Water Is The Most Important Natural Source

As water becomes a more scarce resource across the globe due to climate change, water is shifting away from a human right into a commodity. A commodity, meaning a good, or service that needs to be bought into the capitalist economic system. Privatization is one way of attempting to solve the water crisis, which the U.N. has dealt with since the 1990s. It is estimated, “40 % of the world’s citizens do not have dependable access to potable water

Water, like food, is a necessity for human life that is used for many purposes such as agricultural, industrial, and domestic systems. While water is a common element around the world not all of it is clean and able to be consumed or used by humans. With only a percentage of the world’s water being clean and the use of water increasing, the availability of water around the world has become a common issue in the developing and even the developed world. This may be a smaller problem in areas close to clean water sources compared to areas far from a clean water source but, the availability of water is not strictly based on location, it also depends on the specific political and social needs and issues of the area as well. These all become issues that must be accounted for when deciphering whether water is a basic human right or a commodity and what action must be taken to aid the developing water systems in community’s that lack them.

The inequality when it comes to water scarcity is unacceptable and it does not meet the criteria for Reasonable Access to Clean water for multiple reasons. It is believed that 780million people lack access to clean water and another 2.5 Billion people lack access to improved sanitation (so they only have enough to drink and nothing else). Reasonable access to clean water should mean that water is offered at the lowest possible price so that more people can afford it but it is often in the poorest countries that the water they need is more expensive and harder to access and it is often due to avoidable causes.

Water is not a free good. In fact, it’s expensive. These conditions lead to awareness of water management challenges.

In today’s society the value of water is greatly underappreciated, this is probably due to the lack of education across the globe. We abuse water as if it is an infinite resource, while at the same time not individually being responsible for solutions to the waste of water. In this essay I will provide a summary of the chapter that was assigned to me. I will also discuss the chapter by focusing on its core argument, explaining how supporting arguments are constructed around the core argument, and describing what kinds of evidence are used to support these lines of argumentation. The chapter that I was assigned was chapter five, which was the topic of water.

Water is a human right can be interpreted in many ways, but the most common interpretation is that people should have access to clean water. Despite that access to clean water may sound logical and ideally, it is still an issue. Because access to clean water is problematic, activist groups such as the US Human Rights Network (USHRN), “a national coalition, comprised of over 160 groups and individuals working on the human rights to water and sanitation throughout the United States,” exist to establish clean and accessible water in the world (USHRN: #WaterIsAHumanRight). The US Human Rights Network works on a local and national level that represents “urban, rural, and indigenous communities” throughout the states (USHRN: #WaterIsAHumanRight).

When a water supply becomes scarce, the population can loose confidence in the government’s ability to provide basic needs. The first possible result of this is for the citizens to rebel and attempt to overthrow the government.7 The second possible result is that the population can choose to migrate.8 Globalization, through improvements technology, has made migration easier.9 However, large migration can lead to increased conflict, disease, or over consumption of raw materials.10 Rebellion and migration strain regional stability. Water scarcity greatly affects regional security and has serious implications for US national

Economic relations and resource management, 2. Ideology and culture including the way people think about the environment and water rights, 3.political agents like the state, transnational actors and organizations involved in water disputes and trade 4.the transnational social movements which endorse and resist water privatization, and 5.the power relations which engender unequal access to safe water (Bywater, 2008).

Worldwide one point one billion people live in countries that do not have access to clean safe water according to the Cato Institute. Yet with this, Cato goes on to state that it is due to bad policies that currently stand in the way. In essence Cato is arguing that privatizing the water industry would reduce that. “Cherrapunji, India, the wettest place on earth, suffers from recurrent water shortages” Cato continues with the theme of laying out logical explanations as to why water is alright to be privatized. Their use of this compels the reader to follow the train of thought and beginning looking t the benefits. If the policies in India have led to the wettest place on Earth suffering from water shortages under public policy, we would be

Water competition is growing, and it is becoming a economic problem. Government and companies started to treat water as a far more precious resource than they have in the past. Some companies have already worked with the Nature Conservancy to protect freshwater sources in Latin America. Some countries have built industries in desalination to tackle its own water scarcity problems. Companies face risks to their reputation—they need to consider how their use of water will be viewed by the communities around them.

Water is one of the most basic human needs. Many nations and traditions, in fact, consider water a human right. If water rights are handed over to entities whose declared purpose is to maximize profits rather than to serve the public good, hundreds of millions — perhaps billions — of people will be elbowed out of their access to water. Multinational corporations are quick to argue that market forces would bring more efficiency to water systems. But the bottom line is that water resources by their very public nature require public oversight to ensure that people, not profits, come

The water crises revolving around privatization of municipalities, and bottled water needs to be addressed in a more comprehensive approach. A more integrated solution for water should account for an adequate supply of clean water and that water can be equitably accessed worldwide. In addition, the impacts of climate on the quality and quantity of fresh water needs to be factored in. There is uncertainty in what this might look like and who would be the best manager of this. As of right now it is almost certain the water policies of today will cause geopolitical conflict in the near future. To clarify, water wars have already begun, but more conflict on a larger scale is likely to happen if policies do not change. Therefore it is urgent that water policies adjust into a more ethical framework. An important question to ponder is, “Will social change concerning water use come through technological innovation or through cultural and value change, or some combination?” This question is imperative in how one should be constructing their viewpoint for creating difference in water policy and where one should go from here.

Water is a human right, not a commodity. It is the essence of life, sustaining every living being on the planet. Without it we would have no plants, no animals, no people. However, while water consumption doubles every twenty years our water sources are being depleted, polluted and exploited by multinational corporations. Water privatization has been promoted by corporations and international lending institutions as the solution to the global water crises but the only one’s who benefit from water privatization are investors and international banks. The essential dilemma of privatization is that the profit interests of private water utilities ultimately jeopardizes the safeguarding of the human right to water. Access to clean, sufficient

For humans, drinking water is a biological necessity. As with any resource, however, access to water is often limited. This is based on a combination of circumstances constructing water as an economically-based, commodified resource. The control, regulation, and treatment of water by political bodies determines who has access to the resource. In the United States, this results in the interaction of Municipal, State, and Federal branches of government. The interaction of these bodies as related to the governance of water depends upon the prioritization of drinking water for the people. Ultimately, the difference

Water is the greatest basic natural resource. For plants and animals alike, water is vital for life, making up as much as 65% of the human body (90% of an infant’s body). It also provide habitat for fish and animals, refuge, food, navigation, electricity and mechanical power, as well as coolant, a waste stream, and prospects for recreation. No body of water, however, can support all of these different usages without suffering some degree of disturbance: under poor management, disturbance may result from even one primary use. (Perry & Vanderklein, 1996). In Canberra, the foremost unsustainable wicked problem that the Sullivans creek catchment is experiencing at the moment is the deteriorating of water quality, which relatively affects the