Water as a Right, Not a Privilege

We have it now, it's still fresh, in ample supply (regionally at least), but for how long? What is essential to existence may simply be a privilege that we're abusing. We've all learned at some point in time that a privilege gets taken away when it's abused. It's usually taken away by some form of authority, but who's to tell us that we don't have the right to what gives us life? World Governments, World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Federation (IMF), neo-liberal globalization movement and multi-national corporations? It's our responsibility to maintain the right to obtain adequate supplies of clean water and not be owned by some private multi-billion dollar companies who profit from human necessity.

It's a shame that what's good for the economy is bad for the environment. As we spoil ourselves with disposable goods and pollute the planet at an exponential rate we loose track of what we're doing to ourselves. We get sucked in and blind sided by some marketing campaign to create needs in this age of consumerism. Take a company like McDonalds for instance, billions served with unrecyclable material, think about how much waste they've produced in their 50 year existence. Companies of this sort pollute and diminish resources while turning around and selling you the most essential source of life (water) at 2 or 3 bucks a bottle. Soft drink corporations like Pepsi and Coke are capitalizing, read the small print on a bottle of Dasani, it's owned by Coca-Cola. Even Donald Trump is involved in it, anything for a buck, like he needs any more power.

Now is the time we should be heard and do something about this. The governments of the world should come together to insure that clean water is available to all without having to buy it from some business giants. The sad part about human nature is that we take things for granted and only try to do things when it's too late. If we don't rectify what it is that's going wrong, then we're going to be in serious trouble.