Free Choice

      The topic I have chosen for this blog assignment is the industry of water privatization. While this might not sound like a huge problem, you'd be surprised on how much it affects everyone. Privatizing water resources would make companies trillions potentially, but at what cost to the everyday consumer like you and me? Water should be a basic human right provided to even the poorest of people. 

       Now the sound of charging people money to use clean water may sound immoral and unjust but it is already being done, and has been happening all over the world. For example small rural villages in Africa where they don't have the technology to purify their water must pay to use corporate wells made to generate revenue. Forcing these people to pay money to use safe water is unfathomable by some people of first world countries where water is bountiful and free. 

      The reason that this topic has gotten more recognition recently is the simple fact that we are running out of fresh drinking water. It has been estimated by the world bank, by the year 2025, which is only 10 short years away, two-thirds of the world will run out of clean water. Corporations know this and are trying to get a head start on this business as soon as they can. It has been considered as the oil of the 21st century, only thing being is that water is an irrefutable human necessity. 

link:

"http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=11865"