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Local politics, the county, and the world, as viewed by Tammy Maygra Tammy’s views are her own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Bill Eagle, his pastor, Tammy’s neighbors, Wayne Mayo, Betsy Johnson, Brian Stout, Former President Trump, Henry Heimuller, Joe Biden, Pat Robertson, Ted Cruz, Joe Biden’s dogs, or Claudia Eagle’s Cats. This Tammy’s Take (with the exception of this disclaimer) is not paid for or written by, or even reviewed by anyone but Tammy and she refuses to be bullied by anyone. See Bill’s Standard Disclaimer
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The Earth is Covered With 71% Water But Only 2.5% is Fresh
Our Water Planet
Are you part of the problem with one time use plastic water bottles? Even if recycled most end up in the ocean and land fills. Please Use stainless steel water bottles, they are sturdy, can be used forever, costs inexpensive, keeps water cold. And can be filled for free!, when buying bottled water you are paying nearly $10 per gallon of water, that’s Insane! Do yourself a favor and the climate/earth, stop buying bottled water. All you are doing is killing the planet and making corporations even richer, and taking water from small municipal water systems, where the towns folks are often denied water after selling to the corporation. And or now possibly farms. Wall Street is thirsty for its next big investment opportunity: The West’s vanishing water. Companies aren’t buying up plots of land because they want to farm here and be a part of the community, they’re buying up land here for the water rights. Water Asset Management president Matt Diserio has called water in the United States “a trillion-dollar market opportunity,” and said he started the company “on the core belief that scarce clean water is the resource defining this century, much like plentiful, cheap dirty oil defined the last century. These companies are drought profiteers. Water Asset Management has engaged in a number of different purchase methods to keep their transactions unknown to many of the local jurisdictions, multiple properties in both counties under various names, such as WPI Hulet Farm AZ LLC, WPI II-GV6 Farm CO LLC and WPI-919 Farm AZ LLC, all of which have a mailing address that match the address for Water Asset Management’s headquarters in New York City. They pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell the water. Purchases in Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada as well as pending deals in New Mexico and Texas. However they sell this water, it’s for big money. According to water laws in most western states, water can't be owned, although the right to use that water can be sold, bought and transferred. So where ever the most profit is, is where it will go and it won’t be for the good of the people it will be for the good of the corporation. More than 1 million bottles of water are sold every minute around the world and the industry shows no sign of slowing down, Global sales of bottled water are Groundwater extracted to help fill billions of plastic bottles a year poses a potential threat to drinking water resources and feeds the world’s plastic pollution crisis, while the industry’s growth helps distract attention and resources away from funding the public-water infrastructure desperately needed in many countries expected to nearly double by 2030. In 2021, global bottled water sales reached 350 billion liters and were valued at an estimated $270 billion, a figure expected to soar to $500 billion by 2030. A quarter of revenue from bottled water sales goes to just five multinational companies — PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé, Danone, and Primo, which had combined sales of $65 billion in 2021. US, China and Indonesia the largest consumers. around 25 million tons of plastic waste — most of which is not recycled and ends up in landfills.The waste pile is so gargantuan that it would be enough to fill a line of 40-ton trucks stretching from New York to Bangkok every year, huge carbon footprint. f the plastics industry were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. 1,000 years to degrade, world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of approximately 171 trillion plastic particles that, if gathered, would weigh around 2.3 million tons.
Tammy
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