The stress caused by the increasingly severe drought in the United States is giving rise to predictable conspiracy theories, most of them focused on a dark conspiracy by the Pentagon and various other powerful agencies which, for some dark nefarious reason, are using what are called ‘Chemtrails' to spray chemicals in the atmosphere and thus create a terrible drought.

One example of this sort of thing that I read recently on the site ‘www.rense.com' titled "Are Chemtrails causing drought?" stated that "Drought is becoming widespread throughout the United States ... Evidence leads us to the conclusion that all is not coincidence. It appears that corporations and certain factions of the government are playing a large role ... I feel it is important to share with you some brief insights I've gained from others, which are vital in overcoming the current desperate situation ... Citizens understandably want to know why their government and or certain corporations would want to perhaps cause a drought, crash the economy, keep us in a perpetual state of war, take away many of our rights ... greed, hate and a hunger for power are some of the motives behind many of these negative actions ... I have been observing the chemtrail phenomenon for a couple of years now, here in the northeast ... One to two days before a front is scheduled to pass through, heavy spraying will occur. ... When the front arrives , one will many times hear low flying jets above the cloud cover. We end up recieving absolutely no rain (even though predicted) or a very negligable amount ... barium and probably other chemicals may also be used in conjunction with HAARP, which is a joint U.S Air Force and Navy project, to essentially control the weather ... the contrail phenomena is one part of a military weather modification weapons system ... One will almost never see trails being formed the day after the front passes through. As a rule, in our area, one to 2 days of clear skies follow, sometimes 3. Then the whole cycle begins again with a storm predicted to pass through within a couple of days.
... Our winter of 2001/2002 has been very bizarre, consisitng of unusual severe drought and extremely warm temperatures."

I should point out that while Haarp is usually mentioned in these dark stories of the military creating a devestating drought, Haarp, while it is a military outfit, is in the business, they say, of studying ways to use the ionsphere to create new ways to send top secret military communications around the world. This is believable to me, while destroying the entire nation with drought as an agenda for Haarp is not very believable. Haarp stands for HIGH FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM, and on the Haarp website,
 http://w3.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/gen.html
their agenda is described as being " a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes. "

Now I must say that I believe this, since top secret military communications traffic is a believable goal, while destroying the nation with drought is not believable as the actual secret purpose of Haarp. However during desperate times, with fearful drought of the most exceptional and severe kind blanketing the continent people will turn to conspiracy theories like Chemtrails and Haarp for the simple reason that if the military can be held responsible, the military can be brought to account, and thus stopped, and then the drought will go away and everything will be fine. People turn to these types of conspiracy theories because in a strange way they are comforting and also empowering in that such theories provide at least the illusion of empowerment and hope - better than believing one is actually held hostage to savage natural powers about which one can do nothing, at least not in the short term.

Water privatization - a ‘conspiracy theory' worth considering?

Personally I do not believe that Haarp has anything to do with Chemtrails, or that the U.S. military is deliberately creating this drought out of the sheer miserable nature of their evil, greedy, power mad characters. There may be something to Chemtrails, as an act of desperation and a secret acknowledgment that something terrible is happening (if only we could spray something and make it rain), but the Haarp conspiracy theory blames the pentagon for the drought (not trying to end it, which would make more sense) and this is probably why many people are active in promoting the Haarp conspiracy - emotionally this myth provides a sense of immediate hope...

That being said we are slipping into a devastating drought, and at the same time there is a sudden push to privatize water, and this leads one to wonder if this sudden interest in privatizing water is just, as the Marxist analysis would put it, a result of the reduction of profits and the drive to seek new sources of profit, or if the two things are actually connected. After all, oil is a commodity, and as we know, oil is siphoned North, measured in billions of gallons. If water is now to be a private holding of corporations, now that water is a commodity what is to stop water exports, water shipping, water pipelines...this is especially interesting when we consider the drought, and the need for water. Considered together this makes for an interesting conspiracy theory itself, that water privatization is not just the drive to create profits in the face of dwindling sources of profits, and thus buttress shrinking earnings, but rather it is part of a larger agenda, in preparation for a waterless future in the United States.

Now to be a reasonable theory, and not just a conspiracy theory without foundation, the facts must fit the scenario, and so I have done some research to see if it is indeed plausible to speculate theat ‘water privatization' being forced on the poorer countries of Latin America as part of what is called an agenda of introducing free market principles, is just that, or could actually be preparing the ground for massive exports of water to parched and water starved America.

The statistics are truly astounding. Every year about 300 trillion gallons of rain falls on the United States (here we are assuming that it actually does rain). 25 per cent of this rain makes it into the ground water (about 75 trillion gallons per year). Each year America uses 450 trillion gallons of water, of which only 100 trillion gallons is considered to be ‘consumed' as opposed to the r 350 trillion gallons which is said to be ‘withdrawn'. Water that is ‘withdrawn' is ‘returned' and then can presumably return to ground water or return to the hydrological cycle in other ways. (90 per cent of this water is used for various industrial purposes, with the majority consumer being irrigation for agriculture, with irrigated land, not dependant on rain, comprising only 5 per cent of the farms of the nation. Should even more land turn to irrigation in the face of drought, one can only imagine the fantastic totals that would result). Given that only 25 per cent of rain percolates down to become ground water, we can assume then that only 25 per cent of the water used for irrigation would return, the other 75 per cent being released into the atmosphere through evaporation, or by plants through transpiration (as plants bring up water and nutrients they must also release water through their leaves, a type of siphoning effect). For this reason irrigation is considered a very high consumption use of ground water, since so little is actually available to be return to the system. Ground water takes hundreds of years to recharge, and some ground water actually consists of ‘fossil water' that has been present since ancient times (this being particularly true in the high consumption desert areas).

So then each year more water is consumed in various ways than is actually recharged in the form of ground water, which explains how, over a period of decades as the totals mount, there are areas in the United States at the present experiencing falling levels of ground water (Utah for example was earlier this year considering a total ban on all agricultural irrigation because of the impact of the drought and the falling ground water levels. There are concerns in states such as Arizona and New Mexico about importing water since the water tables are also lowered in these desert areas, where massive urban populations exist, requiring massive withdrawals of ground water, and these areas being deserts after all, there is even less in the way of precipitation to recharge the falling ground water levels.)

The figures released by the EPA for 1990 show that at that time about 340 trillion gallons of water was used, this representing about one quarter of the nations renewable supply (assuming that it rains), with over half of this total being returned to rivers and streams after use, which means that about an eighth of the renewable supply was being ‘consumed' as opposed to being ‘withdrawn'.

Only 3 per cent of the earth's water is fresh water, and of that three quarters is frozen in glaciers and the ice caps, one fifth is in the form of ground water, and less than one per cent is in the form of lakes or rivers. The Great Lakes alone hold 95 per cent of the fresh water in the United States (and the levels have been dropping in response to the drought). The five per cent of farms that are irrigated use an astonishing 150 billion gallons a day of the water used in the nation, with California leading the pack at 25 per cent of this total. Irrigation is the largest user of ground water, extracting 80 per cent of the total (of which one could then expect 25 per cent to recharge). Each year over three quarters of a million new ground water wells are drilled. Ground water pollution is a big problem. Landfills release about 90 billion gallons of pollutants and another 100 billion gallons leech into the ground water from liquid holding embankments each year. Other sources of pollutants include 23 million septic tanks, over 400 million tons of garbage in 18,000 landfills, 16,000 industrial land fill sites, many of which contain toxic wastes, 181,000 industrial lagoons, over a million and half oil and gas wells, a million abandoned drinking wells, over 70,000 mines, as well as over a billion pounds of pesticides, 660 million pounds of Alachlor and Atrazine, 50 million tons of fertilizer, over a million underground storage tanks, and around 8 million tons of deicing salts used on highways every winter. One billion acres are in farmland in the United States, only 5 per cent of which is irrigated, the other 95 per cent being entirely dependant on the rains, and 97 per cent of farmers are dependant on ground water (often untreated) for drinking water.

Now in order to determine whether or not ‘water privatization' could be reasonably considered a preparation for massive water exports to a parched and desert like America, we need to do some calculations to see if the scenario seems reasonable.

As a basis for making the comparison, consider that the United States uses about 18 million barrels of oil per day. Some estimates put the reserves of sweet, light Iraqi crude and the Caspian oil at about 400 billion barrels, or 60 years supply (if we ignore Europe and the rest of the nations consuming oil). A barrel of oil contains 42 gallons and yields about 20 gallons of gasoline, which means that each day the United States burns 360 million gallons of gasoline, or 130 billion gallons per year. Each gallon of gasoline releases about 5 to 6 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, or about 2 billion pounds a year.


A tanker truck carries 2,500 gallons and the United States requires 140,000 of these tankers to carry gasoline every day. An oil tanker can carry 53 million gallons of oil and the United States requires about 15 of these a day. There are about 600,000 miles of pipes serving the water system in the United States and once aqueducts are factored in the total reaches about one million miles. There are also pipes for oil and natural gas, so the total amount of piping is much more.

Now working with the above figures if the United States was forced to import privatized water, this would require 800 tankers per day, if we assume that America continued to use water at its present high rate. However other countries get by with much less, in fact some with a tenth of what America uses, and if we assume that America threw in the towel over irrigation and just became an importer of food (from the lush fertile Sahara perhaps) then demand would be much less, so it then becomes possible to imagine perhaps 80 tankers a day, which is still a lot, not to mention many miles of pipe line, since it would require around a million trucks to haul this water everyday.

Viable conspiracy theory? I don't know, but it does give you some idea of the scale of the problem facing the nation as severe drought continues its relentless spread, and of the huge profits to be made in privatized water, where a barrel of water would have to be worth at least as much as a barrel of oil, if not more...

The development of Harrp is not the only reason for the percieved modification of the atmosphere.Chemtrail activity may be also linked to the secret discovery of a very large comet named planet-x.If you are interested try visiting www.carnicom.com in the first instance as there is good scientific work in progress , and the prescence in the atmosphere of certain metalic elements as already been identified.There also exsists as a link from this sight a alternative theory of how comets affect the earths weather , comets are not what NASA says they are.Jim Mccanney as a alternative theory that will startle many and if true complteley revolutionise our picture of earths history.

Yup, and this is all Planet X fault too... ask NASA, they never lie!

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