{"id":5853,"date":"2013-04-05T04:51:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T08:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2013-03-23T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:20:23","slug":"year-4-month-4-day-5-dihydrogen-monoxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-4-day-5-dihydrogen-monoxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 4, Day 5: DiHydrogen Monoxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post runs an AP article on World Water Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/un-chief-warns-that-nearly-half-the-world-could-face-a-scarcity-of-water-by-2030\/2013\/03\/22\/1e4aee1a-933a-11e2-8e33-9cc6c739d012_story.html\">featuring that irresponsible hippie, Ban ki-Moon:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>UNITED NATIONS \u2014 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning that by 2030 nearly half the world\u2019s population could be facing a scarcity of water, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Ban said one in three people already live in a country with moderate to high water stress. He spoke Friday at a U.N. event marking the opening of the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013 and the 20th anniversary of the proclamation of World Water Day.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201ccompetition is growing among farmers and herders; industry and agriculture; town and country; upstream and downstream; and across borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a growing global population and climate change, he said international cooperation is essential to protect water resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us use it more intelligently and waste less so all get a fair share,\u201d Ban said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shrill, I know.  March 23:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Ban Ki-moon emphasizes, regional populations everywhere are coming under unprecedented environmental pressures.  Even as extreme weather events increase, dumping huge quantities of rain or snow on ill-prepared communities, others are discovering that drought, once an unwelcome visitor, is now a permanent resident.  <\/p>\n<p>Barring new infrastructural technology that will allow regions buffeted by unseasonal precipitation to save their water and transport it to areas where it&#8217;s urgently needed, we can anticipate a profound humanitarian crisis.  By delaying and hindering adaptation strategies, the climate-change deniers in our media and politics have ensured a tragedy of unprecedented proportions.<\/p>\n<p>Singing of a &#8220;hard rain&#8221; in the early 1960s, Bob Dylan referred to nuclear annihilation. Fifty years later, his song&#8217;s an eerie prophecy of the burgeoning climate crisis \u2014 harkening to the &#8220;sound of a thunder, it roared out a warning,&#8221; and the &#8220;roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post runs an AP article on World Water Day, featuring that irresponsible hippie, Ban ki-Moon: UNITED NATIONS \u2014 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning that by 2030 nearly half the world\u2019s population could be facing a scarcity of water, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent. Ban said one in three people already live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[359,606,358,575],"class_list":["post-5853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-ban-ki-moon","tag-republican-obstructionism","tag-united-nations","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}