How Primary Water Can Solve

the Global Water Crisis

Volume 1, Number 4 February 2024
Stephan Riess, 1898-1985
Adolph Nordenskiold Geo-chemist, metallurgist,
Finnish Explorer mining engineer and dowser,
1832-1901 world renowned hydrogeologist.

Pal Pauer, 1941-2022

Primary Water expert,
hydrogeologist, dowser,
humanitarian

“It’s hard to get the point across to many people in the U.S. that the Earth
makes water. We can access it and solve our problems. Clean, virtually
infinite sources of water are right under our feet.” --- Pal Pauer
 Table of Contents
Why Care About Primary Water? by Kim Glazzard 3
Introduction to Primary Water, by the Primary Water Institute 4
California’s Missed Opportunity: The Stephan Riess Story 6
by A. M. Stinnett
All the Water We Need: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century 12
by A. M. Stinnett
Primary Water Institute, Inc.
Water for a Thirsty World, Lessons from a Maverick, By Christopher Nyerges 13
a non-profit 501c3 tax exempt organiza-
tion. Tax ID 46-4915886. New Water for a Thirsty World, Forward by Aldous Huxley 14

Pal Pauer, Founder, 1941-2022 A Sinister Agenda Behind California Water Crisis? Looming Food 16
Supply Catastrophe, by F. William Engdahl, Global Research
Dr. Wayne Weber Photo of Michael H. Salzman, Stephan Riess and James G. Scott 20
[email protected] from the cover of New Water for a Thristy World
The Earth Organization and AquaterreX: Advancing The Science 22
Dan Mueller, Deserts to Forests of Alternative Water Location, by LAEO
[email protected]
AquaterreX - Hidden Source of Supplemental Groundwater Revealed 26
Dr. Pal Pauer, (Hungary) CA Water Wars; Another Form of Asset Stripping by Ellen Brown 28
[email protected]
Well Worth It: Local Residents Raise Funds for Clean Water, Education 32
Projects in Kenya, Profile of Evie Treen, by Lisa André Landre
Tony Megens
[email protected] Water Dowser Tamara Mitchel 35
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There’s Water Down Below! Escondido’s Stephan Reiss Finds Primary 36
Water – Where No One Else Can! by Neal Matthews
PrimaryWaterInstitute.org
website Primary & Atmospheric Water Cycles Illustration, by Pal Pauer and Hedi 38

is also the Primary Water Dot Org, by Deborah Tavares, Researcher, Radio Host 45
5 Sources of Water on Earth plus Primary & Atmospheric Water Cycles 46
PrimaryWaterNetwork.org
The Garlock Project -- Drilling for Primary Water in the Tehachapi’s 48
website by Pal Pauer
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Deep Hydrology: The Promise of Primary Water, by Lyn Hebenstreit 54
Debra Hamilton-California Global Resource Alliance - Drilling Primary Water Wells Worldwide
[email protected] by Lyn Hebenstreit 58

Paschal Oloo Odienge-Kenya Thoughts about Drilling a Borehole and Advancing the Use and 60
[email protected]
Understanding of Primary Water, by Paschal Oloo Odienge and
Debra Hamilton
How Primary Water Can Solve the Global Water Crisis, DVD 63
An Ancient Primary Water Source That Could Make Drought a 64
Thing of the Past, by Ellen Brown
The Truth is Being Revealed and We are Taking Back Our Power 70
Primary Water Technologies, Water Exploration and Production 72
Water Locators, Dowsers & Devices 74
Historical Photos of
2 Lake Elisinore & Tecolote Tunnel 75

 Why Care About Primary Water? by Kim Glazzard
Water is the elixir of life. Without it, life as we know it would not exist. We all depend on
water for everything including personal hygiene, keeping hydrated, growing and produc- ing
our food, energy production, manufacturing, ecosystem habitat, recreation, and on and
on and on . . . Water is also a solvent and cleaning agent. A person can live without food for
weeks but cannot live without water for more than a few days.

With the current state of the world plagued by droughts and water wars, water really is the new
1957-2023
gold. While the need for water is essential and permeates all life, how much do each of us really
know about the true sources and amounts of water in our world? Likely, very little.

What if you were told that Earth’s most abundant source of water is found deep in its core – and is stored in
its rocks and magma to be released under the heat and pressure of geologic events and circumstances? What
if you learned that the abundance of this water may exceed the amount of water in our oceans by at least 4-5
times and can most easily be obtained through strategic drilling?

While rarely acknowledged, though referenced in the Bible and other ancient texts, the Earth’s magma and
geology is in fact the source of our planet’s most pure water. This water appears in unexpected places such as
mountain springs and desert oases. Have you ever wondered how a spring could defy gravity and surface at
high elevations on the top of a mountain, or provide a green oasis in the middle of a desert? Primary Water
isn’t a mystery, though access to this technology has been largely suppressed historically and only recently
begun to emerge in open discussions within scientific communities.

Along with its abundance, the advantages and value of Primary Water include that it is clean water which has
never been in contact with the atmosphere. As mentioned earlier, access is largely dependent on geography
and geology rather than climate and atmospheric rainfall. It is readily available in drought as well as normal
rainfall years. It can also be localized to certain areas and needs – and, under the right geologic conditions, is
plentiful and readily accessible.

All water originates as Primary Water deep in the mantle of the Earth. Under pressure, it then makes its way
to the surface via faults and fissures in the form of volcanic steam, artesian springs, geysers, and oases. The
defining characteristic of Primary Water is that it has never before been on the surface of the Earth and is
therefore free of surface pollutants. When it approaches the Earth’s surface, Primary Water mixes with water
already here and then becomes part of the Hydrologic Cycle. Skilled Primary Water experts are able to locate
the water as it nears the earth’s surface, thus reducing the depth of drilling normally required for water wells.

This Primary Water Magazine offers a snapshot of some of the 20th and 21st Century pioneers of Primary Water
research as well as an overview of numerous success stories where Primary Water has come to the rescue -
especially in drought years.

Thousands of Primary Water wells already provide fresh water in Australia, the United States, and Africa.
Many villages in Africa have experienced tremendous improvements in their quality of life due to Primary
Water wells. Primary Water is a valuable source of water that could also help refill reservoirs, resupply over-
tapped rivers such as the Colorado River, and support agricultural needs.

Could Primary Water solve our global water crisis? And, might Primary Water offer hope for mankind – and
the future survival of Planet Earth? A resounding yes on both accounts! Primary Water may well be a missing
link to solving water shortages and hunger around the world.

We want to share the life-giving and abundant prospect that Primary Water offers the world and invite you to
drill into and explore the many resources and expansive opportunities provided here to learn about this amaz-
ing source of water. Welcome to the world of Primary Water!
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 Introduction to Primary Water
There is a source of fresh water that is never mentioned in the mainstream media, or widely
understood by geologists. This forgotten resource is called primary water.

Most water conservation agencies today focus on managing atmospheric water in the form
of surface runoff and ground water, while negligible consideration is given to primary water.
Pressuring up from deep within the earth through rock fissures, primary water is virtually
limitless and clean. According to recent research, water within the earth exceeds five times
the amount of water in all the world’s oceans.

The practice of accessing primary water has been around for centuries. What early Greek
philosophers like Aristotle and the Italian Leonardo DaVinci believed, and enlightened scien-
tists working at well-known universities today are finding out, is that all water is created in
the mantle of the earth and is available in limitless quantities worldwide.

Drilling for primary water looks similar to drilling for ground water. The main difference in
accessing primary water is that it requires drilling into a geologic fissure or fault to release
the primary water that has risen near the surface.

Locating well sites for primary water requires special training and experience. There are
countless primary water wells that have been functioning for decades all over California and
around the world.

Primary water advantages:

• Provides excellent quality, clean, unspoiled water

• Is fresh and not subject to pollution or surface radiation
• Is created under pressure, so that it comes near the surface by
itself, incurring less pumping costs
• Never dries up
• Unlike groundwater, is not subject to the effects of drought
• Does not cause subsidence like some groundwater wells
• Refills depleted groundwater supplies from below in some instances
• Is plentiful and replenishable
• Can create localized water supplies that is available where it is needed and when it is
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• Inexpensive horizontal drilling rigs can benefit fish and wildlife by refilling dried up
streams, lakes and rivers.
• Primary water was used to refill Lake Elsinore in California (which went dry in the
1950s).
• Primary water wells can be used to supplement existing water transport systems like
the California aqueduct.

Some history of Primary Water:

In the 1960’s, the late Dr. Stephen Riess, a geologist and mining engineer, introduced the
California government to the concept of primary water. He proposed a water delivery plan
which included drilling 8,000 primary water wells along the foothills of the western slope
of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The State government at the time was geared toward
managing only atmospheric water, so the Riess proposal was ignored and the California
Aqueduct was built instead.

Had Riess’ plan been endorsed, the output of these primary water wells, at a conservative
average of 270 gallons per minute, would be producing more than 3,100,000,000 gallons
of water per day (8,000 x 270 x 60 x 24), 365 days a year. It would be comforting to have
this back-up system in place today.

By accessing primary water, it is unnecessary to use massive public works transport sys-
tems because water can be localized to meet the water needs of individual communities.
Our government needs to explore and research primary water as a viable option to help
communnities that have run out of water.

Be sure to check out the illustration showing both the primary and atmospheric water cy-
cles. Technical papers are available on the Primary Water Institute’s website, www.prima-
rywaterinstitute.org. The Primary Water Institute seeks to train individuals to locate and
drill for primary water in California and around the globe.

It is essential to consider both atmospheric water and primary water when managing Cali-
fornia’s precious water supply.

The mission of the Primary Water Institute is to train individuals to locate and drill
for Primary Water in California and around the globe.

“One cubic kilometer of granite, under the right conditions, will yield
one billion gallons of primary water.”
-- Stephan Riess

www.PrimaryWaterNetwork.org
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 California’s Missed
Opportunity:
The Stephan Riess Story
by A. M. Stinnett

The year 2015 saw the State of California, and in-

deed the American West, in the grip of a long-term
drought. Everyone was thinking about water, or the
lack thereof. Property owners were wondering wheth-
er it was time to get out ahead of a rush of people
trying to leave a dry and thirsty land without suffering
financial loss. One headline captured the ubiquitous
malaise: “California’s Epic Drought: One Year of Water
Left.”

Government and Water Resources bureaucrats were

not standing about idle, and their efforts culminated
in major legislation signed by Governor Jerry Brown
on April 1, 2015, to effect drought relief by means of
more usage regulation and restrictions, as well as the Who Was Stephan Riess?
appropriation of seven billion dollars for drought re-
lief projects to be submitted by local Water Resources In 1923 Stephan Riess (b. Bavaria, Germany, 1898 – d.
agencies and private corporations. Escondido, California, 1985) emigrated to the U.S. at
the age of 25, having completed his formal education
Local newspapers published tens of thousands of in geology, metallurgy, and mining at the Imperial
words by journalists who threw themselves whole- Naval Academy of Germany. He saw military service
heartedly into the work of investigation, interviewing as a naval submarine executive officer in the First
experts, and reporting; yet in all this delving into a World War. Like many a young man in the New World,
universally crucial topic, they failed to stumble upon he headed West to get experience in his chosen field,
a salient fact, a fact that since the 1990s is widely mining engineering. He went to California and be-
acknowledged by the scientific community. To quote came a success among mining companies after he
just one of the many testimonials to this fact, Earth came up with a solution for an ore-processing prob-
scientists of the University of Minnesota wrote in lem. Thereafter he had no shortage of consulting jobs.
Physics Today in 2012: “Over the past 20 years, scien- His reputation earned him an invitation from Presi-
tists have come to appreciate that vast quantities [of dent Herbert Hoover to join a metallurgical processing
water] are stored in Earth’s interior....Surface water is firm with the former president’s two sons.
only a fraction of Earth’s water inventory.”
During his first decade in California, his diverse expe-
The failure to report, recognize, and act upon such a riences in mining completed the academic geological
potentially beneficial reality is egre-gious in Califor- training he had received. Two experiences led to his
nia, where for sixty years there lived an extraordinary scientific probing of the question of what has come to
man who confounded the California Water Resources be called deep-earth, or earth-generated water.
establishment and the government by demonstrating In the first, dynamite was set off at the bottom of a
over and over again the fact of an abundant availabil- deep mine at high elevation in order to break up the
ity of water even in desert and rocky places: Stephan rock. After the blast, the unexpected happened. Wa-
Riess.
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 ter came gushing up from the rocks at 25,000 gallons on rocky promontories, had wells dug into solid rock
per minute! Riess was struck by the fact that in all the that are still producing water. The arid lands of the
geology and mining textbooks he had studied, not Sahara and the Near East have springs that have been
one dealt with this phenomenon. Yet among miners flowing for millennia from a source clearly not that
it is a truism that mines more often wash out before of the atmospheric, or hydrologic water cycle. And in
they work out. The temperature and purity of the wa- Brittany, modern-day Frenchmen still drill for water in
ter also suggested an origin other than groundwater. solid granite.
Riess resolved to investigate this phenomenon.
Riess Proves the Hypothesis
A subsequent incident advanced his understanding.
He was in a mine shaft where a mill was processing A decade of work, study, and research had led to the
ore. He saw water flowing unexpectedly, but it was formation of a strong hypothesis: the elements hydro-
not coming from the mill; it was bubbling up from gen and oxygen are present in the Earth’s mantle. Pri-
beneath the mud. He heard a hissing sound like gas mary water is generated in the rock strata when the
so he lit a match, setting off a mini-explosion. He right temperature and pressure are present. The new
surmised that catalysts in the ore-processing had also water is forced up towards the surface through the
catalyzed the formation of water from hydrogen and faults and fissures in the Earth’s crust until it is halted
oxygen. He later duplicated the water-producing pro- by impermeable rock. Using the sciences of mineral-
cess in a laboratory. ogy, petrology, and structural geology precisely one
could locate high-pressure, low-temperature hydro-
Riess’s discovery that thermal systems like the ones routinely encountered
new water is best found by engineers in mine and tunnel flooding incidents.
in rocks was not a first. In 1934 he was given the opportunity to test the
He had encountered hypothesis. A mining company in Nelson, Nevada, (25
in the field what the
Stockholm professor of
mineralogy, A. E. Nor-
denskjold, had discov-
ered in Sweden—water
can been drilled for in
solid rock! In 1896, he
reported the phenome-
non in his paper “About
Drilling for Water in
Primary Rocks.” He had
Stockholm professor of mineralogy, A. E. Nordenskjold, 1886. discovered that a new
type of water was available, potable fresh water that
is distinctly independent of the hydrological cycles
of atmospheric water. He called this water “primary”
due to its association with so-called primary rocks.

The essay earned him a nomination for the first Nobel

Prize in physics, but his death in 1901 prevented the
advancement of his nomination for the prize.

Riess found confirmation of his experimental knowl-

edge from mining and lab work in the historical and
geographical records: Writers from antiquity up
through Leonardo da Vinci wrote about water coming
from rock. The castle courtyards of Europe, situated
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miles southeast of Las Vegas) needed a source of wa- was not lacking the right geological structure, fissures,
ter in order to make a mine profitable. Discarding the and faults for providing abundant water to the grow-
standard practice of contemporary geohydrologists, ing population throughout the State.
the plan was to drill into a mountainside for water.
They struck water at The confrontation between
a depth of 182 feet two competing understand-
with sufficient flow to ings of the origins of water
provide the needed came to a head over the
water. The mine sub- course of the mid-1950s.
sequently extracted
four million dollars’ A magazine article sparked
worth of bullion till it the conflict. The headline of
closed in 1945. When a two-part story published
a company came back in 1953 by the Southern Cal-
to the area in 1977, ifornia magazine Fortnight
they were able to proclaimed the potentially
reactivate the water transformative reality: “Rev-
well. olution in Water Seeking.”
The subtitle spelled it out:
To Riess’s mind the “Steve Riess has a new idea
hypothesis was proven, so he decided to stake his of how to look for water and 69 wells to support his
own money to confirm it. He purchased a barren plot theory.” The magazine editorialized that the reason
in the Black Canyon, above the Simi Valley in Ventura for Sacramento’s displeasure was simply greed.
County. He brought in three wells which produced
3,000 gallons per minute (gpm), or 4 ½ million gallons Sacramento sent out investigators who conducted a
per day!—enough to supply the daily needs of 10,000 shallow investigation. They made a report without
people. Some of his neighbors benefited from free having spoken to Riess’s clients, or Riess himself. They
water from the Riess property. asserted that the Simi Valley wells were just tapping
Word of Riess’s success in drilling water wells got into ground water (an impossibility for the amount of
around. He became a water developer throughout water he had extracted).
California. From San Francisco doctors investing in
orchard groves, to horse breeders in Ramona, to as- This round in the Riess v. Sacramento fight was de-
piring citrus growers in the Coachella Valley near the cided by an outsider. Texas oil and gas tycoon Clint
Salton Sea, people turned to Steve Riess when they Murchison heard about the wells. Since he was inter-
needed water. And he reliably came through. ested in investing in California real estate, he sent out
a team of his own engineers to test the wells in order
David v. Goliath to prove their worth as an enduring water supply for a
large housing tract. After eighteen months, they gave
Not everyone was delighted. The State of California the green light. In 1955, the Ventura County Star-Free
was getting ready to invest heavily in a water trans- Press headlined the million dollar purchase, one of
port system of dams, canals, and pumping stations, the biggest amounts paid for property in California at
the first installment of which was the looming Feath- the time.
er River Project. Bonding issues necessary to fund it
were being prepared to submit to the voters. A lot of Round Two: Sparkletts Drinking Water had drilled
money was being invested, and a lot was going to be wells for its Lakeside facility in San Diego following the
made by some. But private individuals began writing advice of a Water Resources (WR) specialist. Within
to their water authorities questioning the need for six months the water quality had declined and the
such a vast undertaking when Mr. Riess had demon- supply was running out. The owner was desperate.
strated that drilling inexpensive wells situated in the After the Murchison purchase made the headlines, he
right spots yielded ample water. Moreover, California got in touch with Riess. Riess ultimately drilled into

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the bottom of an existing 400-foot well that had gone the validity of his theory for locating water and to test
dry. He drilled down an additional five hundred feet another—the theory that a supply of water runs in
till he struck high-grade water at 300 gpm. The plant the system of fissures under the Mojave Desert large
was saved. (And in 2016, it is still supplying Sparkletts enough to supply the needs of all of southern Califor-
with water.) nia.

Round Three: A situation then arose that pitted the In 1958 a land developer wanted to make a huge
scientific theories directly against each other. A Uni- development in the Mojave for which, obviously, he
versity of California groundwater geologist and con- needed water. He hired Riess. Riess sunk three wells
sultant for the State Water Resources Division advised which enabled the huge tract of land to become
a specialty grower in the Anza Valley, desperate for California City. In order to assess the wells’, and the
irrigation water, to drill in a particular place in order new town’s, long-term prospects, the land develop-
to tap into groundwater: the well yielded a mere 4 er commissioned a quarter-of-a million-dollar study
gpm. Meanwhile, an editor of the Christian Science to test Riess’s hypothesis. The study concluded that
Monitor working on a story about California’s ongoing indeed a vast quantity of water was traveling in the
water crisis informed Riess about the situation. Riess fault system under the desert and that it had nothing
convinced the desperate man to fund one more well. in common with any water in “alluvium sedimentary
He chose as the site a 350-foot granite hillock on the aquifers,” that is, ground water. The co-ordinator of
property. State officials of the WRD learned of the the study, Olindo Romulus Angelillo, told the Christian
plan and sent down six of their agents to try to talk Science Monitor that more than a million acre-feet
the farmer out of doing it, to no avail. flow under the desert, enough to meet the needs of
five million people.
Before drilling began, based on his knowledge of geo-
hydrology, Riess predicted the depth (300 feet) and The Grand Coalition of the Status Quo Strikes Back
water volume (300-1,000gpm) he anticipated; he was Decades before the 1950s, federal and state politi-
spot on: the well produced from an occasional flow cians had committed California to an immense system
of 1,030 gpm to a steady 400 gpm. The UC profes- of dams, canals, and pumping stations to resolve the
sor’s mind was totally unyielding to the evidence. He problem of providing water to the burgeoning popu-
ascribed Riess’s success to luck. lace. By the late 1950s, planning on the Feather River
Project was advancing. In 1959 the expected cost
Just Lucky? was $14 billion (in reality it turned out to cost many
billions more). Riess meanwhile had contracted with
Word of Riess’s ability to find water in desert places the San Bernardino Municipal Water District (SBM-
even reached the State of Israel. In 1958 Prime Min- WD) to drill wells sufficient to supply the needs of the
ister David Ben-Gurion invited him to Israel. They huge San Bernardino county in perpetuity for a sum
needed water for the new city of Eilat, situated in the “infinitesimally smaller than that to be levied against
Negev Desert on the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea. the district as its share of the Feather River Project.”
When Riess explained his methodology to Israel’s hy- He brought in the first well at Yucaipa: 900 gpm in 600
drological experts, they at first resisted, but “encour- feet of solid granite. Word of the success got back to
aged by their superiors” they co-operated with Riess. Sacramento. When the well was on the point of being
He located a well a mile and a half outside the city accepted by the SBMWD, Riess was summoned to a
near the Jordanian border, enough to supply a city of private meeting with the manager, who told him that
100,000 inhabitants and twelve outlying villages. Governor Brown had told him to shut down the well.
His success in Israel led to his being invited to Egypt, Why? “Because he felt that if you couldn’t be stopped
where he brought in three wells along the Nile for from running around the country bringing in maverick
prominent individuals, and also to Saudi Arabia, water wells, the whole bonding issue was in jeopar-
where he drilled in the northeast of that country. dy.”

Second Theory: A Boon for Southern California Riess went to court to collect his costs. He lost both
Back in California he had another opportunity to show cases in the lower and appeals court, but finally won
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when the decision was reversed by the Supreme planned in the 21st century. But the Governor’s deci-
Court of California. Riess was given the opportunity sion stood, and the proposal disappeared from insti-
to testify before a Select Committee on National tutional memory.
Water Resources of the U.S. Senate in Los Angeles
in October 1959. Riess remained active until his death in 1985. He had
a career total of 800 productive water wells. His last
Riess proposed that a serious study of water flow- year, he brought in a well at Escondido, California, on
ing in rock fissures be undertaken. Within the solid a site a thousand feet higher than the City’s supply
rock beneath the Earth’s crust is a system of fis- with a pumping cost 80 percent cheaper.
sures—Mother Nature’s own pipe lines. Surely it is
more economical to pump water vertically 450 feet Truth vs. Vested Interests
than to pump and transport it 450 miles!
Since his death, science has come around to Riess’s
way of thinking:

• Japanese researchers reported in Science in

March 2002 that the earth’s lower mantle may
store about five times more water than its surface
oceans.
• Earth scientists Hirschmann and Kohlstedt of the
University of Minnesota reported in their 2012
article “Water in Earth’s mantle,” (Physics Today,
65 [3], 40 [2012]), “scientists have come to appre-
ciate that vast quantities [of water] are stored in
Earth’s interior. . . . Surface water is only a fraction
of Earth’s water inventory.”
• Australian scientists have discovered vast freshwa-
ter reserves beneath the oceans, miles out to sea.
According to the report published in the Decem-
ber 2013 issue of Nature, there is an estimated
500,000 cubic kilometers of low-salinity water
beneath the seabed along the continental shelves
around the world.
• Scientific American (March 2014) documented
the presence of vast quantities of water locked
far beneath the earth’s surface, generated, not by
The State launched a counterattack. The California surface rainfall, but from pressures deep with-
Director of Water Resources put out an Informa- in: “There is a very, very large amount of water
tion Bulletin, “Is ‘Primary Water’ or ‘Rock Fissure that’s trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep
Water’ a Potential Source of Water Supply?” Earth…approaching the sort of mass of water
(December 1960). It denigrated the Mojave Desert that’s present in all the world’s oceans.”
study as worthless and attacked Riess’s ideas. It • In October 2014, the Special Inspector General of
was distributed to all State offices. Afghanistan Reconstruction reported that afford-
able deep-well technology has turned 200,000
But Riess did not quit. One of his colleagues relates hectares (about 770 sq. mi.) of desert in south-
that he conducted a hydrological survey of the western Afghanistan into arable land.
entire State: eight thousand wells would enable • In December 2014, BBC News reported the results
California to have a limitless, secure, high-qual- of a study presented at the fall meeting of the
ity water supply at a cost of only two percent of American Geophysical Union, in which researchers
the Sacramento River Delta water tunnels being estimate there is more water locked deep in the
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• So, a generation after Stephan Riess’s death,
scientists generally admit the existence of “vast
quantities” of water within the earth. More-
over, engineers have proven that the water
is readily accessible, since water projects in
Afghanistan (but not, of course, in the U.S., al-
though the Afghan water projects were funded
with U.S. dollars) were able to transform 770
square miles of desert into arable land. The earth has two major water cycles as shown above - the primary water cycle and the atmospheric water cycle. All of earth’s water originates in magma
in the earth’s mantle and is transported in the form of super-heated, high pressure steam or vapor through geologic cracks and fissures to or near the sur-
face of the earth. This is the primary water cycle as depicted above as the blue above the orange mantle and below the earth’s crust. As this vapor reach-
es the earth’s surface it is either released through volcanic steam and fumarolges, or has cooled enough to liquefy into water and forms artesian and other
springs and lakes – even in the mountains. This is pure water that has never before been in contact with the atmosphere.

So, scientists, despite their vested interest in

The secondary water cycle is the most familiar hydrologic cycle and moves what is also known as atmospheric water. The secondary water cycle takes the
primary water which has reached the earth’s surface and, with the sun’s heat, utilizes the processes of evaporation, transpiration, and heating and cooling
of the atmosphere, to create precipitation which is transported to re-supply the earth with cleansed water or snow - replenishing lakes, streams, rivers, and

defending the theories they mastered in graduate

the ocean.
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school, have finally yielded to the evidence. Yet the

politicians and Water Resources bureaucrats have
not been keeping up with advances in science.
They are still working from their 1950s’ playbook.
In 2016 they are still proposing the same policies
advanced a half a century ago.

To conclude this survey of the career of a man who

could rightly be called a pioneer and a genuine
benefactor of mankind, it is fitting to quote the
concluding remark of Aldous Huxley’s foreword to
the 1960 book by Michael Salzman that thoroughly
examined the work of Stephan Riess, New Water The Foremost DR-24 is a perfect choice for drilling for
for a Thirsty World: primary water. It can handle any type of geologic for-
mations. These rigs are in use all over the world.
“Vested interests are of many kinds. There is the
intellectual vested interest of those who have taken
their doctorates in a science at a certain stage of
its development, who have taught and applied that
science at that particular stage, and who regard
any questioning of the postulates underlying that
science at that stage as a personal affront and a
menace to their position in the Establishment. And
then, of course, there are the more substantial
vested interests of contractors who make money
by selling concrete for dams and irrigation works,
of bankers who make money by handling state
and municipal bonds, of bureaucrats who, obey-
ing Parkinson’s Law, feel an urge to expand their
departments and extend their authority, of poli-
ticians who find it prudent to say yes to powerful
pressure groups. But even against vested interest
truth (particularly if it be a useful truth) will ulti-
mately prevail. How long is ‘ultimately’? That is the
question.” Inexpensive horizontal drilling rigs can benefit fish and
wildlife by refilling dried up streams, lakes and rivers.
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All the Water We Need:

A New Paradigm for the 21st Century
By A.M. Stinnett
A recent article in The Atlantic monthly by two Harvard historians proposed the establishment by the Pres-
ident of the United States of a Council of Historical Advisors. The reason is obvious: as the truism puts it, those
who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. The past is replete with lessons for present problems and future
outcomes.
This truism applies to the issue of water. Mid 20th-century California history is full of instruction for the
present generation in its search for solutions to the state’s recurrent droughts and water insecurity. It brings to
light a fact of enormous import for policy discussions on water conservation, the Salton Sea, and water securi-
ty; namely, there is no shortage of water on Planet Earth.
The truth of the matter is that the earth is a water generator. New water is continually being created deep
down. The science actually goes back more than a hundred years. The first modern paper on the subject was
published in 1896, and in the 1950s in California a man named Stephan Riess corroborated the fact by drilling
hundreds of wells based on the updated knowledge he acquired from his work in mining. Since the 1990s, doz-
ens of research papers have been published on various aspects of the science.
It is understandable why most people involved in water resources do not know about this. Because of
Riess’s activities, the issue was widely reported and debated in the 1950s. The U.S. Senate even held hear-
ings in Los Angeles in 1959 to give Riess a platform from which to speak. But his contribution was rejected by
an Establishment mobilized to protect the status quo, so that knowledge of the reality of another source of
water faded away. And while university-level students are being taught about the deep-earth water cycle and
earth-generated water (or primary water, as it is also called), the subject has not yet found its way into high
school textbooks.
Consider the possibilities the reality of abundant water opens up. Every community in the desert could be-
come an oasis. The eastern side of the Sierras could be “greened.” Every locality in the State could have water
security with back-up earth-generated water wells. The Delta tunnels project could be scrapped and billions
saved for other purposes. The Salton Sea could be refilled by drilling wells: A California case study already ex-
ists—the saving of Lake Elsinore, celebrated by Governor Pat Brown in 1965. Places like Flint, Michigan, where
the groundwater has been contaminated could drill for new water. Looking beyond the U.S., Northern Africa
could become a breadbasket like it was in Antiquity. And so on!
Even if our local, state, and federal governments are ignoring the facts, private parties and other nations
are not. Nor is the U.S. government when it is advantageous to apply it, as they did in Afghanistan to turn 770
square miles of desert into arable land.
The Coachella Valley’s local newspaper, the Desert Sun, has been doing a tremendous job of covering
water-related issues and has participated in community forums in order to get involved in helping the State re-
solve its perennial crisis of water insecurity. Its reporters have won national journalism awards for their writing.
But as yet they have completely missed the paradigm shift, the water revolution, that is underway in the world.
Citizens, activists, and public officials cannot rely on the mass media to do their homework for them. The
topic is too hot; the vested interests are too deep and of too long standing to let go of the status quo without
prodding from the grassroots. They will only yield to the evidence when it is impossible for them not to.
Quite simply, a shift in thinking from a paradigm of scarcity to one of abundance needs to come about.
And in order to envision a better future sometimes it is essential to revisit the past.

Online resources for more information: www.primarywaterinstitute.org.

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Water For a Thirsty World:
Lessons From a Maverick
06/01/2021, By Christopher Nyerges

Timothy Hall, a former Highland Park resident

who has worked globally to plant trees and find under-
ground water, recently gave the Sunday lecture at WTI, a
community service nonprofit in Highland Park.
Hall’s topic was the life and work of Stephan
Riess, a Bavarian-born mining engineer who came to the
United States in 1923 and became a pioneer and maver-
ick in the study of water, specifically, the source
of primary water. Hall, a board member of WTI, had the Timothy Hall lectured on primary water at a recent meeting of WTI, a
good fortune to meet Riess in 1982 and apprenticed with nonprofit in Highland Park. Photo by Christopher Nyerges
him until Reiss’ death in 1985.
Hall began his presentation by describing the prevailing “surface water” theory of the hydrological cycle
which holds that the amount of water on earth is finite and constantly recycled through evaporation, conden-
sation, and precipitation. The water from rain descends to the lowest level with rivers flowing into lakes and
streams.

Stephan Riess, shown here shortly before his death in 1985, pioneered the study of “primary
water” that is formed deep within the earth and stored in rock.
Photo courtesy of Christopher Nyerges

Reiss was convinced that the surface-water theory was incomplete, in

part because during mining activity, large volumes of water were often encoun-
tered at the top of a mountain range, suggesting a water source other than run-
off or ground water.
This observation led Riess to the lifelong study of “rock fissure aquifers.” Unlike conventional ground
water wells, which contain surface water that has permeated sand and gravel, rock fissure aquifers are virtually
limitless “sources of pure, potable water flowing through the fissures of the otherwise solid and impermeable
rocks,” Riess wrote in 1959.
“Primary water” is the term used today to talk about water that is not part of the hydrological cycle,
but rather forms deep within the earth and flows through impermeable rocks. Riess did not coin the term, but
he spent his adult life proving its existence and drilling for it.
In his lecture, Hall reviewed the science on primary water, including the work of Steve Jacobsen, a geo-
physicist at Northwestern University.
Hall also reviewed the two main proofs of the existence of primary water. One is the volume of water
that has been found in numerous drillings in areas where the hydrological cycle is too low to account for such
plentiful water.
Another proof involves testing water for tritium, an isotope of hydrogen found in surface water. When
water is tested and there is no tritium, it is assumed to be primary water, said Hall.
Shortly before his death in 1985, Riess was nominated by Christopher Bird, co-author of “The Secret
Life of Plants,” for The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 when the Nobel Prize committee declined
to establish a prize in environmental science and protection. Unfortunately, Riess died before the selection jury
gave full consideration. The book, “New Water for a Thirsty World,” by Michael Salzman, is dedicated to Riess.
WTI honored Riess for his life work in 1985.
Hall closed his lecture by explaining that drilling for water is a costly proposition that government enti-
ties are hard pressed to fund: At one point, Hall formed a company to locate primary water but was unable to
get government contracts to drill for that water.
The day may come when primary water is more easily accessed, but for now, Hall recommends that
people, especially in dry regions, treat water as a precious commodity that must be conserved and recycled.
To learn more, see www.primarywaterinstitute.org, www.SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com.
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 FOREWARD

New Water for a Thirsty World

by Aldous Huxley

lzman_book.pdf
As a child, born into a rainy
country and brought up in the
midst of what at that time was
advanced modern plumbing, I took

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water for granted. One turned a tap

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and water appeared. That was all
there was to it. With foreign travel came the discovery that
things weren’t as simple as all that. I rented a delightful
villa in the hills above Florence. What a paradise! But the
pump that should have raised the bath water from a well

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in the courtyard stopped working and a little later, when
the pump had been repaired, there was no water in the
well. From one dry hole I moved on to a succession of vast
dry regions. I crossed the deserts of Rajputana and what is

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now Pakistan. I visited the city of Bikaner, where the water
supply is hoisted from deep wells by oxen harnessed to a
rope at the other end of which is a leather bucket. Then
came the deserts of the American Southwest, seen first at
the end of a wet cycle, and later lived in during a prolonged
drought which finally dried my well and the wells of most Such was the extent of my knowledge
of my neighbors. No rain, no water in the wells. It stands when, some few years since, I first met Stephan
to reason, doesn’t it? But in some places there is no rain, Riess. After seeing a few of his wells spouting
and yet an unfailing abundance of water in the wells. At water from the solid granite at the rate of two
Nefta in the Sahara, at Jericho in the Jordan Valley, I saw or three thousand gallons a minute, and after
things which, by all the rules of common sense, I had no listening to what he had to say about faults
right to be seeing. Nefta lies in a part of the desert where and fissures, about juvenile water and prima-
it rains on the average once every three or four years; for ry water, about hydrogen and oxygen coming
the rest of the time there is only wind and sunshine. But together at high temperatures and under vast
though no water falls from the sky, water comes pouring pressures in the bowels of the earth and rising,
out of the ground—enough water to support a forest of as H2O towards the surface, wherever the crust
date palms and a population, in that incredibly fertile oasis, was weak, I began to understand the mystery
of several thousands. And after Nefta, there was Jericho. of Nefta and Jericho. And, I began at the same
Jericho is the site of the first walled city, built by a neolithic time to feel a little more hopeful about humani-
people thousands of years ago. And for thousands of years ty’s prospects for survival and a good life on this
before that city was built, men had lived on what was to underwatered and soon to be overpopulated
become its site. Jericho is and has always been, an island planet.
of greenery in the barren land. In a place where, by all the And now comes Michael Salzman’s book.
rules, there should be no water, a spring gushes out of the Jack of all trades and master of four or five,
rock and has been gushing from time immemorial. From Salzman is one of those rare, indispensable men
these two sets of object lessons I learned two significant who refuse to confine themselves to a single
facts about water; first and most obviously, that over vast academic pigeon-hole, but with systematic rest-
expanses of the earth’s surface, water is scarce or non-ex- lessness and a boundless curiosity, climb about
istent; and second (to my extreme puzzlement), that here on the woodwork between the specialists’ in-
and there water makes its appearance in places where it sulated boxes, peering in now here, now there,
seemingly has no right to be present. and correlating the knowledge they extract
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from each compartment into a comprehensive pattern And even in those regions where rain falls
that permits a better understanding of the artificially and rivers run, primary water may turn out to be
isolated facts and, along with a better understanding, useful and even indispensable. As population grows
the possibility of new and more fruitful kinds of action. and technology advances, more and more water
If Riess is right (and the proof of the pudding is is consumed. And not only is more and more wa-
in the eating—or rather, since we are dealing with wa- ter consumed, more and more sources of water
ter, in the drinking), and if Salzman has correctly stated are polluted. To the chemical and excrementitious
the chemical and geological reasons why Riess finds pollution with which we defile our rivers, lakes and
water in places where orthodox hydrologists affirm beaches, there is now added regularly radio-active
that it cannot possibly exist, then clearly we must be pollution. Dangerous even in peace time, such radio-
prepared to make a number of revolutionary changes active contamination might have the most appalling
in our ideas and our policies. If brand new, primary consequences during and after a war. In the years
water can be found near the place where it is to be ahead, and for the inhabitants of densely populated
used, then the building of huge dams to impound and highly industrialized countries, sources of uncon-
old waters, and the digging of long canals to lead the taminated and uncontaminable water will become
water to its place of use, will become completely increasingly valuable.
unnecessary. Every reservoir behind a dam is bound, For everybody’s sake, let us hope that Riess
sooner or later, to silt up. By the time California has and Salzman are right. Having seen some of Riess’s
fifty million inhabitants and five or six times its pres- wells and having now read the proofs of Salzman’s
ent water needs, Lake Mead will be well on its way to book, I myself not merely hopeful, but feel pretty
becoming the world’s largest beaver meadow, and the sure that they are right. It remains to be seen wheth-
Feather River Project, after bankrupting the state, will er those who are now regarded as experts in the field
be hard at work depositing mud. of hydrology and the politicians whom they advise
If Riess and Salzman are right, the needs of will also agree that a good case has been made and
California’s future millions can best be supplied, not that large-scale experimentation is in order. Vested
by inordinately expensive dams and aqueducts, but interests are of many kinds. There is the intellectual
by drilling into faults and fractures for local sources of vested interest of those who have taken their doc-
new primary water. torates in a science at a certain stage of its develop-
Again, if Riess and Salzman are right, it will be ment, who have taught and applied that science at
possible to use the applied science of tapping primary that particular stage, and who regard any questioning
water in order to ease the political tensions and allevi- of the postulates underlying that science at that stage
ate the chronic miseries of the Middle East and Africa. as a personal affront and a menace to their position
The high dam at Aswan will reach completion at a date in the Establishment. And then, of course, there are
when Egypt’s population will have already outstripped the more substantial vested interests of contractors
the yield of the new lands which that future beaver who make money by selling concrete for dams and
meadow will have made fertile. How much quicker, irrigation works, of bankers who make money by han-
cheaper and more efficient to start drilling for primary dling state and municipal bonds, of bureaucrats who,
water in the rocks that shut in the Nile Valley! Time obeying Parkinson’s Law, feel an urge to expand their
is everywhere against us and unless we can provide departments and extend their authority, of politicians
enough extra food in the desperate interim between who find it prudent to say yes to powerful pressure
present population explosion and future population groups. But even against vested interest truth (par-
stabilization, the social, economic and political con- ticularly if it be a useful truth) will ultimately prevail.
sequences of death-control without birth-control are How long is ‘ultimately’? That is the question.
bound to be disastrous. The extra food can be pro-
duced most rapidly by supplying the vast dry areas —Aldous Huxley
of the earth with water; and this in turn can be done
most rapidly by locating and exploiting those deep March 21,1960
telluric sources which (if Riess and Salzman are right) Topeka, Kansas
are nearly ubiquitous and for all practical purposes
inexhaustible.

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 While we’ve been distracted by Covid, lockdowns and vaccine mandates,
farmers, ranchers and other Californians have been trying to sound the alarm
re: how state officials have been draining our reservoirs, allowing much of the
water to be drained out to sea. Remember that Oroville, Shasta and many of our
state dams were full to capacity in 2019 (up to 5-year water reserves according
to the state water experts) but much of that water has been denied to CA farm-
ers and ranchers. We are considered the breadbasket of our country. Our food
supplies are at critically low levels and farms are being paid not to grow.
Rose Taylor

A Sinister Agenda Behind California Water Crisis?

Looming Food Supply Catastrophe
By F. William Engdahl
Global Research, June 12, 2021
U.S. Drought Monitor October 12, 2021
(Released Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021)
West Valid 8 a.m. EDT

Intensity:
None

D0 Abnormally Dry

D1 Moderate Drought

D2 Severe Drought

D3 Extreme Drought

D4 Exceptional Drought

The Drought Monitor focuses on broad-scale

conditions. Local conditions may vary. For more
information on the Drought Monitor, go to
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About.aspx

Author:
Adam Hartman
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC

droughtmonitor.unl.edu

In recent months a crisis situation in the USA food supply has been growing and is about to assume alarming
dimensions that could become catastrophic. Atop the existing corona pandemic lockdowns and unemployment,
a looming agriculture crisis as well could tip inflation measures to cause a financial crisis as interest rates rise.
.
The ingredients are many, but central is a severe drought in key growing states of the Dakotas and Southwest,
including agriculture-intensive California. So far Washington has done disturbingly little to address the crisis
and California Water Board officials have been making the crisis far worse by draining the state water reser-
voirs…into the ocean.
So far, the worst hit farm state is North Dakota which grows most of the nation’s Red Spring Wheat. In the Up-
per Midwest, the Northern Plains states and the Prairie provinces of Canada winter brought far too little snow
following a 2020 exceedingly dry summer. The result is drought from Manitoba Canada to the Northern USA
Plains States. This hits farmers in the region just four years after a flash drought in 2017 arrived without early
warning and devastated the US Northern Great Plains region comprising Montana, North Dakota, South Dako-
ta, and the adjacent Canadian Prairies.

As of May 27, according to Adnan Akyuz, State Climatologist, ninety-three percent of the North Dakota state
is in at least a Severe Drought category, and 77% of the state is in an Extreme Drought category. Farm organi-
zations predict unless the rainfall changes dramatically in the coming weeks, the harvest of wheat widely used
for pasta and flour will be a disaster. The extreme dry conditions extend north of the Dakota border into Mani-
toba, Canada, another major grain and farming region, especially for wheat and corn. There, the lack of rainfall
and warmer-than-normal temperatures threaten harvests, though it is still early for those crops. North Dakota
and the plains region depend on snow and rainfall for its agriculture water.
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 Southwest States in Severe Drought
While not as severe, farm states Iowa and Illinois are suffering “abnormally dry” conditions in 64% for Iowa and
27% for Illinois. About 55% of Minnesota is abnormally dry as of end May. Drought is measured in a scale from
D1 “abnormally dry,” D3 “severe drought” to D4, “exceptional drought.”

The severe dry conditions are not limited, unfortunately, to North Dakota or other Midwest farm states. A sec-
ond region of very severe drought extends from western Texas across New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada
and deep into California. In Texas 20% of the state is in “severe drought,” and 12% “extreme drought.” Near-
ly 6% of the state is experiencing “exceptional drought,” the worst. New Mexico is undergoing 96% “severe
drought,” and of that, 47% “exceptional drought.”

California Agriculture is Vital

The situation in California is by far the most serious in its potential impact on the supply of agriculture prod-
ucts to the nation. There, irrigation and a sophisticated water storage system provide water for irrigation and
urban use to the state for their periodic dry seasons. Here a far larger catastrophe is in the making. A cyclical
drought season is combining with literally criminal state environmental politics, to devastate agriculture in the
nation’s most important farm producing state. It is part of a radical Green Agenda being advocated by Gov.
Gavin Newsom and fellow Democrats to dismantle traditional agriculture, as insane as it may sound.

Few outside California realize that the state most known for Silicon Valley and beautiful beaches is such a vital
source of agriculture production. California’s agricultural sector is the most important in the United States,
leading the nation’s production in over 77 different products including dairy and a number of fruit and veg-
etable “specialty” crops. The state is the only producer of crops such as almonds, artichokes, persimmons,
raisins, and walnuts. California grows a third of the country’s vegetables and two thirds of the country’s fruits
and nuts. It leads all other states in farm income with77,500 farms and ranches. It also is second in production
of livestock behind Texas, and its dairy industry is California’s leading commodity in cash receipts. In total, 43
million acres of the state’s 100 million acres are devoted to agriculture. In short what happens here is vital to
the nation’s food supply.

California Crisis Manmade: Where has the water gone?

The water crisis in California is far the most serious in terms of consequences for the food supply, in a period
when the US faces major supply chain disruptions owing to absurd corona lockdowns combined with highly
suspicious hacks of key infrastructure. On May 31, the infrastructure of the world’s largest meat processor, JBS
SA, was hacked, forcing the shutdown of all its US beef plants that supply almost a quarter of American beef.

The Green lobby is asserting, while presenting no factual evidence, that Global Warming, i.e. increased CO2
manmade emission, is causing the drought. The NOAA examined the case and found no evidence. But the me-
dia repeats the narrative to advance the Green New Deal agenda with frightening statements such as claiming
the drought is, “comparable to the worst mega-droughts since 800 CE.”

After 2011, California underwent a severe seven-year drought. The drought ended in 2019 as major rains filled
the California reservoir system to capacity. According to state water experts the reservoirs held enough wa-
ter to easily endure at least a five-year drought. Yet two years later, the administration of Governor Newsom
is declaring a new drought and threatening emergency measures. What his Administration is not saying is that
the State Water Board and relevant state water authorities have been deliberately letting water flow into
the Pacific Ocean. Why? They say to save two endangered fish species that are all but extinct—one, a rare type
of Salmon, the second a Delta Smelt, a tiny minnow-size fish of some 2” size which has all but disappeared.

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In June 2019 Shasta Dam, holding the state’s largest
reservoir as a keystone of the huge Central Valley Project,
was full to 98% of capacity. Just two years later in May
2021 Shasta Lake reservoir held a mere 42% of capacity,
almost 60% down. Similarly, in June 2019 Oroville Dam
reservoir, the second largest, held water at 98% of capac-
ity and by May 2021 was down to just 37%. Other small-
er reservoirs saw similar drops. Where has all the water
gone?

Allegedly to “save” these fish varieties, during just 14 days

in May, according to Kristi Diener, a California water expert
and farmer, “90% of (Bay Area) Delta inflow went to sea.
It’s equal to a year’s supply of water for 1 million people.”
Diener has been warning repeatedly in recent years that
water is unnecessarily being let out to sea as the state faces a normal dry year. She asks, “Should we be having
water shortages in the start of our second dry year? No. Our reservoirs were designed to provide a steady five
year supply for all users, and were filled to the top in June 2019.”

In 2008, at the demand of environmental groups such as the NRDC, a California judge ordered that the Cen-
tral Valley Water project send 50% of water reservoirs to the Pacific Ocean to “save” an endangered salmon
variety, even though the NGO admitted that no more than 1,000
salmon would likely be saved by the extreme measure. In the
years 1998-2005 an estimated average of 49% of California man-
aged water supply went to what is termed the “environment,”
including feeding into streams and rivers, to feed estuaries and
the Bay Area Delta. Only 28% went directly to maintain agricul-
ture water supplies.

This past January Felicia Marcus, the chair of the California State
Water Resources Control Board, who oversaw the controversial
water policies since 2018, left at the end of her term to become
an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
one of the most powerful green NGO’s, with a reported $400
million in resources to wage legal battles to defend “endangered
species” such as the California salmon and the Delta Smelt.

Appointed by green Gov. Jerry Brown as chair of the State Water

Board in 2018, Marcus is directly responsible for the draining
of the reservoirs into the ocean after they filled in 2019, using
the claim of protecting endangered species. In March 2021 with
Marcus as attorney, the NRDC requested that the State Water Re-
sources Control Board Marcus headed until recently, take “imme-
diate action” to address perceived threats to listed salmon in the
Sacramento River watershed from Central Valley Project (“CVP”) operations. This as the state is facing a new
drought emergency?

In 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom, a protégé of Jerry Brown, signed Senate Bill 1, the California Environmental,
Public Health and Workers Defense Act, which would send billions of gallons of water out to the Pacific Ocean,
ostensibly to save more fish. It was a cover for manufacturing the present water crisis and specifically attacking
farming, as incredible as it may seem.

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 Target Agriculture
The true agenda of the Newsom and previous Brown administrations is to radically undermine the highly
productive California agriculture sector. Gov. Newsom has now introduced an impressive-sounding $5.1 billion
Drought Relief bill. Despite its title, nothing will go to improve the state reservoir water availability for cities
and farms. Of the total, $500 million will be spent on incentives for farmers to “re-purpose” their land, that is
to stop farming. Suggestions include wildlife habitat, recreation, or solar panels! Another $230 million will be
used for “wildlife corridors and fish passage projects to improve the ability of wildlife to migrate safely.” “Fish
passage projects” is a clever phrase for dam removal, destroying the nation’s most effective network of reser-
voirs.

Then the Newson bill allocates $300 million for the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act implementa-
tion, a 2014 law from Jerry Brown amid the previous severe drought to prevent farmers in effect from securing
water from drilling wells. The effect will be to drive more farmers off the land. And another $200 million will
go to “habitat restoration,” supporting tidal wetland, floodplains, and multi-benefit flood-risk reduction proj-
ects—a drought package with funding for floods? This is about recreating flood plains so when they demolish
the dams, the water has someplace to go. The vast bulk of the $500 billion is slated to reimburse water cus-
tomers from the previous 2011-2019 drought from higher water bills, a move no doubt in hopes voters will
look positively on Newsom as he faces likely voter recall in November.

The systematic dismantling of one of the world’s most productive agriculture regions, using the seductive
mantra of “environmental protection,” fits into the larger agenda of the Davos Great Reset and its plans
to radically transform world agriculture into what the UN Agenda 2030 calls “sustainable” agriculture—no
more meat protein. The green argument is that cows are a major source of methane gas emissions via burps.
How that affects global climate no one has seriously proven. Instead we should eat laboratory-made fake meat
like the genetically-manipulated Impossible Burger of Bill Gates and Google, or even worms. Yes. In January the
EU European Food Safety Agency (EFSA), approved mealworms , or larvae of the darkling beetle, as the first
“novel food” cleared for sale across the EU.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton Univer-
sity and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Out-
look”. F. William Engdahl is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)
www.globalresearch.ca/a-sinister-agenda-behind-california-water-crisis-looming-food-supply-catastrophe/5747504

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 To: Stephan Riess

For demonstrating his

firm belief in democracy,
individual initiative, free
enterprise, and the need
for open minds to the end
that all men may be truly
free to think and solve the
great problems of their
times.

Michael Salzman,
New Water for a Thirsty World.

Photo of pump testing

at the Yucaipa well site,
January 23, 1960.

Left to right,
Michael H. Salzman,
Stephan Riess and
James G. Scott

Download a free digital PDF copy of

New Water for a Thirsty World:
www.primarywaterinstitute.org/images/
pdfs/Salzman_book.pdf.

Order a printed copy from

www.PrimaryWaterInstitute.org website.

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 THE EARTH ORGANIZATION AND AQUATERREX
ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF ALTERNATIVE WATER LOCATION
The Problem
Our planetary ecosystems are under constant disruption and stress
through the broad-scale, unsustainable management and rechanneling of
the natural courses of surface water.

We are polluting and depleting the world’s limited supply of fresh water in
surface and shallow aquifers through mismanagement and over-extraction.
The all-too-often excessive and poorly planned withdrawal of relatively
shallow groundwater is resulting in the imbalance of planetary life support
systems.

And a common story all over the world is that ineffective techniques for siting where to drill are costing compa-
nies and communities dearly. In South Africa, for instance, a large city government, desperate to provide water
to its residents with only one month’s supply left in local reservoirs, invested millions of dollars to expand
their water resources. With only a 30% location success rate, they drilled hundreds of expensive and bone-dry
bores.

The Earth Organization – (www.TheEarthOrganization.org)

The Earth Organization (also known as the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization (or LAEO)) is an international
non-profit whose purpose is to identify and implement rational, science-based solutions to large-scale environ-
mental challenges. One of its most vital missions is to bring about more constructive decision making related
to humankind’s interaction with the natural world. In 2014, the theory of
Primary Water came to the notice of LAEO staff. If it proved to be true, the
revolutionary concept that most of the world’s water is made by the Earth
at the magma level, held enormous promise for supplementing the world’s
water supplies. LAEO quickly established a water science research team to
aggregate and evaluate all that could be found of existing know-how on
Primary Water exploration and related subjects.

Recognizing the urgent need to address desertification through better water

and soil management practices, LAEO has been working since 2013 to expand
alternative water supplies to take stress off overdrawn rivers and shallow
ground water resources through accessing alternative, deep-seated water.
They have tackled the problem of how to gain access to pollution-free water
supplies for agricultural communities to help boost food production and help
to bring about a healthier water ecosystem.
Australian DSW Drilling Project for farmer

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 The Earth Organization’s History with Primary Water
While in modern times, tremendous amounts of money, time, and effort have been dedicated to the control
and management of surface water, in addition to drilling the majority of wells into shallow aquifers1, many
water-management practices have now proven unsustainable.

However, a few independent thinking water explorers have proven that vast groundwater resources exist that
were either previously undetected or thought to be fossil2, nonrenewable, and/or inaccessible. Whether these
resources are coming up from the magma layer of the planet, or are ancient reservoirs covered up by time, or
traveling through deep, geologic pathways from some great distance, LAEO adopted a name for these alterna-
tive water resources (waters that are outside the hydrologic cycle3) – “Deep Seated Water”.

Having the original intent to help Pal Pauer’s Primary Water Institute with its educational purposes, LAEO staff
observed the need to collect and formalize as much water wisdom as possible to ensure the existing know-how
would not become a lost technology. They searched historical libraries in both California and Europe, sent sci-
entists to study Primary Water wells drilled by Reiss and his proteges, and two of LAEO’s staff spent a month in
Tanzania to observe Global Resource Alliance’s Primary Water well drilling operations
that, at the time, were being overseen by Pauer’s apprentices, all in an effort to help
document and codify the early work done by these courageous water pioneers.

After spending four years digging deep for complete documentation and case history
records to support the Primary Water hypothesis, they reached several dead ends in
trying to find complete records, and so, LAEO changed course.

Australian-born research scientist Robert Gourlay came to their notice in 2016 as

the first still-living individual they had located who was not only well versed in
ancient lifeways knowledge as well as the modern-day Earth sciences, but who was
also familiar with the Primary Water theory. In support of LAEO’s purpose to pre-
serve and advance cutting-edge water locating methods, and to see them success-
fully implemented around the world, Gourlay offered to transfer his knowledge to
the non-profit. LAEO subsequently set up a base in Australia to conduct an R&D and LAEO’s Bill Roncali and Brent Wolfson
in Tanzania
water exploration technology acquisition project.

As Director of the Environmental Research & Information Consortium (ERIC, Pty Ltd.) in Australia, Gourlay is
known for having spearheaded major advancements in geospatial4,5 analysis methods and ground-truthing6
techniques in the 1990s. LAEO’s team worked at Gourlay’s remote research facility in the Mongarlowe River
region of New South Wales for over six months to make complete records of the unique systems he developed,
and subsequently worked side-by-side with him in several water exploration projects. LAEO wanted to ensure
that Gourlay’s decades of experience at locating water for drought-stressed farmers and his critical water loca-
tion advancements were never lost.
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1.
aquifer: an underground body of permeable rock, sediment, or soil, which can contain or transmit groundwater.
2.
Fossil water is an ancient body of water that has been contained in some undisturbed space, typically deep and confined groundwater, for millennia.
3.
hydrologic cycle: the natural sequence of water passing into the atmosphere as water vapor, then precipitating to earth in liquid or solid form (rain,
snow, ice), and ultimately returning to the atmosphere again through evaporation.
4
Geospatial: defined here to mean a broad spectrum of data and information associated with and about a particular location on Earth.
5
Spatial: having to do with a space or area.
6
Ground truthing: a term used in cartography, meteorology, analysis of aerial photographs, satellite imagery and a range of other remote analysis
techniques in which data are gathered at a distance. Ground truthing refers to information that is collected “on location.” In remote sensing, this is
especially important in order to relate image data to real features and materials on the actual site.
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The LAEO team recorded and documented this invaluable know-how, employing the latest high-tech GIS7 tools
and studying ERIC’s early GIS algorithm developments.

LAEO has been proud to serve with and recognize the many pioneers and innovators in water exploration who
deserve the world’s gratitude for their determination and hard work.

ADVANCING THE DEEP SEATED WATER TECHNOLOGY

After completing the tech acquisition project in Australia, the LAEO research group8 have further advanced
the work into a unique, multicomponent system that spans several different fields of science and engineering
technology. Their developments effectively reduce the risk involved in locating alternative sources of water to
a near 100% success rate.

The basic steps are:

1. The acquisition of remotely-sensed, geospatial data acquired via satellites and airborne geophysical sur-
veys. This includes satellite imagery, magnetic, gravity, gamma-ray (radiometric), and digital elevation datasets.
Available data varies by region, but higher resolution data results in significantly better target detection.

Remotely sensed, geospatial data maps of a rancher’s land

2. The processing, integration, and analysis of these data sets in geographic information software (GIS) sys-
tems with proprietary techniques. These unique methodologies allow for the detection of shallow and deep
groundwater systems and result in identified areas of interest for field
surveys.

A step in the analysis process using proprietary

techniques

3. On-site observation – A field

survey is conducted to verify and
validate the findings of the remote
analysis, allowing for the accurate
identification of exact locations for bore sites (within 1 meter). The combi-
nation of remote analysis and on-ground survey information greatly im-
proves the chances of obtaining water and significantly lowers the risk of
drilling dry boreholes.

__________________________________ Clark Carr, Dr. Tigran Sadoyan, and Arlin Howles

7
GIS: Geographic Information System - a computer-based system to analyze and present spatial data.
8
LAEO’s Senior Managing Director of Operations Diane Wagenbrenner-Stivey, LAEO’s Deputy Managing Director of Field Operations Clark Carr,
LAEO’s Senior Geohydrologist Dr. Tigran Sadoyan, and LAEO’s Chief Geohydrologist Arlin Howles
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 4. Drilling the well. In many cases, this requires drilling rigs with a
capacity to drill through hard rock. Although many bore holes may be
shallower, the drill rig should have a capacity to at least 400 meters.

LAEO’s R&D objective is to produce codified materials to form and

legitimize this still-new genre of geohydrology science and to train
DSW Tech specialist teams to provide the most efficient methods for
finding these alternative sources of water.

While formalizing compilations of their advancements, LAEO partners

with for-profit enterprises to export water solutions globally. Aqua-
terreX, LLC (www.AquaterreX.com) is LAEO’s principal partner. While Diane Wagenbrenner-Stivey
LAEO continues to conduct both R&D water location projects to observing drilling operations
advance the science, as well as philanthropic water location projects,
LAEO works very closely with AquaterreX to utilize Deep Seated Water Tech™
on projects mainly focusing on the U.S., South Africa, the Middle East
and Australia.

The Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization (LAEO) is an international non-profit

co-founded in 2003 by world renowned conservationist Dr. Lawrence Anthony
and international humanitarian Barbara Wiseman. Dedicated to bringing about
more constructive and rational decision making in humanity’s relationship to the
natural world, their many chapters have taken on a wide variety of issues such as
wildlife rescue and protection, removal of chemical pollutants in our waters, and
habitat restoration.
Dr. Lawrence Anthony

One principle that sets LAEO apart is the understanding that, for a solution to
truly be a workable, long-term answer, it must take into consideration and ben-
efit all the stakeholders involved in any situation, including people, commerce,
industry, jobs, plants and animals, etc; not just
a single aspect of the problem or a particular
species. To accomplish this, issues are thor-
oughly investigated to identify their factual
source, and then solutions are carefully found
and implemented that won’t end up being the
next problem to be solved. The end results are
much improved conditions through a method
Barbara Wiseman of approach they call “Cooperative Ecology™.”

For more information, contact:

Barbara Wiseman
International President LAEO
(818) 330-9528
[email protected]
www.TheEarthOrganization.org
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 AquaterreX
24307 Magic Mountain Pkwy #507
Valencia, CA 91355
[email protected]
www.aquaterrex.com

“Hidden” Source of Supplemental Groundwater Revealed

at AGWT Conference
As Drought Continues to Ravage the West US, AquaterreX CEO Discusses
It Is Time to Tap the “Hidden” Source of Water
AquaterreX, LLC (www.aquaterrex.com) is a global environmental services organization with a
mission to broadly implement effective water and food security solutions. Recently, AquaterreX
CEO James D’Arezzo and Senior Hydrogeologist Arlin Howles spoke at the non-profit American
Ground Water Trust’s (AGWT) New Mexico Groundwater Conference and introduced technol-
ogy to locate alternative sources of groundwater in even the most arid and unlikely regions. As
exceptional drought continues to plague the western United States, there is a growing demand
for a solution.
“The fact is, there is no shortage of water,” said D’Arezzo. “The US National Groundwater Asso-
ciation estimates that there are 22.6 million cubic kilometers of groundwater in the upper two
kilometers of the earth’s crust (a cubic kilometer of water is about 264 billion gallons). Global
water usage is just 3,717 cubic kilometers per year. That means there is enough water to sup-
ply Earth for over 6,000 years at today’s global consumption rates. Tapping just 10% would
supply the planet for 600 years.”
“Vast amounts of fresh water are available in deeper aquifers located below the shallow aqui-
fers that supply nearly all of the world’s groundwater,” said hydrogeologist Arlin Howles. “The
trick is how to locate this “Deep Seated Water” that has been hidden from view.”
At the American Ground Water Trust’s New Mexico Groundwater Conference, D’Arezzo said
that with the extraordinary drought that is threatening the health and livelihood of tens of
millions of people in the Southwest, and indeed billions of people around the world, “It is time
to utilize this abundant, supplemental source of fresh water. It is the Missing Piece in any water
strategy.”
To combat this extreme drought, AquaterreX, LLC has introduced technology that includes
satellite imagery, advanced Multicomponent Spatial Analysis, and proprietary algorithms that
enable the company to locate Deep Seated Water with near 100% accuracy. “There are sus-
tainable sources of water that collect and recharge in the deeper aquifers from vast drainage
basins through subsurface inflows and outflows,” said Howles. “With this technology, we are
able to locate the near-surface underground channels and pathways to deeper aquifers so that
we can reach this water economically without drilling wells many thousands of feet deep,” said
D’Arezzo.

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 Deep Seated Water is the Missing Piece for any water strategy
At the conference, it was discussed how contamination-free water supply and management
have become a major challenge for nations, communities, and enterprises. Many water strate-
gies focus on conservation, rather than additional supply. Other solutions such as desalination
and wastewater treatment are potential answers for some, but they also come with trade-offs
such as high cost, high energy usage, long planning periods, and toxic waste. Deep Seated Wa-
ter is located almost everywhere on the planet, and it can be added to the mix of solutions as a
supplemental freshwater source that is not subject to pollution, is fast and easy to implement,
and is economical and scalable. In addition, tapping Deep Seated Water allows both surface
water and shallow aquifer sources to recharge, making the total system more environmentally
sustainable.
About American Ground Water Trust
The Mission of the American Ground Water Trust is to: Communicate the environmental and
economic value of groundwater, promote efficient and effective groundwater management,
showcase groundwater science and technology solutions, increase citizen, community and de-
cision-maker awareness, and facilitate stakeholder participation in water resource decisions.
About AquaterreX
The name AquaterreX comes from the Latin, aqua (water) and French, terre (earth, land) which
is a derivative of the Latin, terra, and “X” for exploration. Thus, AquaterreX encompasses wa-
ter and land solutions for the planet.
The company possesses proprietary technology to locate Deep Seated Water, which is fresh
water situated below the shallow groundwater that supplies the majority of fresh water on the
planet. This vast new source of water can help solve the water crisis facing billions of people.
In 2018, AquaterreX partnered with the science-based, non-profit The Earth Organization (also
known as Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization) in support of its humanitarian efforts to bring
effective resolution to environmental issues. Since then, a series of enhancements have been
made to further improve the accuracy and capability of the Deep Seated Water Technology.
www.TheEarthOrganization.org, www.aquaterrex.com/deep-seated-water
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 California Water Wars: Another
Form of Asset Stripping?
By Ellen Brown
Global Research, March 26, 2015

In California’s epic drought, wars over water rights continue, while innovative alternatives
for increasing the available water supply go untapped.

Wars over California’s limited water supply have been going on for at least a century. Water
wars have been the subject of some vintage movies, including the 1958 hit The Big Country
starring Gregory Peck, Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Pale Rider, 1995’s Waterworld with Kevin Costner,
and the 2005 film Batman Begins. Most acclaimed was the 1975 Academy Award winner Chi-
natown with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, involving a plot between a corrupt Los Angeles
politician and land speculators to fabricate the 1937 drought in order to force farmers to sell
their land at low prices. The plot was rooted in historical fact, reflecting battles between Ow-
ens Valley farmers and Los Angeles urbanites over water rights.

Today the water wars continue on a larger scale with new players. It’s no longer just the farm-
ers against the ranchers or the urbanites. It’s the people against the new “water barons” –
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Monsanto, the Bush family, and their ilk – who are buying up
water all over the world at an unprecedented pace.

A Drought of Epic Proportions

At a news conference on March 19, 2015, California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon
warned, “There is no greater crisis facing our state today than our lack of water.”

Jay Famiglietti, a scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, Cali-
fornia, wrote in the Los Angeles Times on March 12th:
Right now the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our stra-
tegic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan
for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparent-
ly, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain.

Maps indicate that the areas of California hardest hit by the mega-drought are those that grow
a large percentage of America’s food. California supplies 50% of the nation’s food and more
organic food than any other state. Western Growers estimates that last year 500,000 acres of
farmland were left unplanted, an amount that could increase by 40% this year. The trade group
pegs farm job losses at 17,000 last year and more in 2015.
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Farmers with contracts from the Central Valley Project, a large federal irrigation system, will
receive no water for the second consecutive year, according to preliminary forecasts. Cities
and industries will get 25 percent of their full contract allocation, to ensure sufficient water for
human health and safety. Besides shortages, there is the problem of toxic waste dumped into
water supplies by oil company fracking. Economists estimate the cost of the drought in 2014 at
$2.2 billion.

No Contingency Plan
The massive Delta water tunnel project, designed to fix Southern California’s water supply
problems by siphoning water from the north, was delayed last August due to complaints from
Delta residents and landowners. The project remains stalled, as the California Department of
Water Resources reviews some 30,000 comments. When or if the project is finally implement-
ed, it will take years to complete, at an estimated cost of about $60 billion including financing
costs.

Meanwhile, alternatives for increasing the water supply rather than fighting over limited
groundwater resources are not being pursued. Why not? Skeptical observers note that water
is being called the next commodity boom. Christina Sarich, writing on NationOfChange.org,
asserts:
Numerous companies are poised to take advantage of the water crisis. Instead of protecting
existing water supplies, implementing stricter regulations, and coming up with novel ways to
capture rainwater, or desalinizing seawater, the corporate agenda is ready, like a snake coiled,
to make trillions off your thirst.

These coiled snakes include Monsanto and other biotech companies, which are developing
drought-resistant and aluminum-resistant seeds set to take over when the organic farm-
ers throw in the towel. Organic dairy farmers and ranchers have been the hardest hit by the
drought, since the certified organic pasture on which their cows must be fed is dwindling fast.

Some critics suggest that, as in Chinatown, the drought itself is man-made, triggered not only
by unprecedented carbon emissions but by “geo-engineering” – spraying the skies with alumi-
num and other particulates, ostensibly to shield the earth from global warming (though there
may be other motives). On February 15, 2015, noted climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carn-
egie Institute for Science at Stanford asserted that geo-engineering was the only way to rapidly
cool the earth. He said:

A small fleet of airplanes could do what large volcanos do — create a layer of small particles
high in the atmosphere that scatters incoming sunlight back to space. Cooling the Earth this
way, could be fast, cheap and easy.

That technique also suppresses rainfall. According to U.S. patent #6315213, filed by the US mil-
itary on November 13, 2002: 29
The polymer is dispersed into the cloud and the wind of the storm agitates the mixture causing
the polymer to absorb the rain. This reaction forms a gelatinous substance which precipitate to
the surface below. Thus, diminishing the cloud’s ability to rain.

Suspicious observers ask whether this is all part of a larger plan. Christina Sarich notes that
while the state thirsts for water, alternatives for increasing the water supply go untapped:
Chemical Engineers at MIT have indeed figured out how to desalinate water – electrodialysis
having the potential to make seawater potable quickly and cheaply, but without removing
other contaminants such as dirt and bacteria. There are inexpensive nanotech filters that can
clean hazardous microbes and chemicals from drinking water. Designer Arturo Vittori believes
the solution to the water catastrophe lies not in high technology but in a giant basket that col-
lects clean drinking water from condensation in the air.

Tapping Underground Seas

Another untapped resource is California’s own “primary” water — water newly produced by
chemical processes within the earth that has never been part of the surface hydrological cycle.
Created when conditions are right to allow oxygen to combine with hydrogen, this water is
continually being pushed up under great pressure from deep within the earth and finds its way
toward the surface where there are fissures or faults. This water can be located everywhere on
the planet. It is the water flowing in wells in oases in the desert, where there is neither rainfall
nor mountain run-off to feed them.

A study reported in Scientific American in March 2014 documented the presence of vast quan-
tities of water locked far beneath the earth’s surface, generated not by surface rainfall but from
pressures deep within. The study confirmed “that there is a very, very large amount of water
that’s trapped in a really distinct layer in the deep Earth… approaching the sort of mass of wa-
ter that’s present in all the world’s oceans.”

In December 2014, BBC News reported the results of a study presented at the fall meeting of
the American Geophysical Union, in which researchers estimate there is more water locked
deep in the earth’s crust than in all its rivers, swamps and lakes together. Japanese researchers
reported in Science in March 2002 that the earth’s lower mantle may store about five times
more water than its surface oceans.

Dramatic evidence that earthquakes can release water from deep within the earth was demon-
strated last August, when Napa was hit with a 6.0 quake. Solano County suddenly enjoyed a
massive new flow of water in local creeks, including a reported 200,000 gallons per day just
from Wild Horse Creek. These increased flows are still ongoing, puzzling researchers who have
visited the area.

Where did this enormous waterflow come from? If it were being released from a shallow aqui-
fer, something would have to replace that volume of withdrawal, which was occurring at the
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rate of over 1,000 gallons per minute – over 10 times the pre-quake flow. Massive sinkholes or
subsidence would be expected, but there were no such reports. Evidently these new waters
were coming from much deeper sources, released through crevices created by the quake.

So states Pal Pauer of the Primary Water Institute, one of the world’s leading experts in tapping
primary water. After decades of primary water studies and successful drilling projects, Pauer
has demonstrated that this abundant water source can be accessed to supplement our current
water supply. Primary water may be tapped directly, or it may be found commingled with sec-
ondary water (e.g. aquifers) fed from atmospheric sources. New sophisticated techniques using
airborne geophysical and satellite data allow groundwater and primary water to be located in
rock through a process called “fracture trace mapping,” in which large fractures are identified
by thorough analysis of the airborne and satellite data for exploratory drilling.

Pauer maintains that a well sufficient to service an entire community could be dug and generat-
ing great volumes of water in a mere two or three days, at a cost of about $100,000. The entire
state of California could be serviced for about $800 million – less than 2% of the cost of the very
controversial Delta water tunnels – and this feat could be accomplished without robbing the
North to feed the South.

The Water Wars Continue

California officials have been unresponsive to such proposals. Instead, the state has undertaken
to regulate underground water. In September, a trio of bills were signed establishing a frame-
work for statewide regulation of California’s underground water sources, marking the first time
in the state’s history that groundwater will be managed on a large scale. Water has until now
been considered a property right. The Los Angeles Times reported:
Many agriculture interests remain staunchly opposed to the bill. Paul Wenger, president of the
California Farm Bureau Federation, said the bills “may come to be seen as ‘historic’ for all the
wrong reasons” by drastically harming food production.

. . . “There’s really going to be a wrestling match over who’s going to get the water,” [Fresno
Assemblyman] Patterson said, predicting the regulation plans will bring a rash of lawsuits.
And so the saga of the water wars continues. The World Bank recently adopted a policy of
water privatization and full-cost water pricing. One of its former directors, Ismail Serageldin,
stated, “The wars of the 21st century will be fought over water.”
In the movie Chinatown, the corrupt oligarchs won. The message seemed to be that right is no
match against might. But armed with that powerful 21st century tool the Internet, which can
generate mass awareness and coordinated action, right may yet prevail.

Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books
including the best-selling Web of Debt. Her latest book, The Public Bank Solution, explores
successful public banking models historically and globally. Her 300+ blog articles are at Ellen-
Brown.com. http://www.globalresearch.ca/california-water-wars-another-form-of-asset-stripping/5438835
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Well worth it: Local residents raise funds for clean
water, education projects in Kenya
Lisa André Landre, Santa Ynez Valley News
Jul 19, 2019 Updated May 18, 2021, Updated November 5, 2021

Chief Joseph of Inchurra Maasai village poses for a photo with Evie Treen in Kenya

For the past 30 years Goleta resident Evie

Treen, a retired — but still volunteering
— Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
employee, has made it her life’s mission
to bring fresh water, education and better
sanitation to rural villages in Kenya, and
with the help of community members like
Santa Ynez Valley resident Jackie Abudd,
that vision is quickly being realized.

On Saturday, July 27, from 1 to 8 p.m.,

Abudd hosted “Fandango at the Ranch,” a fundraising event for Friends of Woni
International, a nonprofit organization founded by Treen that supports small
villages in Africa without water and other basic necessities. Jackie Abudd and Evie Treen.

The event aimed to raise $56,000 in order to begin forward progress on two important projects: building a
fourth water well in Salama, Kenya, and beginning construction on a state-of-the-art girls and boys dormitory
bathroom, which will replace the outhouses they currently use.

Abudd, also a foundation board member, will host the fundraiser at her family’s 5-acre ranch, Hacienda Ama-
dor, in Santa Ynez. And she planed to pull out all the stops.

“I recently went to one of Evie’s fundraising events and really understood what the need was,” she said. “I
dreamt it up and decided
we’re going to do ‘Fandan-
go at the Ranch.’”

The girls dormitory under con-

struction.

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 How a well is built
Building a water well requires excavation or a structure to be creat-
ed in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access groundwa-
ter in underground aquifers, or drilling through rock to assess prima-
ry water.

The well water is drawn up by a pump, or using containers, such as

buckets, that are raised mechanically or by hand.

Upon meeting the passionate founder, according to the hostess, both Treen’s commitment and the mission of
Friends of Woni International spoke to her.

“When you meet her, she’s a tiny little thing. I’m 5-foot-2 and I tower over her,” Abudd said. “She’s full of ener-
gy and is really passionate — it’s contagious. She’s a firecracker!”

After giving a sizable donation, Abudd said, the foundation was able to finish the girls’ high school dormitory
this past February.

“The more you know, the more you want to help out,” she said.

Building for Kenya

The girls’ dormitory — costing $120,000 to build — at Kyaani High School broke ground in February 2017, ac-
cording to Treen, and due to inclement weather took two years to build.

The dormitory, which Treen confessed would have taken years to fundraise for had it not been for the gener-
ous donation of Abudd and others, now houses 85 high school girls, who would have otherwise had to walk
miles in the dark, risking their lives, to get an education.

“The girls don’t have to walk to school anymore — in the heat or in harm’s way,” Treen explained. “Most of
them had to walk miles in order to get to school.

And of course, keeping girls in high school — and even boys for that matter — is a chore, because their normal
high school was over 10 miles away. And they don’t own cars or bicycles.”

Not only does Kyaani High School, located in rural Ngunyuna, Kenya, now have a dorm but also a water well, as
of 2016, powered by solar pumps funded by the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North.

At the same time the Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon was taking place Saturday morning, a half
marathon of another kind was in motion…

“All I try to do is put the word out and beg,” Treen said wistfully of her never-ending fundraising efforts.

To build a 400- to 600-foot-deep water well, Treen explained, costs on average $60,000 to $70,000, which in-
cludes a professional geologist, soil analysis, drilling equipment and solar technology to drive the water pump
— and that’s if all goes as planned.

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 “The government over there doesn’t do a whole lot for the local people unless you live in town; then you have
running water and electricity,” she said.

Since 2009, with much determination and dozens of airplane rides to Africa,
Friends of Woni International has built three wells, one of which is coined
“the magic well” built in 2011 for a small farming community of 2,000 to
3,000 in Ngunyumu, Kenya; a high school dormitory; and soon-to-be-built
sanitation infrastructure.

The first well built was in a Maasai town located in the Amboseli National
Park at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro and now serves 600 to 1,000 residents with fresh water.

The water well in Kyaani being drilled.

Treen recalled that particular experience being an emo-

tional one.

“When the water started coming out of the drill hole,

and as they were still drilling, all of the Maasai peo-
ple came and stood in the water,” Treen recalled with
emotion. “They first said a prayer and started singing. I
couldn’t talk.”
Evie Treen, Contributor

She said the locals kids looked down at the water with curiosity. When
she told them to touch the water, they began playing in it like typical kids.

“I do this because I want to, and because I love the people over there. I
want to do more,” Treen said, admitting that sometimes she feels like her
wheels are spinning because she would like to do more, but given the
cost, she can’t.

“Just getting water to people that didn’t have water, is a lot,” she said. The day after the well was drilled
at Kyaani, students brought trees
Treen said the catalyst responsible for her first visit to Kenya — which had
to plant on the school grounds.
been a longtime dream of hers — came after the loss of her late husband. Evie Treen, Contributor

When she arrived, something unexpected occurred. What began as a

desire to heal from her loss and experience the people, animals and land,
transformed into something bigger: a legacy of giving.

“We all forget how lucky we are to have a faucet to turn

on and get water,” Treen said.

For more information and to support Evie, write to:

[email protected], and visit Friends of
Woni Kenya on Facebook.

https://lompocrecord.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/well-worth-
it-local-residents-raise-funds-for-clean-water-education-projects-in-
kenya/article_59c4d16a-8fe8-5e8c-945c-f7ba3ea651f8.html

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 Escondido’s Stephan Riess
finds primary water – where
no one else can!

Fracture zones below the bedrock

Author: Neal Matthews

Publish Date: June 6, 1985
Just three weeks ago an octogenarian, who is either truly brilliant or merely skillful, moved down from Ojai, southeast of
Santa Barbara, to rural Escondido. His name is Stephan Riess. He’s eighty-seven, and for fifty years he’s claimed the ability
to tap unlimited supplies of water from deep inside the earth. He moved to the arid San Diego area, which imports the
majority of its drinking and irrigation water from hundreds of miles away, because, he says, “Most of my water interests
now are here, in the tail end of the system.”

“The system” is the state water project, which Riess

ridicules as a multi-billion dollar hornswoggle. “Wa-
ter is the biggest political corruption in the world,”
Riess thunders, his basso voice clipped around the
edges by a time-worn German accent. “Politics and
water are a racket; every home, every household is
controlled by politicians through everyone’s com-
plete dependence on water.” Riess is an angry old
man, given to outbursts in which he labels politician
“idiots” and worse, and university scientists as “the
stupidest bunch of sons of bitches there are” He
would be easy to dismiss as a petulant crank except
for one thing: he has an uncanny ability to find water
where the experts say there is none. He claims the
water he finds is “primary water,” water created below the earth’s crust by the cooling of magmatic rock, such as granite
and basalt. Riess is one of a very short line of geologists and earth scientists who believe such water, which they allege
exists in vast quantities, is independent of the hydrologic cycle of precipitation and evaporation, the natural mechanism
almost universally accepted as the source of all water on the planet. Riess says that there’s no need to move water to San
Diego through the state’s astronomically expensive system of canals and pump stations; all the water we need, he insists,
is right under our feet.

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 This theory is so contrary to accepted tenets that it
is utterly preposterous to most scientists, engineers,
and water district administrators. It bucks the stan-
dard doctrine that all waters now on the earth were
originally part of the primordial material that covered
the newly formed planet five billion years ago. Riess’s
ideas also contradict the basic assumption of laws
governing the distribution of water — namely, that all
groundwater is derivative of precipitation. As a result,
public policy in California has entailed moving colossal
amounts of water from wet areas to dry areas; deep
drilling has never been considered an alternative.

In 1982 Riess and a young associate named Morad Egh-

bal approached the San Diego County Water Authority
and suggested that it allocate funds for some deep-well
drilling. Riess argued that all the water San Diego needs
can be tapped in fracture zones beneath the bedrock,
and that this water constitutes a pollution-proof,
drought-proof, never-ending supply. The Water Author-
ity spends more than $60 million per year (supplied
by taxpayers) on imported water, and it has long-term
commitments to continue such purchases and to help
pay off the 1961 bonds that financed the state water
project. Directors of the Water Authority rejected
Riess’s idea as unproven, but told him that if he wanted
to pay for the drilling himself, they might buy any water
he found. Riess left empty-handed. Now, however, he
has returned to San Diego County and, with a local
entrepreneur, is doing his own drilling. He is just be-
ginning to supply water from deep wells to the Valley
Center Water District. This is the only project wherein
a private individual is selling water to the public agency
throughout the Water Authority’s 1400-square-mile
jurisdiction. Riess sees the tide turning his way now.

Stephan Riess is a Bavarian-born mining engineer and geologist who

was educated at the pre-World War I German Naval Academy and at
the University of Tuttlingen, just north of the Swiss border. He says he
has drilled more than 800 wells around the world, most of them tapping
“rock fissure aquifers” where primary water purportedly flows on its
course to the sea. Two local examples of his work are the wells at the
Sparkletts water bottling plant near Lakeside, and those at supermar-
ket magnate John Mabee’s Golden Eagle thoroughbred horse ranch on
Highway 78, east of Ramona.

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 In 1955 Burton Arnds, president of Sparkletts, read press accounts
of Riess’s success in finding water in the previously dry Simi Valley,
northwest of Los Angeles. One article in particular, appearing in Col-
lier’s magazine, inspired Arnds to contact Riess and ask the water de-
veloper if he could help locate water at the struggling Lakeside plant.
Arnds already had eight shallow wells there, each between thirty
and sixty feet deep, but their water levels were declining and the
water itself was of increasingly questionable quality. Riess conducted
extensive geological analyses on the site, surveys which determined
exactly where the different types of rock formations intersected
underground. Riess, who doesn’t charge his clients if he doesn’t find
water, explains that he looks for “restricted faults,” which don’t reach
the surface. Yet he almost never digs below the surface during his
analyses. “Whatever I can’t excavate with a pick, I’m not interested
in,” he explains. He eschews the highly detailed geologic cross-section
charts painstakingly drawn up by geologists, preferring to determine
for himself the specific local geology.

After his ground studies at the Sparkletts plant, Riess told Arnds exactly
where to drill. A diamond-core drill rig dug through the soft earth and
hit solid granite at 400 feet. For almost 500 more feet the drill descend-
ed, and then it struck water where Riess had predicted it would. Wells
in the Lakeside area are generally between fifty and 150 feet deep, and
although wells of 600 or 700 feet, such as Riess located for Sparkletts,
are not unheard of in the county, almost all of them are drilled in porous
sedimentary formations, not solid granite. “In the name of accepted ge-
ology, it was ridiculous to drill there,” Riess says. “But I knew I was right.”

That first well continues to produce about eighty gallons of water per
minute, water with a fairly high mineral content, but extremely low in
tritium, a hydrogen isotope produced naturally by radioactive bombard-
ment of the earth from deep space. The tritium content of the Sparkletts
water is so low, in fact, that it is used by UCSD geochemists in their lab
experiments, according to Hans Suess, a geochemistry professor there.
In the years since the development of the hydrogen bomb, worldwide
tritium levels have increased dramatically, making it difficult to find
water with sufficiently low levels of the isotope for scientific research.
Tritium has a half-life of approximately twelve years. The low tritium
count in Sparkletts water means it hasn’t been on the earth’s surface for
at least one hundred years. Riess contends that the low tritium content
is one indication that the water has never seen daylight. But geochemists
say the tritium count only means the water is old; it would take analysis
of other elements in the water to date its origin.

In 1962 Riess located a second well at a depth of 960 feet for Sparkletts, which produces about 200 gallons per minute.
(The company needed a well with more flow, and when the second one was completed, the first was put on standby as
a backup well.) Bob Jurgensmeier, the water processing technician at the plant, says the company has been pumping out
30,000 gallons of water per day from that second well since 1962, “and the water level always stays the same. I don’t
think it’s groundwater that’s seeped down through the rocks,” Jurgensmeier maintains. “The water table never varies,
even during droughts, and the [chemical] analysis sheet never changes. A lot of people have tried to say it’s water from
the [nearby] San Vicente Reservoir, but the analysis is really different.”

John Mabee, founder of Big Bear supermarkets and owner of the 400-acre Golden Eagle horse ranch, also believes the
water Riess located for him is of curious origin. “It’s not surface water,” Mabee contends. “I believe Riess is correct. It’s
primary water.” In 1972 Mabee read an article about Riess in West magazine, a Los Angeles Times supplement. He asked
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Riess to try to find water on his ranch. “Others had said forget it, there’s no water there,” Mabee recalls. “I’d sent my en-
gineer out with experts, and they all said the land was dry. I heard about Riess and asked my engineer to check him out.
Riess had drilled for Sparkletts, and they pump millions of dollars’ worth of water each year out of that well. They bow
down to the East to that guy. When he spotted a place for us, we drilled it. Right through blue granite. He said that at 525
feet we’d hit water, and we did! And it’s real good water, low in solids. We could bottle it. He made the farm, no doubt
about that.”

Mabee says that three of the wells Riess located (out of five) are now pumping about 1500 gallons per minute. One need
only drive past the ranch, whose pastoral greenery stretches off toward the San Ysidro Mountains, to see why Mabee
venerates Riess.

Many respectable people, however, ridicule the man’s ideas. Orthodox geologists and hydrologists say they have demon-
strated that all but an infinitesimal amount of the earth’s water is locked up in the hydrologic cycle, and is “meteoric”
(related to the atmosphere) in nature. As almost everyone learns in school, this entails the evaporation of water from
oceans, lakes, and rivers, the movement of clouds over land, the dropping of the water in the form of rain or snow, and
the return of most of the water to lakes, rivers, and, finally, the oceans, through runoff. Much of the water that doesn’t
return percolates down to underground aquifers, which can contain immense amounts of water and are usually under-
laid by hard, impermeable rock, such as granite. This is exactly the kind of rock beneath which Riess’s wells are commonly
drilled, into the deeper zones where hydrologists believe little water exists.

The hydrologic cycle also involves meteoric water that is absorbed into the roots of plants and trees, which either re-en-
ters the atmosphere through “evapotranspiration” from the leaves, or is broken down in the photosynthetic process into
organic plant matter. Riess says that on a global scale 600 billion gallons of water a day are actually lost in photosynthe-
sis. (Hydrology texts measure this water in tons, generally accepting an annual figure of 180 million tons per day.) “In two
and a half million years, if the water consumed by plants weren’t replaced, all the earth’s water would be used in photo-
synthesis,” Riess argues. “Where does the replacement water come from? It doesn’t come from outer space.” Hydrology
authorities confirm the time figure of two and a half million years, but they say experiments have proven that all but a
tiny fraction of the water consumed in photosynthesis is returned to the atmosphere by the animals and small organisms
that eat the plant matter, and oxidize it back into carbon dioxide and water. In this way, say the scientists, global equilibri-
um in the water supply is maintained.

Scientists acknowledge that the earth does indeed create water, but only in minute quantities, as a by-product of the
cooling of molten lava into rock. They say there simply isn’t enough oxygen bound up beneath the earth’s crust to create
water in large quantities. “As far as we can tell, all waters are derivative of meteoric waters,” explains Robert Poreda, a
geo0chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “Even the origin of waters at, say, the geysers of Yellowstone, is
still meteoric. The water originally seeped down from the surface. The only place we see juvenile water [what Riess calls
primary] is in lava.”

When Riess contradicts this theory, scientists respond by asking him to publish his own, with suitable testing, in reputa-
ble journals. Riess refuses. “There’s no sense in publishing,” he grouses. “They immediately hit you back with ‘The book
says this, the book says that.’ They can call me a phony, but I’m a phony with 800 producing wells.”

The disputed theory, which was first proffered centuries ago by a few maverick scientists, including Leonardo da Vinci,
and was widely accepted until the Eighteenth Century, is this: at the lower edge of the earth’s crust, where magma is
cooling to form hard rock, gases are continually rising through fissures along the lines of least resistance. Included in
these gases are hydrogen and oxygen, which through heat, pressure, and chemical catalysts, combine to form massive
amounts of water. Although the theory is archaic and was rejected by the first real earth scientists, large volumes of wa-
ter are found all over the world in deep rock of igneous origin, such as granite, and Riess cannot bring himself to believe
the scientific explanation that this water originated on the earth’s surface. “So he’s very New avocado groves, northern
San Diego County Mature avocado groves, northern San Diego County good at finding fractures,” says an un-impressed
Robert Poreda of Scripps. “We know that meteoric water percolates down several kilometers into the crust through
faults and fractures. All he has to do is find the fractures.”

Riess planted himself firmly outside the realm of scientific dogma a long time ago. Born in 1898 and reared first in
Germany, then in Switzerland when his father retired from the German military, Riess says he became interested in the
sources and dynamics of water when he was fourteen. A university professor named Dr. Bergenbach lived down the
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street from the Riess family in Schefhausen, Switzerland, and young Riess took numerous trips to the mountains with the
professor and his two sons. They often visited castles on the Rhine and the Danube rivers, most of them built a thousand
years before. Professor Bergenbach pointed out to the boys that the castles were always built above a good water supply,
usually high atop a mountain, up to 3000 feet above the rivers. To the professor’s mind, this was an odd place to find
water. “These wells were dug by hand, some of them to 800 feet, in solid igneous-origin rock,” Riess explains. “They were
drilled with water and fire. Where the rock became unbreakable, they’d build hot fires and get the rock red-hot, then
pour water on it to crack it. The castle at Ruedesheim on the Rhine had a well that took eighty years, three generations
of well diggers, to drill between 640 and 700 feet.” Riess drank the water of these wells and listened to the professor
explaining his doubts that such water originated from rain and snow. “He woke me up. I became very, very interested in
water.”

Riess entered the German Naval Academy, where he spent most of World War I studying metallurgy, mineralogy, and
chemistry. The academy’s motto was, “Say not ‘This is the truth,’but say ‘This it seems to be to me as I sec the thing I
think I see.’ ” He never studied hydrology and. in fact, has avoided formal study of the subject, the tenets of which he
considers basically incorrect.

Riess came to the United States in 1923, bought a two-seat Buick in Florida, and drove across the country to Los Ange-
les. After almost a year of just enjoying himself with the $15,000 he’d brought over from Europe, Riess headed up to the
California gold fields to look over the mining operations, in the hope of securing work as a mining consultant. He found
that the dozens of small, family-run gold mines “were really behind the times,” when it came to milling procedures and
the chemical extraction of metals from ore, and he had no lack of employment.

In addition to his knowledge of mining engineering and milling procedures, Riess also developed the ability to locate the
underground water necessary to operate mines of all types. In the late 1920s he traveled through South America as an
independent mining consultant, and one of the first hard-rock wells he dug was for the guano (bird excrement) miners
in the Tarapaca Desert region of Chile, one of the driest areas on earth. Eventually he went to work for the Selection
Trust Mining Company, founded by Herbert Hoover, which was one of the biggest mining outfits in the world. He worked
primarily as a metallurgist until World War II, when gold mining was halted by President Roosevelt, according to Riess,
because it was irrelevant to the war effort.

Riess’s mining knowledge won him an exemption from military service and he took a job with the Metals Reserve in the
War Department. He traveled all over the West, advising where and how to mine lead, zinc, copper, and other war-relat-
ed metals. He was provided with all the gas-rationing tickets he needed, was well paid, and was able to work at some-
thing he enjoyed. “It was a great job,” he says, drawing deep on one of the cigarellos he chain smokes. His narrative is
interrupted by a rumbling, gurgling cough.

During his travels, Riess was often either fighting water or searching for it. Deep in some of the mines, huge streams
of water would commonly burst through a fresh blast hole 4000, 5000, 6000 feet down. Riess knew that such tremen-
dous streams of water, usually associated with faults or fissures along two different intersecting rock formations, had
confounded miners for centuries, and were explained away by scientists as merely surface water that had seeped down
along cracks. Two of the biggest silver mines ever worked, the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, and the Tomb-
stone mine in southern Arizona, were lost to flooding before they could be mined completely. “Most mines are flooded
out long before they’re worked out,” he explains. The quantities of water Riess encountered in the mines were so great,
and the location of the mines was often so high in dry desert mountains, that it made no sense to Riess that such waters
were originally produced by rain or snow. He became convinced that this water was being continually created within the
earth, and could be tapped for public use.

After the war, Riess settled in the Simi Valley and became a professional water developer. His success at finding water in
large quantities in that arid region, and his confrontational bluntness in the face of scientific and governmental critics,
made Riess a natural subject for newspaper and magazine writers. His fame spread. Testimonials were widely circulat-
ed from ecstatic well owners who had contacted Riess as a last resort. “Anytime I hear of a place with fifteen dry holes,
that’s for me,” Riess explained in one magazine story. “When little people have been beaten to death by the drillers and
the experts, I work for nothing.”

As detailed in the book by Christopher Bird, The Divining Hand, hydrogeologic experts from the California Department of
Water Resources (DWR) were sent out in 1954 to investigate some of the wells reportedly located on Riess’s own land in
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Simi Valley, and other nearby wells. The resulting report dismissed the wells as tapping into nothing more than rain and
runoff water, and concluded that they would eventually run dry. Owners of those wells that Riess had located in the Simi
Valley area thirty years ago couldn’t be contacted for this story, but other wells dug by Riess have reportedly dried up.
For example, Riess is often credited in print with locating the wells for California City, a retirement community in the high
desert just north of Edwards Air Force Base. But Dean Stewart, city engineer for California City, says that the two wells
Riess located in hard rock have been abandoned. “The wells in that area just didn’t pan out,” Stewart says. “One of those
wells was used for a number of years, but it went practically dry.” Stewart adds that the five wells the city depends upon
were located by other people in the early Fifties, and they tap “just another alluvial groundwater basin.”

In 1957 the state Department of Water Resources issued its landmark California Water Plan, commonly described as the
biggest water-moving project ever undertaken in the history of mankind. Riess became an immediate critic, and was a
frequent guest speaker at rallies and meetings opposing the Feather River project. The cornerstone of the whole state
water project, the proposal to dam the Feather River near Oroville and channel the water to Southern California, seemed
to Riess to be utter folly. “I told Governor [Pat] Brown that he was the rottenest, crookedest crook there was,” Riess
recalls, still angry. “I said seventy-five percent of the legislature ought to be in jail for passing the Feather River project ”
Riess sees a conspiracy of politicians, scientists, and bankers, bent on furthering what he considers to be the false notion
that water is in short supply in Southern California because it only comes from the sky. In October of 1959, Riess testified
before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources, which had convened in Los Angeles, and ex-
plained what he thought was a simple and inexpensive way to supply Southern California’s water needs.

According to a transcript of his testimony, Riess told the senators, “Here in our West, all of the water programs in the
past have been temporary and short-lived. Dams silt up and large areas of land have been and are becoming denuded.
Behind Hoover Dam, Lake Mead is filling with silt at the terrific rate of more than 137,000 acre feet annually. The dams
associated with the proposed Feather River program will result in even faster silting-up. These problems do not seem
to concern the proponents. The answer that I get nine times out of ten is: ‘Well yes, but we won’t be here.’ This answer
contains the same fatal error that resulted in the demise of so many ancient civilizations and may well spell out the doom
of our own.”

Riess went on to explain his success in drilling for hard rock aquifers all over the world, including the Hanegev Desert,
near Elat in Israel, as well as the deserts of Mexico, Egypt, and the Sudan. When asked about the economic feasibility of
producing such water, Riess said, “Although the hydrostatic pressure of the waters flowing through rock-fissure aquifers
is not often sufficient to make the wells flow, it does in almost every instance force the water up to levels that makes
pumping costs entirely economically feasible. Gentlemen, it is certainly far more economical to pump water vertically up
300 feet than to pump it and transport it laterally for 450 miles. ...In conclusion, gentlemen, I trust that you completely
understand that the above presentation has been only a mere summary of the subject. I only request that you challenge
me to further document this concept and all of the statements which I have made to you.”

Rather than stimulate interest in a possible alternative to the $1.75 billion Feather River bond issue, Riess’s testimony
helped initiate a counterattack by the state Department of Water Resources. The director of the DWR sent out an official
information bulletin to thirty-three state offices, as well as the state director of finance, the board of registration for civil
and professional engineers, the state attorney general, and the assistant chief of the state bureau of criminal identifica-
tion and investigation. As reported in Christopher Bird’s book, the bulletin asserted that Riess’s theories were based on
“specious and utterly speculative” arguments, and referred to Riess as a “purported scientist, geologist, geochemist, and
philosopher.” The bulletin also pointedly stated that the concept of “primary water” wasn’t included in “any standard
glossary of geological or hydrological nomenclature.” In response to that last statement, author Bird, an un-abashed
believer in Riess, wrote, “The same could have been said for the word ‘blitzkrieg,’ which became acceptable to French
generals, who could not find it in any of their standard military glossaries, only when they were overwhelmed by the
reality the word represented.”

Riess and his followers use battle metaphors frequently, and they foresee the day when the scientific world stops scoff-
ing.“It’s going to be a war. Primary water is the future of water supply, if it can be managed properly,” explains Peter
Britton, chairman of the Riess Foundation, founded in 1984 and currently based in Washington, D.C. The nonprofit foun-
dation was established for the purpose of providing the financial wherewithal to drill deep holes; it can cost as much as
$250,000 to drill a well down to 2000 feet. “If you or I owned a hundred acres of oranges or avocados, that’s too expen-
sive to drill. We could never get our money back,” Riess says. “So the foundation is going in and collecting money from

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people I drilled big wells for. I have $14 million committed. First I prove that the water is there, then the local group of
farmers get a four-and-a-half percent federal loan to finish drilling and install pumping equipment.” So far the foundation
has done no drilling in California, but Peter Britton says it has drilled three holes on the East Coast, one of them to 3000
feet. “We look at ourselves as a priesthood,” Britton says. “We have to help people see the truth. There’s plenty of water
available in rock fissure systems in San Diego, but a lot of vested interests aren’t necessarily friendly to having rock wells
provide water to Southern California. Who can deliver water to the avocado and citrus growers of Southern California at
a price they can afford? And will there be a political constituency that can force this water onto the market? It’s going to
be a fact of life. It’s going to be a war.”

The initial assault has already taken place in Valley Center, a few miles northeast of Escondido, but the Riess priesthood
hasn’t encountered any resistance. The Valley Center Water District, which is part of the twenty-four-member San Diego
County Water Authority, has signed a contract to purchase water from deep wells dug by a North County flower grower
and entrepreneur named Vern Meyer. Riess and Meyer have their own separate contract; Riess determines where to dig,
and Meyer invests the money in doing the digging. His contract with Valley Center says that he’ll sell them the water he
finds (on water district property) at a cost that’s twenty percent lower than the cost of water from the Water Authority.
Right now the district is paying $207 an acre-foot for water that’s brought down through the state water project and
administered by the Water Authority; Meyer’s selling price will be about $165 per acre-foot.

Vern Meyer doesn’t want to encourage competition from other entrepreneurs who might try to jump into the North
County water business, so he declined to discuss his drilling project. But Charles Dacus, director of the Valley Center Wa-
ter District, says Meyer has drilled four wells near the district’s Cool Valley Reservoir, and one well on Paradise Mountain
to the east. All of the wells approach 2000 feet in depth. “We’ve taken samples from three wells, and it appears to be
good water,” says Dacus. The tritium level in the water is also quite low. Dacus says it tests at about 350 parts per million,
while “normally up here well water contains about 500 per parts million of tritium.” Meyer reportedly has about two
million dollars invested in the drilling project.

District executives say Meyer told the district board he’d be tapping primary water, but the district isn’t overly concerned
with the water’s origins. What’s needed is a large volume of water at a good price. “The contract doesn’t go into effect
unless they can produce a thousand gallons a minute from each well,” explains Jerry Gerald, the district’s director of
finance.“We haven’t reached that point yet. but we’d probably take whatever water they can pump.”

Ninety percent of the district’s water goes to agriculture, mostly avocados, and the cost of water is the single biggest
expense for the avocado farmers, and the most critical. The farmers pay between $140 and $525 an acre-foot, depending
upon what water district they buy from and the elevation of their land. Darwin East is in charge of a Disney Corporation
subsidiary that has planted 850 acres of avocados in Valley Center, and water costs him about $475 an acre-foot. “We’d
need it to be $260 an acre-foot to grow avocados profitably,” says East. “If somebody doesn’t come up with something,
we’ll drill our own wells.” The problem is, it costs about thirty dollars per acre-foot for every hundred feet the water
has to be raised from a well, according to the North County Avocado Growers Association. So if the hydrogeologist East
has hired can’t find water shallower than 900 feet. East’s grove is in
trouble.

This is where Riess and Meyer believe they come in. “I know where
the water is down here,” says Riess, getting up slowly out of the sun
on his back porch overlooking the avocado country of Valley Center.
“Four hundred farmers want that water, and we can supply it to
them for half of what the state charges. That’s why I moved down
here.” Riess says he and Meyer have permits to drill for water on
federal land in the area, and they plan on selling this water directly
to the farmers. If they succeed, it won’t matter to the farmers if the
water is primary or meteoric. But if it is someday proven to be water
that’s continually being manufactured inside the earth, San Diego
will become known as the place where hell really did break loose.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1985/jun/06/cover-theres-
water-down-below/
Stephan Riess in 1985.
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 5 Sources of Water on Earth
Primary Water Atmospheric Water Toilet to tap recycled water Water Desalination & Generation

Most water conservation agencies today In drought areas, treated wastewater Despite widespread water pollution and
There is a source of fresh water that is never focus on managing atmospheric water in is added back to the potable water shortages of drinking water, there is an
mentioned in the mainstream media, or widely the form of surface runoff and groundwa- stream. Recycled wastewater is suppos- abundance of water around us – from the
understood by geologists. Pressuring up from ter. Water agencies store water in lakes edly safe to drink, but the thought of
drinking water that once ran through air that we breathe to the water in the sea.
deep within the earth, primary water can be and reserviors until needed then transport
it over long distances using rivers and the kitchen sink or the toilet isn’t very Several water treatment methods exist to
accessed near the surface by drilling. When ac-
aqueducts. appealing. tap these sources, from artisanal, traditional
cessing primary water, it requires drilling into a
methods of atmospheric water generation
geologic fissure or fault to release the primary Wastewater is water that comes from
Frequently conflicts arise when water is to unconventional, modern techniques of

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water that has risen near the surface. Primary taken from one region and given to anoth- residences and non-residences that desalination.
water is the only unlimited renewable source er. And the needs of farmers and ranchers, goes into the septic or sewer system. In
of water on earth and is available even in the and fish and wildlife are seldom equitable. your home, it includes household water
from the kitchen and bathroom, as well Water harvesting and treatment technolo-
desert or areas of little rainfall.
About 90 percent of water in the atmo- as water from washing machines and gies that are solar or wind powered is one
Primary water advantages: sphere is produced by evaporation from rain runoff. environmentally friendly way to extract pure
water bodies, while the other 10 percent quality water from the air or sea. The good
• Provides excellent quality, clean, unspoiled water. When wastewater goes into a septic
comes from transpiration from plants. news is that these technologies are now
• Is fresh and not subject to pollution or surface system, it’s eventually absorbed back
radiation. commercially available and mostly scaleable
There is always water in the atmosphere. into the ground. When it goes into a depending on need and location.
• Is plentiful and replenishable. sewer system, it goes through a treat-
Clouds are, of course, the most visible
• Is created under pressure, so that it comes near ment process that removes contami-
manifestation of atmospheric water, but
the surface by itself, incurring less pumping costs. nants before being released back to the Large Scale Water Generators
even clear air contains water—water in
• It never dries up. public.
particles that are too small to be seen.
• Unlike groundwater, it is not subject to the Requiring no infrastructure what so ever
effects of drought or pollution.
but electricity, it is literally a plug and drink
• Does not cause subsidence like some groundwa-
ter wells. solution, aimed for schools, hospitals,
• Refills depleted groundwater supplies from be- commercial/residential buildings, whole
low in some instances. villages, factories and
• Can create a localized water supply that is avail- off-grid settlements,
able where it is needed, when it is needed. providing robust and
• Inexpensive horizontal drilling rigs can be used renewable source for
to benefit fish and wildlife by refilling dried up
fresh, clean drinking
streams and lakes.
• Primary water wells can be used to supplement water.
existing water transport systems like the Califor-
nia aqueduct.
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December 17, 2015

As many of you know, Pal returned last week from a trip to the Tehachapi’s to drill two primary water test wells.
This has been a long road to this project. Pal’s mentor Stephan Riess’ dream was to drill a well adjacent to the
Garlock Fault and unfortunately, the opportunity never happened in his lifetime.

But, we at the Primary Water Institute got an early Christmas gift. The Garlock Project proves the theory of Pri-
mary Water is true beyond a shadow of a doubt. Stephan Riess’s vision has now been realized.

We drilled for water at a 6,000-foot elevation with two 1,000 gallons a minute test wells; water was encountered
at 65 feet and another at a 100-foot depth.

I am attaching a short report on the Garlock Project with some photos.

I also want to thank everyone who is associated with the Primary Water Institute who volunteers their time and
money who have made this project possible. Without your help and support this important project would never
have taken place. Special thanks to Dr. Wayne Weber, Lyn Hebenstreit and Evie Treen.

We are also working on creating a crowdfunding site so that donors who want to support the mission of the Pri-
mary Water Institute can easily donate. But, for the time being, here is link to Pay Pal for donations if you know
anyone who feels passionate about supporting our mission to provide plentiful, clean water for the world.

Pal Pauer, Founder

Primary Water Institute
www.PrimaryWaterInstitute.org

The Primary Water Institute Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
Tax ID 46-4915886. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

“It’s hard to get the point across to many people in the U.S. that the Earth makes water. We can access it and
solve our problems. Clean, virtually infinite sources of water are right under our feet.” --- Pal Pauer

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The Garlock Project -- Drilling for Primary Water
in the Tehachapi’s
History

Pal Pauer’s mentor Hydrologist and Mining Engineer Dr. Stephen Riess was convinced that
the primary water source for California City (California) originated from the Garlock Fault.
His dream for testing his hypothesis materialized when Pal Pauer drilled two test boreholes
adjacent to the Garlock Fault in the Tehachapi Mountains at a 6,000-foot elevation. The
outcome is remarkable!

Timeline

April 15, 2015, Primary Water Institute (PWI) founder Pal Pauer (Pal) was approached by
clients for a feasibility study for locating several primary water wells on their property.
They provided topographic maps and approximate desired well locations. Pal determined
the project was feasible.

July 4, 2015, Pal made a site visit to the Tehachapi Mountains to verify the information
provided on the maps. Pal spent one week on site investigating viability and likelihood of
primary water at this elevation (6,000 feet). He found a vent or fumarole which was ad-
jacent to the fault and represented a site favored by the property owners. Consequently,
the owners and Pal determined and marked locations for 2 wells on the property. Further
investigation and drilling test boreholes was the next step.

A search ensued for a suitable drilling rig to make the project possible. Several drilling
firms were considered and it was decided by the property owners and Pal that Paul Hern
Drilling Inc. had the knowledge and equipment that could drill the wells. Note the state of
the drilling rig.

Dec 6, 2015, a trip was made by Pal from his home in Oregon to the Tehachapi’s to over-
see the project.

Dec 8, 2015, Arrived on client’s property to start drilling

Dec 9, 2015, 8:30 am, drilling begin on site. The first test well was named Maryanne 1. A
highly fractured meta-volcanics was encountered at 20 feet which led to the probability of
water. Further drilling into the structure where large fractured material was ejected un-
der air pressure along with an ever increasing quantity of water. Work had to be stopped
about 100 feet in depth due to the lack of availability of air volume and pressure to remove
debris and water. It is estimated that the water that was ejected from a 7-inch diameter
borehole was at the rate of 800 plus gallons per minute. Further progress could not be
made with available volume of air and pressure. It was determined that water was very
good quality between 150 to 250 PPM/L – total dissolved solids (TDS).

The drilling rig was moved to the second well site named Heather 1. This location is part
of the same rim of the vent/fumarole that is estimated to be between 2-5 feet in width.
Dec 10, approximately 100 yards across from first site, the same procedures were followed
and water was encountered in larger quantity at a 60-foot depth and drilling could not pro-
ceed any further due to inability to remove water/cuttings and debris.
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Establishing the exact site to be drilled. Pictured from left to right, Pal with Abigale the mascot, the driller mark-
ing the exact site and Lyn.

Note: the presence of two ancient large oaks at location. The trees were an indicator of the presence of water.

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 Pal and Ben with the drillers. Water and debris encountered at 50 feet at final phases of drilling.

Pal points to artesian water which surfaced from the borehole.

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7-inch drill bit was used to drill borehole in project.

Water flow discharged in trench. Estimated output of water is 800 gallons plus per minute. Unable to drill borehole
beyond 65 feet due to large volume of discharged water and debris/cuttings.

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 Primary Water Essentials
Deep Hydrology: The Promise of
Primary Water
By Lyn Hebenstreit: 08.21.13

Contrary to popular belief, clean, safe, fresh water on our planet is not
scarce, but abundant. That’s how I began a presentation at a conference
earlier this year on “New Generation Watershed Management in Africa”
co-sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Freedom from Hunger
Council of Ireland (Gorta).

You can imagine the incredulous looks I received! After all, water is the “new oil”, “blue gold”, the ultimate
prize of this century’s resource wars. Water is life, and the lack of it the greatest threat to the survival of man-
kind at this time in human history – and so on. How could I make such a ludicrous assertion? Well, I can’t
expect to convince you in so short an article, but I do hope to offer a few insights that may inspire hope, and
prompt you to deeper consideration.

First of all, let me clarify what I mean by abundant. Abundance is not unlimited supply or vast surpluses, but
simply, always enough – when used consciously, responsibly and conservatively. Do we really need more than
that?

Now, let’s explore some of water’s lesser known

past on this planet for clues about its future. Most
of us are familiar with the hydrological cycle –
water evaporates from the ocean’s surface, con-
denses into clouds and is blown overland where it
precipitates as rain and snow and eventually finds
its way back to the ocean via lakes, rivers and sub-
terranean flow.

That’s great as far as it goes, but 4.5 billion years

ago, the earth was a smoldering cinder. Where
were the oceans then – and more importantly,
how did they come to dominate over 70% of the
planet’s surface?

Until recently, comets were considered the most likely source of Earth’s water, but new data from the mass
spectrometry of the Hale-Bopp comet reveals a concentration of “heavy water” (deuterium) far higher than
that found in the world’s oceans, leading researchers to conclude that only a small portion, perhaps 10%, of
Earth’s water derives from comets.

Of course, many people conclude the obvious – that the oceans came from rain. Well, there’s certainly some
truth in that, but according to the best estimates, if every molecule of water was squeezed from the atmo-
sphere, it would cover the Earth with only about one inch of water. If rain filled the oceans, where did the rain
come from?
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Over 50 years ago, UCLA geology professor and former president of the American Geological Society, William
Rubey, was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Lyndon Johnson for his theory that both the
oceans and the earth’s atmosphere come from the interior of the earth. According to his calculations, based on
extensive data from the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC, the uplift of an
igneous crust 40 km thick will release enough water to fill the present oceans.

Today, this water is known as primary, juvenile, magmatic or earth-generated water, but knowledge of it goes
back thousands of years. In Genesis II, 5-6, for example, we read the following:

When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the
earth. For the LORD God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the
soil. Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.

Moses was perhaps the first primary water hydrologist. After wandering for 40 years in the wilderness, the
Israelites were getting thirsty.

So: “Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly,
and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.” (Numbers 20:11)

In 2011, I was in Jordan to do a primary water presentation at the International Permaculture Convergence and
afterwards visited the desert site near the crest of a desolate limestone ridge where Moses allegedly struck
that rock. After 6,000 years, water was still coming out in abundance!

Primary water was well known to the ancient Greeks. Aristotle, in Meterologicia notes:

“The water coming from the earth unites with rain water to produce rivers. The rainfall alone is quite insuffi-
cient to supply the rivers of the world with water.”

In the Koran we read:

“For among rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder send
forth water.” (2, Verse 74)

Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Kepler and Rene Descartes each considered the vast network of subterranean wa-
ter as the blood of our planetary organism. In one of the clearest expressions of the modern notion of primary
water, 16th century scientist Georgius Agricola, considered the “Father of Mineralogy”, observed that:

“Besides rain, there is another kind of water by which the interior of the earth is soaked, so that being heated it
can continually give off halitus (water vapor), from which arises a great and abundant force of waters.”

More recent primary water pioneers include the great early 20th century Austrian geologist, Eduard Suess,
who coined the term “juvenile water”, and his student, Stephan Reiss, a mining engineer who located prolific
wells throughout the world at the request of heads of state who learned of his unconventional, but highly suc-
cessful techniques for locating water in arid, drought stricken regions.

Master dowsers Vern Cameron and Bill Cox were also successful in siting highly productive wells with their un-
derstanding of primary water. In the 1950s they were able to restore California’s dried out Lake Elsinore to its
original glory with three primary water wells producing over 9,500 gallons of water per minute in total.

Despite the scant attention paid to primary water by conventional hydrologists, my own research has produced
a wealth of evidence highlighting its fundamental importance to our planetary life, its widespread appearance
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 Africa’s Great Rift Valley, whose deep lakes
are home to over 25% of the world’s fresh wa-
ter. Hydrothermal vents discovered in the last
20 years at the bottom of these lakes testify
to the primary origin of these waters.

For example, all of the world’s largest lakes are found in rift zones, geologic discontinuities or volcanically active
regions where deep waters of magmatic origin make their way to the surface.

All of the world’s major rivers are fed by primary sources. Countless springs all over the world, both hot and
cold, have flowed abundantly for thousands of years without interruption – even in some of the world’s most
arid regions.

Volcanic lakes, hydrothermal vents, desert oases, deep boreholes and the abundance of water throughout our
solar system and in deep space all point to the magnitude of this phenomenon.

Teaming up with Stephan Reiss protégé, Pal Pauer, the US non-profit, Global Resource Alliance, launched a
project in 2007 called Maji Mengi (Abundant Water) to bring clean, safe water to villages in East Africa suffer-
ing extreme water scarcity.

Borehole at a Masai village in Amboseli National

Park, Kenya located by Pal Pauer and funded by
Global Water of Oxnard, CA.

In the early days, drilling locations were located by dowsing and observation of visible geological and biological
indicators associated with primary water sources. More recently, electrical resistivity methods have been add-
ed to help pinpoint narrow, conductive fractures in the underlying bedrock which serve as conduits for water
generated at depth.
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So far, over 75 successful boreholes serving thousands of families have been completed. The cost per person
is less than $30. The deep seated water is bacteria free and continues to flow throughout the year – even in
times of drought.

This project demonstrates, on a small scale, the potential of primary water to help meet the need of hundreds
of millions on the planet today still suffering from the lack of clean, safe water.

In the foreword to a book about the work of Stephan Reiss published in 1960 called New Water for a Thirsty
World, philosopher Aldous Huxley remarks:

“After seeing a few of his wells spouting water from the solid granite at the rate of two or three thousand
gallons a minute, and after listening to what he had to say about faults and fissures, about juvenile water and
primary water, about hydrogen and oxygen coming together at high temperatures and under vast pressures
in the bowels of the earth and rising, as H2O towards the surface, wherever the crust was weak, I began to
understand the mystery of Nefta and Jericho; and I began at the same time to feel a little more hopeful about
humanity’s prospects for survival and a good life on this under-watered and soon to be overpopulated planet.”

Like many springs around the world, this

one in the middle of the Gobi Desert called
Crescent Lake has not run dry for thousands
of years. Where do its perpetual waters
originate?

Primary, juvenile or earth-generated water is yet another of Gaia’s many blessings. Abundant life is the heri-
tage of humanity, if only we can learn to live in harmony with one another and with nature, and to use wisely
and reverently that which our planet so generously supplies.

Lyn Hebenstreit is President of Global Resource Alliance, Inc., a tax-exempt US non-profit organization founded
in 2001 to promote simple, natural and sustainable solutions to the challenges of hunger, poverty and disease
in developing regions of the world. http://the-door.net/the-colorado-center/primary-water-essentials

Links:
www.GlobalResourceAlliance.org
www.gra-usa.org/programs#Primary-Water

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 www.gra-usa.org

Rural Water Supply

Water is essential to overcoming hunger, poverty and disease, yet worldwide, more than one billion people still lack
access to clean, safe drinking water. Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases - dou-
ble the number of deaths caused by AIDS. Some 60% of all infant mortality is linked to infectious and parasitic diseases,
most of them water-related.

One of GRA’s most ambitious Programs

In December 2003, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the years 2005 - 2015 to be the International Decade for Ac-
tion, “Water for Life” - an international drive to bring safe water and basic sanitation to communities around the world.
The goal set by the UN Millennium Project is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to
safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

105 Water Wells in Operation!

. ..and they said it couldn't be done!
Employing remarkable perseverance, GRA has successfully located and drilled 105 (AND COUNTING) ABUN-
DANTLY-FLOWING, WELL WATER BORE HOLES, servicing Africa's Tanzanian villagers, schools, public and private
organizations, and various government institutions.

A Deep Investment

GRA has responded to the call by initiating a bold and unconventional water resource
development project called "Maji Mengi" (Abundant Water). In 2008, we imported a
new DeepRock drilling rig, Atlas Copco air compressor and used vehicles from the UK
to drill boreholes for rural communities, schools, health centers and churches utilizing
theories developed by the late Stephan Riess, of Ojai, CA. Our volunteer project con-
sultant, Pal Pauer, is a protégée of Riess with over thirty years experience locating and
tapping the abundant, clean water found in fractured primary rock.

$30 per person - For a Lifetime of Clean Water

A single borehole typically serves about 300 people and costs under $9,000, including a top quality, Dutch-
made hand pump. At $30 per person for a lifetime of clean, safe water, the cost is significantly less than what
villagers pay for the wood or charcoal needed to boil contaminated water formerly collected from up to 5 miles
away. To take the risk out this sizable investment, GRA guarantees that the boreholes we drill yield enough
high quality water to justify the installation of a hand pump - or the village pays nothing.

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Completing a borehole is only the start of the process. No matter how good, or how
abundant the water is at any particular borehole, if the pump is broken, it’s of no use
at all. Africa is awash with broken pumps – rendering nearly 60,000 boreholes use-
less. GRA works closely with communities to help organize water user committees
to establish policies related to governance, distribution and pump maintenance and
then follow up every six months – or thereabouts – to ascertain the status of each
borehole. If needed, our crew is available to fix broken pumps – free for the first year
- and for a reasonable fee after that.

About Primary Water

Primary water theory states that water is created within the Earth's interior and travels
toward the surface via fissures and fractures in primary rock. This water represents new
additions to the standard hydrological cycle. It can be accessed by drilling into bedrock,
often at depths of just 100 to 300 feet. Also referred to as new, juvenile, magmatic or
earth-generated water, mention of primary water can be found in modern literature,
although it is not generally recognized as significant by the hydrological community.
Accordingly, it's potential to ameliorate the world's growing water crisis remains largely
unrealized.

Evidence of primary water comes from a variety of sources. Natural springs, for instance,
can be found throughout the world that have been producing thousands of gallons of
pure, fresh water per minute continuously since biblical times. Many of these, like the
Fountain of Apollo in Libya and the Ain Feigh in Syria, have seeded civilizations. Others,
like giant springs of Florida, are merely wonders of nature. Primary water expert,
Pal Pauer, pointing out
In addition to these naturally occurring springs, primary water is often encountered accidentally rock fissure that trans-
when tunneling through rock for mines, roadways or waterways - even at high elevations, far ports primary water.
above any drainage basin. The famous Comstock silver mine on the Eastern slope of Mt.
Davidson near Nevada City, for example, pumped over 5 million gallons a day out of flooded mineshafts until
the pumps failed and the mine was closed in 1886. In the 1950's water was struck tunneling through the Santa
Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara that flowed at over 13 million gallons a day. Construction was halted until the
gushing fissure could be sealed.

Many castles in Europe, built hundreds of years ago on high rocky promontories, have wells hand hewn in solid
rock that have been producing fresh, pure water for centuries. More recently, in the past ten years, explora-
tion projects in Sudan, Somalia and the West Indies islands of Trinidad and Tobago have successfully tapped
the abundant water locked in fractured bedrock. By defying conventional hydrological wisdom, an innovative
engineering company was able to obtain yields of up to 50 times that estimated by the "experts", at a fraction
of the cost of other alternatives.

http://gra-usa.org/contact-us

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 Thoughts About Drilling a Borehole, and Advancing
the Use and Understanding of Primary Water
By Debra Hamilton and Paschal Oloo Odienge (Near Homa Bay, Kenya)

It is hard for us to imagine, here in America, the struggle for water that faces people in other countries like
Kenya. The dangerous daily trips by women and children to carry water from the water hole is a daily ordeal
and is a life or death journey. Often, the water is 4 or 5 miles away and instead of being in school, these young
people have committed their lives to scooping out scarce water from mudholes and dirty ponds and then
carrying the heavy containers home. Some spend hours in line at community ground-water wells only to have
the water run out and go home empty handed. In Kenya each year, well over two million people, including over
10,000 children, die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes.

I have to wonder how we could do something

to improve the lives of these people who are
barely able to exist. Why isn’t humankind
more focused at solving these problems of
water scarcity and hunger? Why do we get
distracted by meaningless issues that don’t
matter?

But I found there is a solution to the glob-

al water crisis, and today, you can help us
provide unlimited clean water for several
thousand thirsty people in Kenya by drilling a
borehole, and also help us promote the use of
Paschal with his wife Syprose, and children John and Maria. Primary Water.

Debra’s Introduction to Primary Water

Several years ago, here in California, I met a remarkable man named Pal Pauer
(Paul). He is known as the Hungarian Water Wizard and has spent a lifetime drilling
water wells all over the world. He informed me there is a source of fresh water that
is never mentioned in the mainstream media, or widely understood by geologists.
This forgotten resource is called Primary Water.

Of course, I was surprised and thrilled that a source of water I never heard of exist-
ed to address the horrible water shortages we were experiencing in California and
elsewhere. I enthusiastically volunteered my time to work with Pal to try and move
the unknown Primary Water Cycle into the mainstream.

I began to study and collect everything I could find about Primary Water.
Pal gave me videos of many successful drilling projects he worked on, and
we compiled numerous scientific papers and news articles. I learned about
Stephan Riess and his pioneering spirit who discovered the existence of
primary water in the 1950’s and drilled hundreds of primary water wells in
California and around the globe. Stephan eventually shared his experience
and training with Pal. A compilation of information forms a new DVD I call
How Primary Water Can Solve the Global Water Crisis.
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 Since I had a long-time government job, I felt like I was in a position to make a difference and reach out to other
government employees and decision makers and let them know about primary water. California was suffering
from a severe multi-year drought and some communities had even run out. Water had to be hauled in by truck
for thousands of people in the Central Valley.

So, we e-mailed every legislator here in California to inform them of the possibilities of
Primary Water. I’m not a public speaker, but I was invited to speak at a hearing of the
State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) in Sacramento about the potential of
using primary water instead of diverting water through the Delta twin tunnel proposal.

I passed out the Primary Water DVD’s to all the board members who seemed interested
at the time. We also gave a DVD to every Director of every California state agency that
had anything to do with managing water. But to my surprise, I got no-response, even
from my own department. I was forced to come to the conclusion that even though the
need for fresh water was great, the technology of accessing Primary Water was being
repressed by our own government. Debra Hamilton testifies about
Primary Water at the California
State Water Resources Control
Paschal’s Introduction to Primary Water Board meeting on July 27, 2016.

The year was 2009 when quite by chance, Kenyan Paschal Oloo Odienge met Pal
Pauer while he was consulting on numerous water-well drilling projects for the
Global Resource Alliance in Tanzania (GRA-TZ). The men became friends and even-
tually Pal would teach Paschal the art and science of finding and drilling for primary
water. Paschal would use what he learned from Pal and spend more than 5 years
working for the GRA-TZ drilling primary water boreholes all over Tanzania.

For the Global Resource Alliance-Tanzania, my main job was locating Primary Water
borehole sites. Later-on, as I gathered more knowledge and experience, I coordi-
nated the whole water drilling program before becoming the Executive Director
and CEO.

We were doing a great job and at the time of my departure in April 2016, our bore-
holes numbered more than one hundred. All these boreholes yielded very good qual-
ity water. It was a most valuable legacy for the thirsty Tanzanian people who benefit-
Paschal with Pal Pauer.
ted from the noble work that Global Resource Alliance-Tanzania accomplished

Back in Kenya, after be-

ing away for more than 15
years, except for the brief
and sporadic visits people
make to their villages on
weekends and holidays, I
was a complete stranger to
the new life I was to begin
in the village.

GRA drilling a successful

primary water borehole Paschal with Jeremy Christian from New Zealand in Machakos Kenya,
located by Paschal in October 2017. Jeremy is Primary Water supporter and a new trainee in
Tanzania. Primary Water exploration.
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All my life I have had a great desire to be a farmer; I love growing things! Getting
my hands dirty in the soil as I plant, nurse and grow things is a wonderful source
of joy for me. I missed my garden in Tanzania where I lived and grew paw paws,
tomatoes, passion fruits and other vegetables.

My crops germinated well and I began giving them the special treatment they
require. After two months and only a few weeks away from harvest, the rain
stopped abruptly, the melons failed to make it to the market. Think of the labor
and the cost of keeping them healthy. This same thing happened to me for three
successive years thereby bringing me back to my senses! I need a well!!

To see this drought, to watch and live through it each day is not an easy task,
because of the knowledge of primary water that I have. The losses to farmers and
the countless lives needlessly lost due to using contaminated and very dirty water
for cooking and drinking.

Lifting my eyes and looking around I can instantly see hundreds of potential drill-
ing sites with the possibility of producing primary water. This is what has given me
the impetus to walk this path to help solve this great problem. I appeal to all of
you who are reading this to understand this difficult challenge, to be our spring-
board, to help change the world by exploring more ways of bringing more primary
Paschal growing corn in 2021. Luck
water to our thirsty planet. This is just the beginning, people are thirsty brought rain at just the right time and 3
everywhere, thirst is more urgent than food. Let us address this solution together! acres produced a wonderful harvest.

Syprose and Maria.

Paschal’s Goals
I would like to drill a primary water borehole on my property to
address the water needs of more than three thousand people
living in my village, and the surrounding villages, their livestock
and wildlife. I would also like to set up a non-profit organization
to help educate people about primary water and in the future,
when we have the resources, open an academy where people
from all over the world can come and learn the techniques of
finding and drilling for primary water.

This primary water technology would help quench the thirst of very helpless and discouraged members of my
community. You may also be creating the beginning of a new thirst free world. Please, help me use my valuable
knowledge to find and drill for primary water and help my people here in Kenya and eventually, the rest of the
world! Write to Paschal: [email protected].
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 An Ancient Primary
Water Source That Could Make
Drought a Thing of the Past
Posted on October 1, 2021 by Ellen Brown

Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are
extracting it economically without ecological damage.

Lack of fresh water is now a global crisis. Water shortages mean food shortages, with hunger
creating death tolls substantially exceeding those of the current Covid-19 crisis. According to the
United Nations, some 800 million people are without clean water, and 40% of the world’s popu-
lation is impacted by drought. By one measure, almost 100 percent of the Western United States
is currently in drought, setting an all-time 122-year record. Meanwhile, local “water wars” rage,
with states, cities and whole countries battling each other for scarce water resources.

The ideal solution would be new water flows to add to the hydrologic cycle, and promising new
scientific discoveries and technologies are holding out that possibility.

But mainstream geologists have long contended that water is a fixed, non-renewable resource;
and vested interests are happy to profit from that limiting proposition. Declaring water “the new
oil,” an investor class of “Water Barons” —including wealthy billionaire tycoons, megabanks,
mega-funds and investment powerhouses — has cornered the market by buying up water rights
and water infrastructure everywhere. As Jo-Shing Yang, author of “Solving Global Water Crises,”
wrote in a 2012 article titled “The New ‘Water Barons’: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up
the World’s Water”:

Facing offers of millions of dollars in cash from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS,
and other elite banks for their utilities and other infrastructure and municipal services, cities and
states will find it extremely difficult to refuse these privatization offers.

For developing countries, the World Bank has in some cases made water privatization a condi-
tion of getting a loan.

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 Competing Theories
Geologists say that all of the water on Earth, including the atmosphere, oceans, surface water
and groundwater, participates in the natural system called the “hydrologic cycle,” a closed cir-
cuit in which water moves from the surface to the atmosphere and back again. Rainwater falls,
becoming groundwater which collects in aquifers (underground layers of porous rock or sand),
emerging as rivers and lakes, and evaporating into clouds to again become rain. New water
called “juvenile, virgin, primary or deep earth water” may be added through active volcanos.

The most widely held theory is that water arrived on the planet from comets or asteroids, since
any water on Earth when it was first formed would have evaporated in the intense heat of its
early atmosphere. One problem with that theory is that comet water is different from Earth
water. It has a higher ratio of deuterium (“heavy water” with an extra neutron in it). Asteroids,
too, are not a good fit for Earth’s water. A study reported in January 2017 based on isotopes
from meteorites and the mantle found that water is unlikely to have arrived on icy comets after
Earth formed.

A more likely theory gaining new attention is that Earth’s water comes largely from within.
Minerals containing hydrogen and oxygen outgas water vapor (H2O) under intense pressure
and heat from the lower mantle (the layer between Earth’s thin crust and its hot core). Water
emerges as steam and seeps outward under the centrifugal force of the spinning earth toward
the crust, where it cools and seeps up through the fractured rock formations of the crust and
the upper mantle.

Studies over the past two decades have found evidence of several oceans’ worth of water
locked up in rock as far down as 1,000 kilometers, challenging the assumption that water ar-
rived from space after Earth’s formation.

Another study, reported in New Scientist the same month, showed that Earth’s huge store
of water may have originated via chemical reactions in the mantle rather than coming from
space. The researchers ran a computer simulation of reactions between liquid hydrogen and
quartz in Earth’s upper mantle. The simulation showed that water forms within quartz but then
cannot escape, so the pressure builds up – to such high levels that it could induce deep earth-
quakes. Rather than hydrogen bonding into the quartz crystal structure, as the researchers
expected, it was found to disrupt the structure by bonding with oxygen. When the rock melts
under intense heat, the water is released, forming water-rich regions below Earth’s surface.
The researchers said that water formed in the mantle could reach the surface in various ways
— for example via magma in the form of volcanic activity — and that water could still be being
created deep inside the Earth today. If so, that means water is a renewable resource.

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 New Technological Solutions
The challenge is drawing this deep water to the surface, but there are many verified cases of
mountaintop wells that have gushed water for decades in arid lands. This water, which could
not have come from the rainwater of the conventional hydrologic cycle, is variously called
“deep-seated,” “juvenile” or “primary” water. It is now being located and tapped by enterpris-
ing hydrogeologists using technological innovations like those used in other extractive indus-
tries – but without their destructive impact on the environment.

According to Mark Burr, CEO of Primary Water Technologies, these innovations include map-
ping techniques using GIS layering and 3-D modeling, satellite imagery and other sophisticated
geophysical data collection; radiometrics, passive seismics, advanced resistivity and even quan-
tum physics. A video capturing one of his successful drills at Chekshani Cliffs, Utah, and the
innovative techniques used to pinpoint where to drill, can be seen here. (www.vimeo.com/470010968)

Burr comments that locating “primary water” does not require drilling down thousands of feet.
He says that globally, thousands of primary water wells have been successfully drilled; and
for most of them, flowing water was tapped at less than 400 feet. It is forced up from below
through fissures in the Earth. What is new are the innovative technologies now being used to
pinpoint where those fissures are.

The developments, he says, mirror those in the U.S. oil and gas industry, which went from cries
of “Peak Oil” deficiency to an oil and gas glut in less than a decade. Dominated for 40 years by
a foreign OPEC cartel, the oil industry was disrupted through a combination of scientific ad-
vancements (including recognition of abiotic oil and gas formations), technological innovation,
and regulatory modernization. The same transformation is under way in water exploration and
production.
Water Pioneers
These developments were pioneered in the U.S. by Burr’s mentors, led by Bavarian-born min-
ing engineer and geologist Stephen Riess of San Diego. Riess drilled over 800 wells around the
world before his death in 1985 and was featured in several books, including “New Water for
a Thirsty World” (1960) by Dr. Michael Salzman, professor of economics at the University of
Southern California.

Partnering with Riess until his death was Hungarian-born hydrogeologist Pal Pauer, founder
of the Primary Water Institute based in Ojai, California. Pauer has also successfully located
and drilled over 1,000 primary water wells worldwide, including over 500 in East Africa. One
noteworthy well was drilled high on the top of a mountain in Kenya at Ngu-Nyumu, captured
in a short video here. The workers drilled through rock and hit water at 300 feet, pumping at
15-30 gallons per minute. The flow, which is now being captured in a water tank, is still serving
hundreds of villagers who were previously hauling water from heavily infested streams in jugs
balanced on their heads.
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Another remarkable mountaintop project overseen by Pauer involved two wells drilled at a
6,000 foot elevation in the Tehachapi Mountains in California. The drill first hit water at 35 feet.
The 7-inch diameter borehole proceeded to eject water at a rate estimated to be over 1,000
gallons per minute. The event is captured on YouTube here. (www.youtu.be/4zzMfAw-hKo)

Fresh Water Is Ubiquitous and Renewable

What these researchers call “primary water” or “deep seated water” is classified by the Na-
tional Ground Water Association (NGWA) simply as a form of “groundwater,” since it is in the
ground. But whatever it is called, these newly tapped flows have not been part of the hydrolog-
ic cycle for at least the last century. This is shown on testing by the lack of the environmental
contaminants found in the hydrologic water cycle. From the time when atomic testing began in
the Pacific, hydrologic water has contained traces of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen
used as a fuel in thermonuclear bombs. Primary water shoots up tritium-free —clean, fresh
and usually drinkable without filtration.

The latest NGWA fact sheet explicitly confirms that water is a renewable resource. It states:

• About 90 percent of our freshwater supplies lie underground, but less than 27 percent of
the water Americans use comes from underground sources, which illustrates the under-uti-
lization of groundwater.
• Groundwater is a significant water supply source — the amount of groundwater storage
dwarfs our present surface water supply.
• Hydrologists estimate, according to the National Geographic Society, U.S. groundwater re-
serves to be at least 33,000 trillion gallons — equal to the amount discharged into the Gulf
of Mexico by the Mississippi River in the past 200 years.
• At any given moment, groundwater is 20 to 30 times greater than the amount in all the
lakes, streams, and rivers of the United States….
• Groundwater is a renewable resource.

In some states, such as Texas, property owners have the right to capture the water beneath
their property (called the “Rule of Capture”), but this is not true in other states. California, for
example, has a complicated system of regulation requiring costly and laborious permits. Grant-
ing property owners the right to drill wells on their own property, particularly where the water
has been tested and shown to be “deep” or “primary water,” could be a major step toward
turning water scarcity into abundance.

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, the U.S. needs over $500 billion in infra-
structure investment just for drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and dams. But legislators
at both federal and state levels have been slow to respond, chiefly due to budget constraints.
One proposal is a National Infrastructure Bank (HR 3339) constructed on the model of Franklin
Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation (discussed in my earlier article here). When

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allocating funds for water usage, however, policymakers would do well to consider investing in
“primary water” wells.

Tapping into local deep water sources not only can help ease pressures on debt-strapped pub-
lic treasuries but can bypass the Water Barons and relieve territorial tensions over water rights.
Water sovereignty is a critical prerequisite to food sovereignty and to national and regional
independence. As noted in a recent Water Today article, quoting James D’Arezzo:

“The fact is, we do not have to severely restrict water usage, if we leverage all the tools at our
disposal. There is plenty of water available on the planet and we now know how to find it. We
also have newer best practices that can make a dramatic difference in total usage…. If we start
acting now, in a short time the headlines about ‘water restrictions’ and grotesque pictures of
dead animals and starving children can be replaced with headlines about more food produc-
tion, smarter use of water and less conflict.”

Ellen Brown is an attorney, chair of the Public Banking Institute, and author of thirteen books including Web of
Debt, The Public Bank Solution, and Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. She also
co-hosts a radio program on PRN.FM called “It’s Our Money.” Her 300+ blog articles are posted at EllenBrown.
com. Link for access to numerous references throughtout the article: https://ellenbrown.com/2021/10/01/a-
new-water-source-that-could-make-drought-a-thing-of-the-past/#more-15380
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January 12, 2022 – Addendum -

Water Pioneers in Australia

by The Earth Organization (LAEO)

Like California, Australia is an arid land with chronic water problems–but, interestingly, it
possesses ancient wisdom in water mapping and water locating based on indigenous tradi-
tional knowledge. While recognizing the aboriginal nomadic tribal techniques for mapping
water, one notable New South Wales water wizard, Robert Gourlay, brought modern ge-
ology and biology science disciplines into alignment with nature’s ingenious systems. Like
many outside-the-box thinkers, Gourlay was earlier dismissed by academia for departing
from conventional approaches in the water and Earth sciences.

Seeking to help advance and codify the early work done by water pioneers such as Riess
and his protégés, an international non-profit, the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization
(LAEO), established a water science research group that eventually went to study with
Gourlay.

Having the original intent to help Pal Pauer’s Primary Water Institute with its educational
purposes, LAEO was on a mission to aggregate and formalize all water wisdom to assure
the know-how would never become a lost technology.

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The group had already spent several years searching the globe to locate and codify all that
could be found of existing know-how on Primary Water and related subjects. In 2016,
after hitting dead ends on their path to find scientifically documented proof, LAEO ran
across an article by Mr. Gourlay. In late 2017, they set up an R&D base in Australia, send-
ing a team of three scientists to Gourlay’s remote research facility in the Mongarlowe River
Region of New South Wales. Their purpose? To preserve and make complete records of
Gourlay’s early breakthroughs as a part of LAEO’s compilation of a complete body of wa-
ter exploration knowhow so that none of the advancements in this field would be lost for
future generations.

Known for spearheading major advancements in geo spatial data analysis systems and
bore siting field techniques in the 1990s, Gourlay was happy to share his experience and
help educate others. The LAEO team spent 18 months recording and advancing the know-
how.

After formalizing the compilation of their water exploration science under the name Deep
Seated Water Tech™ (DSW Tech), the non-profit helped set up several partner enterprises
to export water solutions globally, including GIS Analytics Global LLC (GISA) and GIS Ana-
lytics Research Australia (GISARA), (later changed to AquaterreX and AquaterreX Australia
respectively). (www.AquaterreX.com)

In late 2018, LAEO & GISA introduced DSW Tech to an Australian venture capital entrepre-
neur, Ross Martiensen. Hoping to gain support to help expand their public benefit goals,
LAEO shared their advancements along with their research data, contacts and library of
information on Primary Water with Martiensen. He formed his own company, Sustainable
Water Solutions (SWS), which later became a partner of Burr’s Primary Water Technolo-
gies.

LAEO teamed up with SWS and Martienson’s non-profit Drought Fix on several projects to
help drought stressed farmers in New South Wales and the Granite Belt in Queensland.
They completed a case study project in Stanthorpe, Queensland, a town whose water
resources had completely run dry and, as a result, their advanced techniques were
featured on ABC’s Landline in July 2020.

At present, AquaterreX LLC and its Australian subsidiary are utilizing Deep Seated Water
Technology on projects in the U.S., particularly the highly arid Southwestern states, as
well as South Africa, the Middle East and Australia. According to its website, AquaterreX
is an international enterprise bringing together a variety of earth sciences and proprietary
methodologies to locate reliable sources of Deep Seated Water with nearly 100% accuracy.
It has illustrated and defined Deep Seated Water at: https://aquaterrex.com/deep-seat-
ed-water-illustration-explained.

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 PROPOSAL: Water Exploration and Production (Water E&P)
Primary Water: earth-generated water also referred to as juvenile, magmatic, plutonic, paleo, ancient, trapped,
conic, mineral, thermal…in all cases it is new water added to the atmospheric cycle. It has now been proven
using deep-earth seismics that hydrogen and oxygen combine in the transition zone of the mantle at a depth of
c. 400 miles, where our silicate bedrock is formed, and makes its way to the surface via the centrifugal forces
of our planet, emerging both at the bottom of our oceans in massive quantities and at the highest mountain
elevations.

Water E&P: seeks to deploy the proven methodology of all other oil/gas and mineral extraction ventures in the
area of pinpoint well location and precision borehole drilling to produce potable water at near surface depths
in all formations regardless of climate or precipitation.

Exploration: involves a multi-disciplinary approach using aspects of geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy,

crystallography, physical chemistry and structural geology. Advanced geophysical data collection and analyt-
ics can and should be utilized, focusing on the passive data collection of magnetics, radiometrics, gravity and
advanced seismics, as well as satellite imagery and data such as DEM, SAR and the full range of Landsat capa-
bilities.

Production: employs standard water well drilling rigs and equipment but in unique ways – in search not of
aquifer basins but renewable non-aquifer sources. Like “mining for water” we drill small boreholes into prima-
ry water formations and contact points, almost always seeking primary bedrock (hence “rock drillers”) while
sealing off vadose and surficial contamination to produce primary water, almost always rising under pressure
yielding shallow static levels and thus simple submersible (or even non-electrical mechanical) pumps, and
without the need for filtration. Preference is to drill at higher elevations to allow for gravity flow to area of
use.

Deployment: is rapid as a result of a short E&P cycle of pre-deployment mapping and data analysis of the des-
ignated project area (parcel, polygon, district, region), remote fracture trace mapping, and minimal personnel
(usually two expats); drillers and rigs can be pre-qualified and thus contracted locally before decision is made
to own rigs and crews; multiple sites can be located and drilling commenced during a 2-week engagement; PW
project manager will stay on once project is launched and expectations are met to continue rollout and train-
ing.

Training: a formal program can be developed to create relatively self-sufficient teams in multiple geographies;
involving a combination of alternating classroom and fieldwork. Primary Water E&P is an applied science and
can only reach the 90/95% success rates experienced by the many practitioners through practical application
and some trial and error.

Business Model: E&P costs can be minimized if principals partner in downstream revenue sharing, either from
off-take sale and/or distribution and retail scenarios.

www.PrimaryWaterTechnologies.com
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Water Independence and Water Security...now!

Primary Water Technologies LLC (USA) is the first water exploration and production (Water E&P) venture established to locate, drill into
and produce high quality earth-generated Primary Water worldwide. Primary Water refers to renewable unconventional groundwater
resources available globally regardless of geology or climate. Primary Water E&P follows the proven methodology of the other extractive
industries of the oil/gas and mining sectors. Advanced remote sensing and geophysical technologies assist in pinpoint locating these
resources; precision drilling using standard DTH dual rotary air hammer drilling rigs into typically consolidated and hard rock formations
ensures minimal contamination and maximum production. We drill where the water is!
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 Historical Photos of Lake Elisinore & Tecolote Tunnel

An extended drought from 1947-1957 left a wind-blown, Lake Elisinore was fully restored by primary water
dusty, dry Lake Elsinore in California. Bill Cox, Mathew Yax & due to the innovative work and skill of Verne L.
Verne L. Cameron make plans to use Primary water to refill Cameron and Bill Cox.
the lake.

The first Lake Elisinore well tested a consistent flow of

Bill Cox inspects the inflow into a clients reservoir from one 5,500 gallons per minute from a deep seated primary
of his primary water well sites in 1991. water source.

“In the 1950’s, flooding impeded construction of the Tecolote Tunnel through the Santa Ynez Mountains in Califor-
nia. By its composition and the depth at which it was encountered, the thirteen million gallons a day it produced
was not rainwater. Some of the water was hot, as much as 117 degrees Fahrenheit, and mineralized, some was cool
and exceedingly pure. The flows were stopped so construction of the six-mile long tunnel to connect Santa Barbara
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to the Cachuma Reservoir could continue.” The water remains
Joe Lanza, Director of International Service
for the Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North
(left), and John Ndundu Kaindi, village elder.

Pal Pauer with Masai Chief

“Inexhaustible supplies of this Primary or Virgin water, vaporized by earth’s internal heat, squeezes up through
rocky fissures under tremendous pressure, bringing it into high mountain elevations throughout the world. It is
New water and may never be depleted. When large amounts of this Virgin or Primary water are pumped from
wells, the internal steam pressure lowers slightly. This allows more water to leak in, thereby replenishing the
original subterranean supply in an endless cycle.” Verne Cameron (c. 1968)

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