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Millions of children under five die every year due to toxic germ-infested unsafe drinking water. This means that almost four babies a minute die from a lack of water according to UN-Water’s estimations. In the 2014 World Water Report released on the eve of World Water Day, the UN said that 768 million people do not have adequate access to water, 2.5 billion do not have access to improved sanitation. Among the deprived are a significant number of people in Detroit. It would seem that the problems of the third world are being visited upon Detroit and soon the rest of the country.
Obama has taken American taxpayer funds to bail out the privately owned General Motors. Obama has helped himself to the same pot of money and has devastated this country by bailing out key Wall Street businesses (e.g. Goldman Sachs). However, when it comes to helping 700,000 residents of Detroit, they are not worthy of anObama bailout, even when their health and their very lives are being put in danger by severe third world economic conditions that are currently present in Detroit.
Beware of the UN Takeover of American Water Supplies
An Environmental Protection Agency draft proposal could end up allowing the agency to regulate bodies of water, no matter how small, located on private property.
The proposal is intended to clarify the EPA’s regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act.
While the EPA argues that the rulemaking is necessary to clear up uncertainties left in the wake of two Supreme Court rulings, Republicans argue that the agency’s action could amount to one of the biggest private property grabs in history.
EPA clean water rule could extend agency’s reach over private property
originally posted by: intrepid
As we share about 25% of the worlds renewable water, I'm more afraid of America trying to take over the Great Lakes. If it hasn't started already.
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A provision of the Great Lakes Compact allows water to be diverted from the basin if it is in containers holding less than 5.7 gallons. The question is whether bottling water from the aquifers that feed the lakes, the largest repository of fresh water on Earth, should be seen as ordinary human consumption, commercial production, or export of a treasured natural resource.
In August, Nestle Waters North America was granted permits for a new well and pipeline at its Ice Mountain facility in Mecosta County, Mich., where it bottles 700,000 gallons a day. Nestle also recently renewed permits for its plant in Guelph, Ontario. Both have sparked vocal opposition from those who say the industry is privatizing a public good and harming the environment
originally posted by: Kali74
The UN can't do anything about the water shut-offs in Detroit except tsk-tsk the situation and donate bottled water. What's really concerning though is the corporate take over of water such as Nestle still drawing water from California aquifers as hundreds have run out of tap water.
A United Nations team of experts said Wednesday that Detroit officials’ decision to shut off water service to thousands of residents who are late in paying bills is an affront to human rights.
“Disconnection of water services because of failure to pay due to lack of means constitutes a violation of the human right to water and other international human rights,” the U.N. officials said in a news release. “Because of a high poverty rate and a high unemployment rate, relatively expensive water bills in Detroit are unaffordable for a significant portion of the population.”
The U.N. assessment comes days after a coalition of welfare rights groups — including the Detroit People’s Water Board, Food and Water Watch and Canada-based Blue Planet Project — pleaded in an open letter for the world body to intervene.
UN panel: Detroit water cutoffs violate human rights
originally posted by: LOSTinAMERICA
Beward of dead U.N. troops trying.
originally posted by: Kali74What's really concerning though is the corporate take over of water such as Nestle still drawing water from California aquifers as hundreds have run out of tap water.
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: xuenchen
But what about any future (or existing) treaties?
Have to be ratified...
originally posted by: xuenchen
The U.N. assessment comes days after a coalition of welfare rights groups — including the Detroit People’s Water Board, Food and Water Watch and Canada-based Blue Planet Project — pleaded in an open letter for the world body to intervene.
UN panel: Detroit water cutoffs violate human rights