Editor:
The planet is running out of fresh water. International banks and private corporations are taking control of what’s left. The question of whether we should have metered water or larger catchment areas to supply a growing population doesn’t consider the fact that water has become the next oil, that for-profit pipelines and for-profit tankers are and will be transporting it from where it’s abundant to where it’s needed, that wars will be fought to control it. Do we really not realize that, if one or another corporate party, aka the Canadian government, doesn’t give it to them, the States will eventually send the marines up to B.C. to establish democracy here and secure the water supply, their water supply, from “Russian meddling”?
Should we be trained into believing that water isn’t a human right, that we don’t live in a rainforest, that the problem is our neighbours watering the lawns too much? Why hasn’t abundant water been made available to the people who live here? Why is it so difficult to solve an easy question? Every aspect of every effort to commodify this human right, to take away what G-d gave us with our navels, and sell it back to us as “a service” should, in my most humble opinion, be recognized and absolutely defeated. Live locally; act globally.
Joe Dougherty, Roberts Creek
