Humanity faces severe challenges in the coming century.

• Are you fearful about Global Warming? I am.
  
  
• Peak Oil giving you the blues? Join me in concern.
  

Well, let me add to your worries -- as mine have been mounting.  Water, one of the most renewable of renewable resources, ranks right up there with Global Warming and Energy in terms of key 21^st century challenges.

Don't believe me? (Or, if you already think this but want a more holistic perspective ...) Well, perhaps it is time for you to spend some time with Fred Pearce and his wonderful When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century.

In this my twenty second entry on water related topics, I chose to take a look at the controversy surrounding drilling at the site of Lake Vostok due not only to the scientific dilemma involved, but also the environmental and moral dilemmas involved regarding how far we can go regarding the living space of other organisms. I also chose to discuss this because of a hypothesis I have as well regarding the impact on such drilling in ice already melting due to climate change. I will present that below.

from the Watercone in Yemen tested by Care Page at Watercone.com

Kind of ironic, eh?

Water = Life & Wine = Spirit

Yeah, baby, we got a whole lot 'o water and a whole lot 'o life and a whole lot 'o wine this here Western way. And last I heard, we've got God on OUR side too. We got it ALL here in America. I thank the Good Lord that we've also got all the human beings too otherwise that Water marking that there wall might actually MEAN something to our born-again Christian President.

What was that rich man camel needle thing again in the Good book? Doggone, but my memory fails me for once... I coulda swore I read something about alms for the poor and all that?

Ooops, my mistake. Those folks over there are Towelheads! What dummies! They're so damn dumb they don't even know they're already dry! Ha! Idiots! Well, no worries. That don't concern me none because I'm an AMERICAN, and only got brought up Christian. You can't blame a kid fer his upbringing, right? And you know what else? If'n you don't like it HERE, then go on over there back where you came...

Oh, you came from HERE?