This is far from the first time in my life that I have lived a place with contaminated water. Upon first moving to Dickinson ND I felt confidant that the city water supply was not safe and began buying filtered water at the grocery store. Granted it was purely for drinking when at home, I was still cooking with tap water and drinking tap water when out to eat or at the office. This combination of tap and bottled is something that I did when living in Manila and Mumbai, knowing that the water was bad but also know I could not 100% ovoid it so worked to build a tolerance. However the contamination in these cities that I feared was more due to lake of water treatment that would cause short term problems such as diarrhea. In Dickinson I fear something much greater that will have long lasting negative impacts on my health and the health of those around me. I am willing to forgo the florid and convince that comes with tap water completely now knowing that its public knowledge that the leaking has occurred ... see previous post on the water is going to kill us.
If you have any doubt, I think the fracking in Pennsylvania is a great example of whats to come in Dickinson ND. These are just a few of the hundreds of articles about the pollution of our drinking water.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/dimock-pa-fracking-epa-water_n_1368148.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jCUQcMjaT-TJqizs7WRB1zIw8rzA?docId=cef00570f618477d8e9fcb53579af91c
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-09/pennsylvania-fracking-can-put-water-sources-at-risk-study-finds
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/fracked-pennsylvania-shale-could-be-naturally-leaky/
When living in the developing world we spoke often about water security, the water crisis and water wars. We always thought that they were something we would see in our lifetime and really believed they would start in the mega cities of the world and that western countries would not face serious crisis for at least another generation. Little did we know that our corporate government would pollute our groundwater beyond repair in ever area that they can frack to get richer.
So what have I done? Not sure that the filtered water in this area is even safe, (reverse osmosis is wonderful technology but it cant remove radioactive drilling byproduct) we are buying our water an hour and a half away. Still using the re-usable jugs we have been using since our arrival we have coupled that with dozens of gallon bottles processed in Wisconsin. Stocking up on water each time we leave the area and not sure what we will do to get through four months of having to buy all water even the cooking water.
Extreme?...... yes
Crazy? ....... doubt it
Serious? ...... with out a doubt
If you have any doubt, I think the fracking in Pennsylvania is a great example of whats to come in Dickinson ND. These are just a few of the hundreds of articles about the pollution of our drinking water.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/dimock-pa-fracking-epa-water_n_1368148.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jCUQcMjaT-TJqizs7WRB1zIw8rzA?docId=cef00570f618477d8e9fcb53579af91c
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-09/pennsylvania-fracking-can-put-water-sources-at-risk-study-finds
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/07/fracked-pennsylvania-shale-could-be-naturally-leaky/
When living in the developing world we spoke often about water security, the water crisis and water wars. We always thought that they were something we would see in our lifetime and really believed they would start in the mega cities of the world and that western countries would not face serious crisis for at least another generation. Little did we know that our corporate government would pollute our groundwater beyond repair in ever area that they can frack to get richer.
So what have I done? Not sure that the filtered water in this area is even safe, (reverse osmosis is wonderful technology but it cant remove radioactive drilling byproduct) we are buying our water an hour and a half away. Still using the re-usable jugs we have been using since our arrival we have coupled that with dozens of gallon bottles processed in Wisconsin. Stocking up on water each time we leave the area and not sure what we will do to get through four months of having to buy all water even the cooking water.
Extreme?...... yes
Crazy? ....... doubt it
Serious? ...... with out a doubt
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