US water becoming corporate propriety

[jverne]

http://www.naturalnews.com/023468.html

Water Restoration Act May Lead to Privatization of Water Supply

(NaturalNews) The fate of the nation's water supply is under debate as hearings in the House and Senate begin on the Water Restoration Act of 2007. Opponents claim this Act threatens to greatly expand the Federal Government's roll in water management. This Act would define waters of the U.S. as "all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams) mudflats, sand flats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing". In other words, this bill will give the federal government total control of the most basic of all commodities necessary to life on this earth.

now you're screwed. unless you want your tap water to taste like coca-cola (NOW WITH ONLY 0.1% LEAD AND CADMIUM) you'd better take up arms, real or virtual.

for christ sake...the second amendment gives you the right to bear arms in case the government goes out of control...and what do you do?!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTS9qgCoeq4

 

[nurizeko]

Why would the government saying it owns what it owns anyway be privatization, don't you mean making public?.


Government owned assets/property is public, privately owned/business owned is called privatized, obviously.





Wouldn't that be crazy though if they claimed the water in your body, and the rest of the materials that make it us seeing as most of them came from US soil, oooooooooooooooo morbid depressive dystopian sci fi future....

 

[Solaris]

Surely that's nationalising public assets?

It's saying, private compaines cannot own water, they belong to the government.

 

[jverne]

Why would the government saying it owns what it owns anyway be privatization, don't you mean making public?.


Government owned assets/property is public, privately owned/business owned is called privatized, obviously.





Wouldn't that be crazy though if they claimed the water in your body, and the rest of the materials that make it us seeing as most of them came from US soil, oooooooooooooooo morbid depressive dystopian sci fi future....

the article says it may become a commodity anyone (those with money of course>corporations) could buy

If the federal government is unable to gain total control of all water from whatever source, it is highly unlikely that water can be taken from the status of Public Trust and changed to that of commodity. If in fact the Water Restoration Act allows for the complete control of the federal government over all water in the country, as it opponents claim, water can loose its status as part of the Public Trust, and become a commodity available for corporate ownership.

 

[Blackthorn]

Playa lakes? Nigga betta not take mah playa lakes!

 

[jverne]

Playa lakes? Nigga betta not take mah playa lakes!

lol

tenchar

 

[Vegeta897]

Opponents claim this Act threatens to greatly expand the Federal Government's roll in water management.

Roll? Shouldn't that be spelled role?

 

[Leto]

So when a company pollutes a lake or stream, they can be like "We can do this! We own this stream!"

 

[Pesmerga]

There are private water companies, I'm assuming those would be turned over to state government hands. One of them is Aloha Water, and they fill their water with large amounts of sulfide to clean it. In turn, tap smells like rotten eggs.

Right now we get our water from a state funded company, and it tastes/looks fine. I don't give a shit. I mean, if I'm ****ing dehydrating to death I'm not gonna roll up to the side of a lake, remember the government owns the water, and then die. Indoor plumbing has always been controlled by the government and for me as a citizen, I don't find any reason to care otherwise.

 

[VirusType2]

I moved out of the burbs, and right now I get water from a well. that's right, from clouds. Try and stop it. with your fancy weather control devices.

 

[jverne]

There are private water companies, I'm assuming those would be turned over to state government hands. One of them is Aloha Water, and they fill their water with large amounts of sulfide to clean it. In turn, tap smells like rotten eggs.

Right now we get our water from a state funded company, and it tastes/looks fine. I don't give a shit. I mean, if I'm ****ing dehydrating to death I'm not gonna roll up to the side of a lake, remember the government owns the water, and then die. Indoor plumbing has always been controlled by the government and for me as a citizen, I don't find any reason to care otherwise.

whatever mate

if you don't mind corporations messing with your water, good for you.

might keep in mind that before taking a swim in the local lake, you'd better check the ownership and pollution status, since i doubt the corporations will give a damn what they put in the water if there's no strict government control

 

[kirovman]

Its already happened in the UK. Its still strictly regulated too, (so no, they can't just put lead in your water supply or whatever) and there's no real competition (i.e. you can't choose which water company you're with - although it would be feasible given that you can choose other utilities.)

 

[nurizeko]

the article says it may become a commodity anyone (those with money of course>corporations) could buy

I live in the UK and our water is managed by private companies, they hardly own the water, they merely provide the service of pumping it to your home or whatever, and the scam that is bottled water should have shown you anything can be bought and sold for if there is demand (at least bottled water is handy for those dodgey tourist resorts where the tap water isn't drinkable).

Likewise private corporations can buy and own the land that is ultimately owned by the state(country) its on.

When your walking down a street your walking on government owned property, I.E> public land. You'll notice how civilization hasn't collapsed because the government owns the pavement outside your house, or because Maccy D's actually owns the deeds to the land its restaurants are built on.


I'm struggling to see what the problem is, this is even more pathetic then when people were crying about a middle-eastern company owning US ports or something, ignoring the fact they were previously owned by a British company.

At least that could be placed down to protectionisms, but I really cant see whats the problem with the topic.

 

[Cormeh]

American water is shite.

 

[Mr Stabby]

What would a corporation gain from putting lead in the water supply? It would cost money to add it in, so why would they do that?

There are regulatory standards on water quality that water companies have to abide by so they would have to treat the water to sufficient standards, if that's what you are worried about.

 

[The Monkey]

It's political incorrectness gone mad!

 

[jverne]

yes yes i know the world it's not gonna end now.

i think what some of you are reffering to is when the state gives a private company a license to use the resource but it must supply the public. i think it's called a concession

big hungry corporations, lobbyist, regulations and laws don't mix well in america. or maybe they mix too well

anyway i see this as a change for the worse.

 

[nurizeko]

Have you got any legitimate grounds to base that opinion off of or is it purely paranoid and fear motivated?.

 

[ComradeBadger]

What would a corporation gain from putting lead in the water supply? It would cost money to add it in, so why would they do that?

Because they're corporations, corporations are inherantly evil and follow this buisness model:

1. Harm your consumers
2. ???
3. Profit!

 

[Leto]

Have you got any legitimate grounds to base that opinion off of or is it purely paranoid and fear motivated?.

So we can't start burning company buildings?







;(


*extinguishes torch*

 

[99.vikram]

What would a corporation gain from putting lead in the water supply? It would cost money to add it in, so why would they do that?

In many places water is either polluted or has high heavy metal content.
What motivates a corporation to clean that up for you?

 

[Mr Stabby]

If you sell a bad product, people will stop buying it, you go out of business. You get slapped by the invisible hand.

 

[Leto]

But sell a product that people need (gas, water), even though it's bad and the prices are insane, then you are successful.

 

[Mr Stabby]

If you have a monopoly on the production of a product, but it's dangerous, then you will be hit by a fall in consumer confidence. A corporations main aim, is it's self interest to make money, not to be sinister.