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When Earth Thirsts: Glacial Tears and the Wisdom of a Living Planet
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
The Cry Beneath The Ice
What if the Earth isn’t just reacting to us — what if it’s speaking, guiding, healing itself?
For too long, the conversation around melting glaciers has centered on panic: rising seas, lost habitats, climate refugees. But what if there’s a deeper message encoded in this release of ancient water? What if Earth, in her infinite wisdom, is not dying — but thirsty?
The Natural Rivers Are a Picture of the Past
Once, rivers followed sacred paths. Fed by rainfall, glaciers, and underground aquifers, they meandered through the land like arteries in a living body.
Today, most rivers have been dammed, diverted, buried, or poisoned. Corporate agriculture and industrial water privatization have turned sacred waterways into profit pipelines. Giants like Nestlé extract billions of gallons from aquifers, bottling the blood of the Earth for sale.
As I wrote in 2017:
💧A Critique of Carbon Tax Policies
“Carbon taxes are a distraction from the real issue: the mismanagement and commodification of water resources.”
Our focus must shift from carbon credit theatrics to the true crisis—Earth’s dehydration.
🌱 Call for Holistic Environmental Stewardship
“We must shift our focus from taxing carbon to nurturing our natural water systems, ensuring they remain free and unpolluted.”
The Earth, recognizing the trauma, is responding not in wrath — but in wisdom.
The Great Thirst: Earth’s Response to Human Extraction
In this theory — not yet studied by formal science, but sensed by many — the Earth is intentionally melting glaciers to restore its fractured hydrological balance.
🌊 Earth’s Hydrological Wisdom
“The Earth is thirsty, and she is releasing water from the glaciers to revitalize her fractured bones dried by man-made water catastrophes.”
As rivers run dry or are redirected, Earth turns to her frozen reservoirs, unlocking thousands of years of stored purity, not to drown humanity, but to quench her parched crust.
This view positions Earth as a sentient organism, a being not of chaos, but of adaptation. Just as a body increases blood flow to a wound, the planet may be reactivating ancient flows to rehydrate landscapes desiccated by extraction, agriculture, and pollution.
As I once wrote: “The Earth is thirsty, and she is releasing water from the glaciers to revitalize her fractured bones dried by man-made water catastrophes.”
This metaphor is no longer a poetic gesture — it is a warning wrapped in wisdom.
Where the Waters Go: Rivers of the Present and Future
Conventional science warns that glacial melt flows into oceans, disrupting salinity, marine ecosystems, and thermohaline currents. This is valid and well-documented. But it misses another possibility: that not all meltwater is lost to the sea.
In landscapes still connected to ancient hydrological systems — such as the Sierra Nevada, the Canadian Rockies, and the Himalayas — glacial melt can find its way into natural rivers, revitalizing ecosystems still intact.
Moreover, Earth’s crust contains subterranean rivers and aquifers that act like veins. Meltwater may be refilling these channels, much like an IV rehydrating a dying patient.
Whispers from the Waters
Poetic Interlude
I remembered you before you were born,
when your bones were still sand,
and your breath hadn’t yet touched my sky.
I held your reflection in glacial silence,
you sold my tears
in plastic bottles.
But I did not curse you.
I simply melted.
You think I weep from injury.
They are rivers reborn.
You think I weep from injury.
I am not drowning you.
I do not demand your fear.
Only your listening.
Let the stone be soft again.
Let the river write its language into your skin.
Let the mist enter your lungs
and remind you of where you came from.
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Earth as Teacher: The Philosophical Turn
If we accept Earth as an intelligent being, the implications are radical.
The melting glaciers are not merely indicators of doom — they are teachings. They show us how life adapts, how wisdom survives even the harshest disruption.
Earth is not asking us to save her. She is showing us how she saves herself.
Our role, then, is not to dominate or “fix” nature, but to listen — and stop draining her lifeblood for profit.
“We must shift our focus from taxing carbon to nurturing our natural water systems, ensuring they remain free and unpolluted.” These words echo louder than ever.
Conclusion: Rivers Remember
The glaciers are weeping — not in sorrow, but in sacrifice. Their tears are nourishment, directed by an ancient knowing.
If humanity dares to listen, we may realize that the greatest climate solution isn’t control, but reverence.
We must let the rivers run wild again. We must protect the last of the natural flows. And above all, we must recognize that the Earth is not a resource — she is a relative, a mother, a healer.
Let us follow the water.
Let us remember the rivers.
Let us return to the source.
A Note from Akashma
This piece is more than an article — it is a conversation with the Earth, born from years of observation, meditation, and heartbreak.
I have watched rivers disappear and return only in memory. I have felt the thirst of a planet bled dry by greed, and I’ve listened to the silent wisdom buried in the glaciers. What I’ve written here may challenge conventional science, but it is rooted in something deeper: instinct, reverence, and the belief that Earth is alive, aware, and endlessly resilient.
This is not a warning.
This is an offering.
A prayer.
A reminder that we are not separate from the river —
We are the river.
—
Marivel Guzman
Akashma News
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Marivel Guzman
Investigative Journalist | Documentary Photographer | Truth Seeker
Marivel Guzman is passionate about investigative reporting and photography. She loves to dig for information and get to the bottom of what is really going on. Her work often focuses on following the money and exposing how public funds are allocated—or misused.
Her bylines include Lariat News, Orange Coast Report, and The State Hornet. She has also worked remotely as Proof Editor for the Baluchistan Red Crescent quarterly magazine and volunteers as a photographer for UNRWA at their local community events.
She has been the voice behind Akashma News for almost two decades, sharing uncensored stories that challenge dominant narratives and amplify the voices of the oppressed.
The Natural Rivers are a picture of the past.
The scarcity of water is well-known fact and documented.
The rivers that used to flow still 10 or 20 years ago are part of a picture past.
Most of the giants Dams constructed to commercialize this vital liquid have made the rivers disappear.
Every year, fewer and fewer rivers, streams, and broadways are filled with rain water: Dams, pools, artificial lakes, bottled water, super agriculture, and golf courses are the cause of the droughts around the world.
Pessimist? No, I’m just realistic.
The good news is that there is a Global Council Water Club that gets paid to bring water to all the citizens of the world because water it is a human right. The bad news and that almost no one in the world knows that they exist, and people, animals, and lands are dying for the lack of water.
(Photo by Marivel Guzman) Nov 30, 2021
American Indian nations have had their lands, water rights, fishing rights, and sacred sites taken from them. The case of Boulder Dam (later renamed Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River is different in that it did not directly impact the Navajo Reservation, but it indirectly led to the destruction of the traditional Navajo economy, and the creation of poverty and economic inequality among the Navajo.
Names of projects and links to UN were updated on August 10, 2023.
There is also the UN-Water Project. They both exist as separate entities. The UN Water Project changed its name to UN-Water since I published this research paper back in 2012.
They generate a report every 3 years. Just to illustrate the banality of these UN projects. Palestine has been suffering from a lack of water. Israel is holding Palestine hostage on water supplies.
Israel controls the aquifers, and Palestine by law can’t dig for new wells. According to certain accords signed decades ago at the White House. “Palestinians can not dig for fresh water,” and to aggravate their problems, illegal settlers are dumping cement inside Palestine wells.
While the world’s population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold.
Within the next fifty years, the world population will increase by another 40 to 50 %. This population growth – coupled with industrialization and urbanization – will result in an increasing demand for water and will have serious consequences on the environment.
People lack drinking water and sanitation.
Already there is more wasted water generated and dispersed today than at any other time in the history of our planet: more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water, namely 1.1 billion people, and more than two out of six lack adequate sanitation, namely 2.6 billion people (Estimation for 2002, by the WHO/UNICEF JMP, 2004). 3900 children die every day from water-borne diseases (WHO 2004). One must know that these figures represent only people with very poor conditions. In reality, these figures should be much higher.
Water resources are becoming scarce
Find your country, and see how many rivers are left to run wild and how many dams were constructed in the last 100 years.
But conservation groups say that the plans for many large dams are based on historical river flow data that are irrelevant in today’s rapidly changing and unpredictable climate.
“Large dams have always been based on the assumption that future stream-flow patterns will mirror those of the past, but this is no longer true,” Rudo Sanyanga, International Rivers’ African program director, said in a statement. National Geographic
Facts and Figures
Sources of Fresh Water
Groundwater – water that infiltrates into the ground through porous materials deeper into the earth. It fills pores and fractures in layers of underground rock called aquifers. Some of this water lies too far under the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
Surface-water runoff – precipitation that does not infiltrate into the ground or return to the atmosphere: streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and reservoirs.
Snow that is 4 inches (10cm) deep contains about the same amount of water as 1/3 inch (1 cm) of rain.
1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water
2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation (2002, UNICEF/WHO JMP 2004)
1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases.
3 900 children die every day from water-borne diseases (WHO 2004)
Daily per capita use of water in residential areas:
– 350 liters in North America and Japan
– 200 liters in Europe
– 10-20 liters in sub-Saharan Africa
Over 260 river basins are shared by two or more countries, mostly without adequate legal or institutional arrangements.
A leak that fills up a coffee cup in 10 minutes will waste over 3,000 gallons of water in a year. That’s 65 glasses of water every day for a year.
A leaky toilet can waste over 22,000 gallons of water in one year; enough to take three baths every day.
Water Cycle | How the Hydrologic Cycle Works, July 13, 2013 by Water Sciece Foundation.
How much fresh water is used in franking?
Water used for hydraulic fracturing is typically fresh water taken from
groundwater and surface water resources. Although there are increasing efforts to use nonpotable water, some of these sources also supply drinking water.
Fracking consumes a massive amount of water. In the United States, the average can run between 1.5 million and 9.7 million gallons of water to frack a single well.
Hydrocarbons in the 21st Century: Green, Clean and Safe, July 17, 2018 by Drilling Matters
How Much Water Does it Take to Produce Your Food?
Water Pollution
A gallon of paint or a quart of motor oil can seep into the earth and pollute 250,000 gallons of drinking water.
A spilled gallon of gasoline can pollute 750,000 gallons of water.
World Water Shortage vs. Golf Course Consumption
Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers
Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers, by International Rivers, Nov 19, 2011.
The “Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers,” with Right Livelihood Award Winner Nnimmo Bassey, explores the impacts of climate change and hydropower on the world’s rivers.
Bottle Water Hoax: The Story of Bottled Water, by How Stuff Works Projec.
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day)
Read more…The Biggest Hoaxes Perpetrated to the people
Hoax # 1-Are We Running Out of Water?
IS A PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY SINCE THE EARTH IS ¾ OF WATER, AND MY THEORY THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING…THE GLACIERS ARE SWEET WATER…SO.. THE GLACIERS MELTING COULD BE A DEFENSE MECHANISM OF EARTH TO BALANCE THE DEPLETION OF SWEET WATER. IT’S BEEN MONOPOLIZED FOR PROFIT, WE NEED TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD AND ASK FOR THE RELEASE OF THE WATER IN THE VARIOUS DAMS OF THE WORLD. AND RESTORE THE NATURAL RIVERS AND SWAMPS
Hoax # 2-We are running out of Oil? Really
SAYS WHO? HAVE YOU SEEN THE NUMBERS THEY ARE IN THE TRILLIONS, WE BEEN EXTRACTING TRILLIONS OF BARRELS OF OIL DAILY FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, BEFORE THAT BILLIONS DAILY INDUSTRIALIZED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS, I WONDER IF WE RETURN THAT OIL TO THE EARTH, IT WILL FIT?…..I DOUBTED IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
Which Oil? That is the Question?
BIODIESEL: SEEDS, BIOALGAE -BIOMASS DIESEL: PALM TREES AND A GREAT VARIETY OF VEGETATION SO, ASKS AGAIN….WE BEEN EXTRACTING OIL FOR MORE THAN 5000 YEARS, ASK THE CHINESE
Hoax # 3- Humans Need Vaccines to Survive
SINCE WHEN…SINCE IT BECAME MANDATORY OR …ELSE
There are others hoaxes perpetrated on humanity but they are less socio-economically detrimental to the population. I do have data, is scientific data and most importantly is official, you just have to really look, and the information is there.
HOAX # 4 – WATER FLUORINATION, BUT FLUORIDE IS POISON..ATOMIC BOMB..WHAT..HOW?
How they got away for so long? Toothpaste with fluoride..Interesting.
HOAX # 5 – SOLAR FILTERS AND SUN GLASSES-SUN IS THE ENEMY # 1 OF YOUR SKIN AND SUN GLASSES ARE NECESSARY TO PROTECT YOUR EYES..SO IF I USE SUN SCREEN AND SUN GLASSES HOW THE MELATONIN IS GOING TO BE PRODUCE, HOW MY PINEAL GLAND SURVIVE? IT WON’T…. EVENTUALLY WILL CALCIFY.
The Association Of Sunlight And Mental And Sexual Health Has Long Traditions. The Summer Solstice Is Historically Linked With Fertility And Sexuality By Cultures Everywhere. Wow but is only about procreation I don’t think so, there other disorders that arise from lack of sun exposure like depression and latest results suggest the high incidence of Parkinson, Alheirmeser Disease , Melatonin slow the aging process, regulate sleep patterns , Melatonin has been shown to inhibit the growth and metastasis of some tumors in experimental animals, and may therefore play a role in cancer inhibition. Removal of the pineal gland and/or reduction in melatonin output have been implicated in the increased incidence of breast cancer in laboratory animals. Patients who have breast cancer have lower levels of melatonin in the blood. The hormone has also been shown to be protective against genetic damage, and it has a stimulatory effect on the immune system. So think again when you go to your local drug store to buy sunscreen or glasses.
NUMEROUS STUDIES INDICATE THAT FERTILITY AND SEX DRIVE INCREASE WHEN SUNLIGHT IS MORE INTENSE,
Hoax # 6-Flu Shot really which virus strain they used to create the vaccine—Do they??????Who????you Know who, create the vaccine and then create the flu, or they create the flu and then create the vaccine? Who was first? The Chicken or the EGG? Uhh am confused.
Hoax # 7- Treatment against cancer pseudonym with American Cancer Association. This theme is obscure so that’s your homework, research, CURES FOR CANCER not treatment C U R E, cancer is curable.
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