De Zenne, after the Temperature Shock, the Anoxic shock, now the Osmotic shock

It's very easy these days to have a meal in Brussels: just go to the canal with your plate and you'll find plenty of fish, death, salted and fried.

Average temperature increase due to the Greenhouse effect, resulted in algae blooms, anoxic waters, death fish this summer. Now the Acquiris - Veolia (former USFilter-Generales des Eaux/Vivendi, I know as I was their employee at the time and even worked on the project), who financed, built, owns and operates the water treatment plant for most of Brussels sewage, was confronted by a rather peculiar "water load" as it is called: not the usual sand, plastic and papers, but chunks of wall and concrete pipes. Floating fridges, an occasional tyre followed by the rest of the car. Completely above agreed upon "load", clogging the grids and damaging the filters of the station, resulting in a release untreated water, very high in toxics and nutrients, resulting in an anoxic shock for the remaining fish.

Well done all involved! The fish will now sue you in the form of Greenpeace/WWF/friends of the earth/local nature group? Or the government itself will penalise itself? Well, she's happy with the "deal". Well I don't think a minister of Environment can be very happy when she had to leave Copenhaegen for this, and confronted with fish dying from an osmotic shock from the salt now. Stop that, use something else to keep you from slipping.

The poor living water creatures, heavily weakenedd by the anoxic attack soon after faced an osmotic attack from all the salt that's generously thrown on the roads during a couple of days of snow. Do we really need to throw salt on small roads? Why not diversify with some sand, alcohol, wood dust?

I looked downstream if no orka's or other salt water fish came swimming up the river ... Acquiris people first eaten by crocodiles that survived in the sewage system, anaconda's, spiders, giant rats ... now attacked by an orka. Blue whale stuck in 3 turn to the left. Massive flooding before sea-level water rises. What a sight it would be.

A temperature shock, an anoxic shock, an osmotic shock ... what a life for those fish.

I rather get back inside, TV 's showing a nice nature documentary: Life ... in Climate Change, biodiversity to drop by 30% per °C average increase. I zap away to find the news: Kopenhaegen failed... expected limitation to 2 °C, meaning peak temperature by 2015 is ruled out. Wait a second, 1°C = -30% biodiversity, 2°C = -60% biodiversity, 4°C = -20% biodiversity? Fortunately things stop at zero. Is there no good movie? Ah: The Age of Stupid.