Mark Burr | Earth Creates Water: The Science They Buried and the Man Who Dug It Up | Part 1 of 2

What if the water crisis is a lie. Not a misunderstanding. Not a policy failure. A lie. What if the planet you are standing on is generating water right now, deep in the rock beneath your feet, rising through fractures that crack open every single day from the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon, and the reason you do not know about it is that someone decided a long time ago that you should not.

Mark Burr is the CEO of Primary Water Technologies. A man who served four years in the United States Marine Corps, earned a degree in Middle East Studies with Phi Beta Kappa honors, worked for the World Bank, spent years as a State Department diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad during the war in Iraq, and then one day discovered a paradigm so old and so thoroughly buried that the people who tried to advance it were dragged into court and defeated not by science but by bond measures and political machines.

The paradigm is this. In 1934, a German mining engineer named Stephan Riess hand-dug a well in El Dorado Canyon, Nevada. He had watched water pour out of mine walls his entire career, water that could not be pumped out, water that came from somewhere no rainfall could reach. When they struck the well, the crew had to scramble out of the hole to avoid drowning. The water came up free-flowing and has never stopped. Riess looked at what he had done and said four words. The Earth creates water.

He spent the next 51 years proving it. He located over 750 documented wells around the world. He went to Israel and struck flows sufficient for 100,000 people in a valley where geologists said there was nothing. He saved the Sparklets water company in California in 1953 by telling them to drill deeper, and those wells are still producing today under the Danone Group, more than 70 years later. He testified before the United States Senate. He offered to locate primary water wells along the entire future route of the California Aqueduct. He was thrown into court. The bond passed. The aqueduct was built. And Riess spent the rest of his life in Escondido being called a crank by the people who built a multi-billion-dollar water delivery system that is now failing.

Mark Burr found Riess's story on the internet and spent six months in due diligence before concluding it was real. What he found was not just a theory. It was a suppression. A peer-reviewed 2006 collection of geophysical studies describes a 400-mile-deep hydro zone inside the earth where hydrogen and oxygen combine under extreme pressure to produce water. Geophysicist Steven Jacobsen at Northwestern University has said the potential exists for more water inside the earth than in all the oceans. NASA found that the largest asteroid in the solar system is 50 percent water by volume. A moon of Saturn produced a hydrothermal fountain three times its own diameter. The earth is a water-generating planet, and the technology to find that water now exists.

Burr uses a gamma ray scintillation counter developed in Bavaria, tracing its lineage to a NASA scientist brought to America under Operation Paperclip, and a passive seismic profiling device built by a Russian engineer from the Leningrad School of Mines, patented in the United States in 2002. Together, those two instruments can pinpoint a water-bearing fracture zone before a single drill bit touches the ground. And when they both confirm the same spot, the equation is simple. One plus one equals H2O.

Tonight we are going to talk about the science that was buried, the politics that buried it, the technology that may finally dig it back up, and the man who crossed battlefields and boardrooms to get here.