{"id":4988,"date":"2015-07-10T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2015-07-10T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:15:17","slug":"adirondack-chronicles-2015-4-water-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2015\/07\/adirondack-chronicles-2015-4-water-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack Chronicles 2015.4: Water Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adirondack Waters\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXODLbOYX5w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Fresh drinking water is an issue of primary importance, since it is indispensable for human life and for supporting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.\u00a0 Sources of fresh water are necessary for health care, agriculture and industry.\u00a0 Water supplies used to be relatively constant, but now in many places demand exceeds the sustainable supply, with dramatic consequences in the short and long term.\u00a0 Large cities dependent on significant supplies of water have experienced periods of shortage, and at critical moments these have not been administered with sufficient oversight and impartiality.\u00a0 Water poverty especially affects Africa where large sectors of the population have no access to safe drinking water or experience droughts which impede agricultural production.\u00a0 Some countries have areas right in water while others endure drastic scarcity.&#8221;\u00a0 (Laudato Si #28)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Water is everywhere in the Adirondacks, as the video at the top of this blog illustrates.\u00a0 This beautiful region is an area in the U.S. where the abundance of water supports a vast ecosystem of forests, wildlife, agriculture, recreation and many communities.\u00a0\u00a0 The Adirondacks are the source of many rivers, including the mighty Hudson river that supports tens of millions of people downstream.<\/p>\n<p>Even with such great abundance of water, concern for the purity and long-term health of the water in this region is a major conservation priority.\u00a0 Before the aggressive &#8220;forever wild&#8221; legislation at the end of the 19th Century and additional protections imposed throughout the 20th Century, the waterways of the Adirondack region were clogged with the results of the logging and mining industries that flourished here.\u00a0 Between the dangers posed from industrial development and the careless use of waterways in the back country, much of the water became unsafe for human consumption and dangerous for fish and wildlife as well.\u00a0 Decades of aggressive conservation measures not only here but across the nation have helped to reduce the harmful effects of acid rain and other sources of water pollution.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the fragility of the ecosystem requires constant vigilance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/two-loons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/two-loons-516x400.jpg\" alt=\"two loons\" width=\"516\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/two-loons-516x400.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/two-loons-168x130.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/two-loons-258x200.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/bog-frog-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/bog-frog-Large-477x400.jpg\" alt=\"bog frog (Large)\" width=\"477\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/bog-frog-Large-477x400.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/bog-frog-Large-155x130.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/bog-frog-Large-238x200.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/bog-frog-Large.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/sunset-owls-head.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/sunset-owls-head-595x400.jpg\" alt=\"sunset owls head\" width=\"540\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/sunset-owls-head-595x400.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/sunset-owls-head-193x130.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/files\/2015\/07\/sunset-owls-head-297x200.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next:\u00a0 Birds and Bees, Bears and Butterflies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water is one of the world&#8217;s most precious resources.  Even in the water-abundant Adirondacks, environmental vigilance is essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,848,787,20,21,23,24],"tags":[40,1500,1497,1165,1509,1508],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondack-chronicles","category-nature-2","category-political-issues","category-politics","category-religion","category-social-issues","category-social-justice-issues","tag-adirondacks","tag-environmental-encyclical","tag-laudato-si","tag-pope-francis","tag-water-pollution","tag-water-protection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}