In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.
Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.
We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive? [source - Blue Gold Water Wars]
"This is a term devised by environmentalists for a type of conflict (most probably a form of (guerilla warefare) due to an acute shortage of water for drinking and irrigation. About 40 per cent of the world’s populations are already affected to some degree, but population growth, climate change and rises in living standards will worsen the situation: the U.N Environment Agency warns that almost 3 billion people will be severely short of water within 50 years. Possible flash points have been predicted in the Middle East, parts of Africa and in many of the world’s major river basins, including the Danube. The term has been used for some years to describe disputes in the southern and south-western United States over rights to water extraction from rivers and aquifers." --Michael Quinion, World Wide Words, 1996-2006
We can’t live without water. You may have thought it was a human right. But certain corporations have been plotting to control the water supply on this planet for a while now, and have been moving into place around the globe. Now the World Bank has required certain governments to privatize their precious water supply -- make it a corporate commodity answerable only to stockholders -- as a condition to getting a loan. In some places it is now illegal to catch rainwater, because rain is being considered private property, including the United States. The evil of this worldwide corporate grab for control of your most precious resource is practically inconceivable, but it is happening.
Blue Gold: World Water Wars is a landmark documentary that every school, library and church should own and show. Do you want the cost of your water to be controlled by private corporations and stockholders only interested in their bottom line? Do you want to give up your right to the water around you, including rain? It is time to get educated and get active. Start with this film.
"Over the past few years, we have been faced with more and more of our government's failures. Blue Gold points out another failure with our responsibility to nature, and the audacity to seek and destroy other planets like Mars by colonization, including the October 9th scheduled bombing of the moon. From anger to tears to out crying out loud...a movie you must watch!" - Phoenix
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"My friend Pholus recommended I watch this movie. I responded to him via email, that I enjoyed the movie, but felt the "fear" instilling was a bit much...as if we were to run out of water...."
ReplyDeleteThis was his response:
Well, of course we're not going to run out of "water" per se. It's the world's supply of "fresh water" that is the subject. I've been hunting down a bunch of articles about the Bush Family land grabs of over a 100,000 acres in Paraguay and am reminded of Cheney's endeavors to set up corporations in Iraq just prior to the current war we are having there now when he was stonewalled by the Iraqis.
Its all about CORPORATE control of all the world's resources, whether it be food, oil, land, materials for building and clothing or now, water. About the only resource still not bottled and listed on the Stock Market is breathable oxygen.
Sure, fear is a part of the shaking up process. I am with you on not appreciating the constant screaming "THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL US" from the fear-mongerers, but one has to figure out what is the best way to get the information out to the people of the world in order to become "Aware" of what is going on, then the people themselves can best decide what to do with the information, whether it be meditate and visualize, rally a protest, or like some South Americans recently, TAKE BACK their country from the hands of corporate interests. Its really hard, sure, to find the balance in all this, and yes, we do suffer from INFORMATION OVERLOAD, as individuals. I got no job, my money is finite, the country is bankrupt and just continuing to dig itself deeper and deeper into debt and we will be enslaved to this economy for the next 200 years or more if nothing dramatic takes place. What will that Drama be? We have clues, i.e., the Webbot, Mayan Calendar, and other sources, and we do indeed see them unfolding, so we can take some solace in that, and simply hold on tight and wait for the rollercoaster ride come to a full and complete stop. LOL.