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"Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink...."
These are the lines from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The speaker, a sailor on a stranded ship, is surrounded by salt water that he cannot drink.
Water is like Peace - it is all around us,
but we do not grasp it. We let it go to waste. We let it be polluted, privatized, made scarce so that it becomes a market product. Yet water is a public good. It belongs to everyone. It has been given to us by our generous Mother Earth. Water cannot be scarce, as the total amount of water within the realm of planet earth is always the same - it remains constant.
The chances for Peace are similar.
They are in public domain. They are a moral good.
Peace is free, no cost.
Everybody can grasp it - and work on Peace. Dedicate himself to Peace. Fight for Peace. Pray for Peace. Meditate for Peace.
Unlike water - peace cannot be privatized.
We must keep it that way, and make again Water like Peace - a public good, not to be privatized EVER!
On 28 July 2010, The United Nations General Assembly, through Resolution 64/292, explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realization of all human rights.
Water's availability may vary from location to location. But water's huge quantity remains unchanged throughout the billions of years of our blue Planet's life.
Water is Life. Peace is Life. Water and Peace are interdependent.
Understanding this connection is understanding why water is an abundant scarcity.
However, nothing can be taken for granted, even if it is believed to be secured by a UN Resolution. We, the People, must defend this right, we must nurture it so it becomes from a seed a right engrained into our collective consciousness.
Comment: One need only add the word 'water' in the search bar to realize just a fraction of what is done to pollute it, capture it, dam it (for IMF political purposes), while controlling its ownership and creating often unsaid wars over it (peace or lack thereof, a constant).
Then there are water treaties, first/second/third user rights that trickle down to no rights at all (think Turkey, down through Iraq and of all the mighty rivers and tributaries controlled by dams).
What Israel itself has done to the Palestine people for decades, in terms of restricting and over harvesting aquifers that would result in
salinization, is nothing but pathologically cruel. In 2024, as is now a reality, cruelty know no bounds.
Comment: In the same way the medical establishment and healthcare staff have jeopardised their profession through their grave misjudgements and collaboration during the contrived coronavirus crisis, so too does the scientific community by knowingly allowing itself to be corrupted: 'Trust the science'? 10,000 fake scientific papers in 2023 throw research credibility into crisis - The Guardian