DRANT #273: AS THE WORLD BURNS

Please- send this to everyone who drinks water, or knows someone who does.
I have printed a very short excerpt below, but please --- read this in its entirety. The information and the message must be read, and disseminated everywhere.
The destruction of our living environment is the single greatest threat facing us- which may explain why it is largely ignored by the major media and major political parties- not to mention most of us, as we live out the few years left to us and our grandchildren.
Read this as if your life depends on it.
Thanks,
DR
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How Dry We Are
A Question No One Wants to Raise About Drought
By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174863/as_the_world_burns

Georgia's on my mind. Atlanta, Georgia. It's a city in trouble in a state in trouble in a region in trouble. Water trouble. Trouble big enough that the state government's moving fast. Just this week, backed up by a choir singing "Amazing Grace," accompanied by three protestant ministers, and 20 demonstrators from the Atlanta Freethought Society, Georgia's Baptist Governor Sonny Perdue led a crowd of hundreds in prayers for rain. "We've come together here," he said, "simply for one reason and one reason only: To very reverently and respectfully pray up a storm." It seems, however, that the Almighty -- He "who can and will make a difference" -- was otherwise occupied and the regional drought continued to threaten Atlanta, a metropolis of 5 million people (and growing fast), with the possibility that it might run out of water in as little as 80 days or as much as a year, if the rain! s don't come.

Here's a little summary of the situation today:

Water rationing has hit the capital. Car washing and lawn watering are prohibited within city limits. Harvests in the region have dropped by 15-30%. By the end of summer, local reservoirs and dams were holding 5% of their capacity.

Oops, that's not Atlanta, or even the southeastern U.S. That's Ankara, Turkey, hit by a fierce drought and high temperatures that also have had southern and southwestern Europe in their grip.

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