Due to pollution, demand and greed, clean water is now one of the scarcest resources for the world's poor.
Today,(you and I) can make our voice be heard. The United Nations General Assembly will debate a historic resolution to recognize safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right. It's the first time ever that the world's governing body will debate and vote on the crucial question of water, and it could be the stepping stone toward making access to safe and clean water an international norm.
There's just one problem. The United States, along with Canada and the United Kingdom, want to kill the vote. Although 190 countries have already affirmed the right to clean water, the most privileged of nations don't want the responsibility of helping others gain equal access. (Figures!!!!!)
But affirming this human right is not just a selfless act. The next world war could easily be fought over water. The world's great rivers and aquifers don't obey national borders, and already Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and even the U.S. and Mexico are arguing over water. The crisis in Darfur was in part a war over water.
The U.N. debate over water rights takes place today, so the window to take action to affirm that access to clean water is a fundamental right is closing. Join in calling on U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice to support the human right to water. Your conscious is begging you!
ps ( we have got to stop the pattern of greed and destruction that this country and several other countries constantly perpetuate. The power is in our hands)
Peace and light
Nik
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