We as humans have put ourselves at the top of the food chain, with the thought that we are invincible but the truth is we aren't. One of our main resource we need to survive is disappearing right in front of our eyes. Water, it is the very essence that allows us to live this "invincible" life of ours, but everyday it is something we poison, pollute, abuse, and misuse. We are blind to the things that are being done to our water supply, we drink and use without thought as to where it is coming from and where it will go after. Water at one point was something the people controlled before big corporations decided to capitalize on that also. In the documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars it explains and shows how the corporations take our water and control it, selling it back to us at a much higher rate as well as polluting the water that was fine before forced privatization. These corporations that control the water have a mindset of not really caring about the people but more about getting money and nothing more. In the article The Privatization of Water: Nestlé Denies that Water is a Fundamental Human Right by Kevin Samson he give a little light on how big CEOs really feel about water and the people, the chairman of Nestle Peter Brabeck-Letmathe states that water is not a human right. This statement clearly shows their actions are not about what's best for the people but what is best for their pockets, it is shown in their treatment in water once they do make contracts with companies. They do shortcuts and don't clean the water as well as they promise leading to the people getting dirty unsafe water. Once a water source is all dry they begin to pump the underground aquifers, taking till there is no more. These damaging things are happening under our nose effecting us the people living on the land, while the companies are siting here unaffected making money off our doomed futures.
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