| Many of us are unaware that we are currently | | | | Profit is made when these Corporations take over |
| engaged in a subversive war over our water. The | | | | the water supplies of entire areas and even |
| delicate balance of our eco-systems rest on | | | | countries. Water has been made a salable commodity |
| maintaining the homeostasis of our global weather | | | | instead of a natural resource and a human right. |
| patterns, the ratio of Oxygen and CO2, and our | | | | This means life and death on the basis of profit; |
| eco-structures. The rise in carbon emissions, | | | | those that can afford it get water, those that can't, |
| deforestation and misuse of our natural resources | | | | go without. |
| has created a breakdown in these systems. | | | | Privatization of water ownership means that |
| Our most precious natural resource, second only to | | | | corporations can charge whatever they want and |
| the air we breathe is our fresh water supply. We | | | | force poor countries into virtual slavery to rob them |
| require water in order to exist. Without it we would | | | | of their water while denying them basic sovereign |
| not survive more than a few days. But our outdated | | | | rights within their own borders. |
| laws do not encourage proper sustainable use of | | | | For example: |
| water and we are fast becoming a desert. | | | | Kenya is already being forced to use cholera |
| 97% of the Earth's water is salt water...the other 3% | | | | contaminated water. Their water is too expensive |
| is our fresh water supply and it is either too polluted | | | | for adequate use, so they are dying. The World |
| for human consumption or even human contact or it | | | | Trade Organization forces them to give their crops |
| is at risk. Chemicals used in industry, human and | | | | away for too little so that they can get water. |
| animal waste, hormones, pesticides and other | | | | Bolivians are rising up against the Transnational |
| chemicals used in agriculture have been the primary | | | | Corporations who own their water. They pay more |
| causes of water pollution. | | | | for their water than for their food. In Mexico, a |
| Chemical waste, sewage, dead animals, pesticides and | | | | well-known soft-drink (owned by Nestle, one of the |
| toxic substances go into the ground water and into | | | | three major water monopolies) is half the price of |
| the crops we eat as food. The result has been that | | | | water. |
| we've been exposed to various diseases like cancer, | | | | The Solution: the Blue alternative |
| tuberculosis, cholera, polio and many other | | | | We can save our precious water. We must take |
| toxin-caused syndromes from our water supply. | | | | back our water rights and demand that our leaders |
| An even more imminent threat is that we are mining | | | | pass legislation that protects this essential and |
| the water that is usable faster than it can be | | | | vulnerable resource. |
| replaced. A disastrous result of the disappearing | | | | We need to: |
| water table underneath populated areas like Mexico | | | | 1. Stop corporate theft of our most precious natural |
| City is that the city is slowly sinking. | | | | resource. |
| Extreme weather due to climate change also has had | | | | 2. Keep the water where it belongs. Dig holes to |
| dire consequences on how the world's water is | | | | capture the water and make small dams, like |
| distributed. Warmer weather has driven the clouds | | | | beavers, out of sticks and logs in the waterways so |
| out to sea and dumped our rainfall into the oceans | | | | that the water will pool and the aquifer will start to |
| while the interior lakes and rivers are receiving less | | | | replenish and reforestation will occur. |
| and less. | | | | 3. Localize our food systems and de-industrialize food |
| Deforestation too, contributes to soil erosion. If there | | | | and water. Boycott water monopolies. |
| are no trees to hold the soil in place water cannot | | | | 4. Turn off the tap. |
| pool correctly and we are facing a desertification | | | | 5. Use low-flow toilets low-use shower heads. Look |
| crisis. Some sources say that within 50 years the | | | | into grey water recycling. |
| world's water supply will collapse. Water will become | | | | 6. If your area does not support a lawn naturally, |
| more precious than oil. | | | | don't have one. |
| If we run out of water, we will find ourselves | | | | These are just a few of the ways that we can win |
| without the single most important resource besides | | | | the Water Wars. We can and must do more, learn |
| air that we require for survival. This has led to the | | | | moreand take action to prevent another |
| ensuing war over water or Blue Gold. | | | | short-sighted casualty of this War at the hands of |
| Big Business knows how precarious is our fresh | | | | our apathy and private corporate self-interest. |
| water and have been co-opting the right to treat, | | | | We the People must be the custodians and guardians |
| bottle and move water and turn a profit thereby. | | | | of our water supply. |