THE NEW OIL BARONSTHE NEW OIL BARONS
The new oil barons are not as you would think petroleum producers,
but bottlers of so called mineral water.
Humans can utilize other fuel and energy sources and still survive.
Human kind cannot live without water!
"WATER"! I hear you ask, "But water is free"?
Well they are charging you upwards of £2 / $4 / 3 €
per small bottle in any entertainment or drinking establishment
you can name. Which means that they are making a mark up profit
of 3 - 4000% per bottle and the big corporations are craving up
the water business between them.
In some instances they are just bottling the very same water that
you can get out of a domestic tap.
Take
the 'Coca Cola' scandal of the new much hyped bottle water
called 'Dansani' from a couple of years ago, which was
ordinary filtered tap water taken from the mains supply under
their bottling plant in Sidcup, Kent UK.
I am not saying that they all are just bottling tap water, but
I have traveled extensively throughout Europe / World and I have
yet to see a massive bottling plant on the side of a picturesque
mountain adjacent to a babbling brook, mountain stream or lake,
with trucks exiting from it with the famous brand names of bottled
water on the side.
Nor have I seen them where they have been artesian basins or aquifers.
Maybe I have been looking in the wrong places?
They may be in underground facilities, bottling subterranean rivers
of which I have no knowledge.
Yea right!
Through
massive media campaigns, you and I are led to believe that unless
the water comes from a babbling brook or ice cool 
mountain
stream, then what we are imbibing is poison or at least doing
us no good at all; and the only way to get that essential natural
elixir of life is from a plastic bottle.
So as in any form of game he who owns the ball controls the game.
So in this case the ball is water and those that control it will
be able to dispense it when and where they will and therefore
control the people.
Do you want to be controlled by Nestle, Coca Cola,
Heinz, or other faceless corporations with their interpretation
of what is classed as a 'social conscience'?
Well keep buying the bottled water and see what the future holds!
Walk
down any street in any town or city and you will see people drinking
from plastic bottles filled with the latest, much hyped brand
of mineral water.
Ah yes pure mineral water. Not plain old water, but pure mineral
water.
Well that is a contradiction in terms and here is why:
Any 1st year school kid can tell you the molecular make of water
and that is H2O. That means 2 Hydrogen atoms to one Oxygen atom;
that is pure water. There is no mention of trace elements molecules.
H2O in this basic form is normally referred to as Distilled or De-Ionised Water, that is water without any impurities. The very same water that you use to top up the water in a car battery and the water that makers of steam irons recommend that you use to fill them with, instead of using tap water. If you don't, you get scale deposits on the element; just check your electric kettle for the effects of scaling caused by a mineral called 'Calcium' and its derivatives, referred in relationship to scaling as 'Limescale'
Well
dear reader what is this mineral that is referred to in the title
'Mineral Water'?
Well it is not mineral, but minerals!
Minerals found in water are inorganic---simply pieces of rock,
stone and dirt dissolved or suspended in water.
Dirt
I hear you scream ! Yes, dirt. The same dirt that you walk on
, so in effect you are drinking muddy water.
I have listed below a small number of what are classed as minerals.
(Minerals are inorganic naturally occurring compounds.)
Sodium, Magnesium, Calcium, Lead, Ferrite, Copper, Silver, Gold,
Silicon, Zinc, Tin, Silica, Aluminum, Salts, Carbons, Arsenic,
Sulphides, Mercury, Chromium, Cobalt, Germanium.
Some of these and others minerals, not listed, in minute doses
are essential for a healthy life.
Some definitely are not!
This is not a scientific analysis of bottled water as that would
be way beyond the scope of my expertise, but if you are interested
just put : "What is in mineral water" into a search
engine like 'Google' and see what comes up.
This is about making you think outside of the corporate box. Great minds to not think alike!
Scenario
a million years ago…
The landscape was lush and green and unspoilt.
The bright blue skies darkened and then let forth a torrent of
water in the form of rain that filled the rivers, streams and
lakes. You could stand with your face turned skywards, open your
mouth and get a drink of pure clear water.
Well no you couldn't.
Due to the volcanic upheavals spewing out millions of tons of
sulphur and other chemicals into the atmosphere, there was a good
chance that the rain would burn you; being a form of sulphuric
acid, hydrochloride acid or another acidic compound, hence acid
rain.
So acid rain as been around as long as the Earth as existed and
it is not a New World consequence; it is just that the modern
world is pumping so much pollutants into the atmosphere that Mother
Nature is having a hard job coping, and in some cases she is failing.
The
world today is suffering from serious land, sea and air pollution.
So the acid rain falls down and is filtered through contaminated
land and then is place in a plastic bottle.
So they are putting a natural product (sic) into non-natural containers
ie plastic bottles.
Plastic is not biodegradable. Bang goes their green argument,
as mountains of plastic bottles are shoved into land filled sites.
The minerals in water will cause it to leech from the container.
Did you ever have a bottle of water that had a tang to it?
The French mineral water company lost millions of dollars in 1990 after the discovery of minute traces of benzene, a hydrocarbon thought to cause cancer, in 'Perrier' bottled water. This hit public confidence in a drink favoured by the health-conscious and billed as absolutely pure. Unable to track the affected batch, 'Perrier' recalled 140 million bottles at a cost of $40 million.
In 1998
the Jordanian government released thousands of fish into the main
dam supplying water to the capital, Amman, in an attempt to curb
the pollution that had forced the resignation of a government
minister.
The Ministry of Water Affairs blamed the problem on high summer
temperatures, which have led to an excessive concentration of
algae in the capital's Zai dam.
Residents of Amman have had to live with stinking, foul tasting
water coming from their taps, and sales of mineral water have
soared to the point where supplies ran out.
In 2003 Wales University linked bottled water to food poisoning involving the lethal bug Campylobacter.
In 2004 'Coca Cola' withdrew its infamous brand 'Dansani' after it was found to contain illegal levels of a cancer linked chemical called Bromate.
Oct 2005 leading brands of mineral water were found to contain levels of Uranium that could harm infants if used to make up their feed.
Oct 2005 some bottles of the 'Volvic' brand of mineral water were found to contain Napthalene.
After signing the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said his nation would never go to war again, except to protect its water resources.
King Hussein of Jordan identified water as the only reason that might lead him to war with the Jewish state.
Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali warned bluntly that the next war in the area will be over water.
In the Middle East there is 5% of the world's population trying to survive on 1% of its water, there is strong competition for water. The level of the Sea of Galilee has dropped in recent years, sparking fears that Israel's main reservoir will become salinated.
In 2002, Israel threatened war with its neighbour Lebanon after it built a pumping station that took water from a tributary feeding the River Jordan. Israel eventually agreed to buy water from Turkey to ease the tense situation. Turkey it seems has become a water baron selling water from its Manavgat River across the Middle East. That does not mean that Turkey itself does not have shortages of water, but compared to the other countries surrounding it, it is an oasis in a desert.
The
Aral Sea was once the world's fourth biggest inland sea, and one
of the world's most fertile regions.
But the misuse of the sea and its tributaries has resulted in
a toxic wasteland.
The old Soviet Union government diverted the tributaries, the
Amu Darya and the Syr Darya so that cotton production could be
started in the fertile plains area. This resulted in the sea level
falling 16 metres between 1964 and 1994. The area now as a very
high infant mortality rate and the rate of cancer in the area
is also extremely high caused by chemicals, which are blown off
the dried seabed.
The River Ganges, which is feed from a Himalayan glacier, is the most sacred river to the Hindu religion and it is now seriously polluted.
The River Nile, which starts as the Nile in Egypt and becomes the White Nile in the Sudan and the Blue Nile when it reaches Ethiopia, is also causing tension between the countries through which it travels, as dams and water diversion projects are put in place on the Nile. This restricts the water available to the White and subsequently the Blue Nile. This is causing strife in the area as you well can imagine.
In Iran the Tigris and Euphrates rivers have been diverted using a network of canals. This has resulted in the loss of at least 85-90% of the wetlands, which have now become dust bowls. The Marsh Arab people who used to inhabit these wetlands have moved on, sometimes forcibly, due to persecution and loss of way of life due to the shortage of fresh water.
From
Turkey to Uganda, and from Morocco to Oman, nations with some
of the highest birth-rates in the world are all concerned about
how to find enough water to sustain urban growth and to meet the
needs of agriculture, the main cause of depleting water resources
in the region.
All of these countries depend on either the three great river
systems, which have an average renewal rate of between 18 days
to three months, or on vast underground aquifers some of which
could take centuries to refill.
The vast Ogallala aquifer in the USA is 800 miles long, and supplies 20% of the fresh water, which irrigates the farmland in the area from Texas to South Dakota. This water is decreasing at an alarming rate and with no source for replenishment will not last longer than 20-30 years at the current rate of depletion.
Mexico
City is built on an ancient lake area that was once a lush fertile
region.
Several mighty rivers, Rio Grande, Balsas, Panuco, San Padre,
criss cross Mexico.
Over the years the city has expanded and become one of the most
populous city in the world. But the water beneath the city has
been pump out and used and the city is sinking. The waste water
has just been dumped back into the soil sometime by accident as
the pipe work is in a very poor state or willfully.
As there is no adequate drainage the fresh rain water just flows
into the soil.
This has resulted in the fresh water being contaminated by the
foul water and so the water in the city is not the safest to drink.
But this water is used for irrigation and so the produce grown
with this water…..well you can see where I am going here,
so I don't have to spell it out.
So you
might think that Global Warming is a good thing for it will melt
the glaciers and release the fresh water that is now ice. Only
if you could isolate the glacier so that it didn't release the
melted fresh water into the salty sea, thus making it undrinkable
without desalination and raising the sea level; thereby causing
mass flooding, drowning of people and swamping huge tracts of
land in Europe and other low lying places in the world making
them uninhabitable. New Orleans is a prime example.
Also much of the low lying land is arable land such a East Anglia
in the UK and so there is a good chance of a lack of food as there
will be a massive reduction in farmland.
Dilemmas,
dilemmas, do I drown, starve or do I die of thirst?
I know I am painting a very bleak picture, but it is a possible
reality and it is better to live in the real world rather than
bury your head in the sand and pray the worst doesn't happen.
Russia's
Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake - reaching a depth of
1700m, it contains enough fresh water to sustain all the peoples
of the Earth for 50 years.
It contains 23,6000 cubic kilometres of fresh water, that is 20%
of the World's drinkable freshwater.
But there is only 1% of all the water available on Earth that
is fresh water.
The rest is 97% salt water and 2% ice.
WATER,
WATER EVERYWHERE AND NOT A DROP TO DRINK!
What next, privatising the air……………………………………..!
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