Utah can't feed itself Imports 97% fruit/vegetable
Then why is Utah anti-farm and anti-family on water?
Why does a Utah farmer (a Public Food Provider) have less rights to use water than a Weed, a Bush, or a Tree?
You can't sue trees-So Utah sues farmers to take their water
The Utah Division of Water Rights is broken, not Math based, not Peer Reviewable, and not Common Sense. Who did this? Why? .......................................... A reliable water supply is limited by wet water, mechanicals (wells, pipes), and dry laws written by Utah's water cartel in favor of cities and trees, but against farmers and families. ......................................... Irrigation companies deliver summer water for $0.03 per 1,000 gallons. Cities deliver summer water for up to $8 per 1,000 gallons. Cities eat irrigation companies. ........................................ Sandy City took over Sandy Irrigation, Sandy Canal, Union and East Jordan, Nickle Ditch, Lynn Ditch, Bell Canyon Irrigation, Last Chance Ditch, Granite Water Company, etc. Lehi City took over Lehi Irrigation. AF took over American Fork Irrigation. PG took over Pleasant Grove Irrigation. . . .
Why does Utah regulate 1 gallon of water evaporated per day inside a home? ........................................Why does Utah regulate $0.10 worth of rain barrel water? ......................................... Why is it illegal to drink rain water (distilled water) in Utah? .........................................Rain water is 2 TDS (Total Dissolved Solids). Utah's Tap water contaminant TDS standard is up to 2,000 TDS. ........................................ Utah's tap water is dirty (not fully tested). ................................... Why did Utah get an EPA waiver to avoid testing for 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP); Dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD); Diquat; Endothall; Ethelyne dibromide; and Glyphosate (Round Up like stuff? https://deq.utah.gov .........................................Utah does not test for Micro(nano) plastics (Mnp's) like PM2.5 tire dust. Utah created 500 million lbs of PM2.5 tire dust over 20 years. Where is it?
AI could would cut The Division of Water Right's budget 50%.
Denmark - $75 Climate Change tax per cow. Worldwide, that would be $116 billion ($3 Trillion over 30 years) Carbon Tax to people who hate meat eaters.
https://x.com/NoFarmsNoFoods/status/1911706374456701063
"Data: Plastic From Water Bottles Found in Brains"
Dementia, heart attack link.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370144544112
In 2016, Italy banned Glyphosate (Roundup like weed killer).
https://youtube.com/shorts/dgUReDkU-Jo?si=KI2U1791cVXx22Tf
https://www.waterrights.utah.gov/
Fluoride is a hazardous waste - EPA. If you want to use it, use it. Don't poison 100% of treated water for the 0.01% consumed as tap water by people.
Fluoride is not good for 99.5% of our bones that are not teeth. 0.5% of our bones are teeth.
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 to treat 0.5% of our bones (teeth).
Mass fluoride medication to treat 0.5% of our bones with 0.01% of drunk tap water is a low IQ policy.
How about offer free Fluoride pills to those that want it instead?
Thank you, Utah Legislature and Gov Cox.
After years of poisoning, "Utah finally banned fluoride in drinking water — the first state to do so — and labeled it toxic." https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/fluoride-health-tooth-decay/2025/03/15/id/1202980/
Why is Utah paying $4.4 million to farmers not to farm increasing food costs?
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2024/12/29/colorado-river-basin-utah-will-pay/
Utah's Watershed Malpractice and Forest Negligence costs Utah families $7.5 billion in higher home insurance premiums over 30 years.
Today, Utah's Watershed Malpractice and Forest Negligence 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 Tesla - 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
"Microplastics May Increase Preterm Birth Risk, Scientists Warn"
The Dark Side of Cloud Seeding.
https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/dodging-silver-bullets-how-cloud-seeding-could-go-wrong/
Unintended Weather Changes
"Cloud seeding aims to increase precipitation, but it can inadvertently disrupt local weather patterns. These alterations may lead to unexpected flooding in some areas while causing droughts in others." January 7, 2025
Cloud Seeding - Can we Really Make it Rain?
IN 2018, Katja Friedrich, Atmospheric Scientist, in the mountains of Southwest Idaho proved silver iodide cloud seeding worked.
The National - "The 'new cloud seeding'' - drones zap clouds with electricity to make rain."
"Simply charging up what's already there."
United Arab Emirates (UAE) invested million into electric cloud seeding using drones.
https://www.facebook.com/TheNationalNews/videos/776528569712502/
Why does Utah regulate 1 gallon of water evaporated per day inside a home? ........................................Why does Utah regulate $0.10 worth of rain barrel water? ......................................... Why is it illegal to drink rain water (distilled water) in Utah? .........................................Rain water is 2 TDS (Total Dissolved Solids). Utah's Tap water contaminant TDS standard is up to 2,000 TDS. ........................................ Utah's tap water is dirty (not fully tested). ................................... Why did Utah get an EPA waiver to avoid testing for 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP); Dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD); Diquat; Endothall; Ethelyne dibromide; and Glyphosate (Round Up like stuff? https://deq.utah.gov .........................................Utah does not test for Micro(nano) plastics (Mnp's) like PM2.5 tire dust. Utah created 500 million lbs of PM2.5 tire dust over 20 years. Where is it?
Why does Utah regulate 1 gallon of water evaporated per day inside a home? ........................................Why does Utah regulate $0.10 worth of rain barrel water? ......................................... Why is it illegal to drink rain water (distilled water) in Utah? .........................................Rain water is 2 TDS (Total Dissolved Solids). Utah's Tap water contaminant TDS standard is up to 2,000 TDS. ........................................ Utah's tap water is dirty (not fully tested). ................................... Why did Utah get an EPA waiver to avoid testing for 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP); Dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD); Diquat; Endothall; Ethelyne dibromide; and Glyphosate (Round Up like stuff? https://deq.utah.gov .........................................Utah does not test for Micro(nano) plastics (Mnp's) like PM2.5 tire dust. Utah created 500 million lbs of PM2.5 tire dust over 20 years. Where is it?
Q: Why is Utah's water engineering not math based, not peer reviewable, and not common sense?
A: To weaponize water
Q: The Division of Water Rights only manages 4% of Utah's water. 80% of that 4% 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 the indoor gallons used per day per capita.
A: To gouge families for water, to take family land for pennies by making it "dry", and to control others with raw unchecked power.
Is it really a Building Permit water Impact Fee or just a Rip Off?
When cities double charge Home Builders for the amount of water a home uses, who gets the unused water?
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?
Who gets the unused water?
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 ever 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 https://utahrivers.org/ drive to end Water Property Taxes which waste water and hide 40% of the true cost of water.
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" Public Contracts, employee revolving doors between cities and professional service corporations.
For example, one law firm has represented a $4 billion water district for 61 years on a No-Bid contract.
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.
For example, the Division of Water Rights can tell us how much water a chicken drinks, but not how water a person uses indoors.
Chicken's don't have water meters. Utah's 1.1 million houses have water meters.
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 have been built. 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.
Utah cuts farm water every day with a full time farm water cutting staff of 22 people at the Division of Water Rights.
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 makes 5 pounds of garbage a day (140,000 pounds over a life).
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 $5 billion for more stadiums and a gondola, $5 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 $2 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 10,000 gallons of Chlorinated water contributes to cancer.
Every day an adult person breathes 2,800 gallons of bad air in the Salt Lake Valley depleted airshed.
Breathing 68 to 83 million gallons of bad air over a lifetime causes health problems.
Over a lifetime, eating 124,000 pounds (AI #) of pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, microplastic laced food - 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.
Utah's per capita household (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.
"Pressure[edit]
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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where:
- gn is the standard gravity
- ρ is the density
- z is the altitude
- P is the pressure
- R is the gas constant
- T is the thermodynamic (absolute) temperature
- m is the molar mass[3]"
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.
10,000 chemicals in U.S. food supply. 338 chemicals in Europe food supply. ADHD children diagnosis up 800%. 1 in 36 have Autism up from 4 in 10,000. - Dr. Mark Hyman.
https://youtube.com/shorts/cva085p2qHg?si=h55HxusSrmeADRu2
Intelligence Quotient known as IQ =(mental age divided by chronological age) x 100.
A 10 year old performing like a 12 year old would score 120.
Utah - where water is a Weapon, not a Drink. ......................................... De-bunking the damaging myth that farmers use 80% of Utah's water. ....................................... Utah, a state with severe food insecurity, has spent $20 million cutting farm water by one of the biggest lawsuit scams in Utah's history against farm water disguised as an "Adjudication" on 4% of Utah's water, not the 80% used by Utah trees. ........................................ The cut Senior farm water rights go to junior water hoarding cities licensed to waste water eternally. ..........................................Utah will spend $120 million aggressively suing farmers to cut farm water while Utah tells farmers it loves them. ..........................................All Utah's irrigated farms consume <3.5%, cities 0.5%, Utah's 7.6 billion trees 80%, non-ag vegetation and surface consume 16% of Utah's water.
Utah - where water is a Weapon, not a Drink. ......................................... De-bunking the damaging myth that farmers use 80% of Utah's water. ....................................... Utah, a state with severe food insecurity, has spent $20 million cutting farm water by one of the biggest lawsuit scams in Utah's history against farm water disguised as an "Adjudication" on 4% of Utah's water, not the 80% used by Utah trees. ........................................ The cut Senior farm water rights go to junior water hoarding cities licensed to waste water eternally. ..........................................Utah will spend $120 million aggressively suing farmers to cut farm water while Utah tells farmers it loves them. ..........................................All Utah's irrigated farms consume <3.5%, cities 0.5%, Utah's 7.6 billion trees 80%, non-ag vegetation and surface consume 16% of Utah's water.
Why do we treat Farmers who feed us so bad, and the Billionaires entertain us and run our state 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 in the U.S. and Canada uses 42 gallons of indoor water a day. 99% is recycled back to the water basin."
"Why does the Utah Division of Water Rights claim the average person uses 133 gallons of indoor water per day when it's not true?"
"Why does the Division of Water Rights misinform and 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.
The U.S. spends the most per student, yet ranks last in the top 50 countries on education. U.S Public Ed has become Public Daycare.
Better school lunches make better students. Utah's School lunches get an F.
Why isn't a free, low sugar, healthy Organic lunch and snacks included in the $9 billion Utah spends on Public Ed?"
Sugar and Soda makes you stupid and sick. - Dr. Diabetes
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 94% to 99.9% of PFAS.
How much PFAS (forever chemicals) are in Utah's Drinking water? Nov 2024
https://deq.utah.gov/drinking-water/drinking-water-pfas
A simple Building Code amendment requiring one RO Water Filter in the kitchen would greatly improve Public Health.
Chlorine causes cancer. Fluoride lowers IQ.
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.
Seed oils (Canola, Corn, Soybean, Sunflower, Safflower, Cottonseed) were used in World War 2 as an industrial lubricant for machinery, and military equipment. They were also used as the key component of paints and varnishes.
After the war, what do you do with these un-needed seed oils? Call them a "health food" and feed them to people.
Cotton is heavily treated with pesticides which is in Cottonwood Seed Oil. 10% of all pesticide in the U.S. is used on Cotton.
Seed oils cause inflammation a root cause of health problems like Cancer, Arthritis, Diabetes, Lupus, COPD, MS, Periodontitis, Asthma, Depression, Anxiety, and Dementia.
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, the U.S. food supply needs 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
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKhHPxSkLwCFXSlbGmZKgLTlZ
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Mexico water debt is 350,000 acre-feet per year to Rio Grande to US.
Mexico water debt is 350,000 acre-feet per year to Rio Grande to US.
Mexico water debt is 350,000 acre-feet per year to Rio Grande to US.
"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 Farming Practices
Mexico water debt is 350,000 acre-feet per year to Rio Grande to US.
Mexico water debt is 350,000 acre-feet per year to Rio Grande to US.
" 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."
Local Community
Mexico water debt is 350,000 acre-feet per year to Rio Grande to US.
Local Community
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.