I am on the cusp of a new industry, soon to be sweeping across the globe. Armed with little but a wet-dry vacuum, several filters, and empty jelly jars, I have found a way to bottle oxygen. Right now, I sell my oxygen to major companies that need oxygen to produce their products, such as agribusiness corporations to grow plants and Pepsi to make carbonated bubbles. Every time I wheel my machine into the middle of town, people complain between struggled breaths. My local government claims that oxygen is a need, not a right. If people want to breathe, then they can move to a new location or get air from a portable SCUBA tank.
Absurd, isn’t it? Taking a substance essential for life such as oxygen and selling it for profit would never be accepted or tolerated. Not a single government or commercial system could sell a vital substance and call themselves moral or ethical. The intolerable has become accepted, and a substance that is required to sustain life has been purchased. Not oxygen, water.
Water is increasingly privatized. Corporations have purchased fresh water resources, distribution, and use. Profit has been cultivated from use of fresh water and sale to consumers of water, in other words, every human. Right under the noses of the world, large corporations have purchased large quantities of fresh water for private use and sale. However, water is a finite supply and something that can’t be produced. The amount of fresh water in the world is dwindling along with universal access.
Fresh water composes an incredibly small percentage of the overall water supply in the world. Oceans contain salt water, undrinkable and even toxic to humans. Estimates of the percentage of non-salt ...
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...the water cycle clean, then other towns will also have clean water. Most importantly, as voters, listen for any legislation concerning public water rights in your community. If the issue of making a water system private ever comes up in a city council meeting, vote a resounding no. Having a large company own a public resource like water is a dangerous idea.
To act on a more global scale, there are several organizations that you can write for information. The United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights does not protect the right for every person to have access to clean water. Write your congressperson, executive leader, or start a small protest when they come to town, and have them put pressure on the United Nations to change the Declaration of Human Rights. Knowledge is the only weapon that will prevent wars for water in the 21 century.
No one argues that food, which is also essential to life, should be distributed and owned by the government. If we recognize water as a human right rather than a commodity, I wouldn’t think water provided by the government would be the best alternative. The Private industry would be better suited it can carry out a service at a lower cost than the government could. If water management is a company’s central job it can affect “economies of scale, provide more capital for efficiency investments, better technology, and fewer but better trained employees.” (10) Some regulatory oversight if needed could have a say in the price of water similar to natural gas and electricity. A private company would also have fewer restrictions when it comes to making the necessary investment rather than a governmental entity would when looking at infrastructure.
First degree murder is classified by murder with a malicious intent; it also includes murder while committing a crime. Second degree murder is the act of killing a person with no prior intent. Involuntary murder, which is sometimes called third degree murder, is murder that results from a disregard for human life; this would include acts such as drunk driving. Finally, voluntary murder occurs when a person with no prior intent to kill enters a circumstance in which his emotions get the best of him and murder occurs.
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The ability to obtain abundant, pure water is a basic requirement for an individual’s well-being. Likewise, access to abundant, safe water is also indispensable for resilient agricultural crops as well as a thriving national economy. These requirements for pure water are so substantial that disputes amongst regional groups, states, as well as nations arise on a frequent basis regarding the rights to various water sources.
If a mass killer’s murders are committed in more than just a single location, then they are part of a continuous action (Murder 1). Their victims are usually chosen at random, not just killed at first sight. Their targets may also come in specific groups. More than occasionally, a mass murderer will take his own life after his urge to kill is over. This is possibly because authorities recognize the killer is unstable and are likely to shoot the killer in order to protect themselves. A typical mass murderer uses a semi-automatic weapon and plots his murders to be made in a school, university, or restaurant (murder 1).
A person who unlawfully kills another, as not to constitute murder is guilty of manslaughter. An element that diminishes responsibility of murder to manslaughter is provocation. Charges of manslaughter have lenient sentencing as opposed to murder, which is a mandatory life sentence.
“Whether a killer acted with the deliberation and premeditation required for first degree murder can only be determined on a case by case basis. The need for deliberation and premeditation does not mean that the perpetrator must contemplate at length or plan far ahead of the murder.”
To plan or deliberate is premeditation. Depending on the circumstances and the person, there must be an amount of time needed to plan and commit murder (actus reas). There must a period of time long enough for the person to form the intent (mens rea) to kill for them to be fully aware in their mind to consider the murder (Lectlaw, 2010).
Water is one of the most vital components of human life. It is a necessity, a precious resource that humans need to live, that is taken for granted every day. There is no possible way for life to be sustained on Earth without water – it just cannot happen. The human body itself is composed of almost eighty percent water: almost 95 percent of the human brain is water. It is common knowledge that pure water is the best water – for humans, and for plants and animals. Regardless of this piece of knowledge, humans still find ways to disregard the sanctity of pure water and instead, pollute it. The right to water is not officially a human right. However, because “water is a basic need for human development, health, and well-being… it is an internationally accepted human right” (Thompson 3). Water contamination is an epidemic that is so common these days that it is no longer shocking to even hear that water is contaminated. Water contamination negatively effects water that is used on a daily basis. Continuing on in this way will eventually lead to contamination that will make the existence of clean water impossible.
In the documentary, Blue Gold: World Water Wars, it follows several people and countries world-wide in their fight for fresh water. The film exposes giant corporations as they bully poorer developing countries to privatize their own supply of fresh water. As a result of the privatization, corporations make a hefty profit while the developing countries remain poor. Blue Gold: World Water Wars also highlights the fact that Wall Street investors are going after the desalination process and mass water export schemes. This documentary also shows how people in more developed nations are treating the water with much disregard, and not taking care of our finite supply. We are polluting, damming, and simply wasting our restricted supply of fresh water at an alarming speed. The movie also recognizes that our quick overdevelopment of housing and agriculture puts a large strain on our water supply and it results in desertification throughout the entire earth. The film shows how people in more industrialized nations typically take water for granted, while others in less industrialized nations have to fight for every drop.
Water privatization is putting water rights into private corporations. In developing countries privatization is acceptable but in developed countries water should be left to the public. In the developed countries like the US, France and Europe water is controlled by the public and private companies or corporations. Water remains a function of municipal government in 90% of cities around the US and Suez Environment and Veolia Water are the top two water companies.2 The consensus throughout the US is that water should be the publics responsibility because water in privately owned water facilities is more expensive and in some cases below standards and less desirable.6 People in the US want to keep their water in their hands because they feel better knowing that people like them control and consume the same water as they do and not people who do not. Putting water in the control of private companies has some less desirable effects on the public. These organizations have a profit motive with incentives that cause them to avoid conservation and efficiency measures since profits depend upon volu...
... the water from seas. It appears that the better pace against the water scarcity ought to be every person’s economy in every-day living.
The mens rea of murder requires intent or recklessness to kill or cause grievous boldily harm. Foresight of the consequences of the defendant 's voluntary actions are often enough to infer intent using the Nedrick test. This can lead to some cases, such as Hancock and Shankland, where the defendants neither intended death nor injury, were tried for murder.
Clean water is needed for good human and animal health, but as DoSomething.org states, over 1 billion people worldwide don’t have a means of getting clean drinking water, an...
Freshwater is quite scarce, but it is even scarcer than one might think: about seventy percent of all freshwater is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland and is unavailable to humans. Most of the remainder is present as soil moisture or lies in deep underground aquifers as groundwater. It is not economically feasible to extract this waster for use as drinking water. This leaves less than one percent of the world’s fresh water that is available to humans. It includes the water found in lakes, reservoirs, groundwater that is shallow enough to be tapped at an affordable cost. These freshwater sources are the only sources that are frequently replenished by rain and snowfall, and therefore are renewable. At the current rates of consumption, however, this supply of fresh water will not last. Pollution and contamination of freshwater sources exacerbate the problem, further reducing the amount of freshwater available for human consumption. Something must be done if humans want to even survive in the near future: the lack of clean drinking water is already the number one cause of disease in the world today. The first step is worldwide awareness of the water crisis: governments and the citizens they govern worldwide need to know about this problem and be actively involved in solving this problem.