Water is essential to everyone everywhere all the time, but conditions are especially disastrous in South Africa.

South Africa, among its many political, economic, and racial troubles, is in the middle of their worst drought in thirty years! And no hope is in sight. Crops are drying in the fields, livestock are dying beside dry river beds, jobs have been lost, people are restless, and politicians are making excuses and blaming each other.

After British and America globalists pressured the white majority government out of power (1994) in South Africa and turned it over to Nelson Mandela and his nefarious crew at the Communist-controlled African National Congress (ANC), it was to be a bright future for everyone. However, it was not to be since the Communists have run the nation into the ground as they always have everywhere. In addition to many other problems, they have a rapidly-approaching nation-wide water shortage. This water shortage is compounded by failed Communist/Socialist policies of freebies for all.

Need I mention that water is more essential than oil? The water well, not the oil well, is where the next major battle will be fought. The U.S. can go a long time without oil, especially with our reserves, but we can live only a few days without water. And everyone on earth is involved.

Experts predict that by 2020 about 30% to 40% of the world will have a water shortage. The Huffington Post reported that about 4 billion people (66% of the world’s population) are without sufficient access to fresh water “for at least one month of the year.”

Cape Town (South Africa’s second largest city) is facing Day Zero when the water supply will be cut off and everyone will have to appear at one of 200 water collecting points in the city of four million people. The troubled nation declared a national disaster in Cape Town on February 13, 2018 as the city’s water supply was predicted to run dry before the end of June. With its dams only 24.9% full (56.9% as of this week due to rain and enforced water restrictions), water-saving measures were in effect that required each citizen to use less than 50 liters a day–about 13 gallons–for drinking, showering, cooking, etc.

I smell rebellion and mobocracy in the air!

One politician warned, “The people and economy of the Western Cape are on the verge of a possible water supply blackout.” Day Zero was expected in 2018 but they muddled through and hope they can forestall disaster through next year. Authorities are expecting major problems even to calling in the army to keep order.

It doesn’t take much imagination to expect major confrontations as thousands of hot, thirsty, stinking people line up for water. The frustrations will be compounded because the Western Cape Water Supply System has already placed a 45% water use restriction for domestic users and 60% for agriculture. If the farmers can’t irrigate, especially during a prolonged drought, food will not be produced and people will starve.

Starving, thirsty people are impossible to control.

The drought has already led to huge losses of livestock and crops. Such losses–as well as individual families without ready access to water—are on everyone’s mind.

A South African politician said, “Current water crisis in Cape Town requires a massive public involvement process where citizens adhere to and assist in identifying those who still continue to use water irresponsibly.” Translation: squeal on your water-using neighbors. That will be an interesting development. Officials report that 60 percent of Cape Town residents are still not complying with current restrictions.

Politicians in the national and provincial governments are fussing with each other as they, like all politicians, try to cover-up their own failures. Placing blame is easier than solving the problem.

Instead of taking the necessary measures, they have curtailed the use of water for home and farm and installed electronic meters to monitor and measure water use. It is my opinion that the only reason to monitor and measure the use of free water is to limit it.

A senior government official told an ANC meeting that the water shortage was in part caused by the Whites (sure, who else?) in the previous administration who built the dams too large! Even a non-engineer knows that dams conserve, retain, and store water to be released as needed. But blame whitey when you get thirsty.

Recently the Minister of Water & Sanitation said in a speech while trying to address the water situation that South Africans should save tap water by drinking other forms of liquids. She said people don’t always have to drink tap water as any form of liquid can help when they are thirsty and stressed. She recalled how she and a friend were lost in the mountains of Bloemfontein when they were young. There were no dams, lakes, or rivers nearby and they ended up drinking dog urine. She testified that their stress was gone immediately and they managed to find their way home. The water official indicated that if people are stressed, maybe they should drink dog urine and save a lot of water.

Is anyone surprised South Africa is in trouble with such officials in office?

So, South Africans, save water. Don’t get a glass of water from your kitchen faucet, go to Spot’s dog house and ask him to fill your glass. And get relieved of stress, saving water at the same time!

The failure of the water supply is a failure of policies of the Communist government that believes the Communist/Socialist system really works; however, as always, reality sets in, and the poor fools realize that it has never worked because Communism/Socialism is impossibly unworkable. After the fall (or push) from power of the hated but efficient white government, the ANC party took control to forge a workers’ paradise but it has become a workers’ nightmare where all the workers (black and white) are thirsty.

The city of Durban was the first South African city to introduce a policy of free basic water in 1998 and the ANC promised all South Africans free basic water during a municipal election campaign in December of 2000.

Those politicians evidently haven’t heard that nothing is free—except the Gospel.

Since 2000, the politicians introduced a policy of free basic services, including water (first six cubic meters per month are free), electricity, and solid waste collection. Each major city decides if free basic water will be available to everyone or only to the poor and most cities provide free basic water to all or almost all their residents. The program reached 86% of all homes by 2012.

This long time coming water shortage has resulted in limited drinking water, little water for farm irrigation, little water for cattle and horses, and limited water for cooking, washing clothes, showering, and sanitation.

The expansive vision of the National Development Plan for Water Resources and Services is that, by 2030, all South African citizens “will have affordable access to sufficient safe water and hygienic sanitation to live healthy and dignified lives.” That’s nice but little help if you are dirty, thirsty, and hungry today.

In 2010, about 11 million South Africans (20% of the population) did not have access to improved sanitation so their only options were to use bucket toilets (3 million); to share facilities (4 million); or practice open defecation (4 million).

The problem of open defecation is continent-wide, not limited to South Africa.

Nearly 540 million people, more than 60 percent of Africa’s population, currently practice open defecation according to the African Development Bank Group. And worldwide, more than a billion people still “go out back” to take care of one of life’s most important functions. Moreover, in all those areas, they do so where deadly cobras, lions, tigers, etc., roam freely. Seems as if that ever-present danger would cause “bashful bladder” and “bashful bowel,” especially at night.

Israel offered in 2016 to help South Africa construct desalination plants, but South Africa rejected the offer. After all, Israel was “oppressing” the “Palestinians” in Gaza.

If South Africa is to come out of this water crisis without a major revolution where hundreds of thousands of innocent people are killed, they had better do more than restrict water. They should dump Communism/Socialism pronto and recognize that those leaders, including Mandela, totally failed to anticipate water and sanitation problems.

They should require working families to pay for water.

They should remove and jail the many political thugs from office and replace them with honest people who are kept honest by strict accountability.

They should hire foreign engineers to replace the ones who fled the bleeding nation for better opportunities.

They should repair the locks and dams even if the money must be taken from secret Swiss bank accounts controlled by corrupt leaders.

They should renovate the gold and diamond mines bringing them back to first and best in the world and charge them a temporary tax until the water flows again.

They should not be too proud to accept help from the Israelis to develop more desalination water systems.

However, the South African leaders would prefer to parrot the Communist line that all Communist/Socialist nations follow than to admit it has contributed to their present most critical problems.

Drought, dissension, and disorder!

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Therefore you should prepare for the worst and pray for the best. Your children should be aware of the possibilities but get them ready without scaring them to death! After all, there is no doubt that their lives will change forever, do not let this hit them in the face tomorrow morning. Carefully get them ready. Let them know that this disaster is no surprise to God. God did not look down recently and say, “Oops.” He has watched this coming on for many years and is permitting man to put himself in a “fine mess.”

Teach the children that they will have to assume more responsibilities around the house. (You should have been training them from their earliest days.) Discuss some of the things they can do to help in surviving and thriving after such an attack on America. Let them know that children all over the world will have to grow up a little quicker than in the past. They should learn to take care of their own rooms, clean out the garage so you can store some food there, and learn to care for the garden, to butcher rabbits, turkeys and clean fish. Let them know that they are an important part of the family unit. (Again, I hope they already know that.)

Teach them to respect, understand, and care for guns. They should know how to hunt and clean game before they need to do so for survival. Children are children, so plan for long nights without much to do. Purchase books, games, puzzles, and DVDs (although televisions may not work so wean them away from television now). Get involved in some of their games and read to the very young.

Purchase school materials for them while they are still available. The public school system and many Christian schools will probably fold in most areas. Prepare for such possibilities, and be sure to purchase Teacher’s Editions and answer keys.

When hard times come, do not wear gold jewelry or expensive clothes or drive large cars. Such people will be targets in an age of envy (generated by non thinking liberals for fifty years). Even decent people will be jealous of your apparent “good fortune.” Translation: you prepared and they did not!

Go to discount stores today, yes today, and purchase toilet paper, honey, salt, pepper, packaged and canned food, bags of rice and beans, various spices, tape, knives and batteries. Then you should buy some silver and   gold. A few boxes of anti-radiation tablets will be more valuable than gold if you are in a contaminated area after a nuclear powerplant meltdown. Get a supply today even if you don’t live near a nuclear plant.

Following are some items that should be in your home: Extra pair of eye glasses or contact lenses, needles and thread, plastic sheeting, medicine dropper, matches, flashlight and batteries, aluminum foil, disposable baby bottle liners, toilet paper, sanitary napkins, insect repellent, toothpaste and toothbrushes, shampoo, candles, lamp oil, battery operated smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detectors.

You also need paper cups, plates, and plastic utensils, baby needs, diapers (cloth), household bleach, Lysol, large and small plastic trash bags, deodorant, good shovel, hatchet, hack saw and extra blades, ammunition (can be used for bartering as well as protection), dish washing soap, bath soap, laundry soap, contraceptives, tools for repairs, kits to repair flat tires on various vehicles (also an air pump), assorted nails and screws, solder, lead, oil for autos and tractors, portable AM-FM radio, flashlights with plenty of batteries, duct tape, mouse traps, lime, shoe laces, rubber gloves, W-D 40 or similar product, extra set of tires and sparkplugs.

You should purchase garden tools, seeds, and everything necessary for a garden. If space is limited, forget flowers and plant a vegetable garden after all God did that after creating everything. Gen. 2:8 tells us “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden.”

You may not have pure drinking water for a while so plan to treat your water from the roof or from a lake or pond. You can boil water for up to ten minutes and while it will kill the bugs, it will not help the taste much. However, you can add Kool-Aide, Tang, or other mix to improve the taste. It will also help the taste if you pour the water (after it has cooled) back and forth from different containers. Remember that boiling water does not remove toxic chemicals and metals.

I think the best decision is to buy a distiller. We have distilled our water for many years and add desired minerals to it.

You could always use household bleach to treat your water if the bleach contains a 5.25% solution of the chlorine compound sodium hypochlorite. It may warn, “Not for personal use,” but that can be disregarded (according to FEMA) if sodium hypochlorite is the only active ingredient. Purchase the brand that has no additives such as perfumes, soaps, etc. It takes 8 drops of bleach per gallon of clear water; 16 drops per gallon of cloudy water; 1/2 teaspoon per 5 gallons of clear water and I teaspoon per 5 gallons of cloudy water to make water drinkable.

After adding bleach to water, thoroughly mix by stirring then let stand for at least 30 minutes. Remember that iodine and bleach do not purify water but do make it safer by neutralizing harmful bacteria.

You can collect water at your downspout, your swimming pool, waterbed, back of commode, lake, ditch, river, etc.  You can even drag towels across the grass early in the morning and collect enough water to keep you alive! Remember that flowing water is preferred over still water and clear water is preferred over cloudy water.

You can purchase products that will treat water and keep it drinkable for about 5 years without using any other chemicals but don’t use milk jugs to store water since they will not withstand long-time storage. Plastic soda bottles can be used safely after a thorough cleaning with very hot water. Metal cans are not the best storage containers for water since the metal affects the taste. They may also rust.

The Bible teaches us to plan for what is approaching and experts tell us that powerless days are ahead of us. If they are wrong then we are not losers by preparing. Politicians always end a speech by saying, “God bless America,” but God has blessed America but America has not blessed God by reacting in a proper fashion. Hence, the coming judgment brought to you by the followers of that “peaceful religion” of Islam–or it could be a super solar storm. Whatever the cause, a major shutdown of the grid will have you sitting in the dark.

Get prepared in every way including peace with God through faith in Christ. That is the best and permanent preparation for whatever might happen.

I have been asked if it is possible for us to repent as a nation and return to greatness, or must we ride the toboggan slide to the garbage heap of history. We can repent but a return to greatness as a nation will not happen if history is any standard.

We may soon know the answer to that question.

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Africa, India, and some areas in South America are open cesspools where children play, parents wash clothes and get drinking water, workers irrigate crops, etc. In those areas, fresh water is unknown and open defecation (OD) is common.

Now for the first time in human history most people live in cities, often in the slums. More than 70 percent of Africa’s urban population lives in slums! Around one-third of the urban population in developing countries, nearly one billion people, live in slums, according to estimates. There is one toilet for every 500 people in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

However, the biggest problem is in rural areas where the problem can be more quickly solved but not without difficulty. Nearly 540 million people, more than 60 percent of Africa’s population, currently practice open defecation according to the African Development Bank Group. And worldwide, more than a billion people still “go out back” to take care of one of life’s most important functions. Moreover, in all those areas, they do so where deadly cobras, lions, tigers, etc., roam freely–at night! Seems as if that ever-present danger would cause “bashful bladder” and “bashful bowel.”

Of the one billion people who still go “behind the house” to defecate, 82% live in ten nations: India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Niger, and Mozambique. Note that the last five of those nations are in Africa.

The UN spent a huge amount of money to teach people in undeveloped nations to use a latrine but they admit it has been an “abysmal” failure and it seems they flushed their money down the toilet. UN officials admit that the problem is “attitude,” not only the absence of toilets. The WHO Public Health Director lamented, “What is shocking…is this picture of someone practicing open defecation and in the other hand having a mobile phone.” Is that multiple tasking in third world nations?

Such unhealthy, uncivilized, unnecessary practices as open defecation result in the problem of children playing in fecal matter and animals walking through disease laden matter, plus animals eating it. Add to that the problem of contaminated water runoff into wells and streams from which natives get their drinking water, wash their bodies, and wash their clothes. They use contaminated water to irrigate their crops, cook with, etc. Children play in the water. A hundred viruses come from human feces. It’s a surprise that anyone is still alive in Africa, India, and similar nations.

In many villages that have simply dug latrines (not a fancy concrete slab with a hole) the open pits are often located upstream thereby contaminating the water used for drinking, cooking, etc. Also, often the streams are used for defecation and urination. Seldom do people wash their hands after defecating and when they do so, the water is almost always contaminated!

Inadequate sewage treatment from large cities only adds to the other pollution and most cities pump toxins into the water and it poisons everything downstream and is added to the runoff from each village and agricultural area. Runoff from mines creates heavy metals such as nickel, molybdenum, zinc, cadmium and lead. All these contaminants produce a toxic “cocktail” that poisons every living creature downstream.

Where are the national and municipal leaders in all this? It would not take much money or ingenuity for a mayor or village chief to build a common toilet in the middle of a village. The free world has given trillions of dollars to African nations in the past 50 years and they haven’t solved two simple problems: How to drink and defecate safely. Corrupt national leaders are legendary but surely they could release a few dollars from their Swiss or Cayman Island bank accounts to solve these two basic problems.

The problem is more complex than it seems as expressed by a health official who said that “most people want toilets for reasons of convenience, privacy and status rather than ensuring healthy environment, good sanitation or the prevention of diseases.” Some believe that the feces of children are not harmful while others believe they will become demon possessed if they use an available village toilet.

There are 4 billion cases of diarrhea in Africa every year and about 2.2 million people die from it, most of them being children under two years old. Cholera, dysentery, typhoid, worm infestation, and malaria are killers especially of children. Malaria kills between 1 to 3 million people, 90 percent taking place in sub-Sahara Africa.

India boasts 1.2 billion people yet 600 millions of their citizens still defecate in the open and the numbers continue to grow! British rule for hundreds of years didn’t help in that regard.

According to National Geographic, the Ganges River at Allahabad is “one of the holiest spots in Hinduism. Allahabad, Persian for ‘settled by God,’ plays host every dozen years to the Kumbh Mela, the biggest gathering of humanity on Earth, when tens of millions of pilgrims come to wash away their sins at the confluence of the three rivers.” Two problems: sins can never be washed away by water. The Bible teaches in I John 1:17 that “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” Water has nothing to do with personal salvation. Second problem is the Ganges River is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. It is flowing sewage.

Even more civilized nations such as Israel are not without filthy rivers. The Jordan River is one of the most polluted rivers in the world and I have baptized people in it a few times! I had no thought of pollution since the Jordan flows from the Sea of Galilee where I have boated and from which I have eaten fish many times.

After most of the Jordan water is diverted to irrigate the fruit orchards in Israel and neighboring Jordan, the remaining water flows into the Dead Sea. Without knowing of the pollution, I swam unthinkingly a few times in the Dead Sea. Untreated sewage water and agricultural runoff is responsible for polluting the river in which Christ was baptized.

But the big problem is Africa. Maybe some of the former colonial nations could “make restitution” for their former “evil” by digging wells and installing village pumps. That solves problem number one.

Problem number two can be solved by digging a hole (away from the well) and building thatched sides for privacy? Voilà, we have a privy or African Outhouse.

In this column I have theoretically solved Africa’s biggest problems so there should be jubilation from Angola to Zimbabwe! Maybe they will name their male outhouses after me: Boys!

Maybe tomorrow I will clean up the polluted rivers starting with the Jordan.

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While there are huge modern cities, there are thousands of villages (containing a few hundred to many thousands of people) where they still live in primitive conditions, mainly dirty drinking water and outside defecation.  From this environment have come HIV, Ebola, and other exotic diseases that health officials have a commission to abolish or control. They are failing at abolishing and controlling.

Africa is the open toilet of the world, a disease-making factory. (If you want to know, Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day.) Someplace in the world, a child dies of poor sanitation every 20 seconds. And some African diseases are being brought to America.

May I suggest that very simple additions to the African lifestyle might solve or help alleviate the matter? How about building some old-fashioned outhouses in the villages? I have been to some of those villages and never saw an outhouse–not one! How could they have gone thousands of years without thinking of a better solution to one of the most important functions of human life?

One child dies every minute from preventable diarrhea. Cholera and typhoid are normal results of bad sanitation. Each family building their own outhouse would solve much of the sanitation problem.

Furthermore, another major third world problem is contaminated drinking water; however, eight drops of unscented bleach in one gallon of clear water (16 drops for cloudy water) will kill many of the disease-causing pathogens. Such actions do not require a multi-million dollar study or a vast infusion of federal funds. But I suppose my partial solution is too simple: Dig a hole for wastes and another hole, uphill if possible, for water and if a well is not possible, then use bleach or boiling for water purification.

Concerning Ebola, the Director of the CDC, Dr. Tom Frieden testified before Congress and admitted that there is not much confidence that the CDC can “deal with things like this.” He added, “Their experience in dealing with bacterial warfare is almost zero, but that’s almost what you have here….We know almost nothing, this is a world we’ve barely scratched the surface in.” He continued. “We are probably not prepared. We have nothing that stops a virus other than quarantine and hoping it dies out.” Hoping is not a scientific policy and has not been effective in controlling epidemics!

Frieden oozes gloom and has little hope. He seems to be setting us up for another massive failure on the part of the CDC. Frieden recently had experience as Commissioner of New York City Department of Health where former Mayor Bloomberg outlawed large surgery drinks and trans fats but it was struck down by a state court. The New York Post characterized the city’s attack on trans fats and sodas as, “a nanny state on steroids.” Now, Frieden has Ebola in his sights. I hope he is more successful because Ebola is a more dangerous than large sodas.

Contagion experts tell Ebola health workers to wear protective gear in dealing with the vigorous, vicious virus. Two infected Americans were returned to Atlanta wearing total protection; however, I want to know why that is so necessary if the disease is not airborne and one must come in contact with an infected person’s body fluids. And while there is no evidence to prove airborne infections, there is no evidence to prove otherwise. Sane, sensible scientists take the worst-case scenario not the best-case. You hope (and pray!) for the best but plan for the worst.

Planning for the worst would demand that infected people not be brought back to America for treatment, even highly dedicated and compassionate people like the infected missionaries. At first blush it may seem calloused to leave infected Americans in Africa but good, safe medical procedures would dictate safety over sentimentalism. Of course, the infected medical personnel should get the best care available and the CDC and others could see that it becomes a reality.

A major German virologist Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit caused concern, consternation, and contempt when he suggested that the battle against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia was lost and that the virus would eventually kill 5 million people!

It is a fact that an unusually large proportion of health care workers have been infected. Were they so careless as to make contact with body fluids of Ebola patients or were they infected by breathing the virus?

Why not assume airborne possibilities until proved otherwise? It is a fact that bubonic plague (98% of world’s modern cases have been in Africa) is caused by bites from infected fleas carried by rats. During the Middle Ages when infection reached the lungs, it became even more deadly pneumonic plague since it was then airborne. Plague could then be contracted by coughing and sneezing.

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet is a past director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and is very concerned about the infectious possibilities. She revealed a 2012 Canadian study in which healthy monkeys and infected monkeys were kept side by side in cages but had no physical contact. The healthy monkeys became infected with Ebola without any physical contact! So, can we and should we trust the CDC for the answers?

Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, notes in a New York Times op-ed article that, “there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years.” He suggested the horrifying possibility that Ebola could mutate to become transmissible through the air. He added that “virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering [airborne transmission] in private.”

Obama has sent 3,000 military personnel to Africa. Will they enforce the quarantine in Sierra Leone where one million households are required to stay indoors? Will the U.S. troops be authorized to protect themselves if people refuse to obey and panic? Will infected soldiers be returned to America or treated in Africa? What about the soldiers who will have sex with local prostitutes and come home within the 21-day incubation period?

On Sept. 16 the news reported that the U.S. State Department has purchased 160,000 hazmat suits for Ebola protection. We sure don’t need that many for health works so why are so many needed?

Again, hope and pray for the best and make plans for the worst. I’m afraid the worst may be staring us in the face. Can we trust the CDC to deal with the worst?

What other vicious, virulent viruses are percolating in Africa as I write?

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It is interesting that fluoride is now forbidden in many European, New Zealand, and Australian cities but the CDC considers it as “one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century.” Many U.S. cities are putting the issue up to the voters; after all, they are the ones being poisoned!

I have been told that fluoride is necessary to protect our children’s teeth; however, that is propaganda. Studies show that people who live in fluoridated areas have no fewer cavities than those who live in the cities that do. A 2008 study published in Biological Trace Element Research revealed that children in China who live in fluoridated areas have five times increased risk for lower IQ than kids who drink water without fluoride contamination. A 2012 Harvard fluoride study revealed the danger of fluoride on the brains of children: “The children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ than those who lived in low fluoride areas.” It seems we have a choice of having holes in our teeth or our brains! I choose neither.

People who brush their teeth with fluoride toothpaste are doing great harm to their health, especially if they are children. Such toothpaste is dangerous and one tube has enough fluoride (a poison) to kill a child according to Dr. Mark A. Stengler. Stengler is a medical doctor in California and a licensed naturopath. He recommends only an all-natural tooth paste be used. We have been using one based on various essential oils for many years.

Dr. James Sumner, Nobel Prize winner said, “Everybody knows fluorine and fluorides are very poisonous substances….” Dr. Robert Prick said, “Fluoridation is one of the biggest international scandals that has ever been promoted in the name of a health scheme.” It is interesting that leftist kooks and federal employees (but I repeat myself) defend dumping millions of gallons of these poisons into our water supply but run like their hair is on fire when we suggest that maybe we should reconsider the ban on DDT, especially with the dengue fever in Florida!

The kidneys expel about half of the fluoride that is ingested and the remainder is stored in the bones and teeth resulting in the disease of fluorosis. Almost 45% of Americans have dental fluorosis thought to be caused by fluoridated water, swallowing of fluoride-laced toothpaste, and the drinking of soft drinks that have fluoride water as their basis.

Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Parkinson’s disease, opposes water fluoridation as do many other experts such as Dr. Dean Burke a co-founder of the National Cancer Institute. Burke was eloquent when he stated on Canadian radio, “There have been almost as many excess deaths associated with fluoridation as the sum total of all American military deaths since the founding of the USA in 1776.” Therefore, most sane people might think that it could be wise to stop putting poison in our water supply!

For fifty years those of us who were critical of “treating” the water supply with fluoride and chlorine were called “nuts” and “extremists.” However, in this day it is not as dangerous to one’s reputation to be critical of fluoridation since far more people are informed and sensitive to pollution of food and water. Even the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in 2011 that there was too much fluoride in our water and recommended reducing that amount. Of course, many of us demand that all poisons be removed.

Some people think they will be safe if they drink tea, coffee or soft drinks, but God planned for us to drink water. Besides, what do you think those drinks are made of? They are also bad news in that they may provide sugar, caffeine, chemicals, additives, etc., that destroy the body. It only takes 9 cups of coffee or 4 cups of tea in a day to cause the heart to react. Caffeine is dangerous and is found in cola drinks and many prescription drugs.

Water is essential to everyone and it just may be the source of major confrontations in a few years. Mankind will realize how important water is when the well runs dry. While oil is necessary for modern society, water is more so. Moreover, while we know the quality of the water supply is deteriorating, the quantity is not increasing and what is available ranges from “bad to badder to baddest.”

If your community poisons the water supply, you should drink spring water or get a purifier or distiller. We have been distilling our water for many years and when we are on the road, we purchase it in gallon jugs at Wal-Mart.

No, I don’t work for Wal-Mart but I did shop there last night.

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What goes into the body has an incredible effect on it, so we must be careful what we permit in the body. Since the body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, it is a sin for a Christian to mistreat it. Most educated people know the danger of sugar, some meats, chemicals, dyes, preservatives, etc., that are detrimental to the human body. However, the most essential ingredient (except for oxygen) that goes into the body is water.

The Earth’s surface is covered with 70% water which is necessary for all forms of life so maybe the Earth should be called “Ocean.” About 96% is salt water found in the oceans and seas and only about 3% is fresh water and about 70% of that is used by farms and ranches. Of the remainder of fresh water less than 1% is available to satisfy every plant, animal, and person on Earth! Without water, there is no life.

From its beginning thousands of years ago, civilization has thrived around rivers, lakes, and major harbors. Mesopotamia is known as the cradle of civilization and was located between the major rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. Egypt depended entirely upon the Nile and the regular flooding of its banks. The World’s largest and oldest cities are located on major rivers, lakes, and ocean harbors. Without water, the world dries up. I believe the next big battle will be over water, not oil or land.

Water is the most necessary item on Earth. No living thing can exist without it; yet it is increasingly more difficult to find pure water. The reasons are the population growth, the expanding cities, and massive farms which are all producing a shortage of water and often resulting in contaminated water. (No, I am not an environmentalist nut.)

Since the human body consists of 70% water which is the most necessary element in our lives except air, I think our drinking water should be pure to help us function at our optimum level and provide a long life. However, it is difficult to get pure water.

The Feb. 18, 2014 issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology reported that nearly half of water faucets sampled across the United States tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease! It went on to add that Legionnaires’ disease is a severe form of pneumonia that causes chills, fever, headache, a cough and more. It can be deadly. Don’t offer me a glass of water.

The fact is that most of our water may be safe for showers (and that is debatable) but not safe to swallow—and drinking is more important than showers! (This is not a defense for dirt.)

Most towns and cities in the U.S. have impure water. Even rainwater isn’t pure since it falls through the polluted atmosphere. Moreover, most city water has been recycled and used at least 5 times! Water used in Pittsburgh flows down the Ohio River to Huntington, WV and is used by them until it passes on to Cincinnati then to Louisville and into the Mississippi on the Illinois and Missouri border, a distance of 980 miles. The Mississippi then flows south dumping its much-used water into the Gulf of Mexico after “refreshing” millions of hapless citizens along its path. Of course, the used, polluted water is “cleaned up” for repeated use; but West Africans say that filthy water cannot be washed. I tend to agree with them.

“But,” you say, “Chlorination cleans up the water.” No, it adds more problems. Author Joseph Price, M.D. says that before 1900 when chlorination started, heart attacks were unknown! He wrote, “The basic cause of atherosclerosis, heart attacks and most forms of strokes is chlorine. The chlorine contained in processed water.” People tell us that it is modern stress that produces heart attacks but early Americans lived with incredible stress–often dangerous Indians, bad weather, poor harvests, etc.,– without heart attacks.

Water is not only polluted, it is often poisoned! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered cancer-causing substances in every water supply it tested—79 different cities!

Some water systems even have transparent worms! William Witzke of the Witzke Laboratories in Modesto, CA said that 95% of the water analyzed was not fit for human or animal consumption. The U.S. Public Service said, “One out of every two Americans—over one hundred million people—are drinking processed sewer water.” Say what? That’s why we drink distilled or purified water.

It is time to take control of our lives, without becoming fanatics, and treat our bodies the way God expects us to treat them. Then you can plan on living to be a hundred–unless you step in front of a Greyhound!

Next column: “Fluoridated Water Makes Dirty Water, Poisonous!”

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