Today's sermon topic is water. Many of us take it for granted, like there's an endless supply. But while we haven't been watching, a company called American Water has moved to privatize this commodity. You watch. They'll be coming to your neighborhood, if they haven't already.
But pish tosh! What can I do about the privatization of drinking water? About the only step I take is to use my spigot to fill re-usable bottles instead of buying those stinking little plastic bottles of spring water. Are you like me? Can you remember a time when you just basically trusted the local water source?
I love all the elements, but water holds a special place in my heart. Three years ago, I went for the first time to a place called Ricketts Glen in Pennsylvania. It's an amazing waterfall walk, with 23 falls in a three-mile circuit.
In 2016 I went there with my daughter The Heir. The summer had been dry and hot.
EXHIBIT A: GANOGA FALLS, AUGUST 2016
This is the tallest waterfall on the loop, at 94 feet.
Fast forward to 2019, the second of two very wet summers.
EXHIBIT B: GANOGA FALLS, JULY 2019
Same waterfall, different daughter. This is The Fair.
I mean, reader! It's the same doggone waterfall!
There is a moral to this sermon. If our planet keeps getting hotter, we will have less and less potable water. Our waterfalls may always look like 2016. And we can live without petroleum products. We can live without abundant food. But we are goners after a few days without water.
If a company like American Water comes calling, do whatever you can to thwart their designs. We had a voter referendum on AW's takeover of our municipal water here in Haterville ... and the for-profit company won. Stupid Haterville. One of these days your precious deep level aquifer will supply water to the owners of American Water, and not to your citizens.
Wait. This is depressing! Let's revisit Ricketts Glen, then and now!
EXHIBIT C: RICKETTS GLEN, 2016
EXHIBIT D: RICKETTS GLEN, 2019
Can't live without it! Oh, and there's one last photo that I just adore from this 2019 trip:
EXHIBIT D: THE MILLENNIAL AND HER WATERFALL
A fun time was had by all!
8 comments:
we have pennsylvania american water at my house; is that the same company?
I run tap water thru my brita pitcher, and then fill my bpa-free reusable bottles.
It's the Enclosure Act all over again.
Canada is home to the world's largest supply of potable water. When the Water Crisis hits, we fully expect to be invaded by the USA.
Certain types seem to have the right to take over anything (or anyone) they want, with (seemingly) full support from the society and its systems.
In this case, the liberty, the right, the entitlement to whatever they can get ahold of to make extra profits for themselves----including God-given (or nature-provided) basic natural resources.
We're living in a world where, more and more, nothing is considered sacred anymore---and where boundaries and protocols are becoming more and more nonexistent.
The mercenaries are thirsty
...for profits and legally "looted" exploitable natural resources
anne marie, Pennsylvania American Water is a subsidiary, yes.
Those Waterfalls are truly Amazing and Magnificent! Privatized water... I think it's already been done here in the Desert where that commodity is so scarce they can charge whatever they want for it and restrict it as well. I've lived in lush wet climates, but in the Desert, the sanctity of Water is much more appreciated and apparent... it HAS to be, for obvious reasons.
Here in Oregon we fought off Nestle, who wanted to purchase a stream that flows into the mighty Columbia River. It's an important natal stream for salmon, which are already under tremendous pressure. The local town where the stream meets the river wanted to sell but the rest of the state (or the liberals in the nearby city) said no. I fear that this will happen again and again.
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