Noah and water

My Noah video
Torah portion Noah and the flood jewu 60
http://youtube.com/watch?v=l1VkNXEq_Zc


Noah
1. Hundreds of cultures have flood stories
2. What does ours teach?
A. God unhappy with humans behavior.
B. Asked Noah to encourage repentance with threat of flood if no change.
C. Destructive flood with promise GOD will never again.

3. Water
a. just added prayer for rain
b.. Water is huge problem caused by us
1. Too much-movie some years ago Waterworld where almost all land covered by water and hero of story adapted by growing fins.

danger in decade ahead of nations being drowned
a.Pacific island of 25000 6 feet above sea level sent urgent request for nations to change environmental policies or it will be sunk, as will Bangladesh with hundreds of millions.
South Pacific island-nations endangered by rising sea levelsBy Christiane Oelrich Jan 26, 2007, 10:57 GMT
Singapore - Nothing is as it used to be on the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea.
Only from a distance does the archipelago appear like a South Pacific paradise, but the illusion quickly evaporates as soon as one steps foot onto land.
Where blossoming fruit orchards once stood, all that remains are smelly puddles of brackish water. And practically all freshwater wells have been contaminated by sea water.
Idyllic huts that once lined the beach are now abandoned ruins, slowly being swallowed by the encroaching ocean.
'The flood last June was the worst experienced by anyone there,' Paul Tobasi, a former Carteret resident, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. He is executive manager of the Atolls District in the local government of Bougainville.
The atoll, reached by a 2-hour flight from Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby to the island of Bougainville and an additional 7-hour boat ride, is sinking into the sea.
The 2,500 Carteret Islanders planted mangroves in an attempt to save the land near the beaches and even erected sea walls with heaps of giant clam shells, but all to no avail.
Carteret's fate is also shared by the Pacific island republics Tuvalu and Kiribati and the Cook Islands, a territory of New Zealand, as the South Pacific's water level is rising and rising.
There is no future for the people on the Carteret Islands, which have been inhabited for more than 400 years.
'They must leave this year. The way things are going, I think the islands will be underwater in 15 to 20 years,' said Tobasi.
Next week, the 2,000 member-scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release their latest report, the result of six years of research.
The 7 million citizens of 22 South Pacific island nations and territories are not expecting rosy news.
b.Scientists alarmed by melting ice at earth's tips even faster than thought
2. Too little
a. Israel
war started because Syrians tried to alter tributaries which feed Jordan
b. China NYT Oct 1.
Millions Face Water Shortage in North China, Officials Warn
Millions of people in northern China face water shortages this summer as the Yellow River falls to its lowest level in 50 years, environmental officials warned today. In addition, more than half the watersheds of China's seven main rivers are contaminated by industrial, farm and household waste, the officials said in a bleak annual report on the nation's environment.
''China is a country that lacks water resources, and the problem of water pollution remains severe,'' said Xie Zhenhua, head of the State Environmental Protection Administration. ''This year our top priority is to ensure clean drinking water for our people.''
Booming industry and a population of 1.3 billion people have outstripped China's rudimentary water and sewage systems and left its cities choked with smog. Despite improvements, air in two-thirds of China's cities is still considered polluted by official standards, the environmental report said.
Only one-quarter of the 21 billion tons of China's annual output of household sewage is treated, Mr. Xie said. Treatment plants are being built, but will still handle only half of all city sewage, leaving rural waste water untreated.
The government has forecast an annual water shortfall of 53 trillion gallons by 2030 -- more than China now consumes in a year.


3. What can be done?
a. Israel Desalination
Ashkelon Desalination Plant, Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Plant, Israel, Israel
The Ashkelon seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant – the largest in the world – achieved two notable successes in 2006. In March it was voted 'Desalination Plant of the Year' in the Global Water Awards, subsequently passing a major project milestone in October 2006, when, little more than a year after it commenced initial production, it successfully delivered its first 100 million m3 of water.
With a capacity of 320,000m3 per day, the plant produces around 13% of the country's domestic consumer demand – equivalent to 5–6% of Israel's total water needs – at one of the world's lowest ever prices for desalinated water.
The large scale of the plant presented a number of technical challenges and necessitated a shift from the more familiar arrangement of several identical outsized trains seen in smaller RO installations to a three-centre model.
"With a capacity of 320,000m3 per day, the plant produces around 13% of the country's domestic consumer demand."
The project included membrane desalination units and facilities for seawater pumping, brine removal, raw water pre-treatment and product water treatment. In addition, the scheme also required the construction of workshop and laboratory buildings, access roads and a dedicated gas turbine power station.

In common with other countries in this water-scarce region, Israel has chronic problems over water resources – which the Desalination Master Plan, launched in 2000, set out to address.
This called for the construction of a series of plants along the Mediterranean coast, to enable an annual total of 400 million m³ of desalinated water to be produced by 2005, chiefly for urban consumption. According to the plan, production is intended to rise to 750 million m³ by 2020.
The contract for the Ashkelon facility – the first in the series of large-scale seawater desalination units – was awarded in September 2001, after an extensive tendering process beginning in July of the previous year. The concession was granted on a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis and at the end of the 25-year period, the plant transfers to the Government of Israel.
Originally intended to produce only 50 million m³/year, after the formal signatures were completed in November 2001, further negotiations were entered into between February and April 2002 to double the output. This second agreement was signed in April 2002 and work on the three-phase construction programme began a year later.

b. conservation-that means everyone
c. stop fossil fuel emissions
d. Jewish National Fund efforts
http://www.jnf.org/site/PageServer

FASCINATING WATER FACTS ENCOURAGE WATER CONSERVATION
A Message from the International Arid Lands Consortium

On average, our society uses almost 100 gallons of drinking water per person per day. Of the "drinking water" supplied by public water systems, only a small portion is actually used for drinking. Most Americans drink approximately half a gallon of water per day. That adds up to more than 1 billion glasses of tap water per day for all Americans! A male living to the age of 70 years will require about 1? million gallons of water over the course of his lifetime.

Approximately 35 gallons of water per person are used each day for public activities such as fire fighting, street washing, and park maintenance.

A typical family of four on a public water supply uses about 350 gallons per day at home, or 127,400 gallons of water annually. In contrast, a typical household that gets its water from a private well or cistern uses about 200 gallons for a family of four.

The average person uses 20 to 80 gallons of water each day in his home. Typical residential water use includes normal household uses such as drinking and cooking, bathing (20-30 gallons), toilet flushing (3 gallons), washing clothes (20-30 gallons) and dishes (10 gallons), watering lawns and gardens, maintaining swimming pools, and washing cars.

The amount of indoor water use remains fairly consistent throughout the year. The largest percentage of indoor water use occurs in the bathroom, with 41 percent used for toilet flushing and 33 percent used for bathing. Daily indoor per capita use in the typical single family home with no water-conserving fixtures is 74 gallons.

On average, 50 to 70 percent of home water is used outdoors for watering lawns and gardens. Outdoor water use varies greatly depending on geographic location and season. On an annual average, outdoor water use in the arid West and Southwest is much greater than in the East or Midwest.

People in the West use about 50 percent more public water than in the East, mostly due to the amount of landscape irrigation in the West. Rural areas typically consume less water for domestic purposes than larger towns.

California is the number one water use state (about 25% of the national total). Texas is number two. Other major water use states include Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Montana.

Water use per person can vary greatly among different communities because of climate differences, mix of domestic, commercial and industrial water uses, household sizes, lot sizes, public water uses, income brackets, and the age and condition of the water distribution system.

How does water use in the United States compare to other countries?

The United States uses 1,834 cubic meters, (525,000 gallons) of water per person per year.
Canada uses 1,607 cubic meters (424,525 gallons) of water per person per year.
China uses 439 cubic meters (115,972 gallons) of water per person per year.
Egypt uses 1,055 cubic meters (278,702 gallons) of water per person per year.
Germany uses 579 cubic meters (152,956 gallons) of water per person per year.
India uses 592 cubic meters (156,390 gallons) of water per person per year.
Israel uses 287 cubic meters (75,817 gallons) of water per person per year.
Jordan uses 255 cubic meters (67,364 gallons) of water per person per year.
Mexico uses 812 cubic meters (214,508 gallons) of water per person per year.
Nicaragua uses 267 cubic meters (70,534 gallons) of water per person per year.
Poland uses 321 cubic meters (84,799 gallons) of water per person per year.
Sweden uses 340 cubic meters (89,819 gallons) of water per person per year.
The whole world uses about 650 cubic meters (171,712 gallons) of water per person per year.
(Source: EarthTrends Datatables: Water Resources and Freshwater Ecosystems http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/FRE/data_tables/data_table1.htm)

By installing more efficient water fixtures and regularly checking for leaks, households can reduce water use by about 30 percent to about 51.9 gallons per person per day. If all United States households installed water-saving features, water use would decrease by 30 percent, saving an estimated 5.4 billion gallons per day. This would result in dollar-volume savings of $11.3 million per day, or more than $4 billion per year.

There are many negative consequences for using too much water. On a global level, high levels of water use cause both environmental and economic problems. High water consumption places stress on rivers, lakes, and groundwater aquifers. The discharge of polluted water damages aquatic ecosystems. Increasing water use requires expensive investments in water system infrastructure needed to gather, deliver and dispose of water.

National patterns of water use indicate that the largest demand is for thermoelectric generation (47 percent), followed by irrigation (34 percent), public supply (9 percent), industrial (6 percent), mining (1 percent), domestic (1 percent), and commercial uses (1 percent).

In addition to reducing negative effects on the environment, reducing water consumption can have a positive effect on a family's economic bottom line. The rate of return on investments in water conservation can often exceed 10 percent per year in household water delivery, sewer, and other energy costs.

e. Lifesaving straw developed with Israeli' help
God had Noah warn his neighbors to no avail. God promised God won't destroy=but will we?

Joke 3 clergy asked how instruct parishoners if informed world under water in i hour-2 non-Jews talk about life after deat-rabbi said he's teach peole how to swim underwater-not realistic till we .grow fins

Chgo Tribune June 5 Sputnik 50 th anniversary was Oct. 4
The launch caught the rest of the world -- and especially the United States -- by surprise, prompting the formation of NASA and leading in part to President John F. Kennedy's desire to put an American on the moon by the end of the 1960s. That mission culminated with Neil Armstrong's lunar walk July 20, 1969.


What kind of Sputnik will it take for us to wake up to the water problem? Maybe Noah can help prompt us?