all these words

I watched the documentary Flow: For the Love of Water last night and although it spoke of things that I already know to be true and opened my eyes to some astounding things.

1. Clean water is a human right.

2. Water privatization is not feasible in the underdeveloped countries that are in the most desperate need of water.  Yes, the provision of clean water to undeveloped countries sounds extremely benevolent, but when people are forced to pay an inflated price for water that may or may not even be clean that is nothing short of corruption.  

3.  Bottled water is the same, if not worse, than tap water.  Research has found that some brands of bottled water are not from “mountain springs” or “ice glaciers’ but is just water from the tap or even worse, from groundwater wells or industrial parks. Also, plastic bottles are not a renewable resource. So think twice before you buy bottled!

4. Large water-bottling companies are exploiting natural resources by over-pumping water from wells, leading to degradation of water bodies and to depletion of wildlife habitats.

Nestle bought wilderness in Michigan and has been pumping and bottling Pure Life water causing streams to dry and fauna to die. 

The Coca-Cola bottling plant in India depleted water needed for drinking and for growing food crops. With limited water, food crops cannot be expected to grow abundantly.  To correct this, Coca-Cola distributed “free fertilizer”, but it was later found to contain lead-tainted toxic wastes. 

5. “Water for people, not for profit.”

6.  Thousands of man-made made chemicals- in the form of detergents, cleaning products, cosmetics, and medicines- are flushed into our water system, are “recycled” and reenter our daily water supply, which we consume either through ingestion or through dermal absorption. 

Atrazine, is a herbicide used on U.S. food crops.  The chemical is made in Switzerland, where it is banned because of its toxicity level… shouldn’t that tell us something?  University studies on Atrazine found that male frogs were being emasculated and becoming female! In human males, Atrazine has been found to show to a decline in sperm count. 

In Texas, high concentrations of the chemicals found in Prozac has been found in the tissue of fish.  

7. There is a petition to the UN for the addition of Article 31 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  

Article 31 states, “Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstance.” 

“Water is a right, not a privilege.”

You can view/sign the petition here: http://www.article31.org/

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