Utah can't feed itself Imports 97% fruit/vegetable
Why is Utah anti-farm and anti-family on water?
A Utah farmer (a Public Food Provider) has less rights to the use of water than a Weed, a Bush, or a Public Water Provider.
A Utah farmer (a Public Food Provider) has less rights to the use of water than a Weed, a Bush, or a Public Water Provider.
A house evaporates 1 gallon of water a day worth 1/2 a penny. Why is it regulated in Utah? To rip off families.
You can plant 10 trees evaporating 1,000 gallons of water a day with no Water Right. But you can't plant a house evaporating 1 gallon a day without a Water Right. What's going on?
Utah's Congressional delegation should asked for $30 Billion in Federal dollars for Utah's Food Security, and to harden Utah's 14,000 mile water grid.
The Division of Water Rights doesn't care about Utah's 25% leak rate (500 billion gallons a year).
Salt Lake City reported to the Division of Water Rights that it leaked 4.3 billion gallons of water from city water lines before the house meters in 2021. Provo City reported leakage of 1.1 billion gallons. Sandy City reported leakage 1.1 billion gallons. St George leaked 0.88 billion gallons.
Why are families water shamed for a drippy facet?
Why the report your neighbor water wasting snitch lines?
Utah's Wildfire Insurance Risk is 4X's CA's. Utah's Watershed Malpractice and Forest Negligence costs Utah families $250 million a year which is $7.5 billion over 30 years.
Watershed Restoration (tree thinning) increases water yields, save our forests and wildlife, and reduces Home Insurance costs. Utah's Ranks No. 1 at 39% for Wildfire Burn Risk to homes. Why does Utah hide the $461 million spent cutting down 250 million trees for more water, when it's Elon Musk smart thing to do? https://wri.utah.gov/wri/
2025 - California authorizes insurance carriers to up charge for wildfire liabilities instead of tree thinning.
The Division of Water Rights has 22 full time staff plus support staff cutting Farm Water every day. Why would the State target the 3.2% farmers consume and ignore the 96% water user (Trees, Bushes, Weeds).
The State Engineer should be a real farmer, because 80% of the registered water rights is farm water. All Registered Water Rights in Utah are only 4% of Utah's consumptive water.
Why are some promoting an anti-family, no lawn Utah to save the Great Salt Lake when all the lawn water in the GSL water basin amounts to 1/16 % of Utah's water?
Why would Utah spend $2.5 billon for secondary meters on 1/4 % of Utah's water, but not use its water twice like Las Vegas does with clean sewer effluent?
The amount of water needed to power a house can exceed the amount of water used by the house indoor and outdoor combined.
The amount of water needed to power an EV can exceed the amount of water of two houses indoor and outdoor combined.
Fluoride is a hazardous waste - EPA. If you want to use it, use it. Don't poison 1 million acre feet of water of which only 112 acre-feet is consumed as tap water by people.
Why does my toilet need Fluoride in its water?
Fluoride lowers IQ.
We poison 100% of the drinking water of which 99.99% is not drank as tap water. Pretty dumb. How about offer free fluoride pills to those that want it instead?
Why is Utah paying $4.4 million to farmers not to farm?
Utah's watershed malpractice costs Utah families $6 billion in higher home insurance premiums over 30 years.
Today, Utah's watershed malpractice is a cost driver in the 30% rate increase Rocky Mt. Power demanded.
Wildfire liability claims from power line fires in overgrown forests are crippling power companies.
PG& E ( a multi-billion dollar utility) was bankrupted, 10,000 buildings in Palisades burned down from CA's Watershed Malpractice.
UT's Watershed Malpractice is 4X's worse than CA's.
How did Utah get the worst watershed malpractice and water laws in the nation?
Because Utah allows Salt Lake City to run State water and forest policy.
Tired of high home insurance, high power bills, and high water taxes? De-weaponize Utah's water.
The good ole boy game gave Utah bad water laws, bad water management, and watershed malpractice hurting Utah's families.
The good ole boys are enriched with endless, bloated No bid Public Contracts, rivers of water taxes, and cities endless lust for more and more money.
One public water utility manager is paid nearly $300,000 a year with a retirement goal of $500,000/yr.
It's easier to raise water rates than raise taxes.
Why does Utah pay city residents 130,680 per acre to rip out the family lawn, but discriminates against farm families paying them as little as $5,899 to rip out one acre of farmland?
All Utah's 1.1 million lawns use only 1/4% of Utah's water.
Resistance to injustice is the glue that holds society together.
Utah's bad water policies hurt families.
It's time to de-weaponize Utah's water and disable cities from ripping off Home Builders and Utah families of billions of dollars.
A rich city cuts drinking water lines so the city can buy "dry" land for pennies from poor people.
Home Builders are required to turn in twice the water their development needs, no credit is given for natural vegetation water, and no credit for the sewer reuse water cities reclaim that developers turned in.
The un-needed half overcharged water is called "surplus" and sold, monetized or just hoarded and wasted.
Cities hoard water, file applications to appropriate water claiming they need it, and then sell it for big cash out the back door using legal tricks, exploit drought to rake in millions for less water, and loot water accounts to avoid truth in taxation hearings.
One city siphoned off $50 million to the general fund, while the city water lines some 110+ years old leak billions of gallons of water a year.
Cities leak billon of gallons of water from poorly managed water lines while brow beating families about a dripping facet.
On and on it goes. Utah's unsuspecting families absorb this graft on top of 1981 regulations driving up a rural home build $30,000 to $60,000 with apathy from the Division of Water Rights.
Washington County Water Conservancy District (WCWCD) has been in a Class Action 10+ year lawsuit fighting for the right to overcharge Home Builders and Utah families for water. It's using good public money to fight for the bad right to overcharge families for water.
The fundamental, fatal, and water wasting flaw in Utah's water management is Utah's illegal State Law 73-1-1 declaring all water is Public Property when it is not. 73-1-1 violates the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution, the Takings Clause, and the APA.
The bundle of private property land rights comes from the sovereign parent (the US Gov't) to the child (States and Private landowners).
A state, a child itself of the sovereign, has no authority to take all the natural federal water granted by the Parent gov't to the children Private Property Owners by a childish legislative act.
Under Utah's Watershed Restoration Initiative (WRI), Utah has expended $377,394,691 to cut down 250 million trees on 2.5 million state acres for more water. https://wri.utah.gov/wri/
Under 73-1-1, does the State have the right to come onto my private land and cut down my trees, bushes, grass, and suck the water out of my soil? No. They never did and still don't.
This confirms that not all the water in Utah is Public. That private lands have a natural right to the use of water without a State permit.
A Water Right should be called a State Water Permit to use some federal water.
The Utah Division of Water Rights manages 133,032 Perfected water rights, 2,133 Unapproved water rights, 7,420 Approved water rights, 4,930 Abandoned water rights, and 45,600 Terminated water rights. -
(April 24, 2024 grama). This represents only 4% of Utah's consumptive water.
1/3 of all the Water Rights managed by the Division of Water Rights were Abandoned or Terminated.
Who or what got the water from the 4,930 Abandoned and 45,600 Terminated water right? Trees not Utah families.
Utah is spending $100 million to Terminate and Abandon water rights for trees while Utah families are forced to pay up to $22,000 an acre-foot for non-consumptive water for a building permit.
Of the 133,042 Perfected water rights, how many are for under 2 acre-feet? Half?
The other 96% of Utah's annual water precipitation is non-farm vegetation and surface water evaporation. There are no water right numbers for 96% of the water in Utah.
There are no Water Right numbers for Utah's 7.6 billon trees (wells) consuming 80% of Utah's water. The state managed federal waters in Utah are a very small 4% subset (0.8 trillion gallons) of Utah's water (20 trillion gallons of annual precipitation).
All of Utah's 248 Cities/towns consume 1/2%, and all Utah farms consume 3.5% of the water in Utah.
The 3.5% is consumed by 1 million acres of farmland. There used to be 13 million acres of farmland. Farm water us has decreased 92%.
In reality, there is no such thing as State water rights, because the state only manages the federal water owned by the sovereign and use granted by the sovereign to others.
The State has been granted from the Federal Gov't a limited water management right for federal waters excluding the natural federal water on Private Property.
All water in the US is federal water without exception.
The public good justification that water is so critical and such a scarce resource, that one child (the State) should take all of another's child's water to maximize the economy and public good is not supported by the scientific water fact that 96% of Utah's water is not used under the state water permit system by any cities, farms, or industries.
The fact is, that the Division of Water Rights only indexes 4% of Utah's consumptive water under 133,000 perfected, indexed water rights, many of which are virtually non-consumptive, and half so small that the cost to manage them is nonsense.
Who would ever regulate 10 cents worth of rain water? Utah. Why?
Who would illegalize drinking rain water? Utah. Why?
Who would give cities and water districts the statutory right to waste water eternally (40 years as a standing right plus guaranteed water banking extensions in perpetuity)? Utah. Why?
Note: The State gave away all their power on the 4% of the water they regulate to cities and water districts by a law crafted by the water cartel who duped some poor rube legislator into running a misguided water bill SB51.
Because the state can never forfeit city water any more, it no longer controls the State water and is a paper tiger.
Who would ever require a water right to build a house when a house build, saves water and adds water to the Public water basins?
Why won't Utah update their 1981 indoor water requirements 43 years out of date, to save a family $30,000 to $60,000 on a home build, or have water science that can't pass peer reviews?
Who would ticket and water shame Mom's and Dad's for day lawn watering when all of Utah's family lawns consume only 1/4% of Utah's water while Utah's 7.6 billion trees suck 15 trillion gallons (80%) of Utah's water?
A: Utah - No.1 in watershed malpractice, water wasting, and the weaponization of water against the Public good and Private Property rights.
96% of Utah's water is not consumed by cities, farmers, or industry, but by Utah's 7.6 billion trees, many non-native, vegetation many non-native, and surface evaporation.
The idea that the State must take or even could take, which is physically impossible, every drop of water from land to give it to others, for other's trees, other's bushes and other's grass is nonsense.
There is no such thing as dry land. Even Death Valley, CA, the driest place in the US, gets 1.5 inches of rain in contrast to Kauai, HI which can get 40 feet of rain.
Just as a state is powerless to cancel Federal religious rights, free speech, mining claims, voting rights, or any other federal right devolving from the sovereign managed by US Constitution, the supreme law of the land, Utah is powerless to take all the natural water from Private land by some flimsy state law with no scientific basis, public good, or reasonableness.
Again, Utah has expended nearly $400 million cutting 250 million trees down on 2.5 million acres on State Lands for more natural water on state lands under Utah's Watershed Restoration Initiative program.
Just as the State has a natural right to the vegetation water on its land, so does a Private landowner have a natural right to plant a home foundation, trees, bushes, and water consuming vegetation using only the natural water on or under one's Private land without a State permitted water right.
Many trees, bushes and vegetation grow independent of any supplemental water from irrigation or city water. They live, grow, thrive and reproduce on the natural occurring water on or under the land.
If one can plant trees without a State permitted water right consuming up to 400 gallons a day, then why would the Private landowner need an indoor water right to build a home consuming no water?
Indoor water is net non-consumptive or 1% consumptive according to NV.
Who would regulate 1 gallon of water in a state getting 20 trillion gallons of water? It's illogical and the weaponization of water against private Property rights.
Further, neither the State nor Federal Gov't have the right to come onto private land to cut down your trees, bushes, or suck all the water out of your soil to get more water. No such right exists in law or equity.
Does the State have the right to come onto Private Property to cut my private lawn down for water? No. Unless the State pays for it which it does.
In fact, the State's rip your family lawn out @ $3 per square foot ($130,680 per acre) confirms the natural water rights doctrine.
The beneficial use of vegetation water on private land is owned by the Private landowner as granted by the sovereign Federal Gov't.
In 2024, Utah burned 2,000 acres of phragmites on the shores of Great Salt Lake for 3.2 billion gallons of more natural water from their state lands. The math: 2,000 acres x 5 ac-ft duty x 325,851 gallons/ac-ft = 3.2 billion gallons).
https://naturalresources.utah.gov/dnr-newsfeed/phragmites-burn-on-the-great-salt-lake/
Are Private landowners not allowed to manage their natural water rights as well?
Why aren't Home Builders credited for the natural water they save (4-5 gallons per square foot of impermeable surface) and the natural vegetation water on their private development land like the State's natural water rights, or Public water providers for "saving water" by piping ditches which is a false water savings.
Piping a ditch saves water only insofar as vegetation water use is reduced, but the water cartel gets fakes
"saved" water.
Not to recognize natural consumptive vegetation water owned by Private landowners is illogical and drives up home costs by unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious water regulations.
Not only does this violate the Federal Administrative Procedures Act (APA), but also the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution.
Utah Water Law 73-1-1 is doubly illegal.
There does not exist nor has ever existed "dry" land void of all water. The state violated and violates the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution when it claimed it had authority by legislation to take all the water from Private land and declared it Public.
All land had and has historic water use appurtenant to the land for trees, bushes, grass, wildlife, fish, and soil composition.
In fact, if too much water is taken from soils, then the land collapses. This is called subsidence and is dire to homes and buldings.
The San Joaquin Valley has sunk down over 34 feet from over underground water withdrawals.
Private property values and the beneficial utilization for the public good has sunk down from the weaponization of water for illicit gain and raw political power.
In Sheetz v County of El Dorado, California No. 22-1074 - "The Takings Clause does not distinguish between legislative and administrative permit conditions."
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1074_bqmd.pdf
That is to require a water permit for non-consumptive water to build a home violates US Constitution Amendment 5, and the APA.
1) There is no impact to the small subset of State "public" waters managed by Utah. Natural vegetation water has never been diverted under any State permitted water right.
2) Indoor water is non-consumptive for all intents and purposes and has no draw on "public" waters.
3) The impermeable surface footprint of the home (asphalt street apron, curb, gutter, sidewalk, driveways, patios, and foundation conserves more consumptive water than the home uses if xscaped.
Even if xscaped, where a city requires water for indoor, that natural water should be credited towards the outdoor requirement via the Sewer Re-Use Program whereby cities capture virtually all the indoor water for secondary outdoor water systems.
Long story short, Utah families are being ripped off $30,000 to $60,000 by Utah's tyrannical, inaccurate, 1983 water policies.
A small amount of water is attached to all Private land sufficient to build a home, and replace historic vegetation with a garden and livestock. This is the natural standard throughout the West even in closed water basins, except for Utah.
The State nor the Federal gov't can take every drop of water from one's property and give it to another party or to trees without the payment of just compensation to the private for making their land so dry it's worthless. And then make you buy back the water from your own property for beneficial land use, or the regular enjoyment of one's property.
Dry Farming is a prime example of the use of natural water rights on Private land without a State Water Right permit.
A 1,000 acre wheat farm diverting water during the summer using a State permitted water right for 5 months diverts roughly 4,000 acre-feet (1.3 billion gallons) of which 2,000 acre-feet (651,702,000 gallons) are consumed and 2,000 acre-feet (651,702,000 gallons) are return flow to the basin.
A 1,000 acre wheat dry farm using natural private water rights (no State permitted water right) for up to 8 months (Sept - April) can consume 651,702,000 gallons, too - the same amount of water as an irrigated farm acre for acre and bushel for bushel.
If one farms in the winter, no water right is needed. If one farms in the summer, a water right is needed. Both can consume identical amounts of water.
In Wrathall v Johnson 86 Utah 50 - Right to water as long as no prior appropriator's supply is appreciably or sensibly diminished as is the case in with non-consumptive indoor water, and natural vegetation water.
In Fisher v Bountiful City 21 Utah 29 - The right to own property carries with it the right to exercise dominion and control over it. Taking very drop of water on or under property voids land dominion.
Under Utah's Diligence Claim doctrine, water used beneficially from 1903 is a valid right to use a portion of the subset of State Public waters. All land has vegetation and the vegetation water is attached and owned by the landowner as a natural right not a permitted right.
In Riordan v Westwood, 115 Utah 215, Public Policy - The owner of the land shall not be disturbed in the beneficial use of the waters on their land in accordance with their previous custom and conditions. This means the State cannot come on to your land and cut your trees down for water like they do on State lands under the WRI program which is a great program.
Vegetation is a condition with the attached water thereto as a natural right, not a permitted right.
The increased value on the land receiving the water shows the loss to the prior landowner whose land was stripped of water.
Further, the prohibition of using rain water (distilled water with 3-4 TDS) for drinking water is unlawful under the APA Act. The idea that the state can ban drinking rain water by statute is nonsense inculcated by Utah's water cartel for the weaponization of water for land use control.
It's illegal to drink distilled rainwater in Utah, and not register a rain barrel over 101 gallons holding 10 cents worth of water. It's more water cartel nonsense.
Utah trees have 7.6 billion wells on 98% of Utah versus Utah farmers maybe have 6,000 pumped wells on 2% of Utah. Trees have sucked the West's aquifers dry, not farmers or developers.
Utah should hire Nevada to manage Utah's 4% subset of federal water.
Nevada runs their water like Amazon Prime- very efficient, very helpful, and very friendly.
Utah could cut its water mgt costs 75%, end the weaponization of water against private property, and double city water use by using clean sewer effluent like Nevada and get new water management.
Las Vegas gets 7" of rain, and uses its water twice. So it's like 14" of rain.
St. George gets 8" of rain, and uses its water once. So it's like 8" of rain.
Southern Nevada Water Authority is the most efficient (uses its city water twice), and best run water district in the US.
Utah Legislature should adopted Nevada's water laws and simply dump Utah's soggy, tyrannical water laws.
After 176 years of state spending 100's of millions for credentialed water science, how come Utah doesn't know how much water a person uses indoors (gpdc), the safe wet water yield, and the amount of paper water are in each of Utah's 49 water basins called hydro-graphic areas?
Utah has over 1.2 million water meters measuring water to the gallon, billed to the penny, but can't tell us the states gallons per day of indoor water per capita (gpdc).
NV, AZ, CA, and even Israel which state water officials visited for water mgt insights can, but not Utah - he only state in the US to criminalize drinking rain water, legalize wasting water for 40+ years, and deprive private land of every drop of water.
Orem City is the most efficient, and best run city water department in Utah.
Jordan Valley Water District is the most efficient and best run water district in Utah.
Southern Nevada Water Authority is the best run water district in the nation.
SNUA pays $5 per sq ft cash for grass removal. That's $217,800 per acre.
Where are Utah's water line replacement standards like every 75 years water lines need to be replaced? Utah cities leak 45 billion gallons of water, yet these cities demand more water dollar, more water taxes, for less water use.
One city has water lines over 110+ years old, and lead in their system. Utah yawns at this, while counting the chickens in a farmer's coup.
Las Vegas gets 7" of rain and uses its city water twice. St George gets 8" of rain uses its city water once. Las Vegas effectively double its rainfall.
The Division of Water Rights manages only 4% of Utah's consumptive water under 185,000 water rights (water permits) owned by roughly 25,000 parties and declining.
UDOT oversees 16,000 miles of state highways.
What state agency oversees Utah's 14,000 miles of water lines? No state agency.
Why is the 45 billion gallon leakage from Utah's 14,000 miles water grid hidden from the public? While families are water shamed out of their lawns, ticketed for day watering, and over taxed for water.
Utah's 14,000 mile water grid supports the lives of 1.1 families, 1.5 million jobs, and Utah's $200 billion economy.
Cities boost water pressures to 200 psi to hide undersized water pipes. Houses operate on 40 to 60 psi. This high pressure spike blows out home water heaters and pipes. It's a plumber's dream and a fixed income family's nightmare.
A State wide setting of home water pressures to 50 psi would save billions of gallons of water in and of itself.
Climate Change theory - If 5% of the world (USA) stops using oil and coal while the 95% increases their use of oil and coal, then we'd have no more bad weather.
China has 1,300 coal fired power plants, and makes 1 new coal fired plants every 5 days.
If coal power plants are so bad, why are industry insiders buying them up?
The US has 210 coal fired power plants. China 1,142 with 198 more coming. The war on US rural coal miners accomplished what than the devastation of rural families?
Coal is a very dense energy source.
Windmills (Bird Blenders) require fossil fuel back up power plus require 100X the material to build.
Exporting our pollution for virtue signaling
We have a war on carbon, but not a war on the 6 billion pounds of pesticides used a year in the world. The US (1% of the World's population) uses 17% of the world pesticides. The US has the highest health care costs in the world.
Which is more dangerous over 30 years? 180 billion pounds of cancer and birth defect causing pesticides, 360 billion pounds of toxic tire dust (PM2.5) or 999 billion pounds of CO2 (plant food)? CO2 is used in soda pop.
Tire dust was killing the Salmon. What else is tire dust killing? https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/12/03/tire-related-chemical-largely-responsible-for-adult-coho-salmon-deaths-in-urban-streams/
Tire dust is in our drinking water.
PFAS (forever chemicals) like ski waxes are in our drinking water.
Millions and millions tons of prescription drugs and their metabolites are flushed down drains and toilets into our watersheds. Some drugs so toxic, contact can cause death.
Is soda more harmful to the world's population than Climate Change?
Is soda a WMD?
US soda consumption is 154 liters per person. Russia 66. Japan 30.
Soda has killed more people than all the people killed in wars and car accidents combined.
New flavors - Dialysis Crush, Insulindew, and Amputeekist
US diabetes rate 11%. Russia 6%. Japan 7%.
White Rice is basically sugar.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert H Lustig, MD - UCFS Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism good discussion on sugar.
We all weigh 25 more pounds today than 25 years ago. Our diet got sugary not our DNA.
"When God made the poison [fructose - fruit sugar], he packaged it with the antidote [fiber].
The "fructosifcation" of America (and the world)
FDA only regulates acute toxins, not a chronic toxin like fructose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8G8tLsl_A4
0.04% of the air is CO2. Of that, 11% is man made. Of that,14% comes from the US.
0.04% x 11% x 14% = 0.0006%
6/100,000ths of the CO2 comes in the atmosphere comes from the US. The US has 22 coal power plants.
China has 1,300 coal power plants and makes 2 new coal burning power plants a week to power the factories to make use our Costco, Walmart, and Amazon products.
Reducing air, water, and food pollution is needed, but the numbers don't support Congress passing laws to control weather.
Dr. Judith Curry Climate Scientist says - bad leaders
blame everything on Climate Change ignoring the underlying problems like poverty, lifestyle, poor governance, poor land use, poor city planning, and [forest malpractice]. We need to solve real problems instead of trying to solve fake problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PQ1cOlCJI
US makes 5 billion tons of CO2 and consumes more stuff than it makes.
China makes 10 billion tons of CO2 and makes more stuff than it consumes.
We export our pollution (energy snobs), and import stuff putting US workers out of work.
US coal and gas burn cleaner. US fossil fuel use is the cleanest in the world. Why are we exporting our pollution for more pollution?
Rich, Zero Emission people (energy snobs) say use electric vans to send us more Amazon stuff made by poor people using dirtier coal.
There is no renewable energy. Wind turbines, solar panels wear out. Lithium mining is not green. 40,000 children work in cobalt mines for EV's energy snobs.
World leaders and parents put energy security first, and climate security last. The country with the cheapest energy wins in war.
Johnny, you, your wife and children can't have a gas stove, gas lawn mower, gas water heater, a diesel truck, an island cruise on an oil screw ship, gas powered plane travel, use a straw, have a plastic bag, have a lawn, eat meat, have a single family detached house, because we have to save the planet. No parent will do this.
2.5 billion people breath smoke as they cook with wood. US policy is against cigarette smoke, but for cooking smoke. If the US expanded its natural gas production to reduce cooking with wood, the planet would be cleaner, lives would be saved, and misery reduced.
Secure energy affords a cleaner environment.
The Great Salt Lake evaporates 5% (1 trillion gallons) of Utah's water a year.
The math says it's Utah's 7.6 billion tree wells. Utah's water cartel says it's the farmers 6,000 wells.
Is it 7.6 billion trees on 98% of Utah's land consuming 15 trillion gallons or farms on 2% of Utah's land consuming 0.65 trillion gallons?
The math says it's the trees.
Militant water employees have weaponized, politicized, and corrupted water to promote their private agendas at the expense of public.
Watershed protection is a prime example. First Class cities have extraterritorial police powers outside their city limits. Some city water directors have police powers over an entire county.
244 of 248 municipalities produce safe drinking water with standard watershed protection of "15 miles above the point and 300 feet side to side of stream" which is 1,091 acres.
First Class Cities like
Salt Lake City, Sandy City get county wide police powers over 561,480 acres plus more if other counties allow it by written agreement.
Why do First Class cities need 500 X more land use power to produce the same quality water?
There is no science to support First Class City need for 500 times more watershed police powers to do the same water treatment as non-First Class Cities.
Is it a water quality issue or the weaponization and politization of water for profit and raw power over other people's property?
Prior to a 2020 law change, Salt Lake City had watershed police powers were over Weber, Davis, Summit, Wasatch, Utah, and Juab counties representing 2/3 of Utah's population.
A city with 90,000 residents produces safe drinking water with 1,000 acres of water source protection police powers, yet a first class city somehow "needs" 560,000 acres of water source protection police powers. Why?
The weaponization, politicization and corruption of water by militant water employees is detrimental to the public good.
1.25 gallons of water are produced from burning 100,000 btu's in a high efficiency furnace.
https://inspectapedia.com/hazmat/Gas_Combustion_Products.php
1 million high efficiency (HE) furnaces running in the winter and produce 40,000 to 140,000 btu's can produce 1 million gallons of water an hour.
Are we better off re-purposing cloud seeding money to update Utah's furnaces?
Utah's sewer re-use <1%.
Israel's sewer "re-use 85-90% of its waste water."
https://www.ppic.org/blog/unintended-consequences-indoor-water-conservation/
Utah people per house is 3.08. Israel people per house is 3.14. Las Vegas people per house is 3.
Israel and Las Vegas have roughly the same indoor water use per capita per day around 30 gallons (30 gpdc or a 0.104 ac-ft EDU - 93 gallons of indoor water per day per house).
Washington County Water Conservancy District (WCWCD) claims indoor water use per capita is around 72.5 gallons per day (72.5 gpdc or 0.25 ac-ft EDU - 223 gallons of indoor water per house).
How could St. George have double the indoor water use per capita and per house as Las Vegas and Jerusalem?
Utah Water managers went to Israel to study water management and solutions.
https://kslnewsradio.com/2003526/utah-leaders-look-to-isreal-for-water-management-and-solutions/
The Utah Division of Water Rights says Utah's indoor water use per capita per day is 130 gallons (130 gpdc or 0.45 ac-ft EDU - 400 gallons of indoor water per day per house).
In 2009, the Utah Division of Water Resources says Utah's indoor water use per capita per day is 60 gallons (60 gpdc or 0.207 ac-ft EDU - 184 gallons of indoor water per day per house).
Utah's real time indoor water use number per capita per day is around 40 gallons (40 gpdc or 0.138 ac-ft EDU - 123 gallons of indoor water per day per house).
Robert F. Kennedy Jr@RobertKennedyJr·14h As president, I’m going to reverse 80 years of farm policy in this country and end our reliance on industrial meat production, factory farming, and chemical-based agriculture.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1772353618798133529
CNN 2021
"The Southwest's most important river is drying up"
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/08/us/colorado-river-water-shortage/
"The Colorado River irrigates farms, powers electric grids and provides drinking water to 40 million people. But as its supply dwindles, a crisis looms."
Is the dying Colorado River a man-made disaster or a natural disaster?
There is 3,000 miles (15.84 million linear feet with 100 million non-native trees ) of shoreline infested with Saltcedars choking the Colorado River dry.
What are the negatives of fewer and fewer private owners of water, as water is concentrated and monopolized into the hands of Utah's water cartel?
Owners of private water built Utah's $200 Billion economy, not Public Water Providers hoarding water today.
Data Centers a nets loser for surrounding area.
2.5 acre per minute seeder video short
https://youtube.com/shorts/hzuqZblEG0I?si=2Bb4Be81Fh_2Rcws
25% of a new Home Build is Red Tape
https://youtube.com/shorts/_1wma7tpca4?si=UX2_Uol3K8BdT5rd
Garbage care has done more for Public Health than Healthcare.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SxsMdsbJU8k
Q: Why is Utah's water engineering not math based, not peer reviewable, and not common sense?
A: To weaponize water
Q: 80% of the water managed by the Division of Water Rights is farm water. Why isn't the head of Water Rights a Farmer?
Q: Why is Utah's i-gpdc 133 while all other 49 states i-gpdc is 40? i-gdpc is indoor gallons per day per capita.
A: To gouge families for water, to take family land for pennies by making it dry, to control others with raw unchecked power.
Is it a water Impact Fee, and Exaction or just a rip off?
When cities double charge Home Builders for the amount of water a home uses which is very common, is the home builder or the home owner entitled the refund?
https://propertyrights.utah.gov/advisory-opinions/advisory-opinion-147/
For example, a water district charged $13,500 for water to home builders. Real water use was and is half that.
Who gets the $6,750 refund per house?
What is Utah's i-gpdc, i-gpddh, safe water yields in its 49 water basins, total paper water rights in its 49 water basins, and average use in its 49 water basins?
These are the missing fundamentals of effective water management.
The biggest water mistake Utah made was granting taxing power to water districts. Because it hides 40% of the water cost, wastes water, lead to the overbuilding of water treatment plants for lawn water, and funded the corruption of Utah's water mgt laws and agencies.
Ending water property taxes would save water, reduce water rates, and improve the economy for Utah families.
Utahfarmers.org supports Utah Rivers Council drive to end water property taxes which waste water and fund no-bid Public water contracts.
One water district collects 3X's more in property taxes than it sells in water.
Utah would have been far better off with cheaper water and better food security had irrigation companies gotten taxing powers instead of water districts.
One city has 3X's the employees per water connection than a comparable city water provider.
1X does the work. 1X watches. 1X pretends it's the Forest Service, BLM, and UN.
Water Property taxes have created a culture of waste, graft, and grift from 60 years of no bid contracts, employee revolving doors between cities and professional service corporations.
The Division of Water Rights can golf in St George for a week at their "water conference" they annually host, but can't tell us what Utah's indoor gdpc is, a true indoor depletion factor, or have peer reviewable State water science.
Utah can't feed or fuel itself. Utah imports 97% of its fruits/vegetables, 75% of the its dairy, and 78% of its gasoline, and declining.
Utah's food production is down 92% since 1940.
In 32 years, Utah doubled its population with no new reservoirs. Per capita water storage has been cut 50%.
Utah needs $30 Billion for 6 new Jordanelle reservoirs. And to repair & harden Utah's 14,000 mile water grid and canals leaking 500 billion gallons of water a year.
U.S. banned chemicals are used to produce the foreign food we eat.
Our toxic food system and toxic environment has destroyed American's health - 74% of adult Americans are over weight or obese, 50% of children are over weight or obese, 77% of young adults are unfit to service in the military. 18% of teens have fatty liver disease.
50% of adult Americans have pre-diabetes or type two diabetes. 30% of teens have pre-diabetes.
Young adult cancers are up 79%. 25% of American women are on an anti-depressants. 48% of young adults have a mental health diagnosis.
US has the highest infant mortality rate in the entire developed world despite spending 2X on infant care.
Autism in children is 1 in 36 (2.8%). Used to be 1 in 1,500 (0.06%).
Infertility is going up 1% a year. Sperm counts going down 1% a year. https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1824600736346378628
15% of High School students are on Adderall. https://youtube.com/shorts/ffpN2QAdS0k?si=YJcNd9uDWGODDCb1
We exploit distant, unreliable cheap labor for cheap food grown with questionable methods and very expensive health care (sick care).
Why don't the Liberals force Organic Food on us like they force Electric Cars on us?
Why aren't Liberals anti-Big Chem and anti-Big Pharma like they are anti-Fossil Fuel and anti-Farm?
The US spends $4.5 trillion a year on sickcare. How much of that is from our toxic food laced with pesticides, herbicides, plastics, anti-biotics, Chlorine, PFAS, and artificial "natural flavorings"?
Toxic food is bio-accumulative meaning little by little it adds up to big disease and sickness.
1 in 10 adults, 1 in 13 children have food allergies. Why?
200,000 people require emergency medical care for allergic reactions to chemicalized food.
Are birthrates tied to the size of gov't? Does big gov't make for small families with a low birth rate? Does small gov't make for big families with a high birth rate?
Big gov't increases the velocity of life (the rat race) to such a high speed, that it causes small families and low birthrates which in turn drive the need for massive illegal immigration.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1821229884355592477
Massive illegal immigration is like fast food. Tastes good for a minute, but causes bad health for decades.
Only a failed country steals people from other countries reducing home birthrates.
Not long ago, a husband with one job could support his wife, 10 children, grandma and grandpa.
Today, it takes two incomes and struggle to support 2 children with child care and adult care. While there are many drivers to family size, the size of gov't is a driver in low birth rates and small families.
Small gov't creates big families. Big gov't creates small families and open borders.
If gov't were smaller, families would be bigger, birth rates be higher with no need to flood the country with more people.
Is an open border putting legal citizens out of work a symptom of a failed gov't creating people so unhappy, so struggling and living paycheck to paycheck they can't afford or won't have children?
There are 2 million dogs and 1.5 million cats in Utah. Is Big Gov't a cause in the social behavior of having dogs instead of children?
How could a nation with food for 200 million dogs and 150 million cats ever have one hungry children?
Many dogs have better food, shelter, and healthcare then humans.
Many trees, bushes, and weeds have better rights to water than a family.
Is it selfish to depopulate other countries of their best and brightest workers, because gov't overspends?
Brazil has a 2 hour lunch. The US has daylight savings time for 1 more hour of day light to make more money to fund wild Gov't waste.
What are the long term impacts of a too high velocity culture to support big gov't overspending?
When Public employees by their actions or inactions adversely impact Private families, then how is a Public employee held responsible/ accountable, and the Private family protected and compensated? We need a Gov't agency Ombudsman's Office private citizens can utilize without repercussions.
Gov't is a monopoly which like any other monopoly requires consumer protections historically called the Constitution.
What does it mean when Utah's water science, water policies, and water regulations can't pass peer reviews?
One employee is 2,000 hours a year. Over 30 years that is 60,000 hours.
If every county water district hires one water conservation specialist, and one media PR specialist, that's 3.5 million hours of water conservation talk and water PR. It's just wasteful.
We already have "Slow the Flow Save H20" "Every Drop Counts" "If it's yellow let it mellow" "Rip Your Strip".
What's next for another 3. 5 million hours for water sloganing?
Who's responsible (name the employee's name) for Utah's Watershed Malpractice 4 X's worse than California's?
Salt Lake City runs our forests using watershed police powers 500 X's regular city watershed powers over 1,000 acres on a drinking water source.
Orem City produces safe drinking water with standard watershed police powers of 1,000 acres on a water source.
Why does Salt Lake City and Sandy require 516,000 acres of watershed police powers to produce safe drinking water?
A: To weaponize water into an extra territorial land use power over vast tracts of land - for money and control of others.
The canyon watershed myth debunked - The Salt Lake Valley watershed is 388,478 acres or 3 X's bigger than the Canyon watershed which is 127,522 acres.
The SL Valley watershed is fine with 1-15, trains, big rigs, 414,000 homes, 663,000 dogs*, 604,000 cats, 35,000 businesses, and 828,000 cars.
*The SL Tribune claims there are 1.6 dogs per house in Salt Lake County. Google claims SLCO has a 1,185,057 population with 2.86 people per house in 2022. That is 414,355 households.
"Salt Lake City has more households with dogs than children, survey says" https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/salt-lake-city-has-more-households-with-dogs-than-children-survey-says
The Canyon watershed is so fragile not one dog or cat is allowed off leash, and very few homes allowed. When Snowbird developed homes, the water quality improved, upsetting the narrative that homes ruin the canyon watershed.
Salt Lake City has more homes with dogs than children. https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/salt-lake-city-has-more-households-with-dogs-than-children-survey-says
Printing money does not solve poverty no more than printing diplomas solves stupidity. - Melei
You can't print IQ no more than you can print hamburgers.
The US gov't prints $1 trillion new dollars every 100 days which is the value of a full years farm production without the work, without the worker, and without the toil.
That's like printing 4X's of the entire US agriculture production for 4 years.
Money printing is inflating food costs more than corporate greed. Printing money is a form of greed.
Printing money mocks the worker.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr📷@RobertKennedyJr·Mar 25As president, I’m going to reverse 80 years of farm policy in this country and end our reliance on industrial meat production, factory farming, and chemical-based agriculture. https://x.com/AkAdam1985/status/1772577202992808270
The cost of Autism is $1 trillion a year. $1 trillion is the same amount the US spends on chemicalized food. https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1782611008713806295
99.99% of treated water is not consumed at the tap. Fluoride is a hazardous waste. Putting Fluoride in 100% of treated water for 0.01% (11 gallons on average drunk by a person a year) is illogical and poisons the watershed.
We need a national ban on Fluoride in drinking water, and cheap Fluoride tablets available for those who chose Fluoride.
We need a national standard that all kitchen tap water has a Reverse Osmosis filter to remove Chlorine, a carcinogen.
Utah with a new flag has studied water since 1847, spent over $1 billion on water studies and management with the most credentialed, brightest licensed water engineers in the nation, has nearly 2 million water meters measuring water to the gallon and billed to the penny.
1-But Utah can't tell the Public what Utah's i-gpdc is (gallons per day per capita for indoor water use). CA, NV, and AZ can.
Utah can tell you that a cow drinks 25 gallons of water a day, a goat 5 gallons a day, and a deer 1.25 gallons a day. But not what a human uses indoors a day (i-gpdc).
2-Utah can't tell you what the consumptive percent is on indoor water all factors considered (water created by the furnace, AC, liquids brought into the house – bottled water, milk, beer, etc.). It's 1 gallon a day.
3-Utah can't tell you the safe wet water yield in its 49 water basins, nor the amount of paper water rights in each of the 49 water basin. These are critical control data points of water management.
A GRAMA request for No. 3 was submitted to the Utah Division of Water Rights.
They said the Public Records request fee would be $283,000 and take a long time.
These data points are known to the insiders, but hidden from the Public. Because over 90% the water paperwork generated by Water Rights drips with nonsense.
Utah Division of Water Rights hides is public data base. Why?
Utah has spent $20 million to cut farm water while Utah can't feed itself and suffers from very severe food insecurity.
Who would ever regulate $0.10 of rain water? Utah.
Who holds hearings on 1 gallon of depletion in a water transfer? Utah.
Who lets big water users stack billions of gallons of water rights on the same land, but harasses small water users over a few gallons of depletion? Utah.
Who bans wells in 200,000 acres of Utah enabling watershed malpractice? Utah.
Who drives to remote farms to count chickens on a farm to verify water use, but drives by a city leaking 4 billion gallons of water a year? Utah.
500 million pounds of PM2.5 tire dust has been produced by Utah vehicles over 25 years. Where is it? How much is in our drinking watersheds?
Utah's 3 million vehicles produce 20 million pounds of 2.5 PM tire dust a year (12 million tires over 33 million miles a year).
" The pollution from your brakes and tires isn’t benign, either. Tests by Emissions Analytics, an engineering consulting company based in England, found tires produce about 2,000 times more particle pollution by mass than tailpipes. Although not regulated, those emissions exceed the legal particle limits for exhaust. The emissions also consisted of more than 400 compounds of different sizes and toxicity."
This excludes out of state vehicle tire dust produced on Utah's roads.
EV's use 2X the power and 3X the peak power demand of a house over a year.
Ev's use more water than two houses indoor and outdoor combined.
"The power sector is the largest industrial water user, most countries don't mandate that power plants disclose their water use." https://www.wri.org/insights/power-plants-use-water-we-have-no-idea-how-much
Will EV's require cutting down or trimming trees for water for power?
2022, net power generation is roughly 4.24 trillion kWh from 12,000 big power plants, and 13,000 small power providers.
What is the cost to double the US baseload demand capacity for EV's @$1,900 for each installed kW? $9 trillion.
US baseload power demand is?
The real cost of EV's is the cost of the EV plus the cost to double the power grid / 278 million cars EV's?
Roughly $33,000 surcharge should be added in cost per EV for Power grid load build.
$9 trillion to double the power grid for EV's divided by 278 million cars.
Plus $2 Trillion in $7,500 tax credit per EV over 278,000,000 cars.
That's a $11 Trillion to go EV or $84,000 EV up charge burden per household. EV's bust up roads, and use more water than a house.
There is no free lunch. Both EV's and ICE's have positives and negatives.
An American will eat 5,000 pounds of sugar over a lifetime.
1 in 5 Americans (37.3 million people) have diabetes.
1 in 4 healthcare dollars are from diabetes.
$1 trillion a year in US diabetes heath care costs a year is more than US spends on our great military.
How much have US sugar and corn subsidy policies increased diabetes, healthcare costs, and lost productivity? Trillion.
No wonder America spends $4 trillion on healthcare.
$4 trillion is more than the GDP of India, England, Russia, Mexico, France, Italy.
A nation powered only by solar will lose in war.
A nation that can't feed itself will lose in war.
40% of all food grown in the US is not eaten. 99.99% of tap water is not drunk at the tap by humans.
The US wastes $1 Billion in food a day.
Utah wastes $3.6 billion in food a year ($10 million a day).
US homes waste 150,000 tons of food each day.
https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/home-hub/food-waste-facts-and-statistics
Utah can't feed or clothe itself. Less than 3% of our clothes and 2% of our shoes are made in the US.
Instead of $2 billion for more stadiums, $2 billion for farming would be more useful.
US makes no cell phones, less than 1% of its bicycles, 5% of its solar panels, and 23% of its motorcycles. It does manage to make 100% of its entertainment like Rome.
If I-15 shut down for 1 day, Utah would have a food panic, because Utah's food grid is so frail.
We'd be more self reliant with less trees and more farms.
Why does the State Engineer allow cities to leak 45 billion gallons of water a year, but regulates $0.10 in rain barrel water?
Could a national organic food standard save $1 Trillion in health care costs a year?
The US spends $4 trillion on health care, $1 trillion in interest on national debt, and only $1 trillion on food.
You are what you eat, drink, and breath.
Why don't we have a pure drinking tap water standard in Utah? Like one Reverse Osmosis tap in every home for health, and to reduce healthcare costs?
A person drinks 20,000 gallons of water over a lifetime.
Drinking 20,000 gallons of Chlorinated water contributes to cancer.
Every day a person breathes 2,000 gallons of bad air in the Salt Lake Valley depleted airshed.
Breathing 55 million gallons of bad air over a lifetime causes health problems.
Over a lifetime, eating 74,000 pounds of pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, microplastic laced food causes health problems.
Foreign companies own Utah's meat packing companies.
US meat packing plants line speeds are the fastest in the world. The faster the speed the more poop (ecoli) in the meat needing Chlorination and Radiation (nuked food).
https://nppc.org/press-releases/nppc-applauds-usda-decision-to-allow-faster-line-speeds/
Europe mandates slower meat packing lines for better quality an safer meats.
By weight 57% of our pharmaceuticals are imported from China, India, and Mexico.
84% of Acetaminophen is made in China and India. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-28/column-coronavirus-china-drugs
97% of our antibiotics come from China. https://thecommonsenseshow.com/economics-health-tragedy/97-antibiotics-are-made-china-supply-chain-armageddon-will-see-us-pharmacy-supplies-wiped-out
The US Military relies on China for anti-biotics and percussors.
When Utah can't feed, clothe, house, Rx, heat, or care for itself, it's time to rethink our over taxed, over regulated new internet culture. The old pioneer farm culture of self reliance, self-education, thrift, and industry generating surplus to help others, works.
Public Food Providers (farmers) should have the equal right to use their saved water as Public Water Providers have.
A lot of city water came/comes/will come from farmers. So why is a city using farm water treated like a first class water King, but a farmer like a second class water Peasant?
A city can double or triple the irrigated acres from their farm water, but a farmer can't. Why?
Why does Utah allow cities to have unsafe 110+ year old water main lines leaking billions of gallons of water, but water shames us with "every drop counts"?
Why doesn't Utah have city water line replacement schedule laws for public health, welfare, and safety?
Why don't cities have real water inventories on their paper water rights, and wet water yields in Utah's 49 water basins?
There are 49 water basins called hydrographic areas. Why aren't they numbered 1 thru 49 instead of haphazardly numbered to 81 adding confusion to water mgt.
Some cities claim they aren't required to disclose their water inventories. How can dark water inventories be managed?
78% of the world's oxygen comes from the oceans (the earth's lungs) with phytoplankton alone making 50%.
Trees produce 22% of the world's Oxygen.
Grass is the single largest "crop" in America, surpassing corn and wheat.
The US has 63,000 square miles (40 million acres) of grass, an area larger than the state of Georgia. - NASA
Lawns with dandelions are worm, bird, bee, and child friendly.
Because Utah cities hide their billions and millions of gallons of water leakage from a spent water grid, Utah misses out on billions in Federal water dollars.
"A single maple tree 47 feet high, with 177,000 leaves (area 1/6 acre), was estimated to lose 58 gallons of water per hour on a summer afternoon."
Indoor home water is non-consumptive factoring in liquids brought into the home. So why does a rural family need to buy an an expensive indoor water right?
1.7 sextillion molecules in a drop of water. In other words, 1.7 x 10 to the 21st power.
Education means the ability to entertain competing thoughts with civil discourse.
Does Utah have so much water that's it's really wastes water?
Does Utah really have a water shortage, or farm ethic shortage in water management?
If the public funds billion in water projects for worthless dry land, shouldn't those billions in public water dollars go back into the public's pocket and not the landowners pocket?
Utah exported over $1 billion in public water dollars to England.
If $100 per acre dry land sells for $150,000 per acre because $100,000 in public project water is added, shouldn't the $100,000 per acre of the public water be returned to the public water project box?
Why aren't school districts collecting impact fees? If 2,000 new homes requires one new school, than that impact should bear on those 2,000 homes.
Desalinization RO plants worldwide produce an amount of water flow greater than the Colorado River and Sacramento River combined. 50% of Israel's drinking water comes from sea water. Dr. Dallas Weaver Aquaculture Scientist.
Chemicalized food, water and air cause Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, MS, cancer, neuro degenerative diseases, and Autism.
"New Study Links Autism to Air Pollution Exposure"
6 Parkinson's cases to 6 million cases in 200 years means it's environmental.
Chlorinated drinking water must end by requiring Reverse Osmosis tap in every kitchen by federal, state county, city building codes.
"Roughly 99 percent of the water that goes down a drain or gets flushed down a toilet inside homes in the Las Vegas Valley will eventually flow to local water treatment centers located on the east side of town. " SNWA
"Las Vegas wastewater by the numbers
--190 million gallons treated each day on average.
--18 hours from the time the water gets to the plant to the time it leaves, give or take.
--500 tons of sludge produced each day during wastewater treatment."
94 gpd EDU household of 3.08 pch UT's average is a 0.105 acre-feet per EDU.
UT's pch is trending to 2.5 making a 76 gpd EDU 0.085 acre-feet per EDU.
Utah's 1981 indoor water requirement (EDU) is 400 gpd 0.45 acre-foot and has not updated in 43 years. Why?
https://www.snwa.com/conservation/water-use-estimator/index.cfml
It takes 1 to 2 months to evaporate the water in a toilet. Loss of 2 gallons a month.
1/2 a gallon of water evaporates from a load laundry. 5 gallons a month?
Shower water evaporation? 5 gallons a month.
Indoor water is net non-consumptive with added water from milk, beer, bottled water, vegetables, and other liquids.
39% of Utah's homes subject to wildfire burn. Less than 10% of CA homes subject to wildfire burn. Utah's forest malpractice is 400% worse than CA's.
Utah produces 2% of its vegetable needs, 3% of its fruit needs, and 25% of its dairy needs. Utah is heavily dependent on imported food to exist.
A 5 burner (20k btu's per burner) high efficiency furnace generates 1.25 gallons of water per hour (400 gallons), air conditioners 3 - 4 gallon avg of water per hour and up to 10 gallon/hr (2,000 gallons), bottled water (150 gallons avg brought into the home a year), milk (50 gallons a year), soda (150 gallons), energy drink (20 gallons), vegetables, fluids.
3,000 gallons of water home generated - 6% at 125 gpd EDU's 45,000 gallons/yr. Plus house, driveways, sidewalk impermeable water savings on 5,000 sq ft 37,000 consumptive gallons saved.
If a home generates and saves 40,000 gallons of 100% consumptive water while real time indoor water depletion/consumption is around 2,250 gallons, developers should get a water credit for building houses, not be charged indoor water to build houses.
The water credit should be applied to outside water requirements.
There should be no water required at all for a new home with xscaping.
Avg 1 farmer feeds 55 families (166 people).
Roughly 3.5% of GDP ($1 trillion) is spent on entertainment and 3.5% of GDP ($1 trillion) on food.
Do cows carbon capture more carbon than they burp and fart?
Big Pharma is working on a burp and fart vaccine for 1 billion cows. How much will 12 billion doses pf burp and fart vaccine cost?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90824840/vaccine-cows-methane-emissions
Will Big Pharma develop a fish burp and fart vaccine?
"Half of global methane emissions come from aquatic ecosystems --much of this is human-made"
According to MIT News "An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas."
https://news.mit.edu/2017/researchers-establish-long-sought-source-ocean-methane-1207
71% of the earth is ocean. Is Big Chem looking to make a Round Up like product to spray our oceans? Yes.
The ocean is like the earth's car wash. How much chemicalization, plastics, and oils can it take? If we bust the ocean, what is the result?
8 billion people breath the air (78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen) in the first 6 miles of the earth's atmosphere.
"The majority of the air (99% is nitrogen and oxygen, only 0.04% is Carbon Dioxide -green house gas - also called plant food) that we breathe is contained in the troposphere, which extends from sea level up to about 10 kilometers"
0.04% x 3% from all human beings is 0.01% of CO2 from humans. Math does not support Climate Change theory.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1792150928268612070
Congress (485 people) can't balance a budget. But Congress can balance the weather for 8 billion people?
The environment should be protected, but not to the point of killing people. The war on coal, oil, and natural gas increased poverty, hunger by doubling food costs, disease and death to millions.
The more CO2 (plant food) in the air, the less water plants need.
Volume of a sphere is = (4/3) × π × r³
https://sciencing.com/what-volume-earth-4689019.html
To calculate the volume of breathable air in the world. Take the earth's volume (259 trillion cubic miles) and subtract from the earth + 6 miles to earth's radius more for the troposhere.
"The total volume of the troposphere is estimated to be around 6 × 109 cubic km." [
https://www.explainingspace.com/what-is-the-volume-of-earths-atmosphere/
Weather is created by the spinning earth in space plus the effects of heating and cooling of the earth.
The maximum air pressure (weight of the atmosphere) is at sea level and decreases at high altitude because the atmosphere is in hydrostatic equilibrium, wherein the air pressure is equal to the weight of the air above a given point on the planetary surface. The relation between decreased air pressure and high altitude can be equated to the density of a fluid, by way of the following hydrostatic equation:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphere
"The researchers are of the view that this hidden ocean beneath the surface, concealed within a blue rock known as ringwoodite, is probably the primary source of water on Earth's surface. The size of this subterranean ocean is triple the volume of all the planet's surface oceans combined"
Earth tides
Earth tide, deformation of the solid Earth as it rotates within the gravitational fields of the Sun and Moon. Earth tides are similar to ocean tides. The Earth deforms because it has a certain degree of elasticity; were it perfectly rigid, there would be no Earth tides.
https://www.britannica.com/science/Earth-tide
The CA, and HI wildfires that killed 180 people, caused $160 billion in damage, and bankrupted PG&E, a $170 billion utility now valued at $41 billion were blamed on Climate Change. But it was really Forest Malpractice.
Utah uses this same excuses and has worse forest malpractice than CA and HI.
UT has a 39% wildfire burn risk index. CA has a 10%.
$160 billion lost due to Forest Malpractice is a compelling data point for conversations on Utah forest management.
State Farm cancelled 72,000 home insurance policies in one year, because of Forest Malpractice worsening CA's insurance crisis.
LA Timeshttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-23/state-farm-wont-renew-72-000-insurance-policies-in-california-worsening-the-states-insurance-crisis
Rocky Mt. Power is so fearful of a PG&E like bankruptcy that it is aggressively burying power lines, installing spark arrestors, and upgrading power lines in the Wasatch instead of addressing Forest Malpractice.
Advanced weather warnings, better buildings, more food security from fossil fuels have reduced climate related deaths 97%.
Holland's 18 million people live well 7 feet below sea level.
Why do we treat Farmers so bad, and rich people so good?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/27XJWCgEI3s
Water Facts and Questions -
"All of Utah's cities use 0.5% of Utah's water."
"All of Utah's family lawns consume 0.25% of
Utah's water."
"Why the anti-family lawn nonsense paying families $130,680 per acre to rip out lawns, but farmers $7,000 to rip out an acre of crops?"
"Indoor water evaporation called depletion is roughly 1 gallon per day per home worth $0.005."
Why is one gallon of depleted water worth $0.005 even regulated?
"A tree can evaporate 100 gallons of water a day ($0.25)."
"You can plant unlimited trees using unlimited water with no Water Rights, but you can't plant a single home consuming 1 gallon worth 1/2 a penny of water a day without a Water Right."
"All of Utah's 1.1 million homes evaporate roughly 3 acre-feet a day or 1,200 acre -feet a year out of 60 million acre-feet. That's (0.002%) of Utah's average annual precipitation."
So where's the water going? To the trees.
"Utah's irrigated farms consume only 3.2% of Utah's water."
"A dry farm can use as much water as wet farm, but no water right is needed for a dry farm."
"The average person uses 42 gallons of indoor water a day. 99% is recycled back to the water basin."
"Why does the Division of Water Rights hide real indoor water use data?"
"Utah's 7.6 billion trees consume more water than all the 2.3 billion houses in the world."
"Utah's trees consume 80% of Utah's water."
"There are an estimated 7.6 billion live trees in Utah," U.S. Forest Service
https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_series/rmrs/rb/rmrs_rb020.pdf
The book "Tree Spotting in Utah Identification Record Book: A Companion Log to Identify and Track Tree Sightings" 2022 by Dr. Moss claims there are more more than 7.6 billion trees growing in Utah's forests.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Tree-Spotting-Utah-Identification-Record/dp/B09ZSG6CXQ
"Landmark government report calls for national mobilization to curb groundwater depletion" LA Times Dec 21, 2024 https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-12-20/white-house-groundwater-report
Better food, water, and air are important to a better life.
Better school lunches make better students. Utah's School lunches get an F.
Why isn't a free healthy lunch and snacks include in the $9 billion Utah spends on Public Ed?"
Sugar and Soda makes you stupid and sick. - Dr. Diabetes Cancer Heart Disease
There is an 80% reduction in violent crime in prisons when healthy food and multi-vitamin replaced prison slop. Japan feeds their prisoners super healthy food. America feeds their prisoners high sugar slop. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K5u2zhh33aA
Meet the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Yellow #5 is toxic. https://x.com/LaughingLegend0/status/1857219021088678276
"The Hidden Chemicals Destroying American Farms"
PFAS linked to kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, thyroid disease, and fertility problems,
PFAS was EPA recommended bio-solids (treated sewer waste by product) as free or cheap fertilizers ended up in meat.
PFOA, PFOS, PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS, HFPO-DA (GenX)
Fire Departments, Airports, mettle platting, dry cleaners - PFAS sources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GTa3a-tFo
45% of the nations drinking water has PFAS (foreever chemicals).
RO water filters remove 100% of PFAS?
How much PFAS (forever chemicals) are in Utah's Drinking water? Nov 2024
https://deq.utah.gov/drinking-water/drinking-water-pfas
America's ultra processed, toxic food supply is a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) poisoning our children, forcing 8 year old girls to mensurate, driving a $4.5 Trillion Sickcare industrial complex, and bankrupting hundreds of thousands of families a year from medical bills.
41% of U.S. citizens carry medical debt. 24% consider bankruptcy to save themselves. - Kaiser Family Foundation
RFK Jr explains how ultra processed food, seed oils, pesticides, and food additives are messing up kids and interfering with their hormones.
The U.S. toxic, hormone disrupting food supply drives girls to mensurate at age 8, child trans issues, and soaring cancer rates.
When U.S. girls mensurate at age 8, it's past time for food supply reform.
The U.S. has the earliest puberty rate of any continent on the earth at age 8 to 13 from a toxic food supply. This is 6 years earlier than it was in 1900.
Moms and Dads are angry that U.S. groceries cause their daughters to mensurate at age eight, their mom's to get breast cancer and mental illness.
Breast cancer is estrogen driven striking 1 in 8 women from a toxic food supply that boosts estrogen.
It's ironic and moronic that a nation obsessed with breasts produces an anti-breast, toxic food supply.
The US food supply is anti-breast, anti-uterus, and anti-woman.
https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(22)00482-3/abstract
https://x.com/_VincentFusca/status/1827159351716442459
An epidemic of early puberty in Puerto Rican children linked to toxic food supply driving estrogen levels through the roof.
We must have clean food, clean water, and clean air for an abundant life.
So called national "news" articles attacking Utah farmers like "Alfalfa, the Thirsty Beast, 82% of Utah water goes to farmers - here's why?, "The Great Salt Lake will disappear in 5 years, Emergency measures needed to rescue the Great Salt Lake," "One crop uses more than half of Utah's water" are harmful, false narratives.
These false and dangerous anti-farmer narratives contribute to farm vandalism and senseless animal killings.
Why is NPR, WBUR.org, waterdesk.org, WUSF (Western University of Southern Florida) bashing Utah farmers?
Utah's irrigated farms are 2% of Utah's land with 6,000 wells. Utah's trees are on 98% of Utah's land have 7.6 billion wells.
There are 1.9 million farms in the US. 95% are family farms. 1 US farm feeds 166 people.
Female bees live roughly 40 days, visit 1,000 flowers, and make less than 1 teaspoon of honey. https://youtube.com/shorts/0FxymiGWgw8?si=X7y62SwZkfbrGrFf
Utah has 17,386 farms and and ranches on roughly 10 million acres. 24,409 Honeybee colonies (60,000 bees in a colony - 1.5 billion bees). 3,600 bees to the pound makes 417,000+ pounds of farmed bees in Utah.
1 pound of bees runs around $72 plus shipping. Utah farmed bees (just the bees) are valued at $30 million excluding honey value. Utah ranks 24th in honey production at roughly 650,000 pounds worth $5 million.
Utah has just 1 million irrigated acres. 9 million non-irrigated acres.
Cows, Corn, and Soybean are the top three US farm products.
FYI - It's not cow farts for most of the cow methane. It's cow burps (56%).
Historically, Utah farmed 13 million acres (25% of Utah). Today, Utah farms 10 million acres (18.5% of Utah).
The US loses 4 million acres of farmland a year with a growing population and 30 million extra hungry people coming over the borders.
If this de-farming trend is not reversed, there will be a famine in the land.
Food production is vital to national well being and security.
The Forest Service says a safe and healthy forest is 40 to 60 trees per acre. Utah's Watershed Malpractice has resulted in forest acres with over 600+ trees per acre.
Utah's watershed malpractice (39%) is 4X's worse than California's (10%).
California's watershed malpractice killed 85 people and caused $400 billion in economic damage.
May 16, 2024 - Utah Senator Mike Lee grilled the Forest Service on Watershed Malpractice.
Utah's forests were just let run wild for decades by Watershed Malpractice theories.
The lazy theory is - let it run wild. Don't touch it. Imagine cities with yards untouched, untrammeled for 50 years. What a hazardous mess like Utah's forests.
Since Forest Management policy is to not touch the forests, then we don't need forest mangers.
Anti-logging, anti-grazing let the forest go wild is lazy Watershed Malpractice costing Utah families billions in higher fire insurance premiums, higher power bills, and millions in lost property taxes for our schools.
https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1791167030604800394
In 30 years, Utah's watershed malpractice has drained $6 billion from family budgets from higher insurance costs due to wildfire risks.
Plus more in higher power bills.
Utah has the highest insurance wildfire risk rating to homes in the US - 39%.
CA has a 10% wildfire insurance risk rating.
UT is 4X's worse at 39%. CA's watershed malpractice killed 85 people and did 400 billion in economic damage.
Utah has the most tyrannical water laws in the US. More tyrannical than California's, Nevada's, or Colorado's.
Watershed Malpractice (Salt Lake City's notorious "watershed muscle" drives Forest Malpractice not only damaging watersheds, but harming Utah families with $6 billion in higher insurance premiums over 30 years.
Utah's $12 billion tourist industry is adversely impacted by un-needed $1 million a year watershed cop scheme ticketing tourists over phony watershed "science".
One person called SLC to ask if it's ok to have a parrot in the car in the canyon.
SLC banned a hot tub in Alta to protect the watershed.
Salt Lake County dog owners driven out of SLCO canyons flock to Utah County canyons to dog crap up Utah County Canyons like American Fork Canyon.
Utah Division of Water Rights overregulates water. It regulates $0.10 worth of rain barrel water, but can't tell us how much water a person uses indoors in gallons per day (gpdc), how much safe wet water yield, how much paper water in each of Utah's 49 water basins, or a true consumptive indoor water factor.
A house evaporates roughly 1 gallon of water indoors a day. Why is it regulated?
Utah gets 20 trillion gallons of water a year.
GDPC, safe yields, total paper water are the fundamental control points of all water management, but Utah doesn't know them after 127 years of State water management.
This despite the fact that the State Water Engineer's Office aka Division of Water Rights was created in 1897 some 127 years ago.
Utah's over regulation of water wastes water, and enables the weaponization of water for ill gain and pollical mischief like cutting water connections to grab private land for pennies, and to close and harm businesses and lands of the "undesireables." Like jacking up and limiting water rates for bottled water plants, gravel pits, and canyon homes.
Rich counties like Salt Lake County should not be given $3 billion to drain distant water, and allowed to rob the future development water from poor counties like Box Elder, Cache, and Rich county which is not rich.
The airshed in the Salt Lake Valley is depleted. The SL Valley has some of the most polluted air in the nation. Spending $3 billion in water dollars to add more air pollution and 2 million more people to the Salt Lake Valley is morally wrong.
Rich counties like Washington County with 12 golf courses should not get $2 billion and be allowed to rob poor San Juan County with 3 golf courses and Wayne County of Utah's 83,000 ac-ft of Lake Powell water allotment. Those counties should have that water for their present and future development to reduce rural generational poverty.
Washington County Water Conservancy District (WCWCD) is a water hoarder hoarding up to 800,000 acre-feet of water rights including 83,000 acre-feet of Lake Powell. WCWCD hogs water while treating less than 30,000 acre-feet of water a year.
For context, all Utah's 248 municipalities water use (diversion of water) is roughly 800,000 acre-feet of which 400,000 acre-feet is depletion (evaporation), and 400,000 is return flow to the water basin.
“I asked what is the best bang for the buck solution we can have and he mentioned wireless water meters,” Scott said. “I asked (Renstrom) what is the benefit between that versus turf replacement and he said the cost of that is 25 cents per gallon saved. With an AMI system, the cost per gallon is three cents. AMI is the low-hanging fruit on conservation.”
How can Utah water managers not know indoor gallons per day per capita (gpcd) with 1.1 million water meters and Rip Your Strip calculations savings cost at 25 cents per gallons and $0.03 per gallon on AMI?
What public benefit is there to spending $130,680 to "save" on acre-foot of water when clean sewer effluent runs to waste?
The Utah Division of Water Rights manages only 133,000 Perfected Water Rights representing only 4% of Utah's consumptive water.
Half of these water rights are so small they should not be regulated at all. Excluding small amounts of water, there are perhaps only 100,000 real water rights to manage owned by very few parties.
What's the point of regulating an indoor water right that is virtually 100% non-consumptive factoring in added water when a single tree consumes 100 times more water with no water right?
300 Utah families filed for home wells in 2023 when this should be a natural right not a permitted right.
Why does Nevada have better water laws and better water management than Utah?
Southern Water Water Authority (SNWA) https://www.snwa.com doubles their city water rights by using its water indoors, then re-uses the clean sewer effluent outdoors. It's like doubling the rainfall in the city.
St George uses a little sewer effluent. It wastefully uses city water once, and leaks 660,000 gallons of water.
Utah has 300,000 acre-feet (100 billion gallons) of "new" water from clean sewer effluent it refuses to use while paying $130,000 an acre to rip out a family lawn.
Every house in Utah should have secondary water connections by 2030 to re-use clean sewer effluent.
Indoor water is virtually net non-consumptive or 1 gallon a day. Why is 1 gallon of evaporative water regulated?
Rural underground water is pumped into the home and returns out of the home back under ground 99%. Why is it even regulated?
If Utah fixed its 45 billion gallon water leakage from city lines, and used clean sewer effluent, that's enough "new" water plus the old water for 5 million people.
Why isn't Washington County using clean sewer effluent for its 72,000 homes and businesses to save 5 billion gallons of water?
Why did Washington County Water District buy out of the county water for $17,000 an ac-ft with no appraisal while paying local farmers $750 an ac-ft for their water and water pipes?
The Washington County Water District sells outdoor water for $1.00 per 1,000 gallons. St George and Washington Canal delivers irrigation water for $0.05 per 1,000 gallons.
Southern Nevada Water Authority buys Lake Mead water for $8,600 an ac-ft and uses it twice.
Why doesn't Washington County require all buildings to have secondary water connections using clean sewer effluent or irrigation grade water?
Pleasant Grove, American Fork, Highland, Alpine, Herriman, Salem have secondary water connections, but not drier Washington County demanding $2 billion for a pipe from Lake Powell, an unstable water source.
The Navajo Indian Nation seeks $1.75 billion to pipe Lake Powell water to Arizona.
The Colorado River watershed is 250 million acres (8% of the continental US).
The Mississippi is the 4th largest watershed in the world at 1.15 square miles.
150,000 Utahns experience food poverty daily and require food stamps. Utah's taxes on food and war on farm water makes no sense.
70,000 Utah families are single parent families often eating McDonalds to get by.
McDonald's real value is 1 cent for 1 food calorie.
Utah taxes $5 Happy Meals at 8.45% often eaten by the poor, but won't tax $500/hr legal bills used by the rich who write our tax codes so $5 million in land profits are not taxed.
We tax the min wages of $7.25/hr workers, but not the millions in real estate profits under the 1031 loop hole. The rich write our laws to keep themselves rich and others poor.
How do we explain 150,000 Utahns on meager Food Stamps while Utah gifts away a $3 billion for stadiums, and a gondola to billionaires?
Used to be tax the rich and give to the poor. Today, it's tax the poor and to give to the rich.
Gov't funds the lobbyists to lobby itself creating a systemic corruption loop.
Same in water. Utah taxpayers fund water lobbyists to raise their water taxes and water rates.
The first 2,000 days of life are critical for brain development requiring nourishing food.
San Juan County has a 29% Child food insecurity rate - Childhood Hunger in Utah 2022. Couldn't San Juan County better use 83,000 ac-ft of Lake Powell water?
Why is Utah anti-rural family and anti-farmer on water, but not anti-water sucking trash trees like Russian Olives and Chinese Elms?
Public Food Providers (farmers) need equal rights to use their saved water as Public Water Providers have.
How does a BUSH have more rights to Utah water than a landowner?
A canyon landowner pays $4,000 in property taxes, pays CUP water taxes, their land is a snow reservoir holding 75 million gallons of drinking water, but they can't use any water for 30 days of cabin occupancy. Why? The weaponization of water as a land use tool has made millions of acres worthless. Without a water right, you can't build a house on your land. School budgets are shorted millions of dollars in property taxes as private land it taken of the tax rolls for "watershed protection" where 99.99% of the water is not drank as tap water.
There is no evidence that watersheds are more protected if publicly owned versus privately owned. Private ownership most likely provides a higher level of watershed protection plus no school tax dollars are lost.
"The roots of one Russian olive tree can take in about 75 gallons of water a day" KSL Sept 14, 2022.
As the number of Utah's prolific trees goes from 7.6 billion to 9 billion, there will be NO water for people. Valley trees are increasing in massive numbers unchecked.
Planting 1 million new Russian Olives, Chinese Elms, Tamaracks or other non-native trees is not a good thing.
Better to replace non-native water sucking, trash trees like the Chinese Elm weed trees and snow evaporating pine trees which kill watersheds with native, friendly water sipping Aspens. Aspens are in. Pine trees need thinning.
Better and more water conservation will occur if we focused on the 96% water users instead of the 0.5% Cities and 3.5% farm users.
It would be far more effective for water conservation if water agencies lost their water property taxing authority.
2/3 of Utah's water treatment plant capacity is for lawn water, because the legislature unwisely gave them taxing authority.
Taxing authority should have been given irrigation companies which deliver water for $0.03 per 1,000 gallons plus we'd have a better local food supply.
Why is a $4 billion city Public Utilities not regulated by the Public Service Commission, but self regulated?
The term Public Utility means just that - water for the Public. Not water for those the city likes, and no water for those the city does not like like gravel pits, bottle watering plants, and home in the foot hills.
Image Rocky Mountain Power denying power meters to a coal mine, ski resort, or church, because a manger said so. But this is the state of affairs in Utah's Public Utility market.
Which city charges nearly $10 per 1,000 gallons to apartment complexes making $18 a month just for water to shower?
We need water use standards for trees just like we have for showers, toilets, and dishwashers.
All of Utah's 1.1 million houses are on 1% of Utah's land.
Who are we saving the other 99% of the land for?
Utah's will spend $2.5 billion for lawn water meters for 1/4% of Utah's water, but does not use its clean sewer effluent.
Utah State University Center for Water-Efficient Landscaping has good suggestions.
https://extension.usu.edu/cwel/research/water-wise-plants-for-utah-landscapes
Some low water use trees like the Red Maple, Hybrid Poplar, Japanese zelkova, English Oak, Weeping Caperdown, Chitalpa, Desert Willow, Western Redbud.
Cities and Farms are required to meter and report well water pumpage, trees can't report. Yet trees pump 15 trillion gallons of water a year. All cities pump only 40 billion gallons.
Trees impact ground water 300X's more than wells, yet the focus is on the farmer's well first, city's wells second, and trees just are let run wild sucking up 300X the ground water.
The impact of water sucking trees far exceed drought on ground water resources.
Mapping aquifers means little without mapping tree densities. A tree is a well.
Some say here are 13 Lake Powell pools of water under the Salt Lake Valley.
Utah's 7.6 billion trees and growing are the single most disruptive water user in the state. Tree water is ignored while the farmer is put under the water microscope.
How is it Utah founded by farmers is today anti-rural and anti-farm family on water. The Division of Water Rights allows cities to have one million 2023 125 gpd Equivalent Domestic Units (EDUs), but mandates a rural family to have a 1981 400 gpd EDU. This burdens new rural families building a home up to an additional $30,000 in costs for nothing.
This doubles the cost of water, adds costs to oversize the mechanicals, and oversize the septic system.
Why organic farming is cheaper than chemical farming.
Like fiber less fast food, chemicalized food is not healthy, because it not only pollutes air, soil, and water, but causes cancer, Parkinson's and other nasty diseases.
Parkinson's disease once rare is now common, because of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and brain killing man made chemical polluted air, water, and food.
"One pesticide called Paraquat doubles the risk of Parkinson's" Neuro toxins target energy producing cells mitochondria.
Paraquat kills the weeds Roundup does not. Over 30 countries including China have banned Paraquat made by China, but legal in the US.
Use has doubled in the past 5 years to 15 million pounds. Michael J Fox Foundation suing to block re-authorization.
Trichloroethylene (TCE) is found in the urine of 75% of Parkinson's patients in Italy. TCE increases increases the risk for Parkinson's disease 500%. Time lag from exposure of Parkinson's can be 10 to 40 years from TCE. TCE also causes cancer. Half of super fund sites are contaminated with TCE.
Up to 30% of the ground water in US is contaminated with TCE.
TCE banned in some countries already, but not in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKVi7aClKrA
Parkinson's disease 1.2 million Americans, the world's fastest growing disease.
NIH funding decreased adjusted for inflation, while Parkinson's increased 30%.
NIH spends $250 million on Parkinson's research. Medicare spends $25 billion on annual Parkinson's disease care.
Parkinson's disease likely begins in the nose by toxic air killing the area of the brain closest to the sinuses.
Ending Parkinson's Disease by Ray Dorsey, MD - Todd Sherer, Phd, Bastiaan R. Bloem, MD, Phd. is found on Amazon.com
40 years of Parkinson's for one person is 350,000 hours of human suffering. The token billions in settlements to damaged pesticide victims means little for the trillions of hours of human suffering caused.
The world must go organic like it goes solar. 3 billion pounds of US pesticides a year add up over time. In 50 years, that's 150 billion pounds of toxic man made chemicals. We must have clean air, water, and food.
Chemicalized food, water and air cause Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, MS, cancer, neuro degenerative diseases.
In 1940, Utah had 13 million acres of farms. In 2024, Utah has 1 million acres of farms. Utah food production is down 92%.
"The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million pieces of ever-so-tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. "
How many micro and nanoplastics are in drinking water?
There are 112,000 nanoplastic particles in a bottle of water.
Most happy professionals? Farmers. Least happy professionals? Lawyers.
"One acre of land can grow a variety of crops, including 50,000 pounds of strawberries or 2,784 pounds (46.4 bushels) of wheat.
One day’s production for a high-producing dairy cow yields 4.8 pounds of butter, 8.7 gallons of ice cream or 10.5 pounds of cheese.
On any given day, one in eight Americans will eat pizza." https://www.fb.org/newsroom/fast-facts
"About 40% of a CA dairy cow's diet consists of byproducts from food and fiber production, like almond hulls and grape pomance, keeping these byproducts out of landfills."
"The amount of water needed to produce a gallon of milk has decreased more than 88% over the past 50+ years. Water is used and reused on a dairy up to four times." https://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/
1,000 chemicals in US food supply that are illegal in other countries. https://x.com/Holden_Culotta/status/1779566617724141625
"The Southerner" a 1945 movie sums up why farmers farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm4UidyyOb0
What Utah Lake used to look like - https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1783159104610894333
A group of high powered home builders want to sue the State of Utah on 4 issues:
1-Utah Code 73-1-1 - Declaring all water in the State Public Property
2-Seeking a declaration that indoor water is non-consumptive, a credit is due Home Builders for outdoor water if and when the city uses sewer reuse for outdoor water, and an amount of indoor water sufficient for a Certificate of Occupancy (CO) is natural right with no permit required.
3-Seeking a declaration that the amount of water required for indoor water shall be accurate, science based, and 150 gpd per EDU (Equivalent Domestic Unit).
4-Seeking a declaration that Private Property has natural water rights and that water is owned, managed, and credited to the Private Property owner or Homebuilder.
Why must Home Builders sue to cut water Red Tape to lower home costs for Utah families? This should be done by the Governors and Legislature
Bar Codes are scanned 6 billion times a day.
One dimensional Bar Codes usually hold 12 digits and no letters.
Two dimensional Bar Codes hold 7,000+ digits, and 4,000+ letters.
300 billon emails sent a day.
Costco sells 200 million $1.50 hot dog and soda combos a year. That's 50 million pounds of beef.
The more CO2 (plant food) in the air, the less water plants need.
LED lights have saved massive amounts of water, but cutting power demand which cuts water demand for power.
LED's save roughly 80% of the power of incandescent light bulbs.
800 lumens (800 candelas) is generated by a 60W old bulb or a 12W LED.
Solid Rain, a gelatinous substance, produced in Mexico. This substance is placed at the roots of plants keeping they hydrated for weeks. Farmers can reduce the need for rain by up to 90%. Solid Rain has a 7 year life span, and can increase ag productivity by up to 20X.
https://youtube.com/shorts/jPMU7UxHEn4?si=ATOwoKYIoHq4mqPS
@No FarmersNoFood
"Food doesn't grow on shelves."
https://x.com/NoFarmsNoFoods/status/1830151373406531634
"We've been asked to diversify [farming]. And when we try to do that. The local authorities tells us we can't." - Jeremy Clarkson. https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1830213054149399004
"We had enough. For the last 20 years we've been attacked by the political classes, telling us how farm in the countryside. Our family look after the country side for over 500 years. We don't need townies to tell us how to farm. We're now being paid to stop growing food and grow wildflowers. It's insanity. And we're thinking of ceasing our production after 500 years.
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1830162318069477460
"Farming is a profession of hope." @NoFarmsNoFood https://x.com/NoFarmsNoFoods/status/1829406697808437445
Food inflation is causes by gov't debt and overspending.
"Argentina logs first week with no inflation in food prices in 30 years." X.co https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1830359854252233075
@JamesMelville Sept 2, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr highlights how industrial-owned mega-corporate agriculture is not only giving us unhealthy food, it’s wiping out generational family farms and enabling China and Bill Gates to take control of farmland.
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/183050570296140231
Utah leaks 500 billion gallons of water, but regulates 10 cents of rain barrel water, 1 gallon of indoor water evaporation, spends $20 million to cut food production water when it can't feed itself, has the worst watershed malpractice in the nation at 4X worse than California's watershed malpractice which killed 85 people and caused $400 billion in economic damage.
What is going on with Utah's water? When did it go bad? Who is behind Utah's anti-family water policies? Where are these ill conceived policies taking Utah?
Utah needs $30 billion to fix its leaking water lines and canals and harden its 14,000 mile water grid.
"Trapped in crystal form: Scientists unveil discovery of a 6th ocean, hidden 700 km beneath Earth's surface." https://www.businesstoday.in/visualstories/news/trapped-in-crystal-form-scientists-unveil-discovery-of-a-6th-ocean-hidden-700-km-beneath-earths-surface-175054-30-09-2024
John Deere locks farmers out of their tractors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxz8ttWq9kI
The Pipeline Deception
"Kamala’s carbon pipeline climate scam impacts human health, destroys the environment, and costs taxpayers billions of dollars. Let’s get President Trump back in the White House and me to Washington so we can stop this massive boondoggle."
90,000 miles of high pressure (2,100 psi) CO2 planned at hundreds of billions of dollars..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llcvrKDJRo0
You want to keep more of what you earn? I'm afraid. That's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away.
You want to own shares in your firm? We can' t have that. The State has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send you child where we tell you. Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing or they might not choose Socialism. - Margret Thatcher
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fre22rR26EQ
Arizona Sues Saudi-Backed Company for 'Excessive Groundwater Pumping -December 12, 2024
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Better data = Better policies = Cities can use their water twice.
There is enough and to spare of the earth's bounty so there is no poor among us. Better information, better conversations, cities double using their water, and more accurate regulations would alleviate poverty and the end cities' war on Utah's farm water.
Summary-
Utah's 1.1 million homes are on 1% of Utah's land and consume 0.5% of Utah's water. There is no land or water shortage.
Indoor water is non-consumptive. The water that goes into the home comes back out. Some evaporates, but that is offset by the gallons of bottled water, milk, vegetables, beer, and furnace water. A 5 burner HE furnace produces 1 gallon of water per hour from the air.
1 million HE furnaces with 5 burners (100k btu's) produce 1.25 million gallons of water an hour.
SNWA real time indoor water consumption is 1% meaning about 1 gallon of water evaporates a day net. Utah regulates 1 gallon of water.
So what or who is using Utah's water? Not the farmers who wet farm 2% of Utah's land (1 million acres down from 13 million acres) consuming 3.5% of Utah's water. It's the 7.6 billion trees on 98% of Utah's land. At 5.5 gallons per day, Utah's trees consume 15 trillion gallons of water out of the 19 trillion gallons Utah generally gets.
Some trees consume 150 to 400 gallons on hot day. Trees have 7.6 billion wells on 98% of Utah's land. Farmers have 6,000 wells on 2% of Utah. Clearly, it's not the farmers. The big lie we've heard is that farmers use 80% of Utah's water. How could 80% of Utah's water be used on 2% of Utah's land? Beyond illogical.
Utah has built no new reservoirs in 32 years during which period the population doubled. Utah has lost half of its water storage capacity per person.
Utah needs $30 billion in water dollars for 6 new Jordanelle's, secondary water connections using clean sewer effluent for every home, and to repair Utah's leaky 14,000 mile water grid. Utah leaks 45 billion gallons a year.
If cutting down 1/2% of the trees, or trimming foliage on 1% at very little cost in the Great Salt Lake water basin would naturally save the Great Salt Lake, shouldn't we?
If updating Utah's 1981 EDU from 400 gpd to 200 gpd would save a rural family $30,000 on their home build, and $60,000 with on a home with an ADU, shouldn't we?
Utah's true 2024 indoor EDU is roughly 150 gpd and trending 100 gpd. Water duties should drive conservation targets, not water wasting?
If every house in Utah had a secondary water connection using clean sewer effluent doubling city water, shouldn't we?
There is no need for the $2 billion Lake Powell Pipeline, the $2 billion Bear River Pipeline robbing poor counties of their future development water if cities reused the sewer effluent.
Rich counties refuse to use their clean sewer effluent cleaner than Utah Lake water used for irrigation. And would rather rob poor counties of their future development water.
Utah's watershed and forest malpractice is 400% worse than CA's. 39% of Utah's homes subject to wildfire burn. Less than 10% of CA homes subject to wildfire burn.
The USDA Forest Service says a safe and healthy forest is 40 to 60 trees per acre. Utah has forest acres especially in the Wasatch with 600+ trees per acre (10X the safe and healthy number).
If ending Utah's watershed malpractice and forest malpractice would re-establish safe and healthy forests with 40 to 60 trees per acre instead of 600 trees per acre - 1) cut home fire insurance premiums, 2) yields more water, 3) yields more wildlife from more wildlife habitat, 4) cuts wildfire fighting costs, and 5) restores our watersheds. Shouldn't we?
If ending the weaponization, politicization, and corruption in Utah's water will increase water flows for families, farms, and rivers. Shouldn't we?
Nevada cities use their water twice. Utah only once. Cut and paste Nevada.
More in depth data
"The United States has 10% of the global forests, and it has more trees than it did 100 years ago. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that forest growth in the country has surpassed tree harvests since the 1930's. By 1998, tree growth exceeded harvest by 43% and the forest cover was 380% more than it had been in the 1920's? https://8billiontrees.com/trees/how-many-trees-are-in-the-united-states/
7.6 billion trees x 5.5 gallons per day = 15.2 trillion gallons of Utah's 19 trillion water budget or 78% of Utah's water. 47 million acre-feet of Utah's 60 million acre-feet annual precipitation being 78%.
Utah gets roughly 19 trillion gallons of water. 7.6 billion Utah trees at 5.5 =gpd/tree = roughly 15 trillion gallons. 15/19 =78%.
5.5 gpd/tree is a conservative data point and offsets reduced winter water use. The rule of thumb for established trees is 10 gallons of water for each inch of the tree's diameter a week. If there is unlimited water, there are records of trees absorbing 150 gallons of water per day. https://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/how-much-should-you-water-your-tree/
Pines can use water during the winter, as they don't shed their needles. Sap is sugary and acts like a biological "anti-freeze."
Irrigation companies deliver water for $0.03 per 1,000 gallons. Cities deliver water for up to $8.90 per 1,000 gallons. Any wonder cities have been taking over irrigation companies and putting them out of business, changed laws to cut irrigation water, and obstructed irrigation water transfers?
Water districts are the driving force behind farm water forfeiture, and the use of police powers to confiscate private property used to produce food.
Washington County Water District is a prime example of water hoarding. It appears the District has 800,000 acre-feet of paper water only treating 30,000 acre-feet and delivering another 20,000 acre-feet. There are the 13,000 irrigated farm acres in Washington County using 80,000 acre-feet of water (2/3 from Virgin River, 1/3 wells)
Plus Washington County Water District has severely impaired the water quality of the Virgin River and senior water rights with massive water diversions for Quail Creek Reservoir (40,325 acre-feet), Sand Hollow(51,360 acre-feet surface and 300,000 acre-feet underground storage), Gunlock Reservoir (10,884 acre-feet), Kolob Reservoir (5,586 acre-feet), Ivins Reservoir (778 acre-feet). Toquer Reservoir (3,640 acre-feet), Warner Valley Reservoir proposed (45,000 acre-feet).
Not only are massive amounts of water diverted away from the Virgin River, but the safe yield water is diminished by the evaporative loss of new surface water sources.
It appears that Washington County Water Conservancy District has no mitigation plans to justly compensate senior water rights for impaired water quality for the public use of private water quality. Further, the District has no water appraisals for water it buys, or for water it "swaps" with famers. Just because it's farmer water does not mean it is not culinary grade. The District has been "swapping" low quality water for higher quality farm water without the payment of just compensation.
Further, the District has been buying water shares at a price less than the replacement costs of the carrier system excluding the value of the water right.
We asked the Division of Water Rights what the safe yield is for Washington County, but have not received that data point.
It appears the District is hoarding 800,000 acre-feet of water rights in a water basin with a safe yield of less than 800,000 acre-feet excluding all other water rights in Area 81.
The Washington County Water Conservancy District (WCWCD) has substantially soured, degraded, and impaired the water quality of the Virgin River by diverting and evaporating historic flows from the Virgin River, and taken sweet points of diversion from SGWC and other senior water right water users in exchange for sour (high TDS) water and sour points (high TDS) of diversion made more sourer by it's water management and junior water rights without the payment just compensation. Exchanging sour water for sweet water deprives and takes the senior water right user's sweet water conversion rights for a public use without the payment of just compensation in violation of settled Utah and Federal law. What sweet water will the farmers use to develop their land in the future? They'll have to buy it back from their swap partner for $30,000 an ac-ft in the future.
“The water in this reservoir will be provided to farmers that are currently using a very high-quality water that we’d prefer to drink,” WCWCD said. “So we’re doing a swap with the farmers.” https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2023/11/07/mgk-water-managers-break-ground-for-toquer-reservoir-project/ 99.99% of tap water is not drunk by people preferring other beverages and who on average drink 11 gallons of tap water a year.
Taking the farmer's sweet water and “swapping” for sour water substantially devalues the farmer's water without payment of just compensation as required by Utah and Federal law. Most residential land and drinking water in Utah comes from farm land and senior farm water rights. We'll swap your Tesla water and give you a Yugo water. We'll take your private whole milk and give you powdered milk without paying for the cream, butter and cheese for the public. All too often in the west and in Utah, the rich water users rob the poor water users of their future development water. San Juan, the poorest county in Utah (3 golf courses/22.6% people in poverty), could better use the 86,000 ac-ft from the LPP to alleviate their poverty instead of enriching the already rich Washington County (12 golf courses/9.7% people in poverty). The district treats roughly 30,000 ac-ft, has 100,000 ac-ft of surface and 300,000+ ac-ft of underground storage, and 800,000 ac-ft of water rights.
“(Note that the proposed site-specific criterion implicitly reflects the impact of the Quail Creek Diversion. If streamflows in the Virgin River were not diverted at the Quail Creek Diversion, the “natural” concentration would be considerably lower.” Page 88 Water Quality Assessments and TMDL Allocations – Utah Division of Water Quality
Subsequently, the District diverted massive amounts of more water from the Virgin River impairing prior senior Water Rights water quality. The Utah Division of Water Quality has documented and confirmed the District's water quality impairment of prior rights.
What is the safe water yield of Washington County? How much wet water is in Washington County? How much paper water? Pioneer farmers would provide the best real life estimates, because farm water was existential.
Best estimate is about 140,000 ac-ft of wet water based on data below. How much paper water rights are in Washington County? Around 1,000,000 ac-ft. So why is the district filing for new water unless it hopes to pressure the State to cut more water from the 3.5% farmers use. The district is not using clean sewer effluent, cutting tree water using 78% of Utah's water.
Why do Utah water policies value a tree more than a Public Food Provider (farmer), or family home builder? What is more important? A person or a plant?
A family can plant a trees using more water than a home without a water right, but can't plant a home foundation without a water right. This is nonsense.
A family is more important than a tree. Utah's water policies nonsense mirror CA, and HI which killed 190 people, causes $200 billion in property loss, and bankrupted a $160 billion PG&E power utility.
Instead of chopping up farm water, taking widow's farm water their dead husband left their wives for retirement, the district, cities, farmers, sewer treatment plants should organize to double use cleaned sewer water to pick up 12,000 acre-feet of "new" water valued at $300 million @LPP ac-ft comps, for use today. That's enough "new" indoor water for 72,000 homes to double Washington County population.
More water comes out of farm production than cities can absorb, so why the mad rush to always cut farm water, but never tree water?
In 1950, Washington County farmed 17,000 acres In 2022, WC farmed 11,000 acres. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3331&context=extension_curall
Ag consumptive water use dropped from 51,000 ac-ft in 1985 to 26,600 ac-ft in 2015.
Utah can't feed itself. So why is Utah so anti-farmer on water? Farmers founded and built Utah. Now the city boys poach the little water (3.5%) farmers consume.
A farmer with 100 acres typically has 400 acre-feet of water (4 acre-feet per acre as the flood irrigation duty - 2 ac-ft for the crops to drink and 2 ac-ft as return flow back to the water basin). If the farmer spends a large amount of money on water saving technology like sprinklers and pivots, drip systems, then the famer could irrigate 100 more acres doubling his yield and profit. But this would be crime in Utah equal to a DUI if a farmer did that. Farmers can't keep any of the water they save. The state gives farmer saved water to the federal gov't with junior water rights. Cities can keep all the water they save. Cities write our water laws.
If the farmer sprinkles his 100 acres needing half the water, over time the state will take half his water (200 acre-feet) away. That 200 acre-feet can be worth $2 million dollars. What reasonable person would spend a lot of money to have the state take $2 million in water away from them? Not so for cities using farm water. When cities save water, then cities can double its use to make double the money or even triple the use by reusing the sewer effluent. Farmers are punished for water conservation, because cities wrote the water law for them and against farmers without realizing farmers use 3.5% of Utah's water and Utah's 7.6 billion trees consume 76%. Cities can double and triple profit. Why is Utah so anti-rural farmer on water? Utah's water sucking trash trees like Chinese Elms are treated better than Utah's farmers producing the tasty food we eat. Why is that?
8% of Utah's water is diverted water and 4% is depleted (evaporated). The Division of Water Rights only manages 4% of Utah's depletable water under 185,000 water rights in 49 water basins called hydrographic area.
Utah's 7.6 billion trees using 78% of Utah's don't have water rights to regulated, cut or adjudicate. Utah State University claims 87% of Utah's water evaporates or is consumed by trees and vegetation. That number is closer to 96%.
As Utah's 7.6 billion trees naturally increase, less and less water will be managed by the Division of Water Rights. In essence, the water we conserve goes to trees.
Utah's Division of Water Rights has gone hard Left like San Francisco and flexes on the small water family rural users for no public benefit. Utah cares more about water for birds, fish, and trees than water for families and a farmer (Public Food Provider).
The Division of Water Rights routinely cuts farm water while letting cities leak 45 billon gallons of water, and does not require clean sewer re-use. DWR counts oinking pigs and cud chewing cows to cut farm water, but turns a blind eye to cities water leakage of 45 billion gallons.
Why do we pay $10 million a year to the Division of Water Rights to cut farm water, and manage 4% of Utah's depletable water?
Their misguided talking point is "certainty and order in water rights" is used to cut into the 3.5% farm water consumption while ignoring the 78% water consumption of Utah's 7.6 billion trees.
The Division of Water Rights refuses to up date its old 1981 water regulations hurting home builders and family home buyers. Why? Because Utah's water is controlled by the water cartel who picks the State Engineer, writes Utah's water laws, and has taxing and police powers. Water has been weaponized in Utah against home builders, farmers, and private property.
A water cartel member can get a billion gallon water transfer approved in 24 hours while a home builder can't get 200 gallons a day approved in years. Utah's Division of Water Rights needs a complete overhaul, because half the "important" work they do is just nonsense. Cut their budget in half and give that saved $5 million a year to cities and farmers to save real wet water.
Next, we need to consider the growth and impact of Utah's good ole boy system on the farm water. Cartels are common. We're very familiar with OPEC, the oil cartel, or the light bulb cartel Phoebus cutting light bulb life from 2,500 hours to 1,000 hours to sell more light bulbs. Or a car cartel (Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche). There is a meat cartel, a fertilizer cartel, a seed cartel, and so on. Some call it the good ole boy system others call it a cartel, a group or whatever.
Utah's water cartels are gov't agencies against private water rights and for the consolidation of water rights into fewer and fewer hands of large gov't water agencies and with the usual crony capitalism game.
Why are water managers paid $280,000 which is more than the Governor? The race is on for which Utah water manager can get to $300,000 a year first.
Utah's water cartel can't go after the water rights of Utah's 7.6 billion trees using 78% of Utah's water, because you can't take trees to court under the Proposed Determination to take your water game. So the trees/vegetation using 96% of Utah's water are not subject to the water cutting game called "Proposed Determination" by the courts. The only water left to be cut is the 3.5% the farmers consume. So family farm water is the target of almost all the water right cutting in Utah.
Today, the Division of Water Rights has about 22 full time water private right cutters plus support staff- the farm water confiscation squad. It's not an Adjudication. It's property Confiscation. Rarely, if ever are city or water consortium water rights cut, it's just private folks like farmers and more often than not farmer's widows who have their private property cancelled.
The water right cutters work hard in "adjudication" which is just a fancy word for taking your stuff worth millions by a legal proceeding. If you don't file your water adjudication (legal proceeding) papers within 90 days, the widow's $100,000 water right is gone. Water adjudication is like an open lawsuit against all water rights where all water rights are run through this confiscating "system." Mostly private rights get cut while tree water use increases year over year.
The Adjudication is basically anti-rural and useless, because water rights that aren't being used over time naturally lapse. If you try to transfer them, the Division of Water Rights will deny the transfer and there is no use in the old area. If one can't use the water, it simply self lapses over time. The adjudication game is just that, an anti-rural game as are half the "important" forms the Division of Water Rights creates and processes. The millions spent on adjudication are a big waste of time, money and energy. Water naturally adjudicates itself via the transfer process with change applications. The Division of Water Right flexes on the small water user to justify its big budget. Utah spends about $3 million on staff to cut rural water instead of cutting down overgrown forests to increase water yields, protect carbon savings from wildfires.
The FS says 40 to 60 trees per acre is a healthy forest. Utah's Forest Malpractice like CA, and HI, has forests with 600 trees per acre. The added wildfire risk pushes up home fire insurance premiums $200 million a year, or $6 billion over 30 years. Who knew Utah's forest malpractice robbed family budgets of $200 million a year?
About 4% of Utah consumptive water is represented by some 185,000 water rights managed by the Division of Water Rights. The remaining 96% is owned by Utah's 7.6 billion trees/vegetation/lake evaporation without water right numbers or applications to appropriate. There is water in Utah, but 96% is used by trees, vegetation, and lake evaporation.
The Great Salt Lake alone evaporates 5% of Utah's water and could be save with tree cutting. Over time, less and less water is held as private property, because cities and trees collect and hoard it. Depending on your political views, it's a good thing or bad thing. However, it was the private ownership and use of water that brought about Utah's prosperity and high standard of living.
Like the Netherlands gov't war on farmers, Utah's war on farm water is just as harsh, but a bit more subtle. Utah publicly claims to love farmers, but in reality just guts and vilifies farm water use.
The hot, anti-rural-farm water rhetoric is dangerous. Farmers, once respected and protected are now demonized as water villains. This incites hate, violence and destruction of farm property based on false water information like farmers use 80% of Utah's water. That really means 80% of the 4% or 3.5% of Utah's consumptive water.
Farmers were the first to use water and the cities were the second. Over time, the cities using State legislative powers created water duties or water regulations limiting water use of farmers, but not really for cities. A city can consume/deplete 100% of its water for anything - businesses, industry, irrigation, stock watering, drinking water, car washes, power plants, etc. But, private water is limited, restricted, and mandated to a specific use, monitored and measured so it is easily cut by some form your forgot to fill out. It's like having money that can only be spent in one store on certain days and certain hours. If not used in that very limited way, then the bank takes the money your "wasting." The adverse and aggressive water cutting is intentionally designed for the water user to fail the regulation maze and "legally" have their family rural water taken.
The cities using their Legislative Power restricted farm water to 50% evaporation and required 50% return flow. In this slick way, farmers could not use the water they save by updating from flood irrigation with 50% depletion and 50% return flow to sprinkler irrigation with 82% depletion and 18% return flow.
Farmer were banned from using their water for instream low applications until we had a GSL crisis. The Great Salt Lake crisis opened a 10 year window for farmers aid the Great Salt Lake with instream flow applications. Why does it take a crisis to treat farmers fairly?
Farmers don't have effective lobbyists, tend to work long hours without the time or liquid money to protect their property rights from the city boys with endless gov't budgets, lawyers, lobbyists and political power.
There are about 50 water lobbyists/lawyers for cities paid with tax dollars and 1 or 2 for farmers paid with farm dollars. How could farmers fight the State, 29 Counties, and 248 Cities managing a $200 billion economy? Not a fair fight and reflects poorly on Utah.
Again, there is plenty of water and to spare, better things can happen in Utah's water, if water were better organized and managed in line with pioneer farm work ethic, Utah cities would be using its water twice like Nevada cities.
Las Vegas gets 7" of water, but with clean sewer reuse it's like it gets 14" of water.
Historically, you did not need a water right to build a home. All land had a little water for a house and garden with no water right. Over time, cities gamed the system by regulating water in their favor. You have to have a water right to get a building permit. Yet, no water right is required to plant as many trees as you like which use more water by factors of 20. See one tree - See 20 houses. Water is improperly weaponized to discriminate against certain landowners and enrich other land owners in Utah.
For example, Tree Farm, LLC filed a notice of intent to "commence a small mining operations" in Utah's popular and frequently recreated Parley's Canyon. First, the County banned all mining in the canyons cancelling 146,000 acres of federal mining rights. Then Salt Lake City cut the water line to the proposed mine site by cancelling a 29 year old water agreement serving the property and digging up their water line. Regardless of one's position on the issue for or against, no utility has the right to cut services to homes, buildings, and businesses for political reasons.
What if the power company cut power to homes or businesses it deemed "inappropriate" land use? No one would tolerate this. Because city water is not regulated like power and gas by the Public Service Commission, water has been inappropriately weaponized.
A water cartel doctrine has developed in Utah that a land owner can't use ANY of the water on their property except by a water right which in most areas are no longer available. Utah does allow rain barrel water use for outside watering, but it is illegal to drink it. Rain water is distilled water and 100 times cleaner than tap water, but you can't drink it in Utah. Why? Because a water cartel member said so and twisted water laws to weaponize water against undesirables getting building permits or business licenses.
Another example is a landowner in the canyon with one acre whose land is a snow water reservoir storing 880,000 gallons, but can't use a drop for their indoor water use. Their county requires 20 acres for a building permit, while a city acre can have 84 units. Their land is a snow reservoir with 17.6 million gallons of water per year, but their land can not legally use a small amount of water for a home.
How is it in Utah, the State can strip every drop dry of water from one person's land and send all their water to another's dry land enriching their neighbor's land while devaluing the water host?
All land receives water. Why is the use of water falling on my land banned for any use?
Evaporation, consumption, and depletion mean the same thing and are the most critical parts of any water regulation.
Families really don't evaporate water indoors, so squeezing down family water use really doesn't get you anywhere. Lawn water in the GSL water basis is roughly 1/16 % of Utah's consumptive water. So squeezing it down with $3 per square foot to rip our your land won't yield much to help the wonderful GSL. It's fun and slogany, but ineffective.
If one shrinks the size of the GSL 10%, then it would refill naturally over 10 years, because 500,000 acre-feet of water would not evaporate annually.
If one thins 1/3% of the trees in the GSL water basin, the GSL would naturally refill. One has to reduce water depletion in the GSL basin to help the GSL stay alive. Cutting non-consumptive indoor water does not help the GSL. The anti-farm, anti-family water rhetoric does not help the GSL.
If one created plastic non-evaporative surface areas of 5%, the GSL would refill naturally in 20 years. CA uses this technique on its reservoirs.
Ending water property taxes would do more to help the GSL than Rip your Strip, Slow the Flow, and Every drop count programs. Conserving non-consumptive drops of water don't count in helping the GSL, but only consumptive drops of water like tree water.
The Forest Service says 40 to 60 trees per acre is a healthy forest. We have forest acres with 600 trees. Thinning trees can save the GSL, not thinning family farm water use.
An acre-foot of water is 12" of water covering 1 acre. 2 acre-feet is 24" of water covering 1 acre. And so on. 1 ac-ft is 325,851 gallons.
Water regulation began in earnest in 1897 when the "Office of the State Engineer" was created. Later in 1963 the name changed to the "Division of Water Rights." Like all bureaucracies, it has grown, multiplied, and expanded forms, fees, and long wait times to get permits to use a little water. The Division of Water Rights is not required to act on any time table. If it doesn't want to upset the water cartel, the State Engineer just sits on applications for years. Some applications have not been acted on in over 101 years. This gives absolute power to the State Engineer. There is no accountability for sitting on applications for 101 years. Imagine if a Court could sit on cases for 101 years without making an action. That's too much power.
For example, if you file a water transfer called a "change application" on 1/4 an acre-foot or 5,000 acre-feet, the 26 step expensive process is the same. It's like treating high blood pressure or heart failure both with open heart surgery. It's very wasteful unless the point is to exercise absolute control over another's property rights. Cui bono - who benefits from the heavy handed State water management? The water cartel. You always need to bend the knee to build, to get water for a factory, or to run a business.
The adverse impact is felt most keenly in rural Utah. A family may own a buildable parcel, but is forced to find, buy and transfer expensive non-consumptive water for a water permit to then apply for a building permit.
Utah has about 185,000 registered water rights in 49 water basins called hydrographic areas which really only represent 4% of Utah's consumptive water. The other 96% is owned by trees and non-farm vegetation which don't have water right numbers.
Could a person sue a tree to get water for a home?
Is there a spreadsheet of all Utah's water rights showing how much wet water and paper water are in each of the 49 water basins? No. Why not? The División of Water rights has had 100 years to do this.
Utah's water needs to be rebalanced in favor of more private users, less poaching of farm water and more water taken from Utah's 7.6 billion trees instead of family farms and family lawns.
We love pine trees, but too much of a good thing can be bad. "Why are pine trees bad? Pine trees are one of the biggest contributors to air pollution. They give off gases that react with airborne chemicals — many of which are produced by human activity — creating tiny, invisible particles that muddy the air. The air that we breathe is chock-full of particles called aerosols."
https://knowledgeburrow.com/how-much-water-does-a-pine-tree-need-per-day/
Plus "California Forests 80%- 600% Denser Than 150 Years Ago, UC Reserarch Says Biomass Is one of the Answers" – “600 trees per acre in some areas is possible”
https://gvwire.com/2020/09/15/california-forests-80-600-denser-than-150-years-ago-uc-researcher-says-biomass-is-one-of-the-answers/
The no touch, no trim, no thin watershed management policy in our canyons contributes to air pollution, watershed degradation, and can kill our forests from super hot wildfires that sterilize the forest floor. Trimming 1/3% of Forest overgrowth would refill the Great Salt Lake.
A solution would be to return to native trees and vegetation and weed out the non-native water sucking trees, and trim out pine trees and replace with aspens.
96% of Utah's water is used by its 7.6 billion trees and non-farm vegetation now. If Utah's trees increase to 9 billion trees? What then? The water in our streams, rivers, and lakes is only the water the trees let us have.
We drink and breath PM 2.5 Tire Dust - 1,000 times more pollution than tail pipes.
Tire wear is a significant source of air pollution, with non-exhaust emissions accounting for 90% of all particulate emissions from vehicles1. The microplastics from tire dust contribute to dangerous PM2.5 pollution, which can cause respiratory health issues1. In testing more than 250 different types of tyres, it was found that particles from tire wear contain a wide range of toxic organic compounds, including known carcinogens, which pollute soil and water sources2. Air pollution from tire wear particles can be 1,000 times worse than what comes out of a car’s exhaust3. https://www.tiretechnologyinternational.com/news/regulations/pollution-from-tire-wear-1000-times-worse-than-exhaust-emissions.html
Utah produces about 20 million pounds of tire dust (PM2.5) which ends up in our water, food, lungs, brain, and reproducive organs.
Washington County Water Conservancy District (WCWCD) has monopolized water in Washington County, disrupted water markets, and devalued the market price of water for power and money. Washington County land went up 500%, county water went up 0% during the same period. How can this happen unless there is some form of undue water politics, oligopoly, or monopoly or whatever one wants to call it which is the Washington County Water District. Cui Bono.
Why won't the water district allow water to be re-organized to double water usability in the county instead of promoting the $2 Billion Lake Powell Pipeline from an unstable water source? Where are Washington County 72,000 secondary water connections for the 72,000 homes in the county?
If there were a land district instead of a water district, land would be $1,000 an acre. The purpose of a water district is to deliver wet water, not disrupt Utah's water markets and game the system for salaries approaching $300,000 a year or double what the Governor makes.
Water property taxes waste water. Why is the true cost of water hidden from the public users? Ending water property taxes would conserve more water than all the other water conservation programs combined.
Because Utah lost its focus on the essentials of life, and too much focus on non-essential virtual life. We can't eat, wear, or live in data. Poor land planning crowds 3 million people onto less than 1% of Utah's land area. High density ghettos in mall parking lots create slums sucking the life and well being out of single family communities.
Utah imports 97% of its fruit, 98% of its vegetables, 75% of it's dairy, 5% of its grain, and 0% of its protein. Utah exports 34% of its surplus protein currently thanks to cattle farmers.
By 2050 with the same acres in production which is unlikely, Utah will only produce 1.5% of its fruit, 1.1% of its vegetable, 14% of its dairy, 51% of its grain, and 70% of its protein. -yourutahyourfuture.org
Food insecurity is not freedom.
Clearly, the war on the farmer's water needs to end, and be reversed. A Public Food Provider (Farmer) must be restored to the equal use of water as a Public Water Provider.
How "educated" are we if we can't feed ourselves? Utah spends $13,000 a year per student for education or $13 an hour per student for 990 hours of seat time, yet Utah can't feed the student or itself, house itself, health care, law care itself affordably.
1-Cities shall use their water at least twice like Las Vegas. Once indoors, then clean sewer effluent outdoors. The affect is to double a city's precipitation.
2-Farmers, Ranchers and Land owners shall have the equal rights and privileges as Public Water Providers in all aspects including 40 years before forfeiture, same water transfer rights including for instream flows, all applications acted on within 90 days.
3-If a farmer, rancher, or land owner saves water, they shall be entitled to a small amount of water even in closed basins, and the right to use saved water. Indoor water is non-consumptive. A bush uses more water than a house. How can a landowner have less right to Utah's water on their own property than a bush?
4-All of Utah's water shall be only one classifications called General Use (GU) allowing for all uses - municipal, industrial, commercial, irrigation, stock for all water users.
5-All buildings shall be metered for indoor and outdoor water use with reporting to the Division of Water Rights in gallons and dollars charged. Water leakage shall be reported in gallons and as a system leakage percentage.
6-The Division of Water Rights shall maintain a prominent list ranking water leakage of Public Water Providers in gallons and percent of total system leakage its home website. So Utah can get the $30 billion in Federal water infrastructure it needs.
7. The Public Service Commission shall regulate First Class City water Utilities selling more than $1 million in water outside its municipal boundaries.
8. Utah's water laws should be dumped, and replaced with Nevada's water laws. And perhaps we should outsource Utah's water mgt to Nevada.
9. Change Applications for amounts of water 1 acre-foot or less shall be acted upon same day. Newspaper adverting's shall be replaced
10. AI shall be implemented to reduce staffing needs by at least 50%.
Pleasant Grove City leaks 666 million gallons of water a year.
Pleasant Grove's lawn police will ticket you if you water during the day. Never mind, your 25 trees taking day watering 7 days a week or the city leaking 666 million gallons.
Pleasant Grove City reported to the Utah Division of Water Rights a water main leakage rate of 40.51%. Pleasant Grove City leaks 2/3 of a Billion gallons, but tickets for you for day lawn watering. It's just nonsense, abusive, harassment making water criminals out of good citizens.
The chronic "Slow the Flow Save H2O" water shaming slogans are sung loud and proud by our water agencies which hide 40 of the cost of the true water costs with water property taxes. Water property taxes waste water. Water agencies must raise water prices 25% to 40% to replace water property tax dollars. Why? To conserve water.
This abuse is enabled by cities hiding their leak rates from their rate payers. After spending over $100 million in State water management dollars, how do we get state water leakage in the amount of 15 Deer Creek Reservoirs? Instead of counting cud chewing cows in a field to cut farm water, perhaps the Division of Water Rights should count leaking city water mains?
Cities sell water by the gallon so they know how many gallons run through the house/building water connection. Cities also know how much water they put into the system. The difference between water in and water out is the water loss or leakage. They call it unaccounted water. Folks call it leakage.
Here's the math on PG leakage. In 2021, Pleasant Grove City reported the total from water sources it put into the system at 5,047.63 acre-feet (325,851 gallons per acre-foot). That's 1,644,742,698 gallons subtract water sold at the meter of 978,458,866 (3,002.78 acre-feet) is 666,283,822 gallons of water main leakage.
Side issue - How do we have dry and dribbling fire hydrants in Utah? Does the State Fire Marshal collect and index fire hydrant information readily available to the public is an easily digested format? Why not?
Trees conserve 0% water while people have conserved 62.5%. Indoor water use has declined from 400 gallons a day to 125 gallons a day, but Water Rights won't update its 1981 indoor water regulation. When people conserve water, the trees drink it. Trees don't conserve water and propagate like weeds.
Houses use less water more than ever. Water efficiency in appliances has greatly increased, but trees have not and will not conserve water. They can't. Trees are aggressive, invasive, and propagate like rabbits.
In the war for water, the trees are winning. How many non-native trees can Utah tolerate? No limit? All those non-native trees shipped into Utah show up at Lowe's, Home Depot, and Walmart. Amazon will ship you a Red Maple, Sugar Maple, or Japanese Maple tree next day. Beautiful trees, but are they the right trees of Utah? Can we afford them water wise? Do we need a water right to plant a tree? Because it's illegal to dig a post hole without calling 811 - Blue stakes,
How many trees can Utah afford water wise? Utah has 7.6 billion using 78% of Utah's water. The world has 3.04 trillion trees or 422 trees per person. Perhaps we should plant Utah trees outside of Utah to save our water, yet keep the good air from trees.
"In a blockbuster study released Wednesday in Nature, a team of 38 scientists finds that the planet is home to 3.04 trillion trees, blowing away the previously estimate of 400 billion. That means, the researchers say, that there are 422 trees for every person on Earth." Scientists discover that the world contains more trees than previously thought." By Chris Mooney September 2, 2015
Farmers consume 80% of the 4% of Utah's consumptive water managed by the Division of Water Rights under 185,000 water rights.
80% of 4% is roughly 3.2% which is how much farmers really use. So why all the hate on farm water?
If there is one water right owner in a 34,000 acre area, what laws protect the area landowners from bad acts and the weaponization and water monopoly? Suing a $4 billion utility over a wrongfully denied water connection isn't practical. Not a fair fight.
Established in 1876, Salt Lake City Public Utilities is oldest retail water provider in the West. Operating for 147 years, the $4 billion, self-regulated Salt Lake City Public Utilities claims to have no water inventory to hide it's water hoarding.
The older the city, the more the water hoarding. Estimates put Salt Lake City's water hoarding at 600,000 acre-feet of water rights with 200,000 acre-feet of wet water or 2 Deer Creeks. Salt Lake City has escaped oversight from the Public Service Commission by creating its own hand picked oversight board where the wife of a board member is paid by Public Utilities $130,000 for "PR" work.
The Town of Brighton, and Town of Alta, and Cottonwood Heights own no water, because SLC hogged it all. They have Salt Lake City "surplus" water contracts. Here's the kicker. All the building permits in Brighton and Alta must be pre-approved by Salt Lake City. These towns are puppets by the misuse of water allowed by bad water laws. So skilled is Salt Lake City's $4 billion unregulated utility, that it collects over $45,000 a month from non-Salt Lake City residents as "watershed protection fees" used to expand Salt lake City's 32,000 acre land hoard in the canyons. Over $1 million in property taxes have been taken from school and gov't budgets, because Salt Lake City removes thousands of acres from the property tax rolls to protect a watershed virtually no one drinks from, which goes to the Great Salt Lake to evaporate.
Billions of dollars of property values have been lost together with millions in taxes due to water being weaponized for extraterritorial land use power. This has been enabled, supported, and sanctioned by the Division of Water Rights, and the Governor's Office for some explainable political reasons - votes.
The Governor's Office has intentionally turned a blind eye to the health, welfare, and public safety hazards canyons of Salt Lake County. Homes in the canyons are at highest extreme wildfire risk in the nation with no real fire protection, and home water meters that go dry half the year. Moreover, the Governor's Office has failed to protect basic private property and civil rights of hundreds of canyon land owners. The Governor's Office advocates for RS2477 Roads in 28 of Utah's 29 county leaving 1 Salt Lake County out intentionally sand bagging SLCO canyon land owners to twist in the political winds of injustice. The Governor and Salt Lake County Mayor tells agency heads not to talk to or help canyon land owners.
99.99% of canyon water is not drunk at the tap. No one really drinks the canyon water nor do people like the product water treatment plants produce. The canyon watershed is for lawns, laundry, toilets and the Great Salt Lake to evaporate. Imagine that, and getting other cities to buy land for SLC as a term and condition of selling them over priced "surplus" hoarded water. If SLC did not hoard water, the Town of Alta, Town of Brighton, Cottonwood Heights, Holladay, Murray, and Midvale would be water independent, instead being trapped SLC "surplus" water customers by Utah's biggest water hoarder.
When will Utah treat all citizens equally on water, stop stripping every drop of water from one land and giving it all to a city to sell for profit and land use powers?
Salt Lake City is a great city and could be better on water.
Purdue University - "Trees can absorb between 10 and 150 gallons of water daily, yet of all the water absorbed by plants, less than 5% remains in the plant for growth."
The US Forest Service - "There are an estimated 7.6 billion live trees in Utah"
Utah Division of Water Resources - "Indoor water use only consumes 5 percent of the metered water." December 29, 2010
Salt Lake City Public Utilities - indoor water use is 147 gallons a day
Google - World has 2.3 billion houses
5% x 147 gallons is 7.35 gallons of indoor water evaporated per house.
Let's say trees use water for 8 months a year to be conservative That makes 6.6 gallons to 100 gallons. It's fair to say a house evaporates less water than a tree. So a 1 to 1 ratio is dramatically understating it.
7.6 billion trees divided by 2.3 billion houses is 3.3 This means that Utah's trees evaporate more water than all the houses in the world 3.3X's.
If you want to compare water going through the house meter versus tree water, then it's the following:
2.3 billion houses x 147 gallons a day is 338 billion gallons of water per day at the meter for all the houses in the world. Averaging 10 gallons and 150 gallons is 160 gallons divided by 2 is 80 gallons a year. Multiply that by 2/3 (8 months) is in 2/3 a year conservative number is 53 gallons x 7.6 billion is 402.8 billion gallons a day for Utah trees.
Either way you cut it, it's a fair statement to say Utah's trees use more water than all the houses in the world even 3X's more.
Ask Salt Lake City Public Utilities how much water they have. They won't tell you despite operating a $4 billion utility with the biggest water department in Utah for 147 years. It's their public secret. How can the State manage water if cities won't tell how much water they have? Salt Lake City knows how much water they have, like their 4 billion gallon leak rate, it's just unwisely hidden. pushing away billions in federal water dollars.
Why is it a farmer can tell you how much water they have, but cities can't. hmm.
Salt Lake City is a great city doing a good job on water; however, they've weaponized water for political land use power and extra cash. If Salt Lake City doesn't like you business or land use, they'll cut your water lines. There is no oversight. Utilities are not land use weapons for Republicans, Democrats or Independents to arbitrarily deploy on the unsuspecting.
Salt Lake City told the New York Times the city would run out of water in 18 years. If SLC used their water twice like Las Vegas, SLC could operate on 35,000 acre-feet. That's half of their Deer Creek water. SLC has no real need for any canyon water.
"The city is trying to conserve water. Last December, it stopped issuing permits for businesses that require significant water, such as data centers or bottling plants." New York Times "As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An 'Environmental Nuclear Bomb'
Salt Lake City uses city water for lawns, has no secondary water connections, and does not re-use its sewer effluent.
Salt Lake City does not like bottled water, so they weaponize their water to discourage bottled water by flexing their water muscle. Utilities must not be used as political tools.
Salt Lake City won't issue water connections to canyon land owners for non-consumptive indoor water, but millions of gallons for consumptive snowmaking is ok and readily sold. Salt Lake City says there are only 3 ways to increase water supply - divert more water from rivers and streams, recycle more waste water, or pump more well water. This ignores the obvious - 7.6 billion trees using 78% of Utah's water, billions of gallons of water leaks, and lost use of water from water hoarding.
Salt Lake City could fix its 4.3 billion gallon annual leakage, thin and replace non-native trees like Chinese Elm and Russian Olives, and build the dams in Big Cottonwood Canyon and Little Cottonwood Canyon as they proposed in 1963 which were a good idea then and now.
If there were dams in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyon as planned in 1963, enough Deer Creek water could be used in Salt Lake County making the Bear River pipeline project undeeded.
Utah leads the nation in wildfire risks to homes. Salt Lake County leads the state in wildfire risk to homes. Salt Lake County is the #1 worst wildfire risk out of all the 3,143 counties in the US. What the harm?
$6billion drained from family budgets over 30 years from boosted insurance premiums.
Having dry and dribbling fire hydrants in the Wasatch is a public safety issue to Utahns and the millions of tourists?
Who will have to pay for this negligence in the event of a CA or HI wildfire?
The CA Paradise wildfire killed 85 people. The HI Maui wildfire killed 95 people. $200 billion loss. The common factor was Forest Malpractice.
Utah has the same Forest Malpractice as CA and HI. It, too blames Climate Change, down stream water equality for wildfire mayhem.
The Forest Service says 40 to 60 trees per acre is a healthy forest. We have Wasatch forests with 600+ trees to the acre. That is not the result of Climate Change or water inequality. It's Forest Malpractice.
What does it mean? Does it even matter? Yes. Utah's Forest Malpractice has added $200 million to home and business fire insurances premiums and dried up our watersheds. That's $6 billion taken from family budgets over 30 years.
How is it that Utah's futuristic Silicon Slopes don't have modern fire protection, and water meters with year round water? We have AI, but dry fire hydrants, and dry home water meters? Why the third world water conditions in Silicon Slopes with fiber optics?
What are ISO fire ratings for the Town of Brighton, Town of Alta, and Snowbird? ISO fire rating is a score provided to fire departments and insurance companies by the Insurance Services Office on how dangerous fire is to buildings.
Utah has to import 97% of its fruit, vegetables, 75% of its dairy, nearly 100% of its clothes. Utah's housing is unfordable. Utah can't do the basics of life despite State spending of $26,000 per house on top of the $52,000 in federal spending per house. Clearly its not a money issue. We need to rebalance and return to the farm/ranch life ethic.
Gov't spends $1.1 billion an hour. Redirecting a few hours of this flow of money does more positive good, than billion dollar donations to charities.
Just under 80 percent of Utah's farmland is permanent pasture and rangeland –– but a significant amount is cropland, of which most is irrigated. The total value of agricultural sales is $1.84 billion, of which 31 percent are from crop sales and 69 percent are from livestock and their products.
Could we better spend the $9 billion to "educate" ourselves, to affordably feed, clothe, house, health care, or law care ourselves?
Washing cars has become a fetish. When a car gets washed 10 times a month, that's a fetish, excessive and wastes water.
There is drought in China, Pakistan, and India causing death. For context, while Utah is in a drought, 1,000 cars zip thru Quick Quack car washes. Some Utah cars are washed 4 times a week. How serious is our drought if we wash cars 4 times a week? We spend $40 million for bird water, and $250 million for secondary water meters.
We have a single city leaking 4.3 billion gallons of water without one news story on it in an extreme drought. How would India view Utah's "drought"?
Side note: China approved 2 new coal plants a week. India 1 per month. US only has 22 coal plants remaing.
Perhaps we could better manage our water be re-focusing on the essentials of life like food, wet water projects instead of dry water paperwork projects like the "Proposed Determination" mega lawsuit against private property from a third district judge long deceased who didn't see the big water picture. What politics prevents Utah's 1981 water regulations from being updated? What are the adverse costs of the weaponization of water for a land use tool so out of touch with real life?
We have less water than some places, but unlike other places in the world, no one dies from the lack of water as they do in India.
"Drought in India has resulted in tens of millions of deaths over the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on the country's climate: a favorable monsoon is critical to securing water for irrigating India's crops. In parts of India, failure of the monsoons causes water shortages, resulting in poor yields an answer to this item." Wikipedia
Utah leaks 15 Deer Creeks, does not use city clean sewer water effluent like Las Vegas, yet complains about the lack of water.
Better questions are needed for better water policies on the 4% of Utah's water we use for 1.6 million jobs, 1.1 million families, and $200 billon state GDP are needed. Could simply adopting Nevada's water laws and policies double city water?
The Division of Water Rights manages only 4% of Utah's consumptive water described by roughly 185,000 water rights. The other 96% is consumed by Utah's 7.6 billion trees, non-Ag vegetation, and surface water evaporation.
Why would Utah spend $2.5 billion to meter outdoor lawn water consuming 1/4% of Utah's water while giving trees using 78% of Utah's water a pass?
Utah spent $250,000,000 to install about 87,000 outdoor water meters while the Division of Water Rights issues water transfers allowing houses to go un-metered. What's going on?
Swiss Mountain Estates near Midway has 101 homes with no indoor water meters. Alta has 21 homes with no indoor water meters. Usually, no meters, no water inventories are signs of the weaponization of water.
How can the State manage 4% of Utah's water without indoor water meters on all houses, or have comprehensive water inventories (water rights, water shares, water contracts)?
Cities claim they are not required to have water inventories or disclose them if they do. The $10 million a year Division of Water Rights claims it's not their job to inventory city water rights, just farm water where oinking pigs get counted in family farm pig pens.
How can the Division of Water Rights reasonably act on city Non-Use Applications to bank future water without knowing how much water a city has?
Farms water is counted to the cow, but not cities can leak 4 billion gallons with no comment. The older the city the more the water hoarding, and use water as a land use weapon for politics. Clearly, water reform is needed top down in Utah.
Because Utah has the worst US water laws crafted by a crafty water cartel. Utah takes all the water from one person's land gives it to another's land.
16 million gallons of water can be on one person's land as rain/snow, but they can't use a drop for drinking. If you want water, you have to beg the politicians whose city monopolized the area water for a few drops. Insiders get water. Outsiders get the boot.
The Division of Water Rights turns a blind eye to this injustice, because the Governor's Office told them to. That's the power of the Monthly Lunch with the Governor only one city enjoys.
Every county and city should have a monthly lunch with the Governor, not just Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City.
We need to put a cash bounty on Utah's top 3 water sucking trash, garbage trees (Chinese Elms, Russian Olive, and Box Elder) to save the Great Salt Lake and replenish Utah's bone dry watersheds.
Thinning forest overgrowth should also be implemented, not only to save water, to improve wildlife habitat, but to prevent devastating California like wild fires. It's time to re-think our out of touch, don't touch canyon trees policy. Logging and grazing saves drinking water, and better protected our watersheds and forests.
"#1 Siberian Elm tree — Worst Tree in Ogden/Layton Utah
The Siberian elm (or Chinese elm) tree is undoubtedly one of the toughest trees on the planet…so tough that it thrives in the deserts of Siberia with only an estimated 9 inches of rain fall a year. Travelers brought it to the US and then it migrated west on the railroads.
This tree thrives in low water conditions, usually growing in cracks or rocky soil or along fence-lines or the edges of houses. This tree is a super sniffer–meaning it will find water wherever it is and destroy anything in its path. This results in broken sewer lines, pushed up cement, broken water lines, roots in rain gutters, etc. I’ve even seen a Siberian elm root come up into a toilet in a home in Ogden Utah.
One Siberian Elm Means Thousands
Since the Siberian elm spreads thousands of seeds every fall (they blow up to a mile away), you will never be able to effectively control the spread of this invasive tree in your yard until you remove the tree and poison the stump. Even poisoned elm stumps are known to come back 6 months later and start growing a tree again. This tenacious tree is no good for homes and should be removed as soon as possible. Also the sooner you remove this tree the cheaper and better it is. On average, a Siberian elm growing in the Ogden or Layton Utah area will grow 8 feet per year. Enough said.
Verdict: Cut down and remove the Siberian elm as soon as possible -Tree Surgeons December 1, 2020
Indoor water is virtually non-consumptive, so why is it so heavily regulated? To enable the weaponization of water for power and gain by abusive water agencies hoarding land that bought up 32,000 "dry" acres.
Utah water agency information claims indoor water evaporation is 5%. Is that a real number or just made up to control us? Most likely made up, because the 177 gallons of bottled water, milk, beer, sports drinks per person comes into the house. 3X's that number for 3 people per house yielding 532 gallons of "imported" water fully consumptive water into a house yearly.
1.5 gallons of liquid added per day per house excluding water in food offsets water evaporation from toilets, showers, and clothes dryers making indoor water effectively non-consumptive. Rural homes return nearly 100% of indoor water via septic drain fields to the underground acquire where it came from. Septic drain fields are underground water recharge fields. So why can't I use non-consumptive water without permit?
The surface area of toilet water is about 1 square foot. Best guess, a toilet evaporates 3-4 gallons a month. 2 toilets maybe 6-8 gallons a month.
What does this mean? It means indoor water right permits are just a land use tool not a real water basin impact issue. It's a false water narrative to inject another layer of gov't land control over other private property. Utah water policies are oppressive, anti-Rural family, two tiered, weaponized against undesirable land owners to concentrate big gov't power of bureaucrats over small landowners.
A prime example is canyon land. Backcountry activists heading water agencies weaponize water to control land use of land they and their friends was to recreate on without paying the landowner fair use or fair market values. Salt Lake City has used its water weapon to buy 32,000 "dry" acres dripping with water for pennies. So skilled is Salt Lake City in land confiscation by cutting water lines, Salt Lake City collects over $45,000 a month from non-Salt Lake City residents to buy Salt Lake City more so-called "dry" canyon land.
The narrative is, we need to protect the watershed for drinking "surplus" water we sell to Cottonwood Heights, so Cottonwood Heights must buy us canyon land. This is illogical, because 99.99% of canyon water is not consumed as tap water. Watershed protection is really for lawn, laundry, and toilet water. Now who would spend over $1 million a year for armed watershed cops to protect lawn water unless their is an ulterior motive of land use control using watershed power and water as a land use weapon.
CA, and HI have the same Forest Malpractice as UT. How will UT fare?
Salt Lake City has so mismanaged the Wasatch Forests that the Rocky Mountain Power Company spent $20 million to burry canyon power lines in fear of a wildfire bankrupting them like California's PG&E Power Company was bankrupted by a Forest Malpractice wildfire. Insurance agencies are pulling coverage in Salt Lake County, Summit, Utah, and Wasatch Counties due to the wildfire risks.
Indoor water evaporation (depletion) is virtually zero. There is really no impact to a water basin for indoor water use. In Utah, it's called an EDU. In Idaho, even in "closed" water basins, every land owner is still entitled to some water for a house and garden. All property is a watershed capturing far more water than the few possible gallons a house may evaporate indoors.
Poor Utah water policies enable gov't to take landowners property without just compensation, "because your land is dry" despite it being a snow reservoir with up to 900 inches of snow (2.4 million gallons of water per acre. The landowner is denied even 30 days of summer use of non-consumptive indoor water.
Utah's trees by the numbers – Utah's Forest Malpractice is the same as CA, and HI.
There are 3.04 trillion trees in the world on 36 billion acres is 84 trees per acre. By population, that's 422 trees per person. 1 There are 7.6 billion trees in Utah2 on 54.335 million acres. That's 140 trees per acre. By population, Utah has 2,324 trees per person. California Forests are 80% -600% denser than 150 Years Ago, UC Researcher Says3” The recent Maui, HI wildfire killed 95 people and cause billions in damages. The Paradise, CA wildfire killed 85 people and caused billions in damages bankrupting PG&E a $164 billion utility company.
Today Utah has 5 times the trees per person than the world average. Historically, Utah also had roughly 1 billion trees.
Utah's 7.6 billion trees consume more water than all the 2.3 billion houses in the world. Conversations on trees water would be more useful than the usual farm water bashers.
The Forest Service classifies Chinese Elms as weed4s. While Utah pays $3 per square foot to rip out lawns which is roughly $130,680 per acre of lawn or $76,878 per acre-foot at 1.7 acre-feet of lawn water per acre, cutting down 15 large trees for $30,000 would save $100,000 per acre-foot and be 400% more efficient compared to Rip your Strip.
Utah's Forest Malpractice has substantially contributed to $200 million in additional home fire insurance premiums.
In summary, tree thinning would increase water yields, increase wildlife, decrease wildfire risks, and decrease home insurance premiums. More accurate conversations on Utah's water policies may improve water policies.
1https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-many-trees-are-in-the-world/
2https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/1/14/23552065/can-forest-thinning-help-great-salt-lake-legislature
3https://gvwire.com/2020/09/15/california-forests-80-600-denser-than-150-years-ago-uc-researcher-says-biomass-is-one-of-the-answers/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThere%E2%80%99s%20some%20other%20studies%20that%20suggest%20the%20forests,trees%20per%20acre%20in%20some%20areas%20is%20possible.
WSU professor Eric Ewert claims: "Utah agriculture uses 85% of our water supply."
USU water professors claim: 87% of Utah's water is used by trees, vegetation, and evaporation. Who's right?
Both. Utah's AG uses most of the registered water rights, but registered water rights are only 5% of Utah's total water budget. That's how they are both right.
Here's the math. Utah has 146,000 Water Rights used by 248 municipalities diverting 1 million acre-feet, AG, and industry diverting about 4 million acre-feet of water of Utah's 60 million acre-feet of average precipitation.
Farmers use 80% of the 5 million ac-ft managed, not 80% of the 60 million ac-ft. On an evaporative basis the number is 2 million acre-feet, or 3.3%. Utah's farms and ranches evaporate about 3.3% of Utah's water compared to 92% for Utah's 7.6 billion trees and vegetation.
Utah's DEQ says that 100 MPN E-Coli counts are "high risk." What words would describe 2,400 MPN human sourced E-Coli counts in Big Cottonwood Creek?
The Salt Lake Tribune claims 9 million visitors use the Tri-Canyon area. The Central Wasatch Commission claims there are 16 toilets in the Tri-Canyon area. What's the deal? How does a big house in Utah have more toilets than a 34,000 acre Big Cottonwood Canyon?
Why does Utah's DEQ give SLC a Clean Water Act waiver to put untreated Utah Lake with toxic algae into Big Cottonwood Creek? https://saveourbigcottonwoodcreek.org/
How toxic are the algal blooms? It's killed dogs in 45 minutes. What is the algal bloom bio-hazard index for children on Salt Lake County's east bench from Salt Lake City's Utah Lake water?
Private landowners have offered land to toilets, but are rebuffed. One private canyon landowner put out a toilet bucket for trespassers to defecate in. He carried out the human waste from trespassers on his property, but Salt Lake County told him to stop providing toilet bucket services. Didn't meet code. Now the trespassers just defecate all over his property and watershed again.
The Forest Service tells the Unified Police not to enforce trespass in the canyons. The man reports trespassers, nothing is done. He's taxed for no services. His land is crapped out while the ski resorts double road widths, add restaurants, not tubs, pools, and bike trails.
This same man was ticketed by the police 39 times with 38 tickets being dismissed. The one ticket that was not dismissed was for removing avalanche debris from his private road.
This same man cut down a dead/dying, dangerous leaner tree over the road and was ticketed while the FS has about 30 professional tree cutters in the same area cutting and burning good lumber which could be 2x4's for homes. What's the deal with selective enforcment?
One party can cut down 2,000 trees and not replace them despite the Salt Lake County cut one plant two code, but another party who cuts a dangerous leaner is ticketed? Why so much selective enforcement in Big Cottonwood Canyon?
"On average, Mexico should pay 350,000 acre feet of water per year in the cycle, which would have it reach its goal of 1.7 million acre feet by the end. But as of Saturday, Mexico has only sent 375,819 acre feet.
That means it owes a whopping 1.3 million acre feet of water from its six tributaries that feed into the Rio Grande by October
"On average, Mexico should pay 350,000 acre feet of water per year in the cycle, which would have it reach its goal of 1.7 million acre feet by the end. But as of Saturday, Mexico has only sent 375,819 acre feet.
That means it owes a whopping 1.3 million acre feet of water from its six tributaries that feed into the Rio Grande by October 2025."
" Organic food sales made up 5.7% of overall U.S. food sales, which rose 2.3% in 2018. The U.S. organic market grew 6.3% to $52.5 billion as non-food sales increased nearly 11% to reach $4.6 billion. Sales of organic fruits and vegetables made up 36% of all organic food sales in 2018, rising 5.6% to $17.4 billion."
" Organic food sales made up 5.7% of overall U.S. food sales, which rose 2.3% in 2018. The U.S. organic market grew 6.3% to $52.5 billion as non-food sales increased nearly 11% to reach $4.6 billion. Sales of organic fruits and vegetables made up 36% of all organic food sales in 2018, rising 5.6% to $17.4 billion."
Ev's use 2X the power, and 3X the peak power demand of a house.
$9 Trillion to upgrade the power grid for EV's plus $2 Trillion in tax credits is $11 Trillion to go all EV.
That's a cost of $84,000 per household or $33,000 power grid surcharge per EV.
"The data pulled from the first week of February in 2023 shows that EVs cost consumers an
Ev's use 2X the power, and 3X the peak power demand of a house.
$9 Trillion to upgrade the power grid for EV's plus $2 Trillion in tax credits is $11 Trillion to go all EV.
That's a cost of $84,000 per household or $33,000 power grid surcharge per EV.
"The data pulled from the first week of February in 2023 shows that EVs cost consumers an average of $65,202 during this time period, while ICE vehicles cost $56,962.
EV's really cost roughly $100,000 adding power gird surcharge of $33,000 per vehicle. EV's do double road damage. EV's give off more tire dust (PM2.5) pollutants and double damage roads.
EV's fun, but are a net loser environmentally until battery weight and capacity are improved.
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