tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post5873376233927289476..comments2024-03-28T11:30:20.005-05:00Comments on El Salvador Perspectives: Water for El Salvador -- the preciousness of waterTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-55427951022033411952007-02-05T13:32:00.000-06:002007-02-05T13:32:00.000-06:00Reading this made me remember a nice special by th...Reading this made me remember a nice special by the BBC covering indepth the water issues the world is suffering (privatization, scarcity, quality):<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2957550.stm<br /><br />http://www.publicintegrity.org/water/report.aspx?aid=44<br /><br /><br />Here is a a UNICEF chart depicting the world's population access to water.<br /><br />http://www.unicef.org/specialsession/about/sgreport-pdf/03_SafeDrinkingWater_D7341Insert_English.pdf<br /><br />Another good article relating to the issue:<br />http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featlydersen_water.shtml<br /><br />You know one thing is guaranteeing access to water, but ufnortunately in places like El Salvador the population isn't necessarily capable enough to preserve water and it's quality. From the "elite" that tow down entire tree reserves in mountains, cities, etc. to urbanize, to the majority of the population that just waste water. So if a country like El Salvador wants to guarantee access to water it is obvious that gigantic steps have to be made in order to improve water management (demographic control to avoid overpopulation, promote population to live throughout the nation instead of converging in the few major cities as to diminish the strain on a cities resources, show how to collect rain water, ban water parks, preserve forests and promote reforestation, ban any type of mining that runs the risk of having dangerous chemicals sipping into the underground water reserves...), or else it doesn't matter if the water remains a "guarantee", because it will eventually run out or it's quality will become mortal to mankind.<br /><br />But should water remain a guarantee to all? Of course it should, and seeing how businesses world wide just care about profits and exploiting populations to maximize profits, developing nations around the world should stop such attemps by those corporate despots into submitting us any further. It is already a pain for countries like El Salvador having to deal with corrupt, parasitic, retrograde elites who place a region's whole resources at the feet of corporate tycoons for cash. I mean,could you imagine El Salvador having a 100%-200% increase in the water bill thanks to privatzation? That be a recipe for disaster (we already are one of the most expensive countries in the region).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com