Blue Gold: Water Wars

When it comes to what is important and what isn't there is no second thoughts about water. The bottom line is, people need water to survive. It is said that humans can survive only 3 to days without water, but it really depends on how healthy you are. Water has many great bene!its li"e, "eeping your s"in clear, it can help control calories, but it also helps maintain normal bowel !unctions and helps your "idneys by helping !lush out the to#ins in your body. Water has many bene!its to humans. Besides the internal inta"e o! it it also helps with watering crops to provide !ood, helps with our toiletry uses as well as our washing uses. Because many people believe there is so much water in the world they tend to not recogni$e the ma%or problem: there is not enough !reshwater to sustain all our needs. I! nothing is done now, it'll be too late to !i# the problem in the !uture. &bout '() o! the earths water is salty water, while only 3) is !resh. The primary cause !or water pollution is due to human uses o! chemicals, automobile gas and industries. In some areas li"e Bra$il and *anada !resh water is very abundant because they have the money to pay !or it, but in countries li"e &!rica !resh water doesn't come as o!ten as it should. In &!rica *oca+*ola owns the water there li"e the brand ,asani. In -enya water costs more than *oca+*ola. .ow is this possible/ Well because corporations are greedy they want their product *oca+*ola to sell more so they price water at a higher price so the people in &!rica who have very little money will have to buy *oca+*ola. The reason why they say ,asani is so high priced is because plastic is e#pensive.. I !ound the *oca+*ola scene in the !ilm the most shoc"ing because it ama$ed me how greedy these big top corporations are. &s long as they earn the money who cares i! the people get sic", who cares i! they may die o! cancer because o! their to#ic ingredients in the *ola. 0ersonally I don't drin" soda as it is and less i! it's *oca+*ola. I en%oyed this !ilm a lot. I thin" everyone should watch it, because it tal"ed about why water is such a precious resource. I learned about dams and how yes they may be help!ul !or !loods, as reservoirs and sometimes creating electricity, but they do cause problems li"e the built up o! sediment and i! removed there could be the !ear o! !loods happening i! that area is

!lood prone. I was also surprised when I heard about how The World Ban" uses privati$ation o! water as a condition o! debt relie! in third world countries. I also learned about many real li!e situations where water was over used. 1ne o! the top o! my head is the &ral 2ea where the water is now completely gone because people used it all up to grow cotton. It's ama$ing how careless people are with a resource that could be gone in the ne#t decade or so.

&ral 2ea Be!ore and &!ter