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written by reader WATER our most precious resource!

By SoGiAm, November 3, 2015

A brief factual video about H2O as an introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIaw5mCjHPI
This discussion thread is dedicated to to the many facets of H2O and how we may conserve, share, transport, desalinate etc. and profit from this essential life giving resource that is now approaching a global crisis in many areas of our planet. Best2ALL!-Ben

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marku
marku
April 14, 2016 10:12 am

I hate all these plastic water bottles lying around on land and in the seas …. Biodegradable algae water bottles provide a green alternative to plastic:
http://inhabitat.com/biodegradable-algae-water-bottles-that-provide-a-green-alternative-to-plastic/
http://www.dezeen.com/2016/03/20/ari-jonsson-algae-biodegradable-water-bottles-iceland-academy-arts-student-designmarch-2016/

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alanh
April 14, 2016 12:54 pm
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I was invested in a UK company who made bio degradable plastic bags….seemed a no brainer. Unfortunately my investment bio degraded. This needs pan governmental backing before it will take off.

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Esther
Esther
April 14, 2016 1:30 pm
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Africa could sure use that biodegradable plastic bag. There are tiny thin plastic bags fluttering all over the landscape, as that is why they use for so many food purchases.

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marku
marku
April 14, 2016 10:30 am

Thank you Ben ! Another great idea in this area is mushroom packaging, apparently Dell is already using it, and Ikea considering to adopt it as well. http://www.ecovativedesign.com/

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marku
marku
April 14, 2016 10:33 am

Forgot to mention Ecovative is a private company, unfortunately. I would have loved to invest. Public company is Sealed Air NYSE:SEE, I have to do some DD still on them.

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jayneq
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jayneq
April 14, 2016 10:54 am
Reply to  SoGiAm

Ben,
What is the drama in $CDNL? I thought the trip to China was on?
J

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niizajim
May 8, 2016 2:47 am
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OK sogiam, you have my interest with cdnl.

Here they talk about official news out the week of 4/14. but I don’t see any?

Did they ever get the money from the Chinese firm that was supposed to invest in them? I don’t see any press releases since Feb. when they said the deal was not yet done, but will take longer.

I see the share price has taken off since mid March – makes me question about putting money in it now.

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niizajim
May 8, 2016 8:25 am
Reply to  SoGiAm

OK, here’s what I found; not sure if this is what you were thinking or not.

Imminent catalysts:
1) Financing for CAMWATER?
2) Share repurchase?
3) Finalization of Panama contracts although that might not be imminent?
4) 10K filing?
5) Chicago project starting?

HSVW is buying 51% of the company for 7.5 million dollars and will partner with CDNL to sell their systems in Asia and other parts of the world. Overall this is a good deal for CDNL even though they lose 50% of the company because there of the partnership. This is proceeding little by little and finally CDNL receive 1.16 million dollars. To receive the rest there are hoops they have to jump thru including the share repurchase.

Are the shares being purchased by HSVW still valued at $.10 or will the number of shares issued be increased to reflect the current price of the stock?

It does seem like things are looking up for the company. If these possible deals all were to come through, there could be some significant income for the company. Don’t know what their markups are, but it would certainly demand a higher price for the company. Hard to calculate though with 50% dilution coming.

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Ron Oliver
Ron Oliver
May 8, 2016 4:22 pm
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Ben, I appreciate your introducing me to $CDNL for two reasons; SP has been doing really well of late and the company is doing a very good thing for humanity. In reading as much as I can about the company and this upcoming share repurchase plan required by their investor in China, I fail to understand it. They have been given money in order for the China Water folks to have a controlling interest in the company. O.K. But why does repurchasing their own shares help HSVW? Why do people think this (ongoing as the money is dolled out) will continue to raise SP? Of course their selling product should increase SP, but how does this deal effect the current expectation of a significant increase in price? What is your take? Thanks Don

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arch1
April 16, 2016 10:12 am
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In Oregon the state has declared that raindrops belong to no one. Once they land a person is “allowed’ to intercept and store 50 gallons. Anything over that belongs to the state. We are a free people ???? How soon before we allocate C02 emission per person??? Do Not even mention Methane or we venture into the realm of politics,
IMHO frank,ly :>)

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arch1
April 16, 2016 10:18 am
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I abhor, despise, abjure , detest, and hold in contempt what newcomers have done to the state of my birth. To start with and put mildly. Do not get me started on the depth of my feelings. frank,ly

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alanh
April 16, 2016 12:16 pm
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You wait till they start taxing the air you breathe !

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arch1
April 16, 2016 12:26 pm
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Yes they would if they could,,, and are likely working on it. Oregon is wanting to install GPS recorders on all vehicles so they can tax on miles travelled on State roads,
Looking forward to electric cars that do not use petrol/diesel. This is under study at present. If it is done here it will be soon followed nation wide.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 1:16 pm
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Surely you dont think they also would use that GPS to monitor your minute to minute whereabouts too….that would be far too sneaky…wouldnt it?

Always look for the hidden agenda!!

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arch1
April 16, 2016 1:36 pm
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alan years ago someone much wiser than I told me to never trust government.
i have since found that distrust has never harmed me. I wish I could say the the same for trust. The government by satellite can count the number of cows and calves in a farmers pasture, or sheep or goats for that matter. They know to the inch how much wheat or oats or maize you have planted and regulate same. There is a huge multi story black glass building in washington DC. built on the black budget beyond control of congress that monitors who knows what by the name of NSA National Security Administration. If they spent as much time spying on enemies as they do on private citizens we would be much better served. We have multiple cameras on nearly every city block in the larger cities. Internet is watched. Phones are monitored. GPS on cars would make little difference in knowing what the private citizen is doing. Too bad they cannot find terrorists
until after they act. IMHO Both political parties are complicit in this. We are a free people.
People get the government that they deserve, or so I have been told.
Rejoice in the day your Lord and Master has made. Founding fathers were naive in that they thought government would remain the servant of the people. IMHO

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Esther
Esther
April 16, 2016 4:36 pm
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They won’t mind you breathing in, they’ll just tax you for breathing out. Global warming carbon tax.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 12:19 pm
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Hold on ….does this in effect mean that they own all but 50 gallons of all the water in every river/lake? Hmmm…..this law begins to look like the thin end of the wedge.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 12:20 pm
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You are correct.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 12:39 pm
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If you control the food you control the people…. How much control do you have if you control the water?

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jking1939
jking1939
April 30, 2016 11:09 am
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Total control.

jk

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arch1
April 16, 2016 12:46 pm
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Alanh I once was an avowed Socialist and embraced the promise of utopia. Socialism would be a wonderful and beneficial government,,, if not for greedy self serving people. Unfortunately they seem to be in the majority and want control for their own ends.
i see it in action here.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 12:54 pm
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I have come to the thought that freedom is what is most needed. Both in thought and in action,,, with the sole restraint of not causing harm to others, If you spread that idea you find a great deal of opposition,,,which I find means it is the right course.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 1:17 pm
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In the Federal navigation act of 1879 the US congress declared ownership of all navigable waterways. That has since been expanded to the streams, creeks and rivers that supply such. In 2015 the US government under POTUS agency declared and decreed that water that fell as rain would eventually find its way to the ocean by way of such waterways and was owned by the Federal government. That is temporarily on hold by Court order. That may be changed by future court action or act of congress. I surmise that means as soon as you expel urine that is public property. Be careful where you spit. Government is watching.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 1:58 pm
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ben I do know that but you do need to know how much misgovernance is adding to the problem of clean safe water for all. It is a problem that needs immediate attention and is largely ignored by most. We once said the best things in life are free,,, and considered the rain as one of them.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 2:14 pm
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North America is the wealthiest area on earth if measured by clean safe fresh water. IF we do not ruin it and misuse it. IMHO. Our sewage system is designed in such a way that we take a pound of waste and pollute 1 1/2 to 2 gallons of water per flush.
Does that seem wise?? Water that falls as rain on cities is sped to the sea,,,although it is worth more than all the oil of the Arabian peninsula,,,wise? Policy should change ,,,policy and politics are sisters.

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Esther
Esther
April 16, 2016 2:45 pm
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Is there any cure for the fact that we have plunked cities down in areas with too little water, and that we are coming to an end of our aquifers…?
This water problem, from having it clean and safe to having any at all, is growing and won’t be addressed until an actual crisis is at hand. The trick to profiting from companies addressing this issue is to make sure they are able to ‘provide’ without raising the ire of the populace and politicians. Jim Rogers, the wealthy investor, said that water would be a great investment for the future, as would be all commodities, but he was concerned about trying to invest in water because people would view it as a right and it would become a political issue.
Some of the safest investments involve consumption for pure pleasure, where people are happily plonking down their money for the latest gadget. The bills we complain the most about are the ones we can’t scratch from our budgets.
It bears careful consideration.

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Esther
Esther
April 16, 2016 2:47 pm
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Methods of conserving water which help to alleviate the cost would make for a happy consumer and government, and avoid the political hot potato scenario.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 2:56 pm
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Sharon you are absolutely on point with your post . Look at Southern CA,,,built on what is mainly desert with water brought from the north. This past year Sacramento river water was restricted and century old almond orchards died saving a bait fish/minnow that is most probably not even native ,,,the delta smelt. There are over 20 million people in the LA basin clamouring for more water,,,an insatiable monster that wants green lawns . That is a lot of votes and listened to by Sacramento State house. Meanwhile the gates are wide and more people pouring in. The way it is going Mexico will own LA and not want it.
IMHO

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alanh
April 16, 2016 4:21 pm
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This cant really be such a big problem for the wealthy States (I can understand Africa). Israel is a virtual desert but it simply invests in desalination to get round the problem…..theres a lot of water in dem oceans.

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Esther
Esther
April 16, 2016 4:34 pm
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Wait a few years, Alan, until the cities and states can’t afford to pay the government worker pensions, and our real state of debt (biggest in human history) will show how poor the USA is. Our infrastructure is old, but our governments are hanging on by their teeth to keep all the pensions and freebies – welfare, etc – going, so few are replacing it and addressing the problems.
In some towns, they are already out of clean water due to local government’s inability to address the issue, and money is already a factor.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 5:32 pm
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Lannas, You and Frank-ly MUST read this. It (and the four earlier ‘Letters to the President’) shows how you CAN put this right. If you spend money on infrastructure, that money is spent in USA. It creates employment that creates spending and profits the Gov by increased taxation so reduces benefits. Please please read this. http://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=frontline
But maybe we should stop invading Bens water thread and move this to Unmentionables.
Sorry Ben

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alanh
April 16, 2016 3:06 pm
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The mind is starting to boggle. If the rain belongs to the state, how long before they start charging farmers for the crops that drink their rain? Or householders for the grass?

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arch1
April 16, 2016 3:11 pm
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Farmers crops is why the legal/Court hold was put on. The soil is like a sponge and holds water for a long time unless plants use it or it evaporates.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 4:25 pm
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Ha! what a brilliant system. In fact it always evapourates and then falls back….. as rain. So your not buying the water, youre simply renting it and handing it back to the State next time it falls. Who says theres no such thing as perpetual motion.

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biotechlong (btl)
April 16, 2016 9:59 am

$CDNL (long)
Any thoughts about impact of Securities Purchase Agreement (subject of Form 8K dated 4/15/16) on CDNL share price?
Thanks, Larry

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arch1
April 16, 2016 12:36 pm

$cdnl is getting $3.75 million for ???? The devil is in the details and is unknown to me, I do not own any $CDNL. Too much is unknown for me.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 2:23 pm
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Lannas that is a good step. Would it be a good idea to double plumb our cities so as to use less than potable water to flush our refuse? Would that take any more money than bringing polluted water back to potability? The end use could be for irrigation.,
growing trees etc.

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Lannas
Lannas
April 16, 2016 3:13 pm
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I would think it would cost a lot to double plumb and existing city. In this case all the treated waste water that was dumped down the river before is going back to the lake from which it came from. One pipe about 15 miles distance.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 4:13 pm
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A lake can function as a high quality water treatment,,, if it is not overloaded.
In that case treatment cost would be extremely low. in many areas water is treated , filtered and dumped back into a river for the next city downstream. If there is enough flow to dilute the nitrogen/urea you can get by. There is a problem with all the Estrogen and Progesterone that passes through the body from the Pill ,essentially unchanged. Sometimes waste water is pumped into a swamp/wetland and marsh plants clean it, forest land would do the same.
It would cost a great deal to install a nonpotable water supply in a city but you could let sewage settle, filter it and reuse for much less than the cost of desalinization in desert areas. The re-plumbing would be expensive but could be done slowly and amortized over a long period,,,not much more than running cable in some areas. Get your hi-speed internet and flush water in the same ditch. Of first importance is avoiding spoiling what we have. IMHO

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Esther
Esther
April 16, 2016 4:26 pm
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I seem to remember someone on this thread pointing out all the water being lost due to leaky pipes, so replacing infrastructure would be a very good place for governments to begin.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 4:27 pm
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That is very true.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 5:06 pm
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Heres an amusing story. Londons water main pipes are Victorian cast iron, so leak like a seive. The Government realised that replacing them was going to cost billions, so instead they offered to sell the whole network to private companies v cheaply…on condition that they reduced the leaks by 10% in 5 yrs. The companies promptly agreed the deal.
To the governments astonishment (and later fury) they met the terms in 7 days….they simply turned the mains water pressure down by 10% so they leaked 10% less. 90% more political pressure was then applied and now literally EVERY street in London is being dug up so that new plstic pipes can be installed.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 5:12 pm
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alan LOL leaky mains. One thing about water,it is used and re-used continually. There may be a few molecules in your beer that once were warmed in a dinosaur bladder.
With some beer that would not require a great change.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 5:46 pm
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Frank: About 100yrs ago, all the water in peoplesLondon homes came direct from the Thames without any treatment. London’s water was soooo bad that no one drank it….they (inc children) pretty much exclusively drank porter (beer). Theres still an ancient sign on the river bank near me, that says ”If you fall into the river, consult a doctor immediately”. These days the Thames is the cleanest metropolitan river in Europe…..we even have salmon and seals returning ! You see, it can be done.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 4:00 pm
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Its actually v simple to do for your own home, and existing systems to collect rain water can be adapted. Take the waste ‘grey’ water from your shower/wash machine pipe and divert the pipe to a 50 gal plastic tank…..any overflow continues to the normal drain. Pump the 50 gals back to the toilet reservoir tank. Flush with pride.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 4:11 pm
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You can also divert the rain water to that tank. If your bathroom is on 1st floor (or above), or you have room for a tiny solar panel, you could even drive a miniture turbine to charge a battery to do the pumping. I have a tiny solar panel that drives a tiny pump to suck water from the river and irrigate my plant boxes. Completely auto. Also ALL my water (except sewerage), and rain goes directly into the river, so Im charged no sewage rates. Any soap actually helps to disperse oil in the river.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 4:25 pm
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Alan You are a true Environmentalist,,,unlike many who talk and do nothing.
Farmers in water short areas have long done similar, using waste water to irrigate or even supplement drinking water for livestock. After all a cow will stand in a creek and pee while drinking,,,right where another cow is drinking,,,they do not seem to mind. Dish soapy water is actually good for most plants and can hinder fungus and harmful insects.

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Lannas
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April 16, 2016 4:28 pm
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Alan: Not so simple for millions of homes in USA. Most homes built since 1960 in south and west USA has been Concrete slab construction with all plumbing buried in concrete. 🙁 Because of migration to warmer climate this has been the majority of housing growth over the last 30-40 years.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 4:38 pm
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Lannas Even there is not a major problem. You simply bring the pipe up outside the home ,through the exterior wall and then down the wall that backs the toilet. It only would take a small tube for tank fill purpose so would be unobtrusive if surface run near floor. Remember it only would be supply for flush.

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Lannas
Lannas
April 16, 2016 4:56 pm
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The problem is separating the black from the gray it all goes into the same pipe and they are all buried in concrete. It could be done but it would be a costly mess. 🙂

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arch1
April 16, 2016 5:03 pm
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Lannas Now I see what you are saying. No you would not separate the greywater from the sewage at the home, it all would go down existing sewer lines to an area wher the solids could settle and the water be filtered and pumped back as non potable instead of dumping it in a lake or river. That would be for cities. If you had a rural home you might go the expense of keeping the gray water out of the sewage line by running it into a storage tank. think how many gallons of perfectly good cold water goes down the drain while waiting for the warm to wash your face.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 5:22 pm
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Lannas: I suspect you are mistaken. I accept that the houses are concrete slab, but I have NEVER seen waste pipes buried in that slab (how would you access them if they leaked?) Usually the individual pipes run on surface (maybe in a boxing) to a verticle pipe that cuts through each floor, and then underground to the sewer. So, its just a case of separating (say) the wash machine waste pipe from the main pipework….drilling a small 1/2″ hole through the outside wall and pop it into your barrel. The rainwater pipes are generally external (coz thats where the rain is 🙂 ) so they could easily divert to the barrel, or just place the barrel near the existing rainwater pipe. The problem is getting people to do it and pay for it. Its like refuse….people just sling it in the bin and then its someone elses problem.
Its definitely doable.

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alanh
April 16, 2016 5:25 pm
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In any event….there are seemingly millions of timber framed houses in the US. I remember seeing a family called the Waltons…..Goodnight Lannas….goodnight Alan (cue music) Da da dah dah da dar.

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Lannas
Lannas
April 17, 2016 12:43 am
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Alan: Majority of these home are single story and the pipe goes through slab and under ground 1-2 ft. If there is a leak under slab in a water or drain pipe which is rare, the slab must be busted up to expose and repair the pipe. Some time if a pressure water pipe springs a leak, the whole system will be re-plumbed in the attic and run down the walls. Costly. PVC or ABS pipe was use for waste pipe and they rarely leak or decay. Pressure water pipe was cooper tubing which was pressure tested before the slab was poured. Today they use PEX plastic pipe for the water pressure pipe, The PEX is run inside of PVC to protect it from underground elements also pressure tested before slab is poured. Video of typical rough plumbing in slab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eNENDMmzbg

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alanh
April 17, 2016 11:42 am
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Lannas: I accept that the main sewage pipework is underground as per the video (, like here, only into the mud rather than concrete). We generally didnt use concrete slabs for houses as they were too cold, so energy inefficient…..wood is a much better insulator so warmer. But new build incorporates thick insulation below the screed, so its becoming more popular these days. But you will see that ALL the pipes eventually have to come thru the slab, then separate off to the individual appliances. Please accept that hand basins are generally 1m off the ground (unless you kneel down to wash your hands 🙂 , so you have 1m of waste pipe to to cut into. Wash m/c waste is pumped out, so it can be made to rise 1m before exiting to the gravity waste pipe….again you can tap out there….above ground ! Of course it all depends on layout. Ideally, your bath/shower/basin/wash m/c whatever will be near an outside wall, so it takes little to cut into the pipe, drill a small hole thru the wall and dump waste water into a barrel sunk below ground, by gravity. Then you have a return journey to the loo cistern/tank via a small pump (costs $50…the pipework is just 1/2″. It really is retro doable and certainly possible to design it into any new build at the construction stage.

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alanh
April 17, 2016 11:46 am
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Oh BTW: If you use soapy water for the flush, it keeps your loo sparkling clean.

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alanh
April 17, 2016 1:53 pm
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Just 2.
Bury your barrel 4” below ground in UK type climates and pour a cup of antifreeze or salt water down your sink once a week when its coldest.
the point is, you dont need to do this in areas that are very cold coz they tend to have snow so you have a lot of surplus ground water, so no shortages. Where you need to conserve water is in places like Vegas….does it snow in Vegas?

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alanh
April 16, 2016 4:38 pm

Ben: re your post above. Id assumed the purpose of the thread was two fold.
1/ to provide clean drinking water and 2/ profit from from providing it (afterall this is an investing site). But we have to get this in context. There is a vast amount of water on this planet….its just polluted and/or in the wrong places.
Re the wrong places: theres only two solutions to this….conservation and infrastucture pipework…..dammit they were quick to build pipework for transporting oil/gas ! Im darn sure there are places in the US that are wetter than London (and thats saying something!). The problem with conservation is that 2nd hand water needs to be cleaned up…….so build more sewage works in the vast deserts you have.
The real challenge is providing remote towns/villages in poor countries like Africa/Asia with a clean supply. Thats where CDNL etc come in.

Long CDNL

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alanh
April 16, 2016 4:44 pm
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Again: Africa and Asia have huge quantities of water….dammit they have monsoons for 1/3 of the year! Their problem is finding the $ for the storage infrastructure. The problem is NOT a lack of water….its a lack of $

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Esther
Esther
April 16, 2016 4:48 pm
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One chap ‘invented’ a large floating bubble of fresh water’ – an inflatable filled with water from a river flowing into the ocean, then dragged behind a boat across the ocean to the city needing it. Not a bad idea. The water flow fills the inflatable, it is lighter than salt water, so floats nicely, and that fresh water was about to become salt water anyway. Much like a barge of water.

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arch1
April 16, 2016 4:48 pm
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That is it in a nut shell. Even in some desert areas there are periodic heavy rains. The problem is the first drops seal the dry dusty surface so everything else runs off instead of soaking into the soil,thus flash flooding. Catchment basins and cisterns could save a lot of that. Where my home is would be desert except for snowmelt in the surrounding mountains so there is a lot of groundwater. I have Juniper trees growing that you normally only find in sagebrush country,,native. Lots of cottonwood and aspen.

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Jag76115
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April 26, 2016 2:19 pm
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JK Galbraith :”The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable”.

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jking1939
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April 18, 2016 9:33 am

Ben – I love this site! And thank you Frank and Alan! I have been interested in water in several different venues. I did a one hour special in the sixties about the pollution of the Neosho River and John Redmond Reservoir by upstream cattle feedlots. Caught hell from the cattlemen. I spent many hours researching activated carbon filters, and silver impregnated carbon for “water cleaning” appliances. And, I was on the water fishing for a half century…if that counts. Yesterday my wife and I spent the day trying to figure out how to best use a rain barrel for our gardens. I plan to copy much of his thread so she can read the brilliance within. All of you are terrific!

jk

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jayneq
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jayneq
April 19, 2016 6:38 pm
Reply to  SoGiAm

Ben,
What is the anticipated share buyback price range? I thought I read somewhere $0.18-0.21. Is that correct? Also, I don’t twit or tweet or twitter… what is RS and SPA? All these texting acronyms make me loopy.
Thanks. $CDNL long.
J

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jayneq
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April 19, 2016 6:59 pm
Reply to  SoGiAm

Thanks, Ben. I have seen some twitter accounts now and then. I will open yours and follow it. J

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jayneq
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April 19, 2016 7:14 pm
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Thanks, Ben. You are one-in-a-million.

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Lynn Clark, Stock Gumshoe
April 19, 2016 9:55 pm

Irregular member Capndave040 asked me to post this list for you all:
Water Related Businesses
Symbol ….Last price 4/15/2016 ….Business Specialty
Danaher, DHR, $94.05 Equip mfg
Pico Holdings, PICO, $10.28 Holding Co
Ecolab, ECL, $115.01 * Hygiene/lab
Pentair, PNR, $55.11 * Full range equip mfg/sales
JG Boswell, BWEL, $635.11 equip
Flowserve, FLS, $44.28 Flow controls
Toro, TTC, $88.94 * Irrigation
Tetra Tech, TTEK, $29.96″, * consulting/engineering
Lindsay Corp, LNN, $71.97″,industrial/ag/irrigation
Watts Water Tech, WTS, $55.69″,” *equip mfg/sales industrial/residential wholesaler to POU/POE
Powershares Water Resources, PHO, $22.45″, *(ETF)
Consolidated Water, CWCO, $12.61″,” * (Desal )
Mueller Water prods, MWA, $10.08,” * mfg/infrastructure
Guggenheim S&P Water Index, CGW, $28.62″,” ETF
Calvert Global Water, CFWAX, $16.45″,” global fund
Circor Int’l, CIR, $47.00″, flow control/ind/defense
Xylem, XYL, $42.28″,” equip/service, water /waste water
First Trust Ise Water Index, FIW, $33.94″,” Fund
Curtis-Wright, CW, $76.67″, valves/controls
Veolia Environment ADR, VEOEY, $24.17″, Int’l water infrastructure
American Wtr Wrks, AWK, $71.26″, Utility
Valmont Inds, VMI, $ 121.46″, Irrigation
California Wtr Svcs Grp, CWT, $28.00″,” Utility
Connecticut Water Svcs, CTWS, $46.27″, Utility
Cadiz, CDZI, $5.24″, Utility
SJW Corp, SJW, $37.18 Utility
Northwest Pipe, NWPX, $8.97, Pipe Mfg.
Aqua America, WTR, $31.92 Utility
American States Water, AWR, $40.58 Utility
York Water, YORW, $32.10 Utility
Artesian Resources, ARTNA, $28.77 Utility
Nuverra Environmental Solutions, NESC, $0.365″,” Petro wastewater disposal
Cardinal Res, CDNL, $0.0040 Wastewater treatment

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arch1
April 19, 2016 11:08 pm

hanks Lynn and capndave Good,comprehensive and covers a lot.

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jayneq
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jayneq
April 21, 2016 1:54 pm

CARDINAL RESOURCES INC., APRIL 2016 UPDATE
https://redbirdsystems.info/2016/04/21/cardinal-resources-inc-april-2016-update/
Long $CDNL. Added more in the dip today.
J

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