I pay for water, most people pay for water, unless you have a well and pump it
yourself. Why is it that an absolute necessity of life has to cost something? For
that matter why is it that food is not free too? For the same reasons, I suppose,
that we are all required to work and pay for the priviledge. This world truly does
suck, unless you have a LOT of money, that is.
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Nurev Ind Research wrote:
>
> Subject:
> sell water
> Date:
> Wed, 17 May 2000 22:45:43 -0400
> From:
> Nurev Ind Research <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization:
> Nurev Independent Research
> ==========================================================================
>
> >From - Sat Mar 21 21:12:14 1998
>
> Chirac: Water May No Longer Be Free
>
> By CHRISTOPHER BURNS
> .c The Associated Press
>
> PARIS (AP) - Unable to pry major new funding from richer countries, a U.N.
> conference on water meeting in Paris has suggested it may be time to admit
> that water can no longer be provided for free in many countries.
>
> French President Jacques Chirac, the keynote speaker at the U.N. Conference on
> Water and Sustainable Development, said the world's water shortage will worsen
> without dramatic change.
>
> ``Are we going to allow the 21st century to be the century of water wars?'' he
> said Friday.
>
> But even Chirac, who initially proposed the 84-nation conference, offered in
> his keynote speech only vague technical, training and construction assistance
> and no major government programs.
>
> Chirac estimated that $400 billion is needed to head off the millions of
> deaths every year from a lack of clean drinking water. He called for new ways
> to encourage ``collective investment by guaranteeing sufficient returns.''
>
> [Note:``collective investment by guaranteeing sufficient returns.'' means
> make water a commodity from which investors can profit. It is bad enough
> that we allowed much of the world's food supply to be turned into a
> mere profit item for corporate investors, now they have their sights
> set on water. Does this mean if you have no money to buy water, you can
> just go ahead and die of thirst? Because in market capitalism, if you
> don't have the money to buy from abundant supplies of food, you can just
> go ahead and starve. -- Joshua2 ]
>
> At a news conference, a panel of officials avoided specifics but underlined a
> controversial new concept in many countries: that water can't be free anymore.
>
> Sekou Toure, high commissioner for water in the Ivory Coast, said ``people at
> least have to pay something for water service'' but added that any new burden
> should be gradual to stave off rioting over water.
>
> ``It's almost impossible for us to provide water for free. It is not
> sustainable,'' he said.
>
> The three-day conference at the Paris headquarters of the U.N. Educational
> Scientific and Cultural Organization aims to work out strategies to improve
> water quality and use the vanishing resource more efficiently. The conference
> was to end Saturday.
>
> At least 5 million people die each year as a result of filthy drinking water -
> and that the toll will worsen without action, officials said. A recent World
> Bank report found that only 40 percent of the world's population has enough
> water.
>
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