WATER

#TheValentineConstitution requires the decommissioning of all large hydro-electric dams by 2024, and their waters restored to their natural routes.

Mass release of water during peak electrical demands disrupts seasonal flow variations and creates downstream mini floods that erode soil and shorelines, and wipe out plants and fish and the organisms fish live off of. #TheValentineConstitution

Dams alter natural growth and reproduction cycles, and decrease oxygen levels causing fish to die. #TheValentineConstitution

Dams make riverbeds deeper, lowering water tables adjacent to rivers at a time when we need all the drinkable fresh water we can get our hands on. #TheValentineConstitution

Why do you think we’re eating farm raised salmon fed with hormones and pellets instead of the great wild stuff? They’ve killed them all. #TheValentineConstitution

The Valentine Constitution supplies electricity without destroying our water and food supplies and the nature we rely on to survive.

#TheValentineConstitution calls for the dismantling of most dams to increase aquifer water levels and to produce more food and fewer toxins.

Damming rivers destroys entire ecosystems and degrades both water quantity and quality. #TheValentineConstitution

Dams prevent the flow of nutrients, impede the migration of fish and other wildlife,preclude fishing and recreational uses. #TheValentineConstitution

Fresh water fishing creates lots of job and industries: food production and processing, tourism, sport, contests, hotels, restaurants, building, maintenance. It can drive an entire local economy.  #TheValentineConstitution

Dams hold back silt, debris, nutrients, gravel, logs and other debris normally used downstream as food and habitat, allow silt to collect on river bottoms and bury fish spawning habitats, and cause heavy metal accumulation. #TheValentineConstitution

Dams kill entire species dependent upon steady flows to flush them downriver early in their life and guide them upstream to spawn in later years. #TheValentineConstitution

Dams create stagnant reservoir pools that disorient migrating fish. #TheValentineConstitution

Ineffective fish passage structures built for fish to get around dams are too long for fish to endure during critical annual migrations. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits building in places that have no water.

Why would anyone build a city hundreds of miles from a fresh water supply?To flex their muscles and show how small their brains are? #TheValentineConstitution

Putting large populations in harm’s way is the antithesis of good government, and yet greed and corruption has led us to just that. #TheValentineConstitution

Why are we building houses where there will soon be no water? Answer: greed. Just like the last recession and its $40 trillion in debt. We can’t borrow water. #TheValentineConstitution

Our corrupt government and economic system rarely follows common sense when greed is an option. #TheValentineConstitution

Everyone will make money in the game of musical chairs, until Mother Nature removes the chairs and stops the music. #TheValentineConstitution

The water supply in certain cities in the Southwest, Midwest and Southern Florida cannot sustainably support the populations already there, let alone any more people! #TheValentineConstitution

Foreign tankers are stealing our water from The Great Lakes and not even paying for it. #TheValentineConstitution

Unless we take drastic measures to protect our disappearing water supply we will not survive. #TheValentineConstitution

Foreign tankers are stealing our water from The Great Lakes and not even paying for it. #TheValentineConstitution

When did America become a nation of suckers, ripe for Wall Street’s fleecing? #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution stops foreign tankers from stealing fresh water from our Great Lakes to be exported overseas.

#TheValentineConstitution protects our disappearing fresh water supply.

4/5 of the world’s people are trying to survive on only 1/5 of the world’s fresh water. Most will die in the next 20 years. #TheValentineConstitution

90% of the world’s people will soon die fighting over 20% of the world’s fresh water supply. #TheValentineConstitution

1/5 of the world’s freshwater is in our Great Lakes,1/5 in Lake Baikal, 2/5 in the Amazon. 1/5 is left for 7 bil people. Most of them will soon die. #TheValentineConstitution

We’ve exceeded the capacity of our aquifers to replenish themselves. #TheValentineConstitution

We can’t go to the well, and we can’t borrow water. #TheValentineConstitution

We’re using more water than we have. We can’t “go to the well”, cause they’re all drying up! #TheValentineConstitution

Water is not like the national debt. We can’t just swipe the country’s credit card to get more water. #TheValentineConstitution

Irrigation wells are now deeper than 5,000 feet because our aquifer levels have dropped to 1/3 of their natural state, too low to replenish themselves. #TheValentineConstitution

Deep well desert irrigation was an idea full of brainless male swagger, and it worked for the blink of an eye in the 1900s, and made men feel like men. #TheValentineConstitution

Wall Street agribusiness is destroying our fresh water supply with pesticides that also kill bees we need to pollinate our crops, and nitrogen that kills fish by producing algae which robs the water of oxygen. #TheValentineConstitution

Gas fracturing uses vast amounts of water in the drilling process and contaminates it with chemicals, and then also contaminates the water in our aquifers when exploding the shale. #TheValentineConstitution

Unless we cease gas fracturing and monoculture farming and overusing our aquifers, we’re not going to make it, and won’t want to live in the world we’re left with. #TheValentineConstitution

Unless we go to organic small farming with aggressive rainwater collection systems, and decrease our population, most of us are going to watch our children die of thirst and starvation. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution reserves our food and water for our Citizens.

Last time I checked, which was five minutes ago, human beings can’t drink oil or eat money. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits the exportation of our fresh water.

Bottling companies are exporting water from our springs and lakes and rivers without paying for it. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution ensures foreign companies no longer steal fresh water from our Great Lakes, rivers and springs.

Wall Street agribusiness is exporting our water in crops, not paying for the water and making huge profits destroying nature using desert irrigation and monoculture farming. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits the exportation of crops or products that require lots of fresh water.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits the exportation or importation of unsustainably irrigated food.

#TheValentineConstitution prevents Wall Street agribusiness from using our water to reap huge profits from exported food.

Our water and our food belongs to American Citizens and is not a commodity to be traded for the benefit of the kings and queens of Wall Street at the expense of our very survival. #TheValentineConstitution

The nitrogen that makes crops grow faster and bigger runs off with the rainwater and irrigation water into our lakes and rivers and oceans, and creates algae blooms which rob the water of oxygen killing all the fish. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that our fisheries are not starved of oxygen by algae created by nitrogen used to enhance crop yields.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits nitrogen used to enhance crop yields which runs off into our waterways creating algae that robs the water of oxygen killing our fish.

Fresh water fishing creates lots of job and industries: food production and processing, tourism, sport, contests, hotels, restaurants, building, maintenance. It can drive an entire local economy.  #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution prevents river damming which destroys ecosystems, disrupts the food chain, and degrades water quantity and quality, and destroys fish populations.

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits damming, and returns blocked rivers to their natural flows.

#TheValentineConstitution clears out invasive Asian bigheads, snakeheads, carp and nutria destroying the in the Mississippi River system.

Last time I checked, which was five minutes ago, human beings can’t drink oil or eat money. #TheValentineConstitution