Tennessee town has run out of water

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Charlotte Observer

ORME, Tenn. --As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community's towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.

With a twist of the wrist, he releases the tank's meager water supply, and suddenly this sleepy town is alive with activity. Washing machines whir, kitchen sinks fill and showers run.

About three hours later, Reames will return and reverse the process, cutting off water to the town's 145 residents.

The severe drought tightening like a vise across the Southeast has threatened the water supply of cities large and small, sending politicians scrambling for solutions. But Orme, about 40 miles west of Chattanooga and 150 miles northwest of Atlanta, is a town where the worst-case scenario has already come to pass: The water has run out.

The mighty waterfall that fed the mountain hamlet has been reduced to a trickle, and now the creek running through the center of town is dry.



Read more: http://www.charlotte.com/nation/story/344047.html

[peacebird]

1. frightens me more than Osama bin Laden... So of course our govt is rushing into action - right?

:eyes:

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. frightening. USA is falling apart before our eyes. "greatest nation" can't provide water?

[villager]

2. do they still call environmentalists "wackos" there?

n/t

[dbackjon]

3. $400,000 for a pipeline??

Paid for by us. Maybe cheaper to move them to Bridgeport, abandon the town??

And knowing that area, I bet it is full of small-government types...

[XemaSab]

5. $2,750 per person...

Seems like they should be able to take out a bond for that, and pay it off over 5 years or so. :shrug:

[Acadia Blue]

4. Its the next disaster..no oil, no water, no food.....thats why they want

the patriot act and totalitarianism here, so they can kill the rioters.

[undergroundpanther]

8. you mean kill those who don't accept the king

and a life of a serf/slave tending the rich people's shit for them begging for crumbs or working in a jail for free for corporate pigs ,like workers in some prisons in America do now, and how alot of factories do in China or a life as a person to be abused or used up...and thrown away.Human life is cheap.and sadly a child, a human slave can cost as little as 35 bucks to own.


Today, twenty-seven million people are enslaved throughout the world, despite the fact that in every single country, slavery is outlawed. The price of human life has decreased substantially since 1850 when the African slave trade piqued. Today an Indian child can be bought for a mere $35, an Eastern European woman for $500, and a Brazilian agricultural laborer for $100. These numbers are staggering, considering that in 1850 an African slave was nominally worth $40,000. The cost of human life has gone down because people as a commodity have become expendable.

http://www8.georgetown.edu/centers/cndls/applications/posterTool/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster.display&posterID=1752
http://www.squidoo.com/economicsandslavery/

And the more desperate people become to survive and water being privatized..it will only lead to more horrors..and more concentration of wealth in very few hands.

[Newsjock]

6. K&R #5

This really deserved to stay in LBN.

[earth mom]

7. Meanwhile.. * owns land next to an aquifer in Paraguay...why should he worry?

:puke:

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-family-buys-intoparaguay-update.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. Yeah, * should worry. LOL.

[JFN1]

9. America

The fastest growing third world country on Earth...

[undergroundpanther]

10. ever hear of an atmospheric water generator?

I think it would be wise to get one.If you can afford one.
Global warming is not only increasing heat, but humidity...And having one of these and sharing just might fuck up the water grabbers plans for hegemony.
http://aquaphysics.tripod.com/id1.html
http://whitebuffalonation.tripod.com/
About that humidity...
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18825212.400-atmospheric-humidity-increases-global-warming.html