Can you tell me what I “believe in”?

       I will ask you, what you think I believe in, after I first tell you what I am thinking about.   Water issues of course, but please take me seriously, in spite of my rhetoric, humor and sarcasm.   First let me list some phrases and assumptions.  This is a test, so answer these true or false.  Once you do, I will ask you     “What do I believe in?”

1.  We have had socialized Water for around a 100 yrs. 
2. Everyone is entitled to clean Air and Water as a basic Human Right.
3. “Whisky is for drinking, Water is for fighting over” (Mark Twain).
4. “You know the value of Water when the Well runs dry”  (unknown).
5.  “If their was/is Water on Mars, there could be life”
6.  The Earth is 75% covered with Water. 
7. Wars have ben fought for thousands of years over Water Rights. 
8.  Banks will not loan on land that is without Water.
9.  If Water comes out of a deep well it is clean and “Pure”
10.  Rain Water is clean and pure.
11. Nature cleans Water or purifies it naturally in the ground.
12.  Seattle Washington and Portland Oregon rain so much Water is not an issue.
13.  The WHO estimates 2.2 million deaths /yr. are attributable to waterborne Pathogens.
14.  Estimated 19.5 million illnesses/yr. in the US alone from waterborne Pathogens.
15. Pharmaceutical &  Personal care Products (PPCP) found Nation wide in most all water sources measured in PPB (Parts /Billion) are not relevant to Health issues, if they were the Gov. would not allow it.  Common sense tells you that One drop in the size of 26 Olympic sized Swimming Pools (PPT) is meaningless.
16. One part per billion of a substance is meaning less as well.
17. The science of what level of poison is safe, in my judgment, is limited to my education, therefore, my commonsense is the standard by which all shall live. 
18.  I weigh 1.4 million grains and I am normal/healthy.
19. You will intake one hundredth of a grain of Arsenic daily for 5 yrs. At my common sense discretion.   You are ok with that, because you are not a paranoid fanatic.
20.  Everyone has the same tolerance for all water pathogens and pollutants infant to elderly. I am done wasting my time with this issue, I need to do more pressing things like watch the News that will tell me the facts if they come up. 
21.  Mulholland Rd. is a long winding partially dirt road in LA where Rockford’s Car Tires screech as he slides around corners.   OR   Mulholland Rd. is named after a major figure in Hollywood because Hollywood exists because of him. 

         Finished with my rhetoric, what do you think?

                             

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I can just smile when I meet someone who is not fighting Green issues for "Media reasons", I mean to say too many people have a polarized disposition about "Green". I wish everyone would just embrace life and respect the thought of respect being applied something they are not accustomed to respecting. Are some peoples respect only a selective disposition for that which they have learned respect for? and the essence of respect passed them by? Does it always require past tense tragedy to bring people to their knees "off of their high horse"? I just relax and smile when I am around people of respect, that are educated, mature, etc. Sometimes I am pleasantly jolted into joy by someone who just so clearly simply at peace!
I have an idea, how about "Emerging Attitudes" be a class people could take instead of Emerging Technologies. I seem to blur my issues as an Idealist, I want respect to be a Human condition, not an EPA Mandated minimum requirement that that requires an administrative body to enforce. Cap n Trade, is such a structure. Human condition is our problem not energy, water power or anything else. To quote the song by Police "One World is Enough-For all of us" .

A chrome Grill in the rear view Mirror, A Media with an agenda, a faucet that will only sell because of it's price, claim, name, promise,motif,image, anything except its ability to flow water for 50 yrs. Has reality left the Building?
I could plumb a house to work well for 50 years! but the consumer would have to give up something they don't need to pay the extra cost. I might ad that clean safe water and sanitation in reality is more important than most everything else the country consumes it's self with....at an exceedingly more expensive price tag than I seek to supply them with something more important....But why should they pay for something they are entitled to just because other luxuries are more appealing...

Frozen Wave

I go to as many Water/Conservation/Green/sustainable/Plumbing meetings and classes as I can. Weekly I cavort with the who's who of the above issues, both regionally and internationally, Acronyms and names of these orgs. can be found on my "about me" page. Recently added are the regional Education and Vocational Education associations, so many I wont list. Everyone is in amazement of how much need for renewable and Sustainable resources exists. Equally amazing is the options that exist, clean respectable and safe ones too. Schools are perched, Manufacturers are ready, inventions, innovations, Workforces, Products, answers, Technologies, everyone is on the edge of their chairs, Solutions out number the problems.... The huge Wave is Frozen.
"I am in Transition" says 1/3 of the room during introductions, a bright beautiful Afro American Woman says, "I'm just broke and unemployed" everyone laughs in a release of tension. We all exchange our overqualified passion and skills only to find empathy, inspiration, and once again realize we are Entrepreneurs in a Frozen Wave. This Wave is embraced by the Feds, the State, everyone, but it just wont crest and fall to a flowing surf ride of Commerce.....
Why not? money is just paper, notes are the same, it is all just a souped up fantasy of world proportion. Confidence is an issue as is surety an issue, this is a Play on a stage where the Director is not getting any applause...Audience is tense, I'm afraid someone is going to yell "Fire!" but in reality the room is full of Firemen! so what is the issue? are we out of Water?

Useless Opinions, "Compared to what".

First question I have about "Useless Opinions" is, is this one? I often hear someone say " oh I don't believe, this or that" and I think to my self, OK, freedom allows that. However, logic in it's self, is impeccable, most of the time, (by definition). People have logically confirmed the issue and that's it, "a belief". My point here, is BASED ON WHAT? The great Ray Charles (Brother Ray), wrote a song called "Compared too what?"
Water can be "Smart", as can a product in a store, (or at least the sign says so) "logic" either used on products or with with people, you still have the , Compared too what? issue. I think "Smart" & "Green" is like people, "compared to what?" So, is "Green", "smart"?, some don't believe so, as they say, "all this Green BS is just the last ditch attempt to take away our rights by those socialists". With certain "information" that seems logical. Other logic and information could say otherwise. What info., is the "WHAT" in "compared too what" song. Boy oh boy, I sure am getting cryptic here. But, I say, compared too what?

I would like to get a bit less cryptic now. Green Plumbing is smart, and conservation is smart too. all that is needed is the matrix of cost/volume/weight/BTU's/ KWH's/ supply/ demand/laws & codes/ existence & Location of products/ health safety/ and so on.... With out knowledge of this info. one can not make a judgment on what is "smart". Behavior is a big factor in energy/water use or waste. and behavior is based on BELIEFS ! Votes are based on beliefs too. Laws are based on votes. I want to take this opportunity to point out that the word beLIEfs has the word LIE in it. and that is my point, beliefs are too often "useless opinions", that we live by. Freedom, is great, dangerous too, for it is my opinion that Responsibility comes before Freedom. (the responsibility to get the facts, not political beliefs to base our own beliefs on).

Wow I just realized Plumbing is confusing to most.

What do you mean, "that needs an adapter" it is 1/2" and I am connecting to 1/2"? I am amazed when I looked at how many different threads and pipe types there are, I grew up knowing/learning this stuff. Plumbing is more confusing than Funeral , Wedding, Graduation and other ceremonial things, (all of which confuse me). First let me defend my vocation, many excuses exist for this confusing esoteric stuff.
I will begin by saying things develop, names need to as a result, then ways are needed to prevent some pipes from getting connected to other pipes. Let me jump to the point, Threaded pipe is screwed together and uses a tapered thread to cause a tight seal. Thermal Plastic pipe such as PVC,ABS,CPVC are all joined using a solvent that heats the pipe as it cures. PVC Glue is a misnomer. I am working on a video that will expose all this esoteric nomenclature including all these weird threads and 5/16 and 7/8 threads as well as CTS, IPS, NPT, Tube VS Pipe, hose VS tube, pressure VS non pressure, metallic VS nonmetallic, Gas VS Water, waste VS Potable, Exterior VS interior only, old VS new, good VS bad, So stay tuned for the rest of the story
Greg

Survival and water

Pop Culture is not about survival, it is of excess luxury.  Politics are not about survival, instead about what we want to hear (excluding responsibilities). Loans were about an alleged value, not about survival, the money was about image, excess and luxury.  Still we are in very abundant wealth in spite of the "Bad economy"  One might ask "How do you know ? " I say this because I see people buying worthless food at the store, I pods, flat screens, beer, coke (both kinds), auto chrome, DVD's daily even if only a buck to rent.  NO ONE is in need of water.  One might say, no one should be, right?  Right!  but Billions are, and 10,000 people a day are dying because.  So, Survival in based on clean water and sanitation, yet we still fail to see the value of water, ( I am saying we take it for granted).  Do not think that it is our god/government  given right to have enough water to waste and disrespect?  Ever heard the saying "you don't miss your water till the well runs dry"?  do you think that saying just came from a constant stream of flowing hot and cold water?  What the hell am I saying here?  you can turn on the faucet and water comes out.... no problem, right?    I think if everyone knew the available information about water (as much as they know about sports teams or sitcoms) they would be writing as I am, or at the least, using water differently.  Too bad the Bible doesn't say it is a sin to abuse water as it does sex.  If it did, people would be voting differently.  I say this because I think water and sex are equal in importance to life's existence.     Disrespect for either is trouble. 
  Did you know that pharmaceuticals are in all our tap water?  400 points of sewage disposal are dumped into the Colorado River before California drinks it?   Zebra Mussels (shell fish) are lining walls of water mains?  Regional Government bodies use general tax funds to fund water systems to allow growth, but water sustainability has fallen behind growth? and the ability of the utility to clean it or Nature to clean it has reached/passed the safe point?  
   In a word, CONSERVATION is what I am writing about, thank you.
  Greg has Water on his mind.

Plumbing VS Entertainment

  I can save most homeowners or Building owners many times more than they spend on a ball game or monthly cable bill in a few min. of their time with good advice or a minimal service call .  They would also gain the knowledge too keep to use over and over if the need arose.  The reason I can't  do this in practice, is because Plumbing is a "God given right" and people feel entitled to working, hot n cold water to use/waste, and all the other water/Plumbing services that go, or should I say come with being an American.  "Why all of a sudden should I need to replace my water heater, it's been working fine for 9 years".  Someone once said to me "doesn't the city have to fix that" when I told them the water main to their house was broken and I wanted $400. to fix it.  I look in his garage and I see a new car, new Harley, Jet Skies, Bicycles ($1000.00 ones) Big screen TV in the living room , he is leaving on vacation to Europe tomorrow and he can't afford an over priced plumber bill.  What I am saying is people put money into things that are fun and make them look good like hair doos and chrome rims on the truck, but feel it is an necessary thing to maintain the plumbing!  The very thing that separates us form "Emerging countries" where thousands of people die every day due to poor sanitation and no plumbing.  I am suggesting that it is not People Magazine (Brad & Jen) that separate us from sickness and death from fecal matter, it is the safe and clean working plumbing system and the Toilet Bowl.  Not the fantasy's of glamor and the Supper Bowl.   
  America's water distribution and sewage collection systems are also in poor shape.  Estimates are in the tens of Billions of dollars to fix our very old pipes/systems.  I know some people keep the cable service and let the plumbing go un maintained as well as cities build Stadiums and let the raw sewage flood the streets and water ways into the ocean.  Just Google the water contamination from sewage spills, the American Water Works has a lot on the issue.   But that is someone Else's  concern  not yours, right. 
    I am sorry if I have bothered you with the facts, I feel better now, I am going to click publish and feel even better.
   Greg