Depending on where you live, there are complex formulas, rules and laws governing who has the right to move water where and for what.
Now, Wall Street firms have gotten interested in buying up farmland that has water rights along the Colorado River, and selling the right to move the water far away--for profit.
involving Queen Creek, Arizona, whose top water officials is shown at right.
The idea is causing a lot of controversy and concern that one of our most valuable and plentiful natural resources is becoming commoditized and will one day be controlled and traded by profit-minded investors.
Sunday on Full Measure, I investigate how America's Water Wars could impact you.
You've heard the old sales pitch that a used car "...was only driven twice a week by a grandma in Toledo?"
The mileage on a used car has a great deal to do with its value. Thus, there have always been odometer rollback scams.
You might think this is less of a problem with newer cars and better technology.
But Lisa Fletcher investigated and found odometer rollback fraud is as easy, if not easier, to commit with today's newer cars--and it's costing consumers billions!
Also Sunday I'll have an update with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) on my story about crucial disinformation that was distributed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
CDC falsely, repeatedly, told medical professionals and others that studies proved Covid-19 vaccines are effective for those who have already had Covid-19. That's not the case.
Has CDC corrected the disinformation and held whoever is responsible accountable? Find out.
Lastly, a fascinating program that's the creation of a pharmacist in Tennessee.
He noticed that many people who had lost a loved one wanted to donate their unused, unopened prescription medicine to others who cannot afford it. But it's against the law in most places to donate and use such medicine; it's supposed to be flushed down the toilet (where it enters the water supply, by the way).
"Flip Your Scrip" is one creative answer to the problem. Find out more Sunday!
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You would be a credible journalist to find out more about our NIH funding "gain of function" research in Wuhan in ~2018. It was allegedly illegal research if done in the US and might have been the origin of SARS-2.
will be publishing a story about that in the next few days.
She already IS a 'credible journalist.'
Hi Sharyl, we have a BIG problem in Siskiyou county with water and illegal cannabis,you should come here ,we need media attention and no one seems to care as far as the state of California is concerned. Thanks Charlene
So, if you put that water story together with the questionable stories about the Gates' buy-ups of agricultural land where does that go. Besides an endless campaign of harassment and canceling?
I finally found the raw data upon which the CDC supposedly based their claim of vaccine benefit for previously infected people and, sure enough, the data does not support their claim. So call it “crucial disinformation” if you like, but that seems like strong language for what is basically a misdemeanor. For even though no benefit had been shown in the data, no harm has been shown either. The most recent articles that I found still call for everyone to be vaccinated using the argument that the length of immunity is unknown and boosters can only help. Prudence dictates vaccination. That was not the case when the CDC first made their mistake since at that time vaccine availability was an issue. So the idea that previously infected people should defer to others certainly made sense then (and that was what Massie seemed to be originally so worked up about). I don’t think of vaccine availability as that much of an issue now though.
So the CDC was wrong. Now if we could only find someone willing to spend as much time debunking the stories about fake cures and inflated death counts and herd immunity that have done a lot more harm than this good recommendation that was not supported, as claimed, by the data.