Drip, Drip, Dry..
Written by: Andréa P. Davis
Each morning you wake up, get out of bed, take off your pajamas and go to the shower, where you lazily twist the handle and turn on the shower. You may normally wait a few minutes, letting the water run, until it heats up to your desired temperature. This is likely a daily task for many of you, and it’s not so far from our imagination for those who have a different routine. Now imagine the same scenario: you get up, out of bed, turn on the tap and – nothing. Nothing comes out. Wait, but you’re all hot and sweaty from a rough night’s sleep, and you’ve got to clean up before work or school. Nope, sorry buddy, not today. For many of us living in the developed world, this scenario seems to far off to be plausible. Alas, let me assure you that it is well within reach in many parts of the world today. This mental exercise is necessary to close the circuit of understanding in terms of our consumption and availability of natural resources on this finite planet.
I recently attended a showing of Flow: For the Love of Water in Columbus, Ohio, and I was immediately brought back to my days of living in Australia under a ‘drought’, taking bucket showers in India and turning on the tap in Costa Rica and not hearing the slightest trickle of water.
Upon seeing the film my mind raced to the ‘purified’ city water I drink when in the States and the other, not-so-purified water I consume abroad. Water doesn’t only enter into your body through the mouth; showering in bacteria or heavy metal-laden water is just as toxic to the system. Nonetheless, the reality of the matter is that THE AMOUNT OF FRESH WATER ON THIS PLANET IS DWINDLING, and H2O is surely in our top three needs for survival.
To quote a Boston news review of the movie, “Who knew that our drinking water was tainted with rocket fuel, or that between 500,000 and seven million people in this country [USA] suffer from water-bourne diseases every year?” The film centers in on privatization of water among other issues, as we are not only losing the minute amount of fresh water remaining on the planet, but that which exists is being readily bought and sold as a commodity. Capitalism has a way of commodifying basic human needs and rights. Health-care and food have already become numbers in the money mill, and water is just too elemental to the human body to Capitalize.
The film also touches upon contamination of the few large freshwater resources on the planet as well as the true quality and regulation of bottled water. A reviewer of the film took a step further in analysis. “The overarching theme here is that the Earth’s freshwater supply is being contaminated, sucked dry and ‘privatized’ for the benefit of huge corporations that are establishing themselves as the heirs to the oil cartels.”
The polemic nature of the film comes on strong and moves the viewer to worry a bit, but if this leads to critical thought, then I’m a happy camper. This post is not meant to strike a note of panic but rather to ring an alarm, a wake-up call to the factors at play in the world of today. I encourage all readers everywhere to make an effort to catch the film, either rent it, buy it or check it out from your nearest library. Just be aware of the issue and think ahead a few generations to your living and potential offspring. What will their life be like on dry land? What can we do today to make sure the waterfall of life keeps on flowing?
“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” -Bruce Barton
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