A report from Australia’s Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) forecasts that
the capital city of Perth in Western Australia state could see water
supplies reduced by 50% in two decades.
This is due in part to
less groundwater availability, including the Gnangara Aquifer that
supplies Perth's drinking water, which is expected to decline 33% by
2030.
Perth and surrounding areas have already experienced a 50%
reduction in water supplies since the mid-1970s, which has been
attributed to global warming.
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong
stated that the recent CSIRO report and its forecast of further reduced
resources brings significant concern for the region.
Your
Excellency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
researchers and Australia, we appreciate your work and cautionary
concern.
Let us swiftly adopt lifestyles to reverse these
adverse effects and restore our planet for future generations.
In an
August 2009 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master Ching Hai urged
as she has in previous times for immediate action to counter the world’s
fast dwindling water supplies.
Supreme Master
Ching Hai: We have over six billion people in this world and the
sources of groundwater for wells, which supports half of our world
population, are dying, drying up. And the top ten global river systems,
drying or ebbing away.
And three billion people are short of
water. How many more, I don’t know, how many more of suffering people
are we waiting before we take action? Please do it now! Just be veg.
Stop the meat, dairy, fish industry. Be benevolent.
Create a
merciful energy that will envelop our world, that will emit mercy, love,
protection for us and our children on this planet. Please take action
now. Very simple. Just be veg.
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