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Water is rarely found in nature as simply H2O. Pure H2O water is like a magnet for properties of minerals, salts, nutrients and matter. It's anomaly point is at 'four degrees celsius' which means when water is one gram it is one cubic centimeter. In either direction from this point of 'four degrees celsius' water expands unlike other liquids that condense more as the liquid gets colder. This is the reason why we have ice floating above the cold waters. The colder it gets below 'four degrees celsius' the more it expands and becomes less dense and solidifies into ice. This anomaly point of 'four degrees celsius' has a very crucial importance in many aspects of nature and of the balance of the earth.
As we have created millions of acres of agricultural land in the last few hundred years we have taken away much of our forests and the oxygen it gave the earth. Victor Schauberger was aware of this problem in the thirties when he observed the workings  of water. Most aquifers are around 'four degrees celsius' and also the waters that levitates up mountain streams emerging at 'four degrees celsius'.
When the warmer rain water falls unto the forests cooler earth, the expanded water seeps into the earth to eventually settle into aquifers or groundwater. Without the forest the land is often much hotter then the rain water and forces the dense water to drain across the land to creeks, rivers, lakes and eventually to the ocean which is where it is no longer fresh water and is often many miles from the water's natural destination in the land. This is a simplified explanation for one of the reasons that we are facing major desertification around the world.
Monoculture for the most part has replaced biodiversity and great amounts of pesticides and fertilizers are used. In vast near-coastal areas and in semi-enclosed seas the water itself has been rendered sterile. The problem is nutrient pollution, the smothering deluge of sewage, manure and chemical fertilizers from land-based activities.

The amount of water used in agriculture is far higher than that used for any other purpose. In many countries with little or erratic rain, irrigation is vital for food production. But the heavily engineered disruption of rivers which has characterized the development of irrigation agriculture in the past 75 years has produced a long catalogue of ills: displacement, water logging, salinity, over dependence on water-guzzling crops, and economic inefficiency.
When water is used to grow food in an arid region, it causes  the land to be over-tilled. Then the soil breaks up into fine particles and blows away in the wind, leaving parched land and drought. The situation becomes worse when land is extensively irrigated without proper drainage. All water contains some salt and irrigation water that is not properly drained leaves salt residue. This salt builds up and makes the land unusable for farming. Salinity has effected a fifth of the world's agricultural land, each year it forces farmers to abandon a million hectares of farmland.
Our water officials talk in terms of volumes - crop volumes, water volumes, land-under-irrigation volumes - and assume that every technical problem merely awaits a technical fix.
Desertification now covers 8.9 billion acres in more than one hundred countries, reports the FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) and the situation is getting much worse. Irrigation for crop production claims 65 to 70% of all water used by humans. Much of this 65% should really be considered industrial, since modern factory farms have very little resemblance to community farms in any part of the world. Industrial farming notoriously overuses and wastes water. Ground water mining actually permanently reduce the earth's capacity to store water.
The cost of losing  American farmland because of the depletion of aquifers is over US$400 billion every year.

A number of influential institutions, including the United Nations, Worldwatch Institute, the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, and the World Bank have documented world water scarcity in detail.
Put in economic terms, instead of living on fresh water income, we are irreversibly diminishing fresh water capital. At some time in the near future, we will be fresh water bankrupt.

We live on a small planet in reference to the shared waters in and on the ground and in the winds around the earth. We are eighty percent water, all life depends upon water. Seventy percent of the earths surface is covered with water and 97.5 percent of that is salt water. Almost three quarters of the freshwater is frozen in ice caps. Consequently, more than one third of the world's population, that is 2.4 billion people, has no access to clean water.
There are numerous examples of disease and extinction that the water issue is causing. We have polluted, redirected, misused, mismanaged, we have attempted to control and change nature rather than observe and copy her. Is it working? What are we doing?

Planners in China estimate that a given amount of water used in industry generates more than 60 times the cash value of the same water used in agriculture, and political leaders have responded by diverging more and more of China's rural water sources to its burgeoning industrial base.
According to International Water Management Institute, a quarter of India's grain harvest could be lost in the near future because of aquifer depletion.
China, the United States, India, and Pakistan account for more than half the irrigated land in the world, and all are experiencing increasing problems with drought, desertification, topsoil erosion, and water shortages.
The world Resources Institute reports that two-thirds of all agriculture land worldwide has been degraded in the last 50 years, and many practices that are damaging to farms also have disastrous effects on the world's fresh water systems.

Humans have taken away a large portion of the forests and consequently the oxygen necessary for life. We have filled the atmosphere, the land and the waters with substances alien and detrimental to their nature. We have built technologies that work against nature, namely 'hot explosive energy systems' rather than 'cool implosive systems'. (a topic for a future enewsletter) Blind and ill-intentioned governments and corporate greed are combining forces and accelerating the pace at which water is being poisoned and lost.
Desertification is growing at an alarming rate; scientists, spiritual leaders, people all over the world are trying to educate themselves and others about this life extinction problem.
What Can We Do?
Many community groups, farmers, scientists and environmentalists are working on proven alternatives. Check out your community, ask questions, become aware of the problems we face with water around the world.
As an Example:
Fertilizers are applied in large quantities and not all is incorporated by the crop. On average, plants take up about 30 to 50 percent of nitrogen, 7 to 15 percent of the phosphorus and 30 to 50 percent of the potash. The remainder ends up in the atmosphere, the ground water, run off to creeks, rivers, oceans, and some becomes stored in the soil. This is not to mention insecticides and all the other problems involving various chemical use. Statistics are proving that we have no choice but to change our methods. The message is growing in every corner of the earth, 'wake up'. No one is excluded from this responsibility. Everybody can help in their own way.
Synthetic fertilizers are very highly water soluble. For example, a 6-24-24 means that there are 6 units of water soluble Nitrogen, 24 soluble units of Phosphorus and 24 soluble units of K(potash). Upon coming into contact with the soil which has moisture, most of this 6-24-24 will be released within the first 30 days. Some of this solution will volitize while most of it will run off with the first heavy rain. The crop generally needs the bulk of it's nutrients when it is heading into the reproductive phase. So very little of the nutrients that were applied as fertilizer are even available. Contrast this to more sustainable methods such as soft rock phosphate which has a very low, slow sustained release throughout the whole entire growing season. Consider as another example, greensand which is high in potash but again releases at a very slow rate
There are other methods: Biodiversity, organic sustainable farming, common sense farming, there is a ton of information out there and many companies are attempting to do the right thing and still make a living in the process. Bio-ag is one of those companies and we have many alternative solutions to numerous agricultural problems.
I will write more on this topic in the future. Anyone interested in my sources or any other information that we can share, please get in touch with me. I have created a web site all about water which is in the process of evolving into a more specific information source called Waternature.com. Please visit.

Sincerely.
Patrick Wey

Sources:
Living Energies by Callum Coats (Victor Schauberger's brilliant work)
Sandra Postel of the Global Water Policy Project
Blue Gold by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
No Nonsense guide to Water by Maggie Black
The Water Crisis by Julie Stauffer

Future Water Articles:
Water in it's Molecular Stage

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