Water Rights

Question for Maude Barlow: Can you mention organizations that are doing good work in this area that are in need of membership and/or financial contributions?

Franklin City insists their water is safe despite community complaints but I immediately felt better when I stopped drinking it so my only water source is at work from the bubbler or bottled water.

Also, I would love to be able to catch rainwater for the garden and also to re-use waste water. How best can I learn to do this in the most inexpensive manner.

Lisa - Franklin

In regards to snowmaking. Absolutly NO chemicals are used. It is strictly pressurized air and water. And in the end ALL of the water that is used is recycled back into the ground and holding ponds.

Air/Water guns:
They are conventional air water guns where two hoses connect to the piping network and bring together a stream of high-pressure water and a stream of high-pressure air – internally – in a mixing chamber. The water is atomized by the air stream and is blasted into the atmosphere using the energy of both the compressed air and pressurized water to propel snow out of the gun.

HKD’s guns:
This method uses a long aluminum neck. The gun a stream of high pressure water and a stream of high pressure air – externally – outside of the snow gun.

Fan Guns:
It is basically a HUGE house fan that blows the water particles into the air, which gives them enough lift to fall slowly to the ground and freeze on the way making snow.

A blanket statement made during the interview of Maude Barlow undermined any sort of legitimacy Maude may have had to her arguments in my eyes. There is no such chemical in existence that causes snow to 'remain in crystalline form' in use at ANY ski resort in New England. The inference alone demonstrates a need to rile people up based on utter ignorance.

Typical ski areas in New England build their own reservoir which they draw on in order to store the water they need to produce snow. This water is then transfered to the nearby mountain, where it gradually melts, refilling the reservoir. The natural water typically has impurities, which allows even low capacity snow making equipment to produce snow efficiently. The ONLY time any sort of additive is used is when proteins are added to the water to allow the snowmaking process to be more effective. These proteins are natural substances, which are actually harvested from plants. The additive adds nothing more then the same sort of impurities fresh water coming down a mountain gets from leaves that have fallen from trees.

Typically, when an advocate for a cause resorts to blanket and sweeping statements, it infers that they simply wish to work towards a cause blindly and care little for the actual facts.