Drink the tap water!
Here we are, in a country with abundant fresh water supplies and we wind up drinking bottled water! If we do not start drinking our tap water again, and if we do not continue to lobby for public water fountains in public buildings we will loose our drinking water infrastructure and we will have to rely on water sellers just like people in slums all over the world do!
In the US;
Via: Keeping Cool, Clear Tap WaterPipes and tunnels are aging fast with many of these subterranean networks nearly a century old. In 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that it would take nearly $277 billion to keep the nation’s water distribution systems up to par over the next 20 years. That is a lot of money. And to get the necessary federal, state and local funds, it will take a lot of public support for a system people blissfully take for granted.
The fear is that if too many people convert to bottled water, there would be even less political support for such spending. The last thing America needs is two water streams — one for the rich and another for the rest of us.
That’s brilliant! Add in the energy/packaging/marketing used to get that bottle of water to your fridge and it’s a convincing argument!
Comment by mike — August 19, 2007 @ 12:27 am
Yup!
Comment by Administrator — August 19, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Right on Tracey! Water exports (and resource privatization) are on the agenda and need to be stopped.
Comment by Beijing York — August 23, 2007 @ 3:25 pm