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Reasons To Rescind The OMB Decision by Louisette Lanteigne
Reasons To Rescind The OMB Decision by Louisette Lanteigne
Reasons To Rescind The OMB Decision by Louisette Lanteigne
By Louisette Lanteigne
butterflybluelu@rogers.com
Land-Use Planning
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/06/04/19836431.html
Global water & food crisis due to declining aquifers
World's largest aquifer going China's north that produces food for
dry 400 million people is running out of
The Ogallala aquifer is the world's
water because they are depleting the
largest underground water system, underground aquifers.
irrigating one-third of the US corn
Thomas Fingar, chairman and deputy director
crops and providing drinking water to
US National IntelligenceCouncil and
Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota,
Texas and Wyoming. It’s one of the
fastest-disappearing aquifers in the
world and the water is not coming
back. ( Associated Press)
The failure of governments to limit
pumping to the sustainable yield of
aquifers means that water tables are now
falling in countries that contain more than
half the world's people, including the big
three grain producers--China, India, and
the United States.
Lester R. Brown,Earth Policy Institute, Washington D.C.
According to the Word Bank:
Drought-affected areas would increase from 15.4% of
global cropland today, to around 44% by 2100.
http://climatechange.worldbank.org/content/climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-century
Agricultural lands WITH WATER are in high demand.
• Countries such as China, Korea and the United Arab Emirates are buying or leasing agricultural
land to help meet their own food needs.
The International Food Policy Research Institute
• The World Bank estimates that demand for food will rise by 50 percent by 2030.
The National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2025
• Global Economist project that agricultural lands will surpass the value of development lands in
the near future due to rising oil production costs, population increases, higher standard of living, water
shortages climate change and drought.
http://current.com/10b70kc
Atrazine contaminated US water supplies.
Drought and depleted aquifers reduced groundwater to dilute.
This is Africa
This is America's Midwest in 2012
Think Globally
Act Locally!
Protect our A1 farmlands and primary recharge areas
from quarries and development.