Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Worldwide Water Shortage

I read the article Worldwide Water Shortage On Horizon. I learned that by 2025 more than half the nations in the world will have freshwater stress. By 2050 as much as 75 percent of the world's population could have freshwater scarcity. To fix the water shortage dilemma the US will need to use all water sources.200 different scientist from different countries said the most concerning issue with the world today is water shortage. Humans have access to 0.8% of the earths water. The demand for water within the next two decades is supposed to increase 40%. This shows their is not going to be enough water to support our needs. Water is not only a demand for people to drink but it takes 1,000 tonnes of water to create a ton of wheat. Their is simply just not enough water for our worlds needs.

Dry Falls and Sun Lakes WA

Monday, June 9, 2008

NOT ALL WET

In many regions of the world water is getting short.An article named "not all wet" says that " Of a population of roughly 6.1 billion, more than 1 billion lack access to potable water" meaning that plenty people don't have access to potable water around the world especially regions where rain doesn't come that often.The article also says that approximately 5 million people die each year from poor drinking water,poor sanitation or dirty home environment. This is important because the vital liquid for life is no longer safe no more.Instead of bringing life it takes it away.Dirty Water

Osama bin Laden

Bin Laden is the founder of Al Qaeda in 1988 during the to consolidate the international network he established during the Afghan war. Its goals were the advancement of Islamic revolutions throughout the Muslim world and repelling foreign intervention in the Middle East. After the first Gulf War, Al Qaeda shifted its focus to fighting the growing U.S. presence in the Middle East. In 1991 bin Laden moved to Sudan, where he operated until 1996. During that time, Al Qaeda established connections with other terror organizations. Al Qaeda has been involved in several terror attacks. Their most devastating attack on September 11, 2001. When 19 Al Qaeda operatives hijacked four passenger planes and drove two into the Twin Towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon. A fourth plane did not make it and crashed in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attack.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Dawn of a thirsty centuary

The worlds water is salty but only 2.5% of it is not. The people that drink the water and dose not clean will probably get an infection or they will get sick. They are people that drink water like that and some get some ugly long worms that they come out of there feet. So its important that we clean our waters so we wound get some weird diseases . Then in this world we have a lot of water and then we have floods.

Richard Reid

On February 16, 2002, Richard Reid was a British passenger on the Boeing 767 tried to light a fuse to his shoe. He packed enough explosives in the sole in his shoe to blow up to blow a hole in the fuselage of the aircraft. His plan though did not go through because a woman began screaming getting the attention of two flight attendants, who quickly restrained him with belts and sedated him with drugs that was in the med kit on board. He was taken into custody right away. It is alleged that Reid received training at camps in Afghanistan run by al-Qaeda because the bomb inside his shoe was a very sophisticated one said to be one of the many favorite method al-Qaeda likes to use. Both FBI and French law-enforcement sources say that there were palm prints and hair on the shoe that didn't belong to Reid that includes that he must of had help.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,203478,00.html

Drought declared in California

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state wide drought for California. There are already some communities in California that already have mandatory water saves. Governor Schwarzenegger has ordered that we speed up water transfers to the worst places with the shortages. Some people think that it won't effect them because they have enough money to get water or because there not poor they don't have to worry bout it, but what they don't realize is that soon its going to effect everybody and that we all are going to have 2 share our water very carefully and be cautious about how much they use.

Drought Declared In California

Gov. Schwarzenegger has declared a state wide drought in California, duo to the dry climate and lack of rain, the gov. has directed State Department of Water Resources to help speed the water transfers to areas with the worst droughts, he also addressing locals, and business to cut back on water use, since many communities in California are now resorting to rationing, many crops aren't going to be producing crops at the end of the year duo to lack of water, which is a waste of billions of yearly dollars that wont be produced so this water shortage is pretty serious.