A World Without Water 1/8

Every day 300,000 children die due to lack of water and poor sanitation. Billions of people do not have access to safe water. Environmental change threatens to make this situation worse but a more immediate danger is emerging. Control of the world's water is falling into the hands of the rich and water may soon take the place of oil as the world's most tradeable - and coveted - commodity - not a basic human right. In a future when market forces set the price of a glass of water, will many more people will be left too poor to drink?

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Education

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• world
• without
• water
• documentary
• h2o
• future
• climate
• change
• environment
• global
• warming
• corporation
• organization

[numbnuts234567]

The total death rate for the entire world is about 160,500 people per day. So...how could 300,000 children die each day from lack of water and poor sanitation?

[gerrenx7]

This world, this society that we live in is slowly approaching its boiling point

[EpicRose123]

so sad! especially the girl without friends.

[AquasafeSystems1]

very compelling!

[3muskatatas]

@gerrenx7 haha, i see what you did there.

[twphanley]

Water is not a commodity to be bought or sold. That is like saying that they will eventually put a price on oxygen!

[AskTheBible]

We must all realize that the grip of this world system plans to damn us all to the same reality. We must fight injustice or be victims of corporate colonialism.

[triflind]

woman from detroit needs to sell some of that gold...and all over the world...if you can't support children , quit having them!!!

[sauticml]

@QuantumQuacks - it is often healty to have biases. I am biased against the inhumane nature of capiitalism. I am biased toward a system that made itself rich on the backs and resources of the very countries it now trots besuited businesspeople into to "save". Here, bias is required just as a gazelle is biased against a lioness (in a way). Micro-finance has done some great things for people, clearly, but it does not solve the bigger issue of resource exploitation and WTO/IMF/WB coercion.

[domdadon018]

for sure, big companys always cared about the ppls wealthy...this is fully shit, the only care for their bank-accounts is important! watch interview with nestlé CEO