Ethiopia and Kenya are drying. So are The Great Lakes, on the other side of the world. And global warming is causing the increasingly warm water vapors within our stratosphere to escape into outer space, never to be reclaimed as fresh drinking water [NASA/JPL]. Drying is dying.
Wealthy Machiavellian industrialists have been tearing through the earth like wild children at a free candy fest, with little or no genuine concern for the negative effects of their destruction upon the environment.
You need only look at the twenty to thirty layers of brown snow resting atop formerly pristine glaciers, in the arctic, in order to see immediate evidence of this fact. How is it that the industrialists were incapable of containing such pollutants? In fact, they were quite capable. However, their lobbyists are paid large sums to convince Congressmen that it is cost-prohibitive to contain industrial waste. In fact, they were merely deferring the costs of dealing with the pollutants to society.
International industrialization is sucking the waters from once massive and thriving seas and lakes, without Governments reining them in with more logical policies. America can prohibit all pollution within it's borders. So can any other government. The industrialists can contain and sell their pollutants to recycling centers, or bury them deep within the Earth, leaving us with fresh, clean air, once again.
The scramble by powerful businessmen for every possible remnant of fresh water rights on the planet Earth is nearly complete. Fresh water is becoming a commodity, rather than a right. This is dangerous to everyone on Earth.
Excessive nuclear testing within the Pacific and Indian Oceans caused an earthquake, tsunami, and shrank our fragile planet by 3 inches, creating increasing, lasting, dramatic fluctuations in our global weather patterns, which is leading us into another ice age, given that the Earth is, now, spinning at a faster rate of speed, moment by moment.
Given current global policies, wars are inevitable within such a scenario. Yet, there is one comprehensive solution to the struggle for fresh water, at least for a few millenia:
America can, at the very least, as a gift to the peoples of Eastern Africa, ship, to Africa, the pristine, fresh waters from pure arctic and antarctic glacial ice.
As a senior measurement analyst for the oil industry, working with pipeline and international vessel movements, I know that the process is quite simple and quick, really - as well as cost effective. Because this is an emergency measure, if the Governments and peoples of Ethiopia and Kenya, immediately, build pristine water towers (painted a pretty shade of sky blue) with an extremely basic and simple delivery system, the United States of America, as a gift to Africa, has the maritime power to quickly retrofit a number of it's ships to carry fresh, pure water from the north and south arctic regions to East Africa. Portable pipelines to the towers can be laid within a matter of days. While the ships are at the ice regions, a simple, extendable pipe, with a warming devise at the end, can siphon enormous quantities of fresh water from the pristine glaciers onto the ships.
Plant a vast tree-line of fruit trees, filling all available land within Ethiopia and Kenya with peaches, plums, et alii, in order to hold moisture in the land, regenerate the soil, produce fresh oxygen, and feed the poor. Several essential benefits will be derived, thereby. A poor child within those nations will never go without a meal. Rather than crushing the pits, planting them will provide future generations with free fresh fruit. The tree-line will regularly cool the portion of an international air current such that Mexico's dry, desert lands will eventually become lush, once again, so that Mexicans will be able to plant fruit trees and crops in currently desert regions.
An important additional benefit is that the winters on Earth would, then, be milder, making Siberia a less hostile and more agriculturally-friendly environment and warming the poor penguins to the south. And less oil would be needed as heating fuel, throughout the Earth.
In fact, if a concerted effort were to be effected to relocate the sands of the giant dunes of the Sahara and Saudi Arabia to regions which would benefit from the sands, such as the lower-lying regions of Brazil, water could be transported to nourish the entire Sahara and Middle Eastern regions, given that there is a great deal of ice at the north and south poles, today, and the Sahara and adjacent deserts could blossom with fruit trees to feed the poor and the wild animals, freely.
NASA is, technically (=), capable of securing six large cables, at three sets of vertical points, between deeply embedded rock and three sturdy, powerful rocket ships, in order to, carefully and accurately, slow the spinning of the Earth by approximately 2 1/2 inches, by gently pulling the Earth counter to it's current direction of spin (until the most reasonable correction under 3 inches is made). Modern technology is grand!
Arctic air currents would, then, be milder, day by day, gently warming the Earth to that of a fresh, spring day. The Earth could, over the course of time, become more like the Garden of Eden of ancient days, rather than ravaged with tornadoes, hurricanes, snow storms, et alii.
If, however, we do not hurry, the currently melting glaciers will, quickly, disappear into salt water, flooding the shores of every nation on Earth, and we shall have lost this miraculous opportunity, forever. In fact, a waterfall of melted glacial waters is flowing into the ocean, at this very moment, with the force of Niagara Falls.
To do nothing to divert that water to healthful purposes would be a sin.