by Robert Mckenna

Created on: March 08, 2010

Water is more precious than gold, platinum, or diamonds; the value of water is equal to the value of life. Life is man’s most precious gift from which all achievements are derived and water is necessary to sustain human existence. However, the now fortuitous words from a poem by Samual Taylor Colridge come to mind, “Water, water, everywhere but not a drop to drink.”

The contamination of so many of the Worlds Rivers is easy to blame on greed and indifference of big business. It is evident, large corporations reap larger profits by dumping raw waste into the rivers and streams without the expense of removing heavy metals, carcinogens, and a literally endless array of destructive types of water soluble chemical waste, but the savings in the form of financial gains, are not passed on to the communities downstream. 

Only the waste and the poisons soluble in water go downstream, into the ecosystem, and ultimately to the top of the food chain, humankind.

There was time when companies and scientists were slow to recognize even small amounts of certain chemicals have irreversible and sometimes deadly effects on people and food stocks. That time has passed. To point fingers now, at who caused the river and surface water problems is a waste of money and energy. 

The same conglomerates that were part of the problem are very much an intricate part of the solution, without which our world would be past the point of no return.

Water is present on 71% of the earth. Every day over a billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and two billion people on our planet live with drinking water, which measured by any standards, fail to meet minimum safety and health requirements. 

Billions of people drink water that is a haven for disease, which is killing thousands daily, and causing over a million children not to be born, as a result from mothers who did not have access to safe drinking water.[1]

A 2006 United Nations report claimed there is enough water for everyone, but that access to it is hampered by mismanagement and corruption.[2] This situation will change for the worse. Weather conditions, blamed on Global Warming, are changing drought patterns around the world. 

Hurricanes and natural weather related disasters are on the rise. Those people who refuse to look at Global Warming as anything but a myth, or a fraud to frighten people into moving away from fossil fuels, must admit that for

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