[kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

[woody2shooz]

hehe, last time I was in Whistler the resort was sponsored by 
Evian...water water everywhee

sade1 wrote:

> / ~~ "WATER is our business..." ~~/

>  

>   US CORPORATIONS ARE PRESENTLY TRYING TO PRIVATISE THE WATER

> IN CANADIA IN ORDER TO BUY IT AND SHIP IT SOUTH. 

> READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE. 

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> */GREG SLAWSON <gregslawson at msn.com>/* wrote:

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>         Subject: [grunder] Water will be source of war unless world

>         acts now, warns minister

>         From: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu

>         Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:25:51 -0500

>         To: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu

>

>

>           Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns

>           minister

>

>         By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent

>         /Saturday, 22 March 2008/

>         The world faces a future of 'water wars', unless action is

>         taken to prevent international water shortages and sanitation

>         issues escalating into conflicts, according to Gareth Thomas,

>         the International Development minister.

>

>         The minister's warning came as a coalition of 27 international

>         charities marked World Water Day, by writing to Gordon Brown

>         demanding action to give fresh water to 1.1 billion people

>         with poor supplies. 'If we do not act, the reality is that

>         water supplies may become the subject of international

>         conflict in the years ahead,' said Mr Thomas. 'We need to

>         invest now to prevent us having to pay that price in the future.'

>         His department warned that two-thirds of the world's

>         population will live in water-stressed countries by 2025. The

>         stark prediction comes after the Prime Minister said in his

>         national security strategy that pressure on water was one of

>         the factors that could help countries 'tip into instability,

>         state failure or conflict'.

>         The coalition of charities has appealed for a global effort to

>         bring running water to the developing world and supply

>         sanitation to a further 2.6 billion people. It said

>         international action was needed to prevent competition for

>         water destabilising communities and escalating into conflicts.

>         In their letter, the campaigners say: 'Tackling the water and

>         sanitation crisis is essential if the 'Millennium Development

>         Goal Call to Action' is to be a success, otherwise progress on

>         health, education and environmental sustainability will be

>         undermined. Each year 443 million school days are lost

>         globally to diarrhoea and 1.8 million children die

>         unnecessarily from these diseases.

>         'Investing in sanitation and water brings the greatest public

>         health gains of any single development intervention and

>         delivers huge economic returns. The G8 would do well to heed

>         the development history of east Asian countries that put

>         tackling these issues at the forefront of their national

>         development efforts.'

>         Ministers agree the world needs to take urgent action to avoid

>         missing Millennium Development Goals to halve the proportion

>         of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. That

>         target should be met, although progress has been limited in

>         sub-Saharan Africa.

>         Mr Brown's security strategy said 'rising temperatures

>         together with extreme weather will increase pressures on water

>         supplies'. It went on: 'A growing and increasingly urbanised

>         global population will increase demand for food and water, at

>         the same time as climate change and other trends put greater

>         pressure on their supply.

>         'Already well over 1 billion people suffer from water

>         shortages and 30 countries get more than a third of their

>         water from outside their borders. With climate change, those

>         figures are likely to grow, increasing the possibility of

>         disputes.'

>         Charlie Kronick, senior climate adviser at Greenpeace, said

>         the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, most of south Asia and

>         western South America were at risk of water shortages if

>         global warming continues.

>         'There is no doubt that climate change is going to be

>         potentially the biggest source of water stress,' he said. 'If

>         average global temperatures go more than two degrees above

>         pre-industrial levels you are looking at 2 to 3 billion people

>         potentially suffering water shortages. It's a pretty serious

>         business.'

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