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Friday 26th of April 2024

1%ers What you soon come to understand is how different everything feels from the water. Luca from the hotel says with all his heart, “There are places that once you see them, they change you.” So you ask, “Where would you take someone special?” He studies you for a moment before giving away his secret. Then he sketches a simple map and makes you promise to tell no one. Later you swim at his secret beach, then rest on the deck of the gozzo while the sun warms you. You think, “I will keep this with me forever.” Advertisement for Belmond Hotel Splendido, Portofino, Italy How to Spend It, November 7, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Bad news Senate confirms Scott Pruitt, the preeminent pimp for polluters, as EPA administrator If water becomes undrinkable and air becomes unbreathable, blame him and his enablers: Lamar Alexander (R) Steve Daines (R) Johnny Isakson (R) Pat Roberts (R) John Barrasso (R) Mike Enzi (R) Ron Johnson (R) Mike Rounds (R) Roy Blunt (R) Joni Ernst (R) John Kennedy (R) Marco Rubio (R) John Boozman (R) Deb Fischer (R) James Lankford (R) Ben Sasse (R) Richard Burr (R) Jeff Flake (R) Mike Lee Tim Scott (R) Shelley Moore-Capito (R) Cory Gardner (R) Joe Manchin (D) Richard Shelby (R) Bill Cassidy (R) Lindsey Graham (R) Mitch McConnell (R) Luther Strange Thad Cochran (R) Chuck Grassley (R) Jerry Moran (R) Dan Sullivan (R) Rob Corker (R) Orrin Hatch (R) Lisa Murkowski (R) John Thune (R) John Cornyn (R) Heidi Heitkamp (D) Rand Paul (R) Thom Tillis (R) Tom Cotton (R) Dean Heller (R) David Perdue (R) Pat Toomey Mike Crapo (R) John Hoeven (R) Rob Portman (R) Roger Wicker (R) Ted Cruz (R) James Inhofe (R) James Risch (R) Todd Young American Electric Power (utility) Liberty 2.0 (energy industry super-PAC) American Fuel & Petrochemical Mfgrs (lobby) Lucas Oil Products (oil company) Americans for Prosperity (anti-EPA lobby) Murray Energy (coal copmany) Continental Resources (oil company) Oklahoma Gas & electric (utility) Devon Energy (oil and gas company) Oklahoma Strong Leadership (his super-PAC) KochPAC (Koch Industries PAC) Protecting America Now (anti-EPA lobby) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Close, but no cigar We've all passed a lot of water since then. Samuel Goldwyn © 2017 Kwiple.com
Conspiracy theorists say Tap water? You're drinking toilet water with birth control drugs in them. Chloramine, and on top of that they're putting in fluoride. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it's a mind-control drug that has no benefit to our dental health.  Mukhande Singh (née Christopher Sanborn), founder of Live Water, a purveyor of unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized – “raw” – water  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Conspiracy theorists say What do you think tap water is? It's a gay bomb baby. … I don't like them putting chemicals in the water. They turn the freaking frogs gay.  Alex Jones © 2018 Kwiple.com
Diets Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields © 2015 Kwiple.com
Food THE PRODUCT  WATER NEEDED TO PRODUCE IT an almond a walnut a head of lettuce a cluster of grapes an egg a pound of chicken a gallon of milk a pound of beef  1 gallon 5 gallons 12 gallons 24 gallons 53 gallons 468 gallons 880 gallons 1,800 gallons  based on data created by Pacific Institute and National Geographic © 2015 Kwiple.com
Fracking Together, oil and gas operators reported using about 1.5 trillion gallons of water since 2011, much of it from aquifers, the Times found. Fracking a single oil or gas well can now use as much as 40 million gallons of water or more. These mega fracking projects, called “monster fracks” by researchers, have become the industry norm. They barely existed a decade ago. Now they account for almost two out of every three fracking wells in Texas, the Times analysis found. New York Times, September 25, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Prohibit pipelines carrying oil and other hazardous liquids from passing through watersheds © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require warning labels on all produce irrigated with fracking wastewater © 2015 Kwiple.com
Parks Yellowstone is more valuable than gold mining slogan of local residents and businesses opposing efforts to allow gold mining on the fringes of Yellowstone National Park and in the upper Yellowtone River watershed © 2017 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Money is like water; it will follow whatever path is open to it. Ganesh Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution © 2021 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting mining companies dump waste into streams again is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say I prefer my water non-flammable Placard, Youngstown, Ohio, anti-fracking protest, November 28, 2011 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Saying, “Water's not just for drinking,” Republicans fulfill a campaign promise by passing the pro-polluter PIPSIS, The Piss in a Pond, Shit in a Stream Act of 2017 An alternative fact [they rescinded the Stream Protection Rule] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest The water from the tap just doesn't taste quite as refreshing. Now is that because I saw it come off the roof, and anything from the roof feels special? Maybe. Skip Battle, anti-tap-, pro-raw- water guy who drinks water fed into his stone garden from water collection panels installed on his roof © 2018 Kwiple.com
Water And then there's the rising crisis of affordability. With federal funding cut to a dribble, utilities have tried to fill in with constant hikes in water bills. Our average monthly rate has jumped more than a third since 2012, and analysts estimate that within three years up to 36% of households won't be able to afford drinking water. The American Water Works Association reports that income fully covers costs in only one in five systems, and four out of five large utilities expect they will not be able to provide full service five years from now. Hightower Lowdown, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Water 0  Many of the aquifers that supply 90 percent of the nation’s water systems, and which have transformed vast stretches of America into some some of world’s most bountiful farmland, are being severely depleted. These declines are threatening irreversible harm to the American economy and society as a whole. … Of the nation’s 143,070 water systems, 128,362 rely primarily on groundwater, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. New York Times, August 28, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Water  One study found that 88 percent of water in  17 Western states was used by agriculture. Only 7 percent was consumed by homes. Alfalfa fields single-handedly drank up al-  most three times as much as all households. California produces a bounty of almonds, which gulp about 3.2 gallons of water for each almond, according to a 2019 study. Researchers say that the Southwest is experiencing a megadrought that is the worst in at least 1,200 years. Wells have been drying up as far north as Oregon, and the Great Salt Lake in Utah has shrunk by two-thirds. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, May 15, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Water There is not enough rain, so their only option is to migrate. Principal of a rural middle school in the Guatemalan highlands, where drought and winds destroyed successive corn crops, speaking about his students. Quoted by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, June 5, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com