Water
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| Interest of | • European Policy Forum • Globalisation Institute • Institute for Public Policy Research • Robert F. Kennedy Jr • World Resources Institute |
| Subpage(s) | •Water/Fluoridation |
| The most basic resource needed for life, and unavailable to more than 1 billion people worldwide. :-( ... | |
Water is essential for life.
Contents
Scarcity
More than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water.[1] Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the Chairman and former CEO of Nestlé, stated that the answer to global water issues is privatization and that "access to water is not a public right".[2]
Threats
Fracking can poison aquifers.
Global North
A 2016 paper in Environmental Science & Technology Letters claimed that millions of US citizens have been drinking toxic water for years.[3]
Fluoridation
- Full article: Water/Fluoridation
- Full article: Water/Fluoridation
In many countries, fluoride salts are deliberately added to drinking water in an apparent effort to improve dental health. This policy however is coming under increasing focus as a cause for concern after the systemic toxicity of fluoride is becoming better understood.
Global South
Ecological damage has let to the lowering of water tables and pollution of aquifers worldwide. This has often increased the profits of a few global trans national companies, by imperilling the drinking water of large numbers of rural people and encouraged their migration to cities.
Related Quotation
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| Murray Rothbard | “It has always been a bit of mystery to me why left-environmentalists, who shriek in horror at a bit of Alar on apples, who cry "cancer" even more absurdly than the boy cried "Wolf," who hate every chemical additive known to man, still cast their benign approval upon fluoride, a highly toxic and probably carcinogenic substance. And not only let fluoride emissions off the hook, but endorse uncritically the massive and continuing dumping of fluoride into the nation's water supply.” | Murray Rothbard | 1993 |
