about securing "brand" loyalty for the strongest deity but now we are 'civilised' we can all see how 'magical' clean water really is! In most developed areas of our World, Water has a way to go before it's clean and is kept clean and usable without artificial treatment. The question remains, "if nobody wants it to become unusable - who's polluting it?" Well sadly, we all are! Although there is no substitute for clean water, and though it is the most valuable part of life, it is not being regarded with the same awe, reverence and respect it once had before the Industrial Revolution.


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HOBOGEN
Imagine producing totally 'clean' electricity.
Imagine having no further need to destroy fossil fuels.
Imagine there being no need for nuclear fission power stations and mile upon mile of wind turbines.

If we can imagine it, we can work on it and make it happen but we need to support those with inventive minds and practical ways who are working to secure better energy.

For example, there is a LARGE MASS / low flow, underwater power generation system that consumes no raw materials. It HAS BEEN invented as is called 'Hobo-Gen' (USA Patent No.5,324,169.)

'Hobogen' is relatively new. It is not wave power. It harnesses the energy of 'tides' pushed and pulled daily by the Moon's gravitational forces.

Each day the moon remains in orbit, it creates more energy potential than all the energy we have EVER created by burning fossil fuels, capturing wind power and operating nuclear power stations.

INNOVATIVE THINKING IN ACTION :
Oil from algae group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oil_from_algae


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		Farming the Waters

	It has been suggested that the Beaker Folk in late Neolithic times, practised Fish Husbandry and someone emailed us claiming that the Carthaginians were the first fish farmers in 500 B.C. Well, we're up for any staggering suggestions - and evidence.


	AND .... If you come across specific references to UK Medieval Fish Farming I am sure that both Jane Bryant and Richard St. George, fellow researchers, would love to hear from you.


	INNOVATIVE THINKING IN ACTION : Aquaculture in desert conditions : http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=4079




	Above: Our work for the Albert Weedall Centre for The Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind. Charity No. 516477


	Blind to the World of Water

		Whilst working on a project for the Birmingham Royal Institute for the Blind, we were asked whether slightly contaminated water was really such a big thing or did it just look unsightly on the surface.

The biggest problem is that water contaminants build up 'unseen' by most of us. Pollution is growing daily but rarely 'surfaces' for our eyes to witness. For example, millions in the World die from cholera by drinking water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio comma, but none of them see their killer before they drink.

None of us walk around with microscopes or have any extra 'second sight' allowing us to detect water pollution but there are some things we can do. All of us can work towards keeping contaminants out of water. We can stop contaminants 'escaping' down the drain by not buying them, or by recycling them, or by finding an ongoing use for them on land.

The natural water cycle has always filtched soluble mineral salts away from the land and into the Sea - it has been doing this gradually since the first rains began to fall. However, homes and industries now contribute toxic wastes to this growing sea cocktail thus ever more component materials are gravitating seaward. This draining away needs to stop quickly.

At this rate, all eyes will be on the Seas and the value of the World's Water before long but the true value of the seas is for their food and oxygen production. Once again, we can't see the quantity of oxygen created by the Worlds phytoplankton anymore than we can see the total production of oxygen by plants on land, but we do know that without a living sea, all oxygen dependant life on land would soon die. If you have any figures for this, send them in to us for inclusion here.

The longer we allow the sea to grow into a cesspit of consumer waste, the harder the job to do anything about it because what the sea takes she holds. We must stop pollution and stop turning a blind eye to our wasteful lifestyles. We can see this here at World of Water and so can you - so who is it on OUR planet who is blind to this? Is it your neighbour?

ACTION: Take a look around you. Get to know what's going on in your area. Get our Campaign message out on the streets, into all homes, into all minds and into the history books as one of the Great Campaigns that helped create a healthy Tomorrow's World for all creatures great and small.


	INNOVATIVE THINKING IN ACTION : NEWS OF YOUR ACTIONS should be included here so send them in to us and together, we'll surround the planet in betters ways that will hold water. We'll highlight those pushing this Planet into deep water and we'll throw cold water on ideas that are not in the best interests of tomorrow.

Clean Sea Water

The major constituents of clean sea water are:
Boron
Bromine
Calcium
Carbon
Chlorine
Fluorine
Hydrogen
Magnesium
Oxygen
Potassium
Sodium
Strontium
Sulphur




	Above: Our Ancholme Centre work for the Personal Growth, Development and Adventure of People with Profound and Multiple Disabilities


	Water as Healer
	Without water we would never heal. Without water, there would be no life to heal. Having said that, those in need of healing must avoid water drawn in the vicinity of sewerage outlets because muck does nothing to help heal anything, especially any surrounding wildlife - so why do we muck around with Water and Life itself (?)

Water does more than promote our health, it allows health to exist. But our relationship with Water needs to be two-way. For our part, we need to ensure that we do not make waters unhealthy and we need to bring unhealthy waters back to full health.

Water cannot provide for our health if we make it ill through our social and industrial growth. All countries and all people are involved.

It is impossible to divide water up due to the World Water Cycle which puts it all in the same mix. You, your family, your friends and everyone on Earth share the same water so if anything has the chance of creating unity of purpose across all Nations, it should be the maintenance of our single joint water resource.

Dr.D.C.Jarvis, in his best seller Folk Medicine (Pub. W.H. Allen), writes about the Sea saying "Every element necessary for life is present everywhere, and the living animals and plants of the ocean select what they require. Sea foods are capable of supplying all the elements necessary in our foods". But this is only the case if the great ocean growing grounds and the water cycle are kept free of contaminants.

As human habitats cover more land areas and populations grow, future generations will depend more upon the harvest of the sea for their nutritional thus health needs.

All food, including that grown on land requires clean water. The World Clean Water Campaign is about healthy survival - survival for all people in all lands. It's a Campaign however that needs to be won for the health of every species, everywhere.


	'It is impossible to look at the World's Water as lots of separated lakes, seas, rives, wells, springs and ponds because after time, it all goes round and round. The water in aquifers under the Sahara and the melting ice caps are part of the same gradually revolving water cycle'.

	'The Sea contains all the mineral salts the human body needs for its well-being. The composition of seven gallons of sea water and that of the human body is almost identical'.


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	WoW COMMENT :

Forced Crops


	World of Water promotes 'Understanding'.

	As an Environmental Charity, we are often asked about our views on food, especially crops that are 'forced' e.g. inorganic crops, GM crops, hydroponic crops, pesticides on crops and artificial fertilisers for crops.


	World of Water campaigns for clean water supplies for all wild food, all farmed food and for all life contributing to the entire World foodchain.


	Cut the population growth to quit the stress.

	We campaign to keep water clean throughout the foodchain. To feed our developing over-populated world, some profit-hungry farmers stress out land and water farming systems thus contaminate the water cycle. This is not the recipé for long-term success.

	We sent this answer (below) to one of our young enquirers which might be of interest here: " Healthy clean food for all is vital. The food itself needs to be 'healthy' and live a healthy life too, whatever the crop. ACTION: You can help. You can stop buying food that is subjected by farmers, food processors, industrialists, legal permits and hunters to an unhealthy, stressed, low quality second class life before it's culled. To do this, you need to discover more about your food, where it comes from and how it is produced. Once you have the information, only you can decide how you feel about eating it. Decide your own food ethics."


	WoW COMMENT :

ENERGY


	During the World dash for oil, coal, gas and everything else that ignites, we have stayed warm and cosy. We have also killed people and a lot of the environment in the process. The 'World of Water' Charity receives many questions about energy and the environment and our position is best summed up by the following passage:

	"Over-stressing this Planet puts our Future at risk. Every generation uses the tools and materials they have to hand but we will never reach infinity by exploiting finite resources.

	Without the destruction of some of our Planet's fossil fuel reserves, industry would never have developed the skills to manufacture wind turbines, fuel cells, solar panels, nuclear fission, hydro-electric schemes, nuclear fusion and the internet.

	Tomorrow however needs to be different. We all need to follow the Sun and the Sun's example.


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Water Watch

ACTION: Support the "Tidy World Campaign". If there's no need for a 'Tidy World Campaign' in your area of the Planet, perhaps you and your neighbours naturally respect eachother. If you do, then you probably have respect for all creatures great and small in your neighbourhood. What you've got in that case is special and it's this good attitude we need to culture, Worldwide, we must keep things around us habitable for life, for ever.




	"There's no place to dump stuff apart from our own Planet Doorstep - neighbour. What goes around comes around. The good guys are the ones working to make things clean. The good guys are the ones working to stop waste developing. The good guys are those who care about their neighbours. The bad guys are the ones who die and leave behind them the trash they dumped for new generations to clear up. The bad guys are dumping on your children's future happiness. The really bad guys don't care.

Our good friends over at R.O.R.E. put it this way, they say "We all live Downstream" and it's true that everyone living downtown, down city, down state and down country are all downstream of eachother in this single World of Water.

It's the Planet we've got for now, and until it burns up in a few billion years. This is HOME for all of us and our children. It's home for everything we depend upon - the crops - the raw materials - the water - the air. The list goes on till it covers everything.

There's something in the air and it's a new understanding. We're all understanding more about the changing environment and how we've been dumping on it for so long.

Old Splash and Grab Policy

There was an old splash and grab policy. Once, it allowed humans to take whatever Nature provided. And we grabbed and we grabbed.

We grabbed coal, gas, oil and timber.

We grabbed wild plants and animals and ate them.


	ACTION: The way forward is to keep improving farming methods and carefully manage all the wild stocks we may require.


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