Comments on: Peter Gleick warns that world faces a water crisis

By: tsenbeya

tsenbeya — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:16:37 +0000

I have read few of your write ups but find it difficult to download, why do you have to put so many restrictions on your publications? Or is it by the publishers?

By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:25:50 +0000

If the gigantic size of global human population could be a primary driver of the global ecological challenges that loom so ominously on the horizon before humanity, when can the leaders of the human family be expected to focus upon this leviathan. It appears as if the skyrocketing growth of human numbers is, in and of itself, a clear and present danger to the human community. Billions more human beings, who strive the way the self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe among us do so recklessly now to conspicuously overconsume and relentlessly hoard Earth’s limited resources, could soon ruin our planetary home and its environs as a fit place for human habitation by the children and coming generations. If the leaders of the family of humanity willfully refuse to acknowledge this primary threat to human wellbeing and environmental health in our time, how can human beings with feet of clay be expected to address and overcome the challenges?

If sensible discussions of what looks like the proverbial ‘mother’ of all global threats to the future of children everywhere and coming generations cannot be openly and honestly held in Copenhagen, would Mexico in 2010 be a better place and time?

If not here-now, if not next year in Mexico, then when?

By: no thanks

no thanks — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:41:28 +0000

the way i see it. theirs more water on the earth than anything.

By: David Bross

David Bross — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:44:51 +0000

Competition between civilizations, countries, tribes, etc. for desirable resources is nothing new.

What has changed is that nuclear weapons now give many countries the ability to render much of the planet uninhabitable in less time, and with less effort, than it takes the Amish to raise a barn.

This time in history is unrivaled. Never before have so many been at risk from so few. I see resource shortages not only as an immediate danger to those in need of the resources, but also as a match to light a global nuclear conflagration.

By: Richard Kathmann

Richard Kathmann — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:34 +0000

Thank you for Peter Gleick’s comments on water purity and water scarcity. I’m writing from the northwest Catskill Mountains, New York state, where our abundant fresh water is under threat from the natural gas industry’s intent to pursue hydraulic facturing of the Marcellus shale layers beneath us.

Each fracture event at each well consumes three million gallons of water and each well is fractured multiple times. The prospect of pulling hundreds of millions of gallons of fresh water from our streams, lakes and acquafers is obscene, even before we consider that the fracturing compound contains toxins. And that this waste water has then to be stored and processed.

There is also the prospect of the hyraulic fracturing compounds directly polluting acquafers as the well pipe descends through them.

Threatening one scare resource, water, for another scarce resource, energy? We’re not thinking clearly.