It’s The Water Baby The Water!

Yesterday the news was full of stories about the condition of the Colorado River. That river provides a water source for 7 of the western states. The river is down to a twenty year record low. That low is about to force those 7 states into reduced water availability for 40 million people. There are national implications for food growers in those seven states that will affect us all.

In 2016 when I commissioned the study oh what Michigan needed to be doing to plan for the future the authors of the report were very deliberate in pointing out how Michigan’s future was in enextricably tied to the water in the great lakes. It was projected that within 10 years the world would be facing a water crisis. It would appear that the crisis is showing up early.

95% of the US fresh water supply resides in the Great Lakes region. How does it effect Michigan if national water shortages force us make Great Lakes water available to the rest of the country? As a candidate for Governor I talked about the importance of creating a plan for our water resources. We still lack such a plan.

Just last week I appeared on Charlene Mitchell-Rodgers radio program on 910 am with Adam Hollier,one of the candidates for the 13th Congressional District seat. The subject of Enbridge Line 5 came up. Adam supported allowing Enbridge to build a replacement pipeline encased in a tunnel in the Straits. The US Coast Guard as said that if there were a major spill from line 5 they had no ability to contain it and more importantly that there was no way they could quantify the economic damage that a spill would have on the states economy. Young Mr. Hollier didn’t seem to understand that Enbridge has less than a stellar record of telling the people of Michigan what they need to know. There should never be a replacement for line 5 built in the Straits. The risk significantly outweigh the benefits.

We’re going to have new Congress people going to Washington next year. Those Congress people have got to put the question of water on the table. We can’t wait 🙌 until the last minute to come up with a workable plan for the future. There’s far to much at stake. Our access to food supplies have already been impacted by inflation and logistics. We need to be prepared in the event the water becomes an even bigger issue.

Pay Attention!
Think!!
Eyes Wide 👀 👁 Open!!!

One Response

  1. Bill Water will be the next Gold. Every Apocalypse Movie even shows it as such. We need to pay heed to this Planets needs and remember there is only one Earth. Politricksters don’t think 💭 out the box until they are headed into one before their demise. We need to ignore these Folks and keep the Planet safe from them by going so far as imprisonment for violator’s and stripping them of they’re wealth. This lesson will ring a loud bell 🔔for the rest.