Nov 4, 2023
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Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to South India to film the ancient Chola Dynasty water management system of lakes and canals that has been restored in the City of Coimbatore by the Coimbatore Lakes Protection Organization ( In Tamil: Kovai Kulangal Padhukappu Amaippu). We visit multiple structures that have been restored, and see the incredible effects that this work has had on the water availability and groundwater levels of the surrounding areas.
80,945 against to 75 in favor.
These numbers show the scope of the public opposition to a new proposal from Nestle.
The company wants to be able to pump a lot more water out of the ground in West Michigan that it can bottle and sell under its Ice Mountain brand.
Nestle can already pump up to 250 gallons a minute from a well in Evart, Michigan. Now it wants a new permit that would allow the company to pump 400 gallons of water a minute.
Nestle is the largest water bottler in Michigan.
http://michiganradio.org/post/public-comments-show-how-much-and-why-people-oppose-nestle-water-withdrawal
Fukushima’s Radioactive Waste Is Leaking Into the Soil and Water
It doesn’t take a science degree to know that the ocean currents were going to transport that waste or that it was going to seep deeper into the soil.
Food chain and environment FAIL.
New research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that radioactive cesium from the Fukushima nuclear power plant is collecting in the sands and groundwater along a 60-mile (100-km) stretch of coastline near the facility.
Cesium-137 is a radioactive isotope of cesium (a soft, silvery-gold metal) that’s formed by nuclear fission and potentially fatal to humans when exposed to high concentrations.
The scientists who led the study, Virginie Sanial of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Seiya Nagao of Kanazawa University, say the levels of radiation “are not of primary concern” to public health, but that this new and unanticipated source “should be taken into account in the management of coastal areas where nuclear power plants are situated.”
approximately half of the 440 operational nuclear reactors in the world are situated on a coastline
“Contour map of water table.” Forest physiography. 1914.