RESEARCH & ANALYSIS BY GOVERNANCE, INC.
(www.governance-inc.com)
A SMALL SAMPLE OF THE FINDINGS
SIGNIFICANT & SEVERE IMPACT OF GEOCHEMISTRY & HYDROLOGY ON PUBLIC HEALTH
EFFECTIVELY & COST EFFECTIVELY ADDRESSING THE RURAL HEALTH CRISIS
There is an old adage that you can't manage what you don't measure. There was never a more true circumstance than as it applies to Public Health. Whether because of political agenda or ignorance, or some combination of both, the Federal Government...and specifically the E P A and F D A...have woefully failed this country's citizens. For over 50 years the presence of lethal toxins and carcinogens found in tap water have been known to both agencies. For over 50 years, the potency of those chemicals...the impact on mortality rates for kidney and liver diseases and cancers have been well-known and even the subject of peer reports maintained and published by the NIH and CDC. For over 75 years the harmful impact of certain elements such as bromide in the water supply have been known and documented.
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Yet, water standards that are published for public consumption ignore those metrics.
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And to make the sin worse, for all that time, those agencies have also known that it is precisely because those agencies have prescribed chlorination for drinking water "purification", rather than alternative methods such as ozonation, that those lethal chemicals are produced.
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These are facts supported and validated by extensive data...These statements are not postulation.
DEFINING THE RURAL PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS
The fundamental challenge to any problem is defining the problem itself. History is littered with examples of the lethal consequences - such as the Maginot Line. Sometimes a problem is defined to justify an agenda - such as public health and Obamacare. If we were to tell you that in many instances mortality rates of diseases have worsened dramatically since Obamacare was implemented, you may be surprised...but you shouldn't be. For attributing mortality rates to access to health care denies the causal factor. If inadvertent naturally occurring poisons are regionally driving mortality rates due to toxicity, no amount of doctor visits is going to cure the problem. Yet in an effort to find a quick solution, the issue of disease mortality rates was improperly simplified into a systemic cause of access to medical coverage. If that assumption - that definition of the problem - were correct, then why has rural life expectancy been outperformed by urban despite equal health insurance metrics. If that assumption and problem definition were correct, then why have certain disease mortality rates in various locales dramatically worsened since Obamacare began? That assumption was obviously wrong, the problem has persisted, a new metrics dynamic has emerged, and all that has really changed is that the public has incurred unnecessary and avoidable costs. and deaths.​​
​The data analyzed without prejudice or agenda conforms with common sense. Whenever something is counter to common sense, it is indicative that a "my truth" is involved - a contradiction to inductive and deductive reasoning. Unfortunately, such contradictions are all too often prevalent in the design of public policy and programs which is the consequence of the disappearance of courses in logic from educational curricula.
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So, given that there is a recent trend or divergence of life expectancy - rural versus urban - since access to health insurance and health care is not a contributing factor, then what is the principal systemic causal factor?
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The data tells us the answer is in the drinking water, and the data leads us to toxins and carcinogens that are the result of hydrocarbon-contaminated water supplies being "purified" for tap water by chlorination.
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The data also tells us that there is not a "grand scheme" to cure, but rather the need to create a program that reduces the hydrocarbon contamination in the water supply in rural areas. That hydrocarbon contamination is the result of dumped rather than recycled used motor oil and, of course, use of fertilizers. As the population has increased, the concentration of hydrocarbons caused by the dumping of used motor oil has increased - since an aquifer or surface water flow rate is a relative constant. Thus, the mortality rates for kidney and liver diseases (and cancers) would be expected to increase significantly - and they have.
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The impact would be expected NOT to be uniform, because there are other elemental presences in the water supply that interact to either increase or depress the formation of the toxins and carcinogens. One such element is bromide. USGS data confirms highly varied and very specific ranges of bromide detected in water supplies - with the amount of bromide dependent on the local geochemistry..
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Thus, the cure for the predominant cause for underperforming rural health metrics is to create an effective financial impetus for recycling rather than discarding used motor oil. The planned network of used oil processing plants to convert that material into high-value products such as Marine Gas Oil enables American Energy US to pay a price for used motor oil several times the amount that has proven to incent recycling (as confirmed in California)..
Note: The documents attached below contain the data for McKinley County (NM) and El Paso County (TX) - and are but two of many available for review. These contain the concentrations (stated in terms of maximum limits) of the specific toxins and carcinogens, as well as the actual disease mortality rates for those communities.
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​​EPILOGUE​​
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There is an old adage that you can't manage what you don't measure. There was never a more true circumstance than as it applies to Public Health. Whether because of political agenda or ignorance, or some combination of both, the Federal Government...and specifically the EPA and FDA...have woefully failed this country's citizens. For over 50 years the presence of lethal toxins and carcinogens found in tap water have been known to both agencies. For over 50 years, the potency of those chemicals...the impact on mortality rates for kidney and liver diseases and cancers have been well-known and even the subject of peer reports maintained and published by the NIH and CDC. For over 75 years the harmful impact of certain elements such as bromide in the water supply have been known and documented.
​
Yet, water standards that are published for public consumption ignore those metrics.
​
And to make the sin worse, for all that time, those agencies have also known that it is precisely because those agencies have prescribed chlorination for drinking water "purification", rather than alternative methods such as ozonation, that those lethal chemicals are produced.
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These are facts supported and validated by extensive data...These statements are not postulation.
