Gold Rush to Oil Wars to Commercialisation of Water!

3% of all the water on earth is deemed to be fresh water. Meaning that less than that by now is drinkable and without pollutants. Sadly water is has been seen by industry as a valuable and there saleable product. A commodity to profit from at the cost of all life on this earth.

“I am blue, I am blue, and unwell” – Joanna Newson

Not only is it the developing countries that are suffering from a water crisis, even the rich countries like America have contaminated water. Worried by mecurary levels in your water, according from this report, you should be.

When I say that companies are profiting from water to the detriment of mankind, I think we can all easily conclude, why waste so much energy in bottling, transporting and selling water, that from the most part is the same that comes out of our (in the developed world’s) taps.

If this were of course our only problem, then smiles all round, as it is easy to fix. The real problem lies in the cartels that ‘own’ water around the world. The $400 billion industry is a mighty one… where the is money their is corruption. If anything was to worry me, then it would be knowing that reportedly, 40% of the water supply industry in the world is already owned by two companies, RWE and Suez. French based Suez operates in 130 countries and turnovers $70 billion a year (source: Public Citizen). That’s a whole lot of water to be in the hands of so few, when all of life on earth exists solely because of water.

Let’s hope that politically there is the power indeed the willingness to say no to industry where it destroys our natural gifts and protection defeats exploitation.

To find our more about this please visit the blue planet

Check out this video as well.

Other Articles of interest are
Maude Barlow on the global movement for water justice

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