Wolf#2, LA picture, LA Cisterns


photo by Langfia Ayeona, her home village

so flickr pics can be linked

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New carnivore for World Bank
"We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction . . . and relatively soon." - Wolfowitz

17 March 2005...The US House of Representatives has approved an $81.4 billion war spending bill






The World Bank can be beaten. The Ifugao people of Luzon drove off a dam project with a combination of survey peg uprooting, naked protests, a few rifle shots, and voila, rice terraces saved. It takes an old, coherent, culture, with a traditiun of self defence.
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3/16/2005 Kirkuk's vital pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan has been shut down for most of the past two years, at first because of the US-led invasion of Iraq and later due to incessant attacks.
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LOS ANGELES, 12March2005 In the last few weeks, Los Angeles has had more than 35 inches of rain. Most of that water has run straight down to the sea.
..TreePeople has convinced the city ..to catch the rain water in underground cisterns. The first project, a 110,000-gallon tank at a Los Angeles elementary school, has provided enough irrigation water to transform asphalt into green playing fields.
..Trees now shade the buildings at the school, reducing the need for air conditioning.
..That underground treatment unit filters .. A tanker truck ..takes it away.
..In the recent rains, 80 billion gallons of rain water has been lost to Los Angeles...imports 85 percent of its water at a cost of $1 billion ..
"We hemorrhage 3.8 billion gallons of water when it rains just under a half an inch in Los Angeles,"