seizing water: the water restoration act of 2007

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At 04:45 AM 5/13/08, you wrote:

>Seizing control of water,

>Posted by: " VoiceAnalysis " VoiceAnalysis soundstonedchick

>Mon May 12, 2008 7:34 am (PDT)

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>Siezing Water:The Water Restoration Act of 2007

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>The Water Restoration Act of 2007, along with others, gives the federal

>government complete control over every waterway, river, stream, lake,

>aquifer, creek, slew, swamp, underground spring and even the rain that

>runs off your roof. Why? Well to better protect you from polluters and

>to ensure water safety, and of course “national securityâ€.

>

>Here’s the real deal. Oil which has been deemed the worlds most

>valuable commodity (remember that word) is quickly being replaced by

>water. Water is the new “goldâ€. Under the Public Trust doctrine, the

>government is prohibited from converting something such as water (a

>human right…we can’t live without it) to a commodity. It mu a public

>trust, meaning that it is so important to our survival that it

>should never be subjected to markets, trading or private interests. In

>other words, it should never be reclassified as a commodity. But this

>Act lays the groundwork for removing from the Public Trust this basic

>human right which is a necessity, and will facilitate it being

>reclassified a “needed commodityâ€. Enter the multi-national

>corporations.

>

>What is under way is the effort to classify water as a commodity and

>not a right. All of this actually started with NAFTA and then CAFTA.

>Both agreements, which are not enforceable as they are both

>unconstitutional have been parts of a puzzle that until recently seemed

>not to make any sense at all. Both are focused on giving multinational

>corporations the right to lay claim to food production whether it is

>agriculture or animal ranching, to force out family farms, to patent

>their new “frankenseeds†and put the resulting GMO food on our grocery

>shelves without labeling the foods as altered.

>

>The corporations can now sue the government (and have) if it acts in

>any way to prevent it from making profits it believes it is entitled

>to. This ability to sue for impaired profit making can be the result of

>environmental regulations, of Federal laws which may prevent the

>corporations from hiring illegal workers, or issues of eminent domain

>in which an individuals’ land stands in the way of corporate

>profiteering and the courts have not acted to protect the interests of

>the corporation. The corporation then claims “trade illegal†provisions

>of NAFTA and CAFTA and our federal laws and regulations are put aside,

>along with property rights.

>

>All that was left to capture from the public was the water supply.

>CAFTA goes a long way in establishing the privatization of water

>supplies, including in-land navigated waters and the right to use and

>access the water supplies.

>

>If the federal government is not able 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 moved to one of a commodity,

>which is exactly what the Water Restoration Act of 2007 will enable.

>

>If CAFTA protections and provisions for corporations and the provisions

>within CAFTA that put the rights of investors above those of the

>individual, or human rights, cannot come into play, it will be nearly

>impossible to expose our water supply to global markets. CAFTA’s

>primary aim is to protect and promote investors regardless of the cost

>to individuals or communities.

>

>Water is not only a basic human right, but also a natural resource.

>Inland states like Minnesota have Public Trust Laws (in addition to

>federal doctrine) which maintain the use of waterways for drinking and

>for recreation purposes. Every lake here has public water access due to

>the Public Trust which everyone contributes to in one way or another.

>No one can claim land at the bottom of a lake……its commonly one can claim

>private ownership of lake fish stocks, or other natural

>resources resulting from the lake’s existence. This applies to rivers

>also, including the Mississippi which runs through the state.

>

>The Water Restoration Act of 2007 would federalize all inland and

>coastal waters from any source. This act is needed to set the stage for

>the privatization guaranteed to corporations under CAFTA and would

>effectively convert the entire water supply from any source into a

>commodity.

>

>As it is, any corporate agriculture business operating in any area is

>allowed to bypass water treatment plants, sewage treatment and the

>associated costs and to tap directly into underground aquifers even at

>the cost of depleting the water supply to the surrounding communities.

>GMO seeds, especially “traitor†seeds require as much as three times

>the normal amount of water to activate and to grow, but any efforts to

>limit use or regulate disposal even by monetary assessment have been

>unsuccessful. The corporate rights now exceed that of the individual or

>community. CAFTA clearly states repeatedly that “investor protectionsâ€

>must be a priority.

>

>Using the NAFTA provisions, along with even more detrimental CAFTA

>provisions, the World Bank along with the United Nations are active in

>the effort to convert the worlds’ water supply into a commodity to be

>controlled by private investors via global trade and investment

>agreements. If these efforts are successful, water will no longer be a

>community or individual right and resource necessary to maintain life,

>but a globally traded commodity subject to markets and your ability to

>pay.

>

>The World Trade organization in collusion with provisions of NAFTA,

>have been instrumental in converting water into a tradable commodity

>and as such subject to international trade policies which favor no one

>but the giant corporations. In each instance of corporations attempting

>to overturn domestic environmental laws or regulations, the laws have

>been rendered null using the “trade illegal†provisions of both NAFTA

>and CAFTA which declare that the right of the corporation cannot be

>superseded or infringed upon by laws or regulations that hinder the

>amount of profit they estimate can be attained.

>

>The World Bank already has established a system whereby credit or loans

>will not be issued to Third World countries and even less stressed

>countries, unless they agree to allow foreign investors access to

>privatize the water supply. In Bolivia this resulted in mass

>demonstrations that finally forced out a subsidiary of Bechtel that had

>privatized the water supply, increased costs three-fold minimally,

>dispensed with upkeep and left ¼ of the rural homes without access to

>water.

>

>England has privatized their water system and costs rose 45% overnight,

>all but skeleton crews remained of the maintenance sector and the

>quality of water has dropped significantly.

>

>In one Canadian town several people became ill and one died from an

>ecoli contamination in the water supply. This occurred after the supply

>had been privatized, and the owner of the water supply knew of the

>contamination. The public was never notified until after people became

>ill.

>

>In March of 2000 at the Hague, a meeting occurred where water

>executives stated that as long as water was coming out of the tap the

>public had no right to any information as to how it got there….. Or quality.

>

>Here in the States, private investors have in some places succeeded in

>taking over community water supplies, in other places the communities

>have fought back against the sale of publicly held supplies realizing

>that this most important element of human survival should never be

>under the control of private corporations whose one and only duty is to

>make a profit for investors.

>

>As water has historically been deemed a human right and necessity, so

>much so that the Public Trust Doctrine was put on paper, how could

>anyone in good conscience believe water is, or promote water as, a

>tradable commodity? How can there be so many callous and greedy

>individuals running around out there who would willingly see another

>human thirst to death just so they can make a buck? Apparently there

>are many.

>

>The Water Restoration Act 2007 relies heavily on promotion based on

>protecting the water supply from pollution, from terrorists, and of

>course “national securityâ€. The truth is it has nothing to do with any

>of these things. The WRA will allow unfettered pollution with no

>recourse for communities or individuals and “trade illegal†treatment

>of local and state laws. Before the entire water supply can be sold off

>to private interests the federal government must gain control of the

>entire water system. This is what the WRA will do.

>

>This Act would be more aptly titled “The Water Confiscation Act†as

>this is exactly what is intended. All it is set to do is to strike down

>the Public Trust Doctrine and facilitate the conversion of water from a

>basic human right into a commodity. The only threat to “national

>security†here is from the government and the massive corporations who

>are behind it.

>

>I guess we shouldn’t be surprised by any of this. After all, the

>Security & Prosperity Partnership refers to people as “human capitalâ€.

>I wonder how long it will be before they refer to us as a “needed

>commodity†and trade and sell us on the global market.

>

>Control the food, control the water and you control the people. I

>believe it was Henry Kissinger who first made this observation when

>speaking about the importance of depopulation through the use of

>eugenics. Obviously good old Henry realized that overtaking the food

>and water supplies would go a long way in deciding who had a right to

>life.

 

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