2005-06-13

Water is NOT a renewable resource - home kitchens are destroying

WARNING:  If you are a first time visitor, please go to the beginning of this BLOG Series to be sure you are with us from the beginning, starting here could develop a lot more confusion than necessary.  Thanks

My awareness of this "WONDER CHEMICAL" came about in the mid 70's, I was drawn into this 'opportunity' to make a lot of money selling 'advanced' products to farmers and contractors.

The main product we were to push was called a 'wetting agent.'

They claimed it reduced the molecular structure of water which would make the nutrients and minerals in the soil break down to smaller particles and make it much more efficient for plant life to produce a heavier crop yield.

One 'demonstration' to show off this product to people was by filling a galvanized 15 gallon tub with water, then place a live duck in the tub to float around.  Then by adding a teaspoon of the 'wetting agent'  to the water, within a few seconds the duck could no longer float and obviously went into a panic ( we always fished the duck out ).

It seems that this 'wetting agent' broke down the size of the water molecule which also blended with the natural oils on the ducks feathers.  Without this natural oil, the floating ability of the duck just vanished, hence his sinking experience.  I only participated in the 'duck' demonstration once, that was enough for me to get the drift.

To cut a long story short, the company, from the Midwest US, flourished and began spending money on expansion BEFORE they actually earned it.  Needless to say they hit the wall and I heard a year or so later that the FDA or US Agriculture banned the use of the product.

I basically wrote the experience off and forgot about this product for 25 years or so.

It's BACK!

Undoubtedly there are a dozen or more explanations suggesting what I'm about to share with you in this article has ABSOLUTELY NO relation to that 'wetting agent' from the 70's.

WEST NILE VIRUS
was the big threat back in 2003 and there were government agencies spraying, fogging and dumping a variety of chemicals to curtail the onslaught of hordes of 'killer mosquitoes' into the general population.

That information was rattling around in the back of my mind somewhere and in May 2003 I was listening to a gardening call-in show on CBC Radio.  The guest for this show was Ed Lawrence. He is recognized as "The Governor-General's Gardener" in Ottawa, Canada's Capital.  If you go to CBC.ca and type in 'gardening' you can read about the 'gardening call-in show'  AND you could also look up several home remedies for making your own 'organic' pesticides.

Anyway, back on track.  The question was about killing mosquito larva around one's home and one of these 'home remedy pesticides' was described.   With the explanation Mr Lawrence said 'dish soap' contained the same or a similar chemical to the one many municipalities were dumping in strategic locations to control mosquito breeding areas.  Apparently it causes the egg casings to dissolve and the eggs drown?

Here I GO AGAIN . . .

At the time of listening to this show I was in the van, so, I swung by the local market and grabbed me a 2 liter ( about 1.5 quart ) spray bottle and home I went.

I often sat on my front porch to get off the computer and take a break.  One thing that always annoyed me was the ants over running my vines, flowers and porch in general.  So I set about to see how effective my new 'home grown pesticide' would deal with my pests.

The results were ( 100:1 mixture water/dish soap ) absolutely amazing, one or two shots and that was the end of that ant, and then the next one and the next one.  For a few weeks I was 'squirt bottle' in my neighborhood, I even graduated to a few bigger pests like hornets and wasps, and a few I didn't even know what to call.

I guess it was 6-7 weeks later when I noticed something unusual happening with my vine.  Right above the floor of my porch the vine was about 3/4 of an inch thick, AND, it was growing some kind of deformity right out of its bark, and not just a few but hundreds of these strange growths.

Could this be true?

I drove a couple of blocks to a building with the same vine growing up the wall, no, this much older vine, the same family, had NO DEFORMITIES growing out of its bark.

So I have regressed back in time to another "Wonder Chemical" BUT NO, wait, this really was 2003, and this "Wonder Chemical" has been in use for at least 50 - 60 years.

Some of you 'Baby Boomers" probably remember as a kid hearing people saved their dish water to pour on the vegetable garden to enhance growth of their veggies.  Apparently this dish soap 'wonder chemical' not only breaks down grease, kills bugs, but is a super steroid for your vegetable garden.

Jeez!  Sounds a LOT LIKE that "wetting agent" that was supposed to be banned back in the 70's.

So all this 'trivia' got floating around in my mind and I've recognized some SCARY scenarios.

NOTE:  This information will tie into several of my future posting, be sure you drop back to find out just HOW BIG the damage from your kitchen dish soap is to the Planet, you and YOUR GRANDCHILDREN.

OKAY - JUST HOME KITCHENS!

The following calculations DO NOT include commercial restaurants, hospitals, college/universities, prisons, camps, military installations or millions of other commercial uses that may encompass the use, in whole or in part, of the this "Wonder Chemical."

STRICTLY RESIDENTIAL North America.

Remember this is only the FIRST STAGE in a reality that should make 'Alien Invasion' look like a 'ThanksGiving Holiday.'

In North America there are say 425 MILLION people, and an average of 3 people per household.  We all eat out a lot, and likely hate doing dishes, so let's say we only averaged 1 liter ( 9/10 quart) of dish soap per month per household.

THAT MEANS . . .
425 Million divided by 3 = 141 MILLION ( conservatively )

that's 141 MILLION liters or 126.9 MILLION quarts of 'dish soap' we dump down th drain EVERY MONTH

THAT IS "1.692 BILLION LITERS" of DUMPED dish soap per YEAR
OR,
1.522 BILLION Quarts ( 380.7 US MILLION gallons ) of DUMPED dish soap per YEAR

NOW BASED . . . .
on my experience that at a 100:1 ratio, 'dish soap' with its content of this "Wonder Chemical" can kill, alter, deform anything that lives or grows things like 'super steroids' (ever heard about 'algae' ?), in North America alone we are dumping . . . . .

38+ BILLIONS GALLONS of this "WONDER CHEMICAL" into our water supply EVERY YEAR

And have been for 50 YEARS!

I won't even try for that calculation, but it is definitely in the TRILLIONS of GALLONS.

IT GETS WORSE!

You have seen them advertising the quirks of this "WONDER CHEMICAL" on television.

Remember the manicurist that soak her clients hands in 'dish soap'? What happened to that thread of 'dish soap' use, these days you are not supposed to use it for personal hygiene?

or more recently,

the 'dish soap' company that boasts their soap protects and cleans birds caught in crude oil spills?

Ringing any bells yet?


CUT OFF TIME!

Folks, I don't wish to totally blow your thinking process in one blog entry, but please be sure to return for our next installment.  
So far, we have barely touched the tip of this Iceberg.

MORE TRIVIA:

Did you know we have the same amount of water today that was there at Earth's Creation?
That's a FACT!  In moves around, changes shape and function, but there are no replacements for this precious resource.

The MEGA DIFFERENCE between water of today and the water at the time of Creation = WE, MANKIND, are polluting all water at a 'break neck' speed.

Why all the droughts in different parts of North America?  We've been told El Nino - poppycock!
We are pumping areas DRY to feed city populations hundreds of miles away.  Basic science tells you Mother Nature draws from bodies of water to make rain clouds and then drops it back in the same vicinity.  How in blazes can Mother Nature draw up something that is no longer there but has been pumped off to some distant holding tanks?

Mother Nature is the most amazing Environmental Clean UP System ever devised AND it's our careless, reckless wanton GREED that allows a few NARROW VISIONED multinational corporations to abuse everything and everyone for a fast buck.

I suppose you haven't noticed that they are adding a few new "WONDER CHEMICALS" to our water supply and SELLING it to the masses as "PURE" water?

Like I mentioned previously, this is ONLY the TIP of the ICEBERG!  If you are interested in my layman's views of the BIG PICTURE for our Planet, be sure to return for our next installment;

"DRUGS that KILL with Government BLESSINGS!"