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Nov. 21st, 2006
All your water are belong to us
Nov. 21st, 2006 03:51 pmIt's been another one of those mornings where I wake up and hear something on the news that makes me wonder where exactly the dividing line between "it's all going to hell" and "we're actually living in a dystopia" lies. Today, it had to do with water. As some of you know, Vancouver and the surrounding area are under a boiled water advisory after a bad storm turned up sediment in the municipal water supply, leading to a steady steam of ick flowing out of people's taps. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frandroid posted a nice comment the other day from Brad Bellemare of Edmonton:
On the radio, a fellow from the Polaris Institute and a woman from a bottled water manufacturers association were debating the virtues of bottled vs. tap water. She was wonderfully evasive (the host asked, "Is bottled water 'pure,' as the manufacturers claim?" and her response was, "Bottled water is regulated as a food product.") The phrase "public and private water supply" was tossed around quite a bit (*waves at Bolivia*), as was the line, "water is increasingly a luxury item."
Ummm...what? Since when? When did this sort of discourse become commonplace, and why are the challenges to it so fainthearted?
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2000:
Family members weep over the body of a
dead protester after a massive strike over
increasing water rates.
The story ended with a plug for something called BlingH20—water that sells for $40 a bottle. I thought it was a joke—this was The Current on CBC, and they've been known to air satirical ads and such. But Google is my friend, and thus I present to you something truly disgusting.
frandroid posted a nice comment the other day from Brad Bellemare of Edmonton: Boo-hoo..for all the complaints in BC. Go to many Reserves in Canada where boiling water is just a daily fact of life.Naturally, unsafe water is a reality for most of the world—and increasingly so.
This is just a little taste of the third world conditions that the Canadian Government has allowed to happen on many reserves.
Perhaps this type of outrage should be reflected for all Canadians not just the ones that face this once every 20 years. (Source.)
On the radio, a fellow from the Polaris Institute and a woman from a bottled water manufacturers association were debating the virtues of bottled vs. tap water. She was wonderfully evasive (the host asked, "Is bottled water 'pure,' as the manufacturers claim?" and her response was, "Bottled water is regulated as a food product.") The phrase "public and private water supply" was tossed around quite a bit (*waves at Bolivia*), as was the line, "water is increasingly a luxury item."
Ummm...what? Since when? When did this sort of discourse become commonplace, and why are the challenges to it so fainthearted?
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2000:
Family members weep over the body of a
dead protester after a massive strike over
increasing water rates.
The story ended with a plug for something called BlingH20—water that sells for $40 a bottle. I thought it was a joke—this was The Current on CBC, and they've been known to air satirical ads and such. But Google is my friend, and thus I present to you something truly disgusting.
All your water are belong to us
Nov. 21st, 2006 03:51 pmIt's been another one of those mornings where I wake up and hear something on the news that makes me wonder where exactly the dividing line between "it's all going to hell" and "we're actually living in a dystopia" lies. Today, it had to do with water. As some of you know, Vancouver and the surrounding area are under a boiled water advisory after a bad storm turned up sediment in the municipal water supply, leading to a steady steam of ick flowing out of people's taps. frandroid posted a nice comment the other day from Brad Bellemare of Edmonton:
On the radio, a fellow from the Polaris Institute and a woman from a bottled water manufacturers association were debating the virtues of bottled vs. tap water. She was wonderfully evasive (the host asked, "Is bottled water 'pure,' as the manufacturers claim?" and her response was, "Bottled water is regulated as a food product.") The phrase "public and private water supply" was tossed around quite a bit (*waves at Bolivia*), as was the line, "water is increasingly a luxury item."
Ummm...what? Since when? When did this sort of discourse become commonplace, and why are the challenges to it so fainthearted?
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2000:
Family members weep over the body of a
dead protester after a massive strike over
increasing water rates.
The story ended with a plug for something called BlingH20—water that sells for $40 a bottle. I thought it was a joke—this was The Current on CBC, and they've been known to air satirical ads and such. But Google is my friend, and thus I present to you something truly disgusting.
frandroid posted a nice comment the other day from Brad Bellemare of Edmonton: Boo-hoo..for all the complaints in BC. Go to many Reserves in Canada where boiling water is just a daily fact of life.Naturally, unsafe water is a reality for most of the world—and increasingly so.
This is just a little taste of the third world conditions that the Canadian Government has allowed to happen on many reserves.
Perhaps this type of outrage should be reflected for all Canadians not just the ones that face this once every 20 years. (Source.)
On the radio, a fellow from the Polaris Institute and a woman from a bottled water manufacturers association were debating the virtues of bottled vs. tap water. She was wonderfully evasive (the host asked, "Is bottled water 'pure,' as the manufacturers claim?" and her response was, "Bottled water is regulated as a food product.") The phrase "public and private water supply" was tossed around quite a bit (*waves at Bolivia*), as was the line, "water is increasingly a luxury item."
Ummm...what? Since when? When did this sort of discourse become commonplace, and why are the challenges to it so fainthearted?
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2000:
Family members weep over the body of a
dead protester after a massive strike over
increasing water rates.
The story ended with a plug for something called BlingH20—water that sells for $40 a bottle. I thought it was a joke—this was The Current on CBC, and they've been known to air satirical ads and such. But Google is my friend, and thus I present to you something truly disgusting.