Intro
Mainstream Narrative:
All water on Earth arrived from outer space as ‘ice meteorites’, and is being consumed resulting in a situation of pending scarcity.
The theory of Primary Water proposes that water is formed deep within the Earth which is then forced to the surface via fissures in the Earth’s crust. The amount of water available is increasing and additional sources may be accessed readily through drilling and boring.
Brief History
At the end of the 18th century, the (Finnish-born) Swedish mineralogist A E Nordenskiold was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his ability to find fresh drinking-water by drilling through solid rocks into rock fissures. Though he died on August 12, 1901, before the Academy of Sciences had convened on the question of prizes, so his candidacy never materialized.
Nordenskiold’s father, who was chief of mining in Finland, observed that salt water did not penetrate the iron mines situated near the Finnish coast, many of which were beneath sea level, despite the fact that there was always, more or less, what miners call bad water. The logical conclusion from these observations was that, if the water in the mines was not sea water, and not present as the result of any ‘run off’ from the land, then it must arise from within the surrounding rock itself. This, combined with his extensive geological understanding, enabled him to successfully drill through solid rock and locate water bearing fissures.
Around the time of Nordenskiold’s death, a German mineralogist called Stephan Riess was born. Riess, who emigrated to the California after World War I, was the person who formulated the ‘Theory of Primary Water’. He used this term instead of existing terms such as ‘juvenile water’ or ‘new water’ for the water he finds due to its close association with primary minerals.
Riess’s theories and exploits were chronicled in what is considered to be the primary water textbook, “New Water for a Thirsty World” by University of Southern California economics professor Michael Salzman published in 1960, with a foreword by Aldous Huxley. Salzman learned of Riess as a result of numerous news articles chronicling Riess’s exploits during the 1950s. In 1957, Encyclopædia Britannica’s Book of the Year wrote the following on The “New Water” Theory of Stephan Riess: “Stephan Riess of California formulated a theory that ‘new water’ which never existed before, is constantly being formed within the earth by the combination of elemental hydrogen and oxygen and that this water finds its way to the surface, and can be located and tapped, to constitute a steady and unfailing new supply.”
As a mining engineer in the 1940s Riess had access to government and mining company assay laboratories. In order to investigate the problem of subterranean water which caused certain mines to have to be abandoned, he began taking soil and rock samples from the failed mines and submitted them to chemical analysis. Riess thereby developed a body of test data leading to a previously undetected pattern. These waters, he noted:
1. Emanated from below and surged upward, often to elevations far above the water table even in zones of no known aquifer with little precipitation, usually in hard rock.
2. Were chemically associated with Plutonic rock (which solidifies deep in the Earth where the cooling is slow and the various minerals have had time to crystallize) and not with any of the aggregate usually associated with meteoric water.
3. Traveled in a vertical or semi-vertical direction from the interior of the Earth toward the surface in hard rock faults or fissures.
By 1954, often together with drilling manager Jim Scott, Riess had sited and drilled 70 of these hard rock wells, usually located in distressed areas of little rainfall. In the midst of an extended drought in California, his work would come to the attention of news reporters, water resource bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen, farmers and industry leading to the publication of Salzman’s book in 1960. By the late 1970s, he had drilled more than 800 wells that were supplied by what he regarded as primary water.
Pal Pauer emigrated from Hungary to the US in 1956 at the age of 15 to escape from Soviet occupation. He attended Ojai, CA highschool where he met Stephan Riess who was lecturing on the science of Primary Water. After graduating he went on to College in UC Santa Barbara to take courses in Geology while doing an apprenticeship with Stephan Riess who became his mentor/teacher/well drilling partner until his death in 1985.
Pal applied what he learned about primary water and drilled more than 800 primary water wells in California and around the world. From 1961 to 2021, Pal supervised and was
involved in numerous Primary Water drilling projects in Tanzania, Kenya, Morocco, Hungary,
Mexico, the Philippines, Marshall Islands and the U.S.A. Many of these projects were in places that got little precipitation and little hope of a successful, traditional ground water well. Pal proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the earth makes water and there is plenty available to solve the global water crisis. He said, “We hear that the wars of the 21st century will be fought over water – rather than oil as in the past. Nothing holds more potential to abolish these wars – and ameliorate the shocking condition of nearly one billion people on earth without access to clean, safe water — than the science of Primary Water.”
Videos
What is Primary Water? – Interview with Dr. Stephan Riess
September 22, 1985
Dr. Stephen Riess discusses Primary Water with Dr. Wayne Weber and Ross Frazier In Escondido, California. The term Primary Water was coined by the late Dr. Stephen Riess, the geophysicist who independently discovered its existence and pioneered its development, beginning in the 1930s until his death in December 1985. Dr Riess was not aware of the earlier work done by the (Finnish-born) Swedish mineralogist A E Nordenskiold until later in his life.
Books
