DROUGHT, DEARTH 'a disaster in slow motion'
( includes water-issues and famine )
Apocalyptic Hope ......... Global Warming ...... Phenomenon ......
pg 2 ........... Volcanoes ............... Quakes
DROUGHT,
DEARTH
'a disaster in slow motion'
( includes water-issues and famine )
Categories
below:
Drought, Desertification, Plagues, Utilities. WATER, Genetic
Modification, Famine,
Ogallala Aquifier ( Water Table)
What will be the sign of
the end of this age ? "There will be famines, pestilences,
plagues
"--Matthew 24
"O God, thou art
my God; early will I seek thee:
my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry
and thirsty land,
where no water is. ..... Psalm
63:1
"I stretch forth my hands unto Thee: my soul thirsteth after
Thee, as a thirsty land. Selah ( think about this).
Psalm 143:6
Drought
........... caused by idolatry (misplaced priorities)
Jeremiah
50:38.."A
drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up; for it is
the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their
idols."
Haggai
1:11......1 John 5:21
US DROUGHT MAP
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/regional_monitoring/palmer.gif
General Information :
Drought / Precipitation/ Crops etc.
http://drought.unl.edu/dm/current.html
Map of US Drought Areas
National
Drought Mitigation Center http://www.drought.unl.edu/index.htm
also http://drought.unl.edu
The Drought
Monitor http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/index.html
Zechariah 10:1; James 5:17; 18 Amos 4:7; Joel 1:10-20
http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/watch/spicurnt.htm
Drought Map
USA
http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/impacts/us/usimpact.htm
NASA
DROUGHT CENTER
www.websites.noaa.gov/guide/science/atmo/drought.html
The
Weather Channel ---STORMS, DROUGHTS and MAPS
www.weather.com/homepage.html
Have
we prayed for RAIN today?
"And
he (Elijah) prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth
brought forth her fruit"
James 5: 18
Concerning Babylon-America:
"behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a
wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
Jeremiah 50:12
"her foundations are fallen" Jeremiah
50:14
"a drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up:
for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their
idols"
Jeremiah 50:38
"I will dry up her sea (water table?) and make her springs
dry" Jeremiah 51:36
"her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness
"Jeremiah 51:43
See also Zechariah
14: 17, 18
GONE WITH the WIND
Pestilence, Drought, Famine, Inflation, Rationing, Starvation,
Dust Bowl
"The field is wasted.....the harvest of
the field is perished. The vine is dried up.....
even all the trees of the field are withered.... The seed is
rotten under their clods...the corn is withered...
herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture...
fire hath devoured the pastures.... rivers are drying up."
Joel 1:10-20 .......... (David Wilkerson's WC letter
8-19-02)
What will we do without water ??
Government to control all water ( private and public ) May
6, 2008
The bill will give to the federal government
control over all water in the United States,
and control over all "… activities affecting these
waters."
From the news wire: Fair
educational use
Oklahoma Panhandle -- July
21, 2008
The drought situation is indeed exceptionally
severe: farmland is blowing away, cattle are
being sold due to lack of feed, wells are going dry and crops are
dying in the ground. This
has significant impact in two counties that are completely
reliant on agriculture production to support their economies.
Recent storm clouds brought hope, but yielded little to
no rain.
Everything here is blown away, baked or sold off,"
Brown said
"I was really demoralized
it was so awful," he said. "I wasn't expecting Lake
Etling to be dry or the country to be so
gray and dead."
But even the best conservation efforts can't make it rain.
Brown says soil tests show no moisture four inches
down into the ground. In fact there is no subsoil moisture found as
deep as six feet. Since the drought began in
January 2007, many windmills have gone dry;
others have had to be lowered and reset.
"The irrigated crops aren't making it
because although the farmers have watered and watered, the high
winds and heat are so excessive, the water can't keep up with the
evaporation rate," Brown explains. "Then if the plants
do come up, wind erosion cuts them off and kills the crop."
http://www.hpj.com/archives/2008/jul08/jul21/DroughthasadeathgripontheOk.cfm
"Spring up O well " ...
"I thirst" -- Jesus on the cross
7 States sign Colorado River Pact -- Dec. 14, 2007
States covered in the plan to operate the river
through 2026 include Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.Shortages
- Rules specify who will take reductions and when
they take them during drought.
Conservation - Rules will address the ongoing drought by
encouraging new initiatives for water conservation
The agreement is important to Colorado because it reduces the
likelihood of a call on the Colorado River by the lower basin
states.
Lake Mead, located near Las Vegas, provides water and generates
power for Arizona, California and Nevada.
The lower basin states use more than
their entitlement under the compact, while
upper basin states use only about 3.5 million acre-feet annually.
In 2003, then-Secretary of Interior Gale Norton approved
guidelines that would cut back California's use from 5.3 million
acre-feet to 4.4 million acre-feet.
The agreements reduce the likelihood of a "call" - or a
demand for upstream water users to bypass flows - during that
time. Treaty talks are also under way between the U.S. and
Mexico.
*An acre-foot equals 325,851 gallons; a million acre-feet is
325.85 trillion gallons.
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1197623941/1
43 % of Continental US under moderate to
severe drought -- Oct. 17,
2007
East, South and West
Confirming what many farmers, boaters and others already knew,
the government reported Tuesday that the drought
parching much of the West and Southeast spread into the
Mid-Atlantic area in September.
Water levels at Lake Carter,
about 90 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia, are at record lows.
At the end of September about 43 percent of the contiguous United
States was in moderate to extreme drought, the National
Climate Data Center
said Tuesday.
The agency, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, said drier-than-normal weather was also
experienced in
September across parts of the Pacific Northwest
and northern Plains.
http://groups.google.com/group/Bible-Prophecy-News/browse_thread/thread/6d056e91baf7a0e4/571e5efaaa9e7b0c#571e5efaaa9e7b0c
Drought across the US -- June 8, 2007
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2007-06-07-drought_N.htm
60% of US in drought --
July 30, 2006...
worst in the Dakotas
From Montana to Wisconsin and Arizona to Georgia
We're all wondering how we're going to stay alive
this winter if the farmers don't make any money this
summer," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060729/ap_on_re_us/northern_plains_drought
map included :
World's
Largest Aquifier Drying Up ( Ogalala-- 8 states affected ) -- Feb. 14, 2006
The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground pool that
supplies faucets across the Great Plains, is running low, forcing
farmers and towns to find other sources of water and pay dearly
for it, too.
"Out here, water is like gold," Mayor Ed Wiltse said as
he ran his hands over a chart of the town's faltering wells. "Without it, we perish."
The Ogallala is the world's largest underground water
system, irrigating one-third of the United States' corn crops and
providing drinking water to parts of Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South
Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.
It contains enough water to cover the United States to a depth of
1 1/2 feet.
But some water experts have said it is one of the
fastest-disappearing aquifers in the world.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/13855341.htm
Rivers drying up .. Mississipi River and Ohio River -- Aug 15,
2005
the worst drought since 1988 has deepened across parts of
the Midwest, low-water levels
parts of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers into virtual sandbars,
causing towboats and barges to run aground and delaying shipments
of petroleum products, coal, chemicals, agricultural goods and
road-paving materials.
The delays are threatening construction projects throughout the
region, and the higher transportation costs could ultimately make
this year's harvest of corn and other crops too expensive for
some international markets, commodity analysts and barge-shipping
officials said.
There is high anxiety that we are close to shutting down the
river," said Lynn Muench, vice president for the
mid-continent region of the American Waterways Operators, a trade
group representing tugboat, towboat and barge operators.
"This is looking as bad or worse than 1988." Her fear
was realized on Friday, when the Coast Guard ordered a seven-mile
stretch of the Ohio River closed, north of its intersection with
the Mississippi River.
The drought, which has mostly affected parts of Illinois,
Missouri and Wisconsin, has also dried up wells, caused insect
infestations and wreaked havoc on corn and soybean fields. A
government report on Friday confirmed that corn in Illinois, the
second-biggest producer after Iowa, had suffered irreversible
harm, with production down 12 percent from last year's record
harvest.
Meanwhile, some companies are stockpiling coal,
salt and sand ahead of winter, anticipating that the drought will
continue to worsen over the next month, making the rivers
impassable, Ms. Muench said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/national/15drought.html?ei=5090&en=e82043ae39b039df&ex=1281758400&partner=rssuserland&emc
=rss&pagewanted=print
and at
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/88692.php
Great Lakes totally polluted: SPECIAL REPORT ( photos, videos)
http://www.detnews.com/specialreports/greatlakes/index.htm
sewage: http://www.detnews.com/2005/project/0508/14/Z04-275436.htm
estrogen: http://www.detnews.com/2005/project/0508/14/Z04-275435.htm
toxins: http://www.detnews.com/2005/project/0508/14/Z05-275420.htm
foreign species: http://www.detnews.com/2005/project/0508/14/Z06-275416.htm
Drought in Wisconsin -- July 18, 2005
The lack of rain will more than likely push up prices for cereal
and other grain products. The last time there was a drought this
bad was in 1988, and Fischer says at this point in time the
weather is actually dryer now than it was back in 1988.
( Read More from WisBusiness.com:
WisBusiness: Dry stretch could spell trouble for farms, wineries
)
On Friday, Gov. Jim Doyle issued an executive order that allows
Wisconsin farmers to tap lakes or streams to irrigate their crops
because of extremely dry soil conditions. The temporary
irrigation permits will be in effect until Aug. 14. The last
statewide drought emergency was declared in August 2003.
With such a long stretch of hot temps, health
officials warn people to be aware of heat sickness. The first
signs of heat exhaustion are physical and mental fatigue. More
advanced signs are getting dizzy when you stand up, a cold sweat,
or if you stop sweating completely. That is when you should get
to a doctor immediately.On hot days, people should limit their
sun exposure, drink more fluids during the day, and get up and
drink water during the night if they still feel thirsty, experts
say.
( Read More: Are You At Risk For Heat
Sickness? )http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wisc/20050718/lo_wisc/2830967
Arizona Drought -- July
18, 2005
ARIZONA DAILY STAR ALONG
THE SAN PEDRO ( River) - A key stretch of the last
free-flowing river in the Arizona desert has run dry for more
than three days, for the first time in at least 75
years.
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/83944.php
Quarter-mile fissure opens up in Arizona --July 15, 2004
http://www.his-forever.com/fissure_opens.htm
Lake Mead, Nev. Worst
drought in 500 years--June 19, 2004
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Jun-18-Fri-2004/news/24128464.html
Western Drought worse than Dust Bowl -- June 18, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/06/18/record.drought.ap/index.html
Drought settles in -- April 30,
2004
That shift is shaking many assumptions about how
the West is run. Arizona, California, Colorado,
Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming,
the states that depend on the Colorado River, are
preparing for the possibility of water shortages for the first
time since the Hoover Dam was built in the 1930's to control the
river's flow. The top water official of the Bush administration,
Bennett W. Raley, said recently that the federal government might
step in if the states could not decide among themselves how to
cope with dwindling supplies, a threat that riled local officials
but underscored the growing urgency.
Part of the lake's problem, for example, dates to
a miscalculation in 1922, when hydrologists overestimated the
average flow of the Colorado River and locked the number into a
multistate agreement called the Colorado River Compact. The
compact, along with a subsequent treaty with Mexico, requires
Lake Powell to release 8.23 million acre-feet of water each year
below the river's dam, Glen Canyon, no matter how much comes in.
Electricity has become a concern. The Western
Area Power Administration, the federal agency that distributes
power from hydroelectric projects in the Rocky Mountain West,
plans to reduce by about 25 percent the amount of electricity it
can promise in future years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/national/02DROU.html?ei=5062&en=8b187efe66045d4f&ex=1084075200&partner=GOOGLE
&pagewanted=print&position= ( thanks lighthouse)
Thirsty Californians to drink the Pacific --April 15, 2004
Some 90% of California's water is piped more than 250 miles to
its consumers, the majority of it from the Colorado River. But
with that supply endangered by declining levels, rising costs and
contamination - and with memories still fresh of the droughts of
the 1970s and 1980s - attention is turning to alternative
sources.
Eighteen desalination plants are under consideration
in California, offering a possible way out of the
state's seemingly inexorable water crisis.
"God never intended southern California to be anything but desert.
Man has made it what it is," the Californian essayist and
activist Carey McWilliams quoted a visitor to the state saying in
1946. That sense of foreboding and impermanence infused much of
the state's dealings with its scarcest resource during the last
century.
The Carlsbad plant would be the biggest in the world,
producing 50m gallons of water a day, enough to provide water for
300,000 people, and to satisfy 9% of the demand for water in San
Diego County.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1190598,00.html
Drought--Water Shortages
for California
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/22/MN203356.DTL
USA South West : Lake Mead, Colorado River water level drops --
March 30, 2004
http://www.snwa.com/html/news_drought_alert.html
West : heat and drought for rest of 2004
Some Western areas are entering their sixth year of drought,
which has shriveled crops, drained water reservoirs and
sparked fires in bone-dry forests. NOAA estimated drought
had affected more than 50 percent of the West.
http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/392208|top|03-19-2004::12:48|reuters.html
Utah monitors Drought: Water levels - 2003
http://water.ksl.com/
CHINA -- 17
million without water, crops -- Aug. 15, 2006.... and Sichuan
The water level in the Chongqing section of the
Yangtze river -- China's longest river -- hit 3.5 metres (11.5
feet), its lowest in 100 years,
the online edition of state broadcaster CCTV said
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37640/story.htm
Australian drought -- July 18, 2005 ... world's driest
continent
The worst drought in 100 years
is forcing Australians to shut off the tap on profligate water
use and turn treated waste, most of which flows into the sea, into
drinking water. Some waste water is already recycled
to irrigate gardens and sports fields and this is to increase.
Goulburn's residents are likely to become the
first to start drinking treated sewage -
a practice long shunned elsewhere. "Someone's got to do it.
And then it will probably go through the rest of Australia,"
said Paul Stephenson, Goulburn's mayor. Scientists back the
plans.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1510072,00.html
Any rain brings weeds that turn into
major fires 6 months later -- July 19, 2005
Scientists at the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Australian
Weed Management say that, while rain has brought relief to many
parched regions they have also nurtured a huge burst of weed
growth.
They say the growth also poses a big potential bushfire menace
six months from now.
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=3475224
Europe
Drought
in England : may have to drink treated sewage water -- Oct. 19,
2006
"
Sewage can be turned into drinking water by processes which sieve
and then chemically clean the water so it can be put back into
rivers to be re-treated for human consumption."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0%2C2106%2C3832658a12%2C00.html
Drought in England : Water Rationing, south of London -- Jan. 16,
2006
Householders in the South face water restrictions
and the prospect of rationing because of the prolonged drought in which
rainfall has dropped to its lowest level for 30 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/16/nwater16.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/16/ixhome.html
Southern Water, the main supplier in the worst
affected parts of Kent and Sussex, says that 50
per cent more rain than normal is needed in the coming months to
end the worst water shortage for 30 years
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AONRNCUQO5IFLQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2005/12/19/nwater19.xml
Drought in England -- July 2005
sprinkler and hosepipe bans in parts of its
operating area six weeks ago, to cope with one of the worst
droughts in the region on record. It fears there may have to be
even more cutbacks as the summer continues. Five of the eight
water companies in southern England have imposed restrictions,
and the others may follow.....
He added: "Failure to do it will see our
wetlands ruined and billions of pounds squandered on unnecessary
new reservoirs and more desalination plants
Most water companies will not have water supply
problems until the end of August but we would expect to see
further drought permit applications through the autumn to help
reservoirs refill.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/article300082.ece
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/article300081.ece
Christianity vanquished in Britain ? July 18,
2005
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/182005a.asp
Drought in Europe : Spain, Portugal, France, Italy -- July 2005
... Northern Africa too
Spain and Portugal are suffering their worst droughts since
records began in the 1940s, and in western France, water levels
are at their lowest since the major drought of 1976.
Parched conditions now stretch from north Africa to
the French capital, causing billions of euros worth of damage as
crops shrivel, rivers dry up and pastures turn to dust.
The drought has crippled crops in Spain, Portugal and
north Africa, leaving farmers demanding emergency help and
authorities preparing to step up imports to feed people and
livestock. The European Commission
said last week cereals production in the bloc was likely to fall
10 percent, or 28 million tonnes, this year due to the dry
conditions in many countries.
The impact of lower water reserves in some of the main productive
basins of the EU -- southwest France and northern Italy -- could
cause drastic reductions if there's not enough rainfall in the
next weeks," it said.
In Algeria, some 2.5 million farmers are at risk and in Morroco
crops have slumped by 57 percent to 3.6 million tonnes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050718/sc_nm/food_drought_europe_dc_1
Greece too -- July 2005
http://euobserver.com/?aid=19620&rk=1
Extreme weather in Europe -- July 2005
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article300084.ece
Power outage in Rome-- July 18, 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050718/ap_on_re_eu/italy_power_outage_1
Heat, Drought in Italy -- July 2005
Italy is bathed in hot Saharan air with temperatures forecast on
Tuesday to reach 36 degrees Celsius (97 Fahrenheit), with the
hottest regions in the north. In cities it can feel much hotter
as asphalt roads and pavements pump the heat back up from below.
High temperatures put the vulnerable at risk of dehydration and
cardio-vascular problems which can kill. Older people are
particularly at risk and several people have already been
reported to have died because of the heat.
Northern Italy is also facing possible water shortages due to
lack of rainfall and evaporation has spiked. Farmers say there is
only enough water to guarantee irrigation for two weeks.
http://cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Million%A0at+risk+in+Italy+heatwave+-+Jun+28%2C+2005&expire=
07%2F12%2F2005&urlID=14696942&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2005%2FWEATHER%2F06%2F28%2Fweather.am.reut%2Findex.html
%3Fsection%3Dcnn_latest&partnerID=2006
Locusts in Italy -- July 23, 2005
Freak swarms of locusts devouring
vineyards in and around the
northern Italian province of Alessandria,
sometimes moving at speeds of up to 30mph, are threatening this
year's production of a venerable wine.
The centre of the locust invasion is the town of Cerrina on the
border between the provinces of Alessandria and Asti, the home of
the famous Barbera label as well as sparkling Spumante wine
Pier Valentino Piva, the mayor of Cerrina, said
his citizens were at their wits' end with locusts flying into
cars and bags, entangling hair and finding their way into
clothes.
"There are thousands of them massed on
the walls of our houses from morning to night. It seems as though
here we are living through a scourge from the Bible."
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article300998.ece
Drought in Portugal -- July 2005
Portugal is facing its worst dry spell
since the 1940s. Virtually all of the country,
97 percent, is suffering a severe or extreme drought, according
to agriculture ministry figures.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&ncid=1540&e=2&u=/afp/20050718/sc_afp/portugalweatherwater_050718155750
Spain : Drought -- June
2005
Water
is being rationed in half of Spain to save it for domestic use,
as parts of the country suffer the worst drought for 60 years.
Weeks before the tourist season starts, swimming pools are empty,
city fountains are turned off and golf courses ordered to reduce
watering.
Some reservoirs in the south-east are more than three-quarters
empty. With no fresh rain expected in the affected areas until
the autumn, authorities have decided they must protect domestic
supplies through the busy summer season.
Eastern Spain is the worst hit,
with the north-eastern province of Huesca deciding not to fill
public swimming pools this summer and public parks and golf
courses throughout Catalonia ordered to ration use of
non-recycled water.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5208909-103681,00.html
Swiss
launch year of Freshwater---March 24, 2003
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=1710680
Latin America
Mile long fissure opens near Guadalajara, Mexico--June 30, 2004
The crevasse
reportedly opened without warning early Wednesday. It stretches
about one mile (2 kms) across farm fields in a sparsely populated
area in Zapopan, a suburb of the western city of Guadalajara.
It is as much as 15 feet (5 meters) wide in some places.
"This is a major geological fault," said Zapopan Mayor
Arturo Zamora. The government declared the area off-limits and
evacuated about 25 families who lived within about 100 yards
(meters) of the crevasse.http://www.his-forever.com/huge_crevasse.htm
Drought : Western Canada --May 12, 2004
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- With dry weather
predicted for a third summer in a row, British Columbia
may experience its worst drought since the Great Depression,
water experts warned
Nonetheless, provincial river forecaster David
Gooding said almost every area of British Columbia is already
facing low ground water levels.
He attributed the trend to a dry April, snowpacks that melted two
to four weeks early, dry grounds from two years of previous low
precipitation and winter precipitation that was 25 to 40 percent
below normal
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-b.c.-drought,0,3846395,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
The Mid-East
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=387022007
In General
Rivers drying up around the world -- March 20, 2007
Many major rivers in the world are at risk of drying out because
of climate change and dam construction, which could affect fresh
water supplies and marine life, the global nature protection body
WWF said on Tuesday.
In a report ahead of the March 22 'World Water Day', the
Swiss-based group identified 10 rivers, including the Nile, the
Rio Grande and the Danube, as some of the worst victims of poor
planning and inadequate protection
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19577735.htm
1 out of six countries face food shortage due to drought -- June 30, 2005
In a stark message for world leaders who meet
in Gleneagles next week to discuss global warming, Wulf
Killman, chairman of the UN
food and agriculture organisation's climate change
group, said the droughts that have devastated crops across Africa,
central America and south-east Asia in the past year are part
of an emerging pattern.
The worst affected countries include Ethiopia, Zimbabwe,
Malawi, Eritrea and Zambia, a group of countries where at
least 15 million people will go hungry without aid. The situation
in Niger, Djibouti and Sudan is reported to be
deteriorating rapidly. Many countries have had their worst
harvests in more than 10 years and are experiencing their third
or fourth severe drought in a few years, the UN said.
Severe droughts have also badly affected crops in Cuba,
Cambodia, Australia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Morocco, Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua. According to the UN's famine early
warning system, 16 countries, including Peru, Ecuador and
Lesotho, face "unfavourable prospects" with current
crops.
In Europe, one of the worst droughts on record has hit Spain
and Portugal and halved some crop yields. Both countries have
applied to the EU for food assistance. In Morocco the same
regional drought has devastated farming and the government fears
an influx of people into the cities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1517746,00.html
Protest privitazation of water -- March
24, 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=389799
Drought and Global Temperatures --Aug
19-2002
http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1340/
Urgent action needed to halt growth of
deserts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1392000/1392983.stm
UN's Agenda 21 (UNCED); Water Aid;
UNESCO ....... (thanks to Blessed x 4 )
Population growth is the prime contributor to
increasing water scarcity. As the human race grows, so does the
need for agriculture and industry, both of which are the main
competitors in water use.
http://thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=273552003
UN does not realize that if you don't worship the Rain Maker, you
get no water
http://www.europaworld.org/week119/worldfacesl7303.htm
See Zecariah 14:17, 18
See James 5:17, 18
Water Incorporated
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/special/2002/0305water.htm
Desertification
The world is turning to dust, with lands the size of Rhode Island
becoming desert wasteland every year and the problem threatening
to send millions of people fleeing to greener countries, the
United Nations says.
One-third of the Earth's surface is at risk, driving people into
cities and destroying agriculture in vast swaths of Africa.
Thirty-one percent of Spain is threatened, while China has lost
36,000 square miles to desert - an area the size of Indiana -
since the 1950s.
This week the United Nations marks the 10th anniversary of the Convention to Combat Desertification, a plan aimed at stopping the phenomenon. Despite the efforts, the trend seems to be picking up speed - doubling its pace since the 1970s. "It's a creeping catastrophe," said Michel Smitall, a spokesman for http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040615/D837LH8O0.html
PLAGUES....
Locusts, beetles, moths,
caterpillars, murain
etc.
Locusts invade Europe,
especially Spain ( Canary Islands)
-- Dec. 10, 2004
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is predicting that this
could be the worst locust swarm in 15 years
The FAO, based in Rome ( Italy )
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-5/24738.html
Locusts
threaten bumper crops in NorthWest Africa -- September 12, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3648334.stm
Planes sent due to locusts in North Africa; threat to Sapain and
Europe -- June 9, 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1233793,00.html
Drought: Moths destroying
chestnut trees across Europe--Sept.
5, 2003
Albania, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Western Europe
The drought that
ravaged Europe's harvests this summer may also have set off an
ecological time bomb by helping the reproduction cycle of a
mysterious moth which has been devastating chestnut trees across
the continent.
The high temperatures last month were a boon to the so-called
horse chestnut leaf-miner, a tiny moth that mysteriously appeared
about 20 years ago, by favourising its breeding cycle and
allowing it to reproduce more.
"The long period of summer heat in Europe has, in effect,
helped these moths to produce an extra generation," said
Regina Kleespies, a researcher at Germany's institute for the
protection of flora.
Seven European countries -- Germany, France, the Czech
Republic, Austria, Italy, Greece and Switzerland -- have joined
together to try to combat the mysterious moth but they have had
few results since they began work in 2001.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=16&u=/afp/20030905/ts_afp/europe_environment_030905080022
Drought causes worst beetle
epidemic in memory--Aug 19-2002
Georgia, N / S Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAND23TZ4D.html
Drought affecting wheat, cattle
(murain) , orchards--June 3-2002
http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_1181667,00.html
Locust plague in Africa --Oct. 22, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3210464.stm
Drought : prelude to locusts
http://www.roape.org/cgi-bin/roape/show/4210.html
4 inch grasshoppers
unstoppable in Central Florida (lubbers) Aug. 21-2002
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=orl-asecgrasshoppers20082002aug20
Locusts in 10 regions of Russia--June 10-2002
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has declared a state of
emergency in at least 10 regions where locusts are swarming
through farmlands, devouring crops, NTV television said on
Saturday.
Locust invasions plague the Russian regions in summer and have
been blamed for destroying tens of millions of hectares [acres]
of farmland over the last decade.
The NTV report did not say how much land had been affected by the
latest swarms but did say huge areas of the
eastern Siberian regions of Buryatia and Irkutsk had been ruined.
The report said there were several thousand locusts
per square meter in the affected areas, which were expected to
spread to the southern republic of Dagestan, where eggs have
already been found. The insects were also seen spreading from the
Central Asian state of Kazakhstan to the
Siberian city of Novosibirsk.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020608/sc_nm/russia_locusts_dc_1&e=8&ncid=753
Plague of locusts hits Afghanistan..of Biblical proportions...
May 7-2002
By the hundreds of millions, the locusts are
marching across areas of northern Afghanistan,
threatening up to 70 percent of crop production and
millions of livelihoods.
"It's a problem of almost biblical proportions,"
said Richard China, the United Nations (news
- web
sites)' Food and Agriculture Organisation's programme manager
in Afghanistan.
"We estimate that it's the worst infestation in the
last 30 years," he told Reuters Television. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020506/wl_asia_nm/asia_103629_1
(received from Fbrannon7)
Camels Dying in Iranian Drought....July 11-2001
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3CH67WZOC&live=true&tagid=ZZZINS5VA0C&subheading=
middle%20east%20and%20africa
Europeans buying up USA Utilities--March 7, 2003
UNITED STATES – The 15-member European Union has
requested the U.S. government allow them to take over
water and sewer systems here.
For the average person, that could mean paying a European
corporation for utility services, with no limits or regulations
by the U.S. government.
Documents detailing the EU’s plans to open up the free
market, which includes allowing European competition on U.S. libraries,
postal service, education and health care providers,
were leaked to the public last week.
When asked about the revelations, local water company directors
and citizens said they were alarmed.
"I was unaware of this," said Sardis–Lone Elm
Water Supply General Manager Hugh Inman.
"That’s a scary
thought."
http://www.elliscountypress.com/archive%202003/030603.htm
Germany buying up American
water companies--Feb 7,
2003
A recently completed $8.6 billion
takeover of American Water Works by German-based industrial giant
RWE has led to a backlash from a handful of cities across
America. The deal covers more than 800 water
systems serving 15 million people in 27 states and three Canadian
provinces.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGASBSOGWBD.html
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGASBSOGWBD.html?CFID=542509&CFTOKEN=39559754
The Perfect Drought--Jan 30, 2003
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/30/tech/main538604.shtml
Drought U.S.A. --January 2003
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2003/davidc125-1.htm
Farmers prepare for
drought--Dec 21, 2002
Many farmers and ranchers have changed their grain and
cattle operations to survive
the drought that has persisted across the West, in some parts,
for years.
Some changes have been subtle, such as using less fertilizer. But
others have been more obvious.
On Mike Greytak's farm near Billings, he has shifted over the
past few years almost exclusively to wheat.
He once rounded out his operation with safflower, sunflower, dry
peas and lentils
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/021220farmersdroughtMT.html
Wheat shortage puts loaf up 4p---Sept 17, 2002
A WARNING was given yesterday that bread prices could rise by 4p
a loaf because of a
world shortage of milling
wheat.
The warning came from industry analysts who noted that drought in the US, the world’s main grain
exporter, had reduced spring wheat
yields drastically.
At the same time below-average yields in
Australia and Canada as well as a poor
harvest across much of Europe
is pushing up prices.
http://thescotsman.co.uk/uk.cfm?id=1032372002
Drought -- US Bread basket
drying up--Aug 5-2002
http://www.progressivefarmer.com/farmer/news/article.html?SMContentIndex=0&SMContentSet=0
Nearly half of US suffers drought--Aug 15-2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1947285,00.html
Senate votes to aid
drought farmers-- Sept 11-2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64290-2002Sep10.html
Bush refuses aid to drought farmers Aug 15-2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23082-2002Aug15.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23082-2002Aug15?language=printer
Too dry summer feared ... May 6-2002
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/03/national/main508020.shtml
Drought worsens...farmers pray for rain...March 17-2002
Global warming
The languid condition of the Yellowstone – the
longest free-flowing river in the US – is symbolic of a
worsening dry spell that, for large swathes of the country, is
shaping up to be the worst drought of the
past 100 years.
From Georgia to Maine, officials are issuing water conservation
measures as blue skies across the East Coast continue to show
little sign of impending snowfall or rain. It's not the only
region declared to be in a state of "severe" or
"extreme" drought. In the croplands of Oklahoma,
Kansas, and Texas, wheat-crop ratings are being graded as
"very poor" by state agriculture boards due to
drought-stress conditions. Other regions are feeling the effects
too.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0315/p03s01-ussc.html
Drought grips most of the Country...March 3- 2002
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47005,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20020302/ap_on_re_us/dry_america_1
Maine suffering worst drought in 107 years
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/04/09/drought.devastation.ap/index.html
Drought from Maine to Florida...Entire east coast......Feb
12-2002
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico and
Texas have areas of extreme
drought, while areas of
severe drought are found
in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Oregon.
http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.html?ID=50751&byline=&cname=Statewide§ion=&tt=10AM
New York City facing drought conditions...rationing...Jan 29-2002
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/homeandgarden/garden/020129xgardxdroughtnewyork.html
Earthweek reported in October 01 [ 2001 ] that 2,000 Chinese
Lakes are drying up that feed into the Yellow River.
California
Prepares for Drought...Sept. 2001
http://www.uniontribune.com/news/state/20010902-1143-droughtprepa.html
WATER
Billions face water shortage...Aug.14-2001
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3MUEULCQC&live=true&tagid=IXLC078IH7C&Collid=Any
Global Water
Management....politicizing : "Water for Peace"
http://www2.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=1124706
World's Fresh Water
threatened...Jan 20-2002
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=19012002-040811-1333r
"Black water" dead-zone off SW Florida Coast (no marine
life)..March 19-2002
Like Daniels, fishermen with decades on the water say
they've often seen red tide but they've never seen anything like
this — it doesn't have a foul smell, it isn't red tide and
it isn't oil. They describe it as viscous and slimy water
with what looks like spider webs in it.
First sighted in January, the mass of black-colored water reached
from 20 miles north of Marathon Key halfway to Naples. It
stretched west almost 20 miles into the Gulf of Mexico. Fishermen
don't know if it's moved in from the north or offshore or if it
originated in the coastal waters off Southwest Florida.
Though somewhat smaller now than descriptions from January, the
mass of water that is still quite large is moving into the Florida
Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Created by Congress in 1990, the 2,800-square-mile Sanctuary
adjacent to the Keys is the largest coral reef in the
United States. It includes the
productive waters of Florida Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and the
Atlantic Ocean. http://www.naplesnews.com/02/03/naples/d599686a.htm
more info:
http://www.naplesnews.com/02/03/naples/d720561a.htm
Water under the earth vaster than oceans....March 9-2002
http://www.rense.com/general20/under.htm
Waters Under the Earth Outstrip the Oceans..."fountains of
the deep"...March 8-2002
Five times more water than is contained in all the
oceans may be stored deep inside the Earth, some scientists
claim.Laboratory tests by Japanese researchers indicate a large
amount of water may be trapped in minerals in the lower mantle -
a thick hot layer extending from 406 miles below the Earth's
surface to a depth of 1,800 miles.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_538683.html
California enters into "Drought Preparedness"
http://www.bayinsider.com/partners/ktvu/news/2001/09/03/water.html
Germany to buy Amer. Water Works, largest regulated business in
US
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3J0B57VQC&live=true&tagid=IXLC078IH7C&Collid=Any
The
Privitazation of Water Agenda
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/waterprivat.html
World Water Crisis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2000/world_water_crisis/default.stm
Dawn
of a Thirsty Century
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_755000/755497.stm
The Ultimate Power: Buying and selling water
http://www.ifg.org/bgsummary.html
In
regions across the U.S. water use is hot issue
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/4C16179207214D0C86256AB4003E207D?OpenDocument&Headline=In%20
regions%20across%20U.S.%2C%20water%20use%20is%20hot%20issue
For more on water please see: http://pub57.ezboard.com/ftbz3lfrm1
(posted
by Tommy R)
Near
Vast areas of water, but no water
http://pub57.ezboard.com/ftbz3lfrm1.showMessage?topicID=1227.topic
A Reason
for Drought:
Calif. largest producer of Marijuana in US
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/zpot6_20010906.htm
Klamath Basin (No. Cal. / So. Oregon) without water
http://www.oregonlive.com/special/klamath/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/lc_21klama07.frame
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,23595,00.html
America: Drought, New Dust
Bowl
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/01/p1s2.htm
Drought and Bankrupcy USA
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/07/05/drought-usat.htm
After
civil disobedience failed, farmers forced to sell land to
government
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/11/MN33297.DTL
Manufactured
Drought
http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/11/188/ssMain.asp?fmt=Child
Police
close down canal to Oregon farmers
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/lc_62kfall06.frame
Alaskan Drought...July
2001
http://www.mywebpal.com/mywebpal_cfmfiles/npv2/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=670&NewsID=138764&Category
ID=2196&on=0
Low
Water--High Demand...Aug. 14-2001
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3HH5SLCQC&live=true&tagid=IXLC078IH7C&Collid=Any
March
22, 2001..WORLD RUNNING ON EMPTY
World warned on water refugees
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1234000/1234244.stm
ELSEWHERE
Faith in
Action...Christian Aid to Africa...FAMINE
of Biblical proportions
http://www.liaafrica.org/helpus2.htm
Starve, Africa ... or else take Genetically Modified
(Monsanto) foods
STARVING nations in southern Africa are
being forced to choose
between accepting genetically modified food aid or condemning
millions of people to death in the worst food shortage in 50
years. They fear the long-term effects of GM foods, as well as
their impact on exports to Europe.
After the UN World Food Programme appealed for £325 million to
buy 1.2 million tons of food to prevent 13 million people from
dying of starvation, the United States, where GM products are
widely used, donated nearly 300,000tons of food aid. But the UN
agency has since said that it cannot guarantee that its shipments
will be GM-free.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-375599,00.html
Famine of enormous crisis
in Southern Africa----
June 10-2002
(and some Christians still wonder when the tribulation begins. It
began already....
the GREAT Tribulation is
just around the corner....please see addendum
The following report fails to mention what part Big
Business played in requiring expensive graneries and equipment
that forced unpayable loans on the people and then their farming
business failed. Mugabe and his henchmen have slaughtered
farm-owners mercilessly. Source: news reports for the last 2
years or more.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that 12.8
million people are on the brink of starvation in southern Africa
and urgently need food aid. ......
Hundreds have already died in Malawi but Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho are also
badly hit.
President Robert Mugabe's policy of seizing productive
white-owned farms has added to the problems - as
acknowledged by his finance minister on Wednesday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_2028000/2028945.stm
DROUGHT:
Central
America...Feb. 4- 2002
100,000
facing hunger in El Salvador
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/14352/story.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20010827_820.html
Drought and Food Shortages in El Salvador....Aug.21-2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1497000/1497540.stm
6 million starving Argentinians
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Americas/0,1113,2-10-33_1196700,00.html
Jews of Argentina starving
http://www.jafi.org.il/papers/2002/feb/harfeb13a.htm
Crop failures in Central America...July 23-2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/monitoring/media_reports/newsid_1451000/1451675.stm
Farmers devasted in Central America
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1449000/1449689.stm
Hunger in Argentina-- October 16, 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2307491.stm
***********************
Originally posted by Fool for Christ
This is what happens when the IMF "helps" your
country - then calls in its loans, then takes control.
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Half a million face starvation in Angola
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_2039000/2039283.stm
Drought,
Hunger in Somalia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1505000/1505598.stm
Drought/
Famine in Italy...Aug. 27-2001
Olive Oil, tomatoes, durum wheat
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001295703,00.html
Roman Drought...Tiber
River drying up....August 5 - 2001
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/03/wtib03.xml
http://www.geocities.com/Viaggio_Italiano/tiber.html
Feb. 27, 2001...Drought all over Eastern Hemisphere
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/057/nation/UN_reports_drought_causing_vast_hunger+.shtml
Feb 28-2001...Florida: Worst Drought in
History
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/2/28/144605.shtml
Drought drying up the Great Lakes
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/A63165-2000Apr2.html
http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,172518-412,00.shtml
US Water threatened by Climate change
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1072000/1072356.stm
Food at Risk as Water Drips Away
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_396000/396270.stm
Pollution,
Drought and Rain
www.fivedoves.com/letters/july99/dwz723d.htm
ISRAELI
DROUGHT
"worst draught in Israel in the past century"
.....spoken by Water commissioner Meir Ben-Meir
WATER WARS MID - EAST
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_677000/677547.stm
FAMINE
Losing
Diversity of Crops -- Aug 18, 2005
Jose Esquinas- Alcazar,
a top official at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in
Rome, has spent decades campaigning to preserve plants that are
used for food, which are becoming extinct at an alarming rate.
Last year, his efforts culminated in the adoption of the
United Nations Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture, which requires countries to preserve existing crops
and creates an international system for sharing crops and plant
genes.
Historically, humans utilized more than 7,000
plant species to meet their basic food needs,
Esquinas says. Today, due to the limitations of modern
large-scale, mechanized farming, only 150 plant
species are under cultivation, and the majority of
humans live on only 12 plant species, according to research by
the Food and Agriculture Organization
"the losses are far
more dangerous for our survival," Esquinas
said
Esquinas ticks off crops that have
disappeared from the world's fields: Of the nearly 8,000
varieties of apple that grew in the United States at the turn of
the century, more than 95 percent no longer exist. In Mexico,
only 20 percent of the corn types recorded in 1930 can now be
found. Only 10 percent of the 10,000 wheat varieties grown in
China in 1949 remain in use
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/17/news/food.php
No
Bees....no pollination....no food
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1314000/1314012.stm
The
Ogallala Aquifer ( OH-GA-LA-LA )...the great underground
water-table of the USA
The
Great Plain Aquifer
Underground Water: 8 states ; Mostly: Nebraska,
Kansas, Oklahoma (panhandle ) , NW Texas
http://www.npwd.org/Ogallala.htm
http://www.hpwd.com/the_ogallala.asp
http://www.hpwd.com/ogallala/ogallala.asp
http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/gccourse/issues/society/ogallala/ogallala.html
http://www.pantex.com/ds/pxeisc1.htm
Salvation www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org
