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Dihydrogen Monoxide – NCCA - National Consumer Coalition Against DHMO

Who are we?
The National Consumer Coalition Against DHMO (NCCADHMO), not affiliated with the Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide , was founded in 1997 in an effort to raise public awareness about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)  in our daily lives. The secondary goal of NCCADHMO is to act in the public interest as a lobbying agent in Congress to affect public policy regarding the safety and uses of DHMO.

Although we are not funded by the EPA, we are loosely affiliated with the US Environmental Assessment Center's Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division. This affiliation was created in an effort to make information available to the public in an expedient fashion, and to provide a public forum for the ongoing DHMO debate.

We manage the day-to-day operation of the DMRD web site, of which this page is a part. We also make every attempt to remain unbiased in our presentation of the facts surrounding the grave and ever-present dangers of DHMO.

What is DHMO?
Dihydrogen Monoxide, or DHMO, is a colorless and odorless chemical that kills or maims thousands each year, primarily through accidental inhalation. It has also been revealed to be a causative agent in many environmental exposure incidents, industrial contaminations, automobile accidents, and property damage. The dollar amount losses caused, and the lives impacted, by the DHMO threat are virtually innumerable.

We need you!
We are still a very young organization, and desperately need volunteers and other concerned citizens to become involved in our ongoing efforts. If you'd like more information about NCCADHMO, or would like to volunteer, please send  us email . We also welcome any feedback you care to give!

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Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!
The Invisible Killer
Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year.  Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of  dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.  Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance.  For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.

Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the "greenhouse effect."
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

Contamination Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every  stream, lake, and reservoir in America today.  But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California.

Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant.
in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant.
in many forms of cruel animal research.
in the distribution of pesticides.  Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal . The impact on wildlife is extreme , and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!

The Horror Must Be Stopped!
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation."  In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations.  Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network.  Many store large quantities for later use.

It's Not Too Late!
Act NOW to prevent further contamination . Find out more about this dangerous chemical.  What you  don't know can hurt you and others throughout the world.

A promoter who city officials said created a hoax about selling paintball safaris to hunt naked women is being charged with operating without a license, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said Friday.

"It's a joke and a fraud,"Goodman said of the "Hunting for Bambi" enterprise that was touted by promoter Michael Burdick on a Web site and publicized nationally.

"I'll do everything I can to see this man is punished for trying to embarrass Las Vegas as a result of a lie and a scam," Goodman said.

The Hunting for Bambi video that has been sweeping the media in the past week or so is a hoax, city of Las Vegas officials said Thursday.

No "hunts" have ever been sold, and no "Bambis" have ever been shot with paintballs, the officials said in concluding a weeklong investigation.

"The bottom line is we are convinced as a city, based on the information we have, that ... some in the media were used as unwitting dupes to promote a private enterprise," said Mayor Oscar Goodman. "It would appear from all sorts of admissions ... that the purported Hunt for Bambi was a scam. That it was all staged. That there were actors and actresses and there wasn't even the real shooting of paintballs."

City officials said the man who made those admissions was Michael Burdick, the self-professed mastermind behind the videos and the purported hunts of nude women in the Southern Nevada desert they portray. Burdick told several officials the hunts were staged events designed to fool the media so his video-selling operation would get free publicity, the officials said.

Burdick, reached Thursday afternoon by telephone, declined to comment to two Review-Journal reporters. He swore at them and hung up.

City officials said Burdick was so brazen he admitted to them, in a call to the mayor's office Thursday, that he intended to lie during an appearance on the cable news network MSNBC later that afternoon.

"He told me he was going to tell everyone that it wasn't a hoax even though it is," said city spokeswoman Elaine Sanchez. "He said, `I hope that's OK with the mayor.' "

After her conversation with Burdick, Sanchez said she called MSNBC producers to inform them of Burdick's desire to continue the sham.

During an appearance on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown," Burdick stuck to his claim that the hunts are real.

"You're doing a great job hyping this," said Olbermann, who several times called the Bambi phenomenon a hoax.

"Thank you," Burdick responded, smiling. Then he plugged his company's Web site.

The president of a Minnesota organization for the blind said Sunday that he believes a sighted person should have been present when three blind counselors took eight blind children on a swim outing at Lake Calhoun.

Brianna Joy Nelson, 7, of Grant, Mich., drowned Friday evening. She and the other students were attending a camp sponsored by Blind Inc., a Minneapolis company that helps children learn life skills from adult role models who, like them, are blind.

On Friday, the counselors -- two in their 20s and one in his 30s -- took the students swimming at the lake's north beach for about four hours. When they left the water about 7:15 p.m., they counted the children and discovered that Brianna was missing.

"There's no blame here -- it was just her time to go," he said. "We knew going in that the counselors were blind."

Pacific Northwest salmon have been choked off by dams, poisoned by pollution and heavily fished by sportsmen, commercial fishermen and Indian tribes.

But it is salmon farming that threatens to do the industry in.

Two decades ago more than five thousand salmon boats fished off the coasts of Oregon and Washington. Only about 500 do today.

Cheap farmed fish makes up 80 percent of the salmon sold in the United States.

Salmon farmers can assure grocery chains of all the fish they need to plan months ahead.

A Fred Meyer spokesman says the chain carries wild salmon when it can, but farm-raised is very important to meeting the year-round needs of their customers.

The fish farmers say they are just bringing modern methods to an industry that has stood still for decades.

City officials are looking into Burdick's venture and his company, Real Men Outdoor Productions Inc. The federal Bureau of Land Management also is eyeing the matter, and the nation's largest manufacturer of paintball guns has condemned Hunting for Bambi.

Burdick says his company charges up to $10,000 to stage "hunts" of nude women. The women -- mostly culled from the local adult entertainment industry -- are paid $2,500 if they do not get hit with a paintball and $1,000 if they do get hit, he said. About 20 such hunts have been sold so far, he said.

Burdick would not say where the hunts take place. Company spokesman Dave Krekelberg said they're held at locations throughout Southern Nevada, all on private land owned by investors in the company.

BLM spokesman Phil Guerrero said he doubted that such an endeavor could have received a permit to operate on federal land, which is required for any commercial enterprise. He said the federal government owns about 90 percent of the land in Clark County.

"We're sending our law enforcement people out to investigate the situation," he said.

City officials are interested in Burdick's business, too.

"If they're violating any city ordinances or business license regulations, we have to find out," said Las Vegas City Manager Doug Selby.

Burdick and Lakana Campbell, whom he described as his fiancee, incorporated Real Men Outdoor Productions in April, according to the Secretary of State's office.

Campbell applied for a business license with the city of Las Vegas last month, and received it on June 20. The license allows the business to sell videos out of the home in northwest Las Vegas that they share.

The application states there will be "no porn videos" sold.

Burdick said the video and the hunts are not pornography. "It's not a porn video by any stretch of the word," he said.

In order to operate a home-based business in the city, an applicant must submit a home occupation permit. The permit for the video sales business stipulates, among other things, that only the occupants of the house can engage in the business activity, and that all related business must be conducted "exclusively" within the house.

Burdick said the women in the videos and the hunts are independent contractors. He said he regularly uses about a dozen such women. The idea came to him months ago, inspired by success stories such as "Girls Gone Wild" and the MTV show "Jackass," he said.

Selby said the city is investigating whether the business has violated any business license rules or any city ordinances.

If so, the City Council could revoke the license, he said. But if the hunts take place outside city limits, there may be little the city can do, he acknowledged.

A search of Clark County and North Las Vegas business license records showed no business license for Burdick or for Real Men Outdoor Productions in either jurisdiction.