#dirtywater

World Water Day 2021!

Without a reliable source of drinking water close at hand, day-to-day life is a challenge. Climate impacted communities are forced to depend on dirty water that makes them sick or walk long distances for clean water. Time spent fetching clean water, recovering from illness or caring for those who are sick, is time that could be spent learning and earning a living. 

For the girls and women tasked with fetching water, having to walk further to find a clean water source takes time away from their education and disproportionately impacts their lives.

The 2.2 billion people who do not have a reliable and safe supply of water, are without the most fundamental protection against climate change which increases the unpredictability of weather patterns, resulting in extreme natural disasters. It is through water that the immediate impact of the climate crisis is felt. More frequent and extreme flooding is polluting fragile water sources, and longer droughts are drying up springs and wells. With no clean water to drink, cook or wash with, communities falter and people get sick – putting their lives, livelihoods and futures at risk. With our existing climate change scenario, it is predicted that by 2030, water scarcity in some arid and semi-arid places will force between 24 million–700 million people to leave their homes. Currently, around four billion people live in water-scarce areas, where the demand for water outstrips available supply at some points of the year.3 By 2050, it is predicted that the number will rise to around five billion. Intense flooding caused by climate change makes it harder for people to find clean water.

Worldwide, around 1.5 billion people are directly exposed to the risk of extreme flooding – over a third are poor.5 Floods can deprive communities of clean water by damaging water infrastructure as well as contaminating water sources, leading to the spread of deadly diseases such as cholera.

As we face the growing impacts of climate change, urgent attention must be given to ensure that every community has a sustainable water source. Otherwise, in the near future, more and more time will be wasted searching for clean water by those who need time to attend school and build a prosperous future for their families.

Unless urgent action is taken to both help protect vulnerable people against its growing impacts and reduce the carbon emissions that cause climate change, communities will lose their livelihoods and lives, as water scarcity and contamination takes hold. 

Read the report: Turn the tide: The state of the world’s water 2021 Story Source: WaterAid International

It is hard to imagine a better symbol or analogy for Trump’s presidency than the mess with the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC. Trump’s reflecting pool reality as metaphor captures the crud and corruption at bottom of his presidency. Immorality and base greed stink like the sludge in this body of water, which is supposed to be pristine. Criminals cannot create anything pure enough to reflect back at them anything other than their own dirty concerns. Crooks trying to pretend to be statesmen. Grifters claiming to be those who can walk on water. Trump 2.0 is sinking into another ripe mess, just like his first attempt at the presidency. Donald Trump has built a swamp in the Capital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLGxbjFlMbo

Donald Trump & His Dirty Reflective Pool

“ Donald Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool from what the US president described as a “filthy” and “dirty” site into a “beautiful” monument has encountered a hitch.

The water is green again.”

- (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/algae-trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool)

Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump are poles apart on any criterion you can think about. Perhaps, the ghost of Lincoln does not want such a crook to mess about with the symbol allocated to possibly America’s greatest president. Integrity versus criminality. Real versus reality TV. The union’s hero versus the biggest liar the top job has ever seen. More than 600, 000 Americans lost their lives in the Civil War. It is hard to even imagine someone of the piss poor calibre of Trump being in that position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ZvsQMQJ_c Green Reflecting Pool Reflective Of Trump’s Envy

Trump is probably green with envy of real statesmen like Lincoln and Obama. Thus, the reflecting pool water has turned green. Trump’s reflecting pool reality as metaphor captures the actual nature of these times. No mere algae but envy writ large upon the waters.

“Patrick Hicks, a Florida resident who visited the pool on Monday, told the Associated Press he was relieved to find it green.

"I think it's an impossible task, having a pool myself," he said. "I know what it takes and what an environmental wreck it is to keep dumping those chemicals in the water to keep it blue."

The Reflecting Pool measures about 600 metres in length and 50 metres in width. 

"Honestly, I don't think you can fight Mother Nature," Mr Hicks said. "Anytime you have an environment that big, it's like cleaning a lake." “

- (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-16/washington-reflecting-pool-green-after-costly-renovation/106803796)

Faking stuff is the Trump way. Lying about everything and accusing others of fake news is the poisonous methodology of Donald Trump. I have long said that if you cannot trust your leader, as a nation, you are f*****!

America’s Fondness For Liars

“Americans prefer lies to the truth. How do I know this? They elected President Donald Trump. A greater exponent of the lie cannot be found. A bigger liar I do not know. Trump lies as often as he breathes, it seems. Imagine being Donald Trump’s parents. Sorry, I know that is a horrifying thought. But bear with me for a moment. Have a think about what it must have been like to have a son who constantly told mistruths. Of course, he later became a celebrity pay TV star, who lied about being a billionaire. His whole life has been one great big lie, underscored by millions of little lies.”

- (https://www.housetherapy.com.au/americans-prefer-lies-to-the-truth/)

Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of The Stoic Golfer; The AI Heresy; What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK