I can feel the globe tilting on its access. Tho its still cold by QLD standards, the sun is hitting the valley earlier, the radiant warmth is showing up and spreading it’s joy earlier. The chilled wind still blows from the SouEast. A bit of rain has fallen. For the first time in 2years my water tanks are not 100%.
The average bear in the woods knows little about water-management. Even though a large percentage of the planet survives on/ with water that is caught, collected, stored, managed. Rain attachment is a very common method of water management. My farm survives primarily on rain catchment. We do have a ground-water system reticulating through the property, but the houses survive on rain water caught and stored in a number of large, 20,000litre/ 5500gallon tanks.
Coming from the Solomons I know about rain catchment, water management, and water usage. I have experienced prolonged drought conditions, I have survived without immediate access to fresh water, had to travel daily to collect and carry fresh water home, I learned to bathe in the ocean using a specialised salt-water soap.
Water is life.
And, after a couple years of tanks overflowing, I shall go out today and manage my water. Balance the water levels between my 3 main tanks.
The average bear in the modern woods knows little of water other than you pay the monthly water-bill, you have all the water you need, all the time, without interruption.
This is emblematic of our modern world vs the old style/ undeveloped world… let me check for some stats… from https://ourworldindata.org/what-no-safe-water-means
In the time it would take me to write the next sentence, I could get up, walk to the kitchen, and pour myself a glass of clean water. I’ve never had to worry about whether that water would make me sick. Almost six billion other people in the world share this reality. They have safe drinking water in their homes, ready whenever needed. That still leaves two billion people without. That’s the most important number in this article: two billion people who don’t have safe water to drink. But these large numbers can seem abstract. It’s not clear what this means in practice. If people don’t have safe water, what are they drinking? What does it mean for their daily lives?
So we are being told 1 in 3 humans on the spinning globe do not have access to safe, clean, fresh water resources.
In a way I think these numbers are a bit off… I’d suggest the access to water that is safe and clean is a bigger issue than this. But, I digress. 1 in 3 is a significant. Even though, I would have thought half the population experiences some form of fresh water crisis regularly, consistently.
The article referenced is, in my humble opinion, reporting on a specific “project”. I am skeptical of the numbers. I’d need to do a deeper dive into it all to agree or disagree articulately.
Suffice it to say:
Water is life….
I’ll come back from my wet tangent…
The world today is still as stressed and tense and confused as it was yesterday. I am still seeing meaningless memes that influence for the wrong reasons. That are designed and developed to mislead. One I shall pick up is the Israel/ Palestine sadness…
History is very static here, in the discussion of a “Two State Solution”.
What does a two state solution mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution The two-state solution is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, by creating two states on the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. It is often contrasted with the one-state solution, which is the establishment a single state in former Mandatory Palestine with equal rights for all its inhabitants. The two-state solution is supported by many countries and the Palestinian Authority.[1] Israel currently does not support the idea, though it has in the past.
The 2 state solution was originally considered in 1937. Since that time the “solution” has gone through several iterations and Palestine has rejected or withdrawn from every proposed solution.
Israel is reportedly the evil empire here, and is causing the angst and suffering. BUT, Palestine has rejected every proposal, or broken every agreement over the past 88 years. The blurb above is biased in the obvious: Israel currently does not support the idea, though it has in the past.
Technically false. Noting well Palestine has never accepted any agreement to down-arms, play nice, live together in peace.
I struggle with some of the on-line info I discover. I find much/ most biased. A large % is biased in an anti-Israel way. The Palestinians have been granted the status of victimhood. Thus the global bleeding-heart brigade cries poor Palestine, poor Palestine.
I love how the propaganda machines of the planet pump the Palestine-is-good music into our headphones. Even though we know, KNOW, neither side in any conflict has clean hands. If Palestine was truly good they would have released their hostages ages and ages ago, or not taken any at all, ever.
If Palestine was truly good they would not hide in and around and under civilian facilities. Nor would they spend megabucks building tunnels, preparing for war, if they were truly good. If they intended to be peaceful.
I think of the bombing of Dresden… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden
Dresden was an industrial area and there is much discussion that the act was not war, but rather a war crime… Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden was a cultural landmark with little strategic significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and were not proportionate to military gains.[13][14][15] Some claim that the raid was a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden
And my point: in such conflict there are no clean hands…
Time to check my dogs…
Nia’s pups are gorgeous…
More later
The Native Iowan 
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