"At the same time, millions of people live without access to adequate or clean water, with little hope their situation will improve as the global water-shortage crisis escalates."
"The worst part of this deception is that WHO and CDC spin doctors are trying to convince parents in Africa, India and elsewhere that it is the "unvaccinated" who are causing vaccine strain polio outbreaks even though many of these children are getting 9 or 10 polio vaccinations."
"Such a measure would prove controversial as critics fear fluoride could be linked to increased risks of cancer, hip fractures, kidney trouble and birth defects."
"The speaker is a Detroit grandmother featured in a documentary that premiered on British TV April 29, along with three other families from Bolivia, Tanzania and India who are without life's most basic necessity."
"This film shouldn't just touch you," said Marian Kramer, who is featured in the film and was at the screening, "it should grab you" - and she gestured as if she was choking."
(5.8 million receiving federal energy-assistance funds)
"Preliminary data from the association found that delinquencies are rising. Among the states showing increases were California, with 1.7 million households behind by $300 million."
"The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations."
"When water is disrespected, misused and poorly managed, we see the life threatening impacts on all of creation.
We know that our right of self-determination and sovereignty, our traditional knowledge, and practices to protect the water are being disregarded violated and disrespected."
"It quotes the Liberal Democrats' environment spokesman, Norman Baker MP, as saying the picture emerging looked like "a case of hidden mass medication upon the unsuspecting public".
"It is alarming that there is no monitoring of levels of Prozac and other pharmacy residues in our drinking water."
Tusk Trust Water documentary, Rainwater Harvesting
The Water Front
What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it?
"What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it? Residents of Highland Park, Michigan, known as the birthplace of the auto industry, find themselves in this situation.
They have received water bills as high as $10,000, have had their water turned off, their homes foreclosed and are struggling to keep their water from becoming privatized.
The Water Front is the story of an American city in crisis but it is not just about water.
This story touches on the very essence of our democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles as water privatization battles crop up all over the U.S. and across the globe."
Pharmaceuticals Found in Drinking Water, Affecting Wildlife and Maybe Humans
"Traces of 56 human and veterinary pharmaceuticals or their byproducts like the active ingredients in medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems have been detected in Philadelphia's drinking water.
Starting their winding journey in medicine cabinets and feed bins, they are what's left of drugs excreted or discarded from homes and washed from farms upriver."
Water Policies Fail World's People Living in Poverty
"The authors said failure to provide adequate supplies and sanitation was directly linked to poor health and low quality of life among the urban poor, which could act as a trigger for social unrest and conflicts."
"Global water consumption rose sixfold between 1900 and 1995 - more than double the rate of population growth - and goes on growing as farming, industry and domestic demand all increase."
EPA Fails to Inform Public About Weed Killer in Water
"In interviews, EPA officials did not dispute the data but said they do not consider atrazine a health hazard and said they did not believe the agency or state authorities had failed to properly inform the public."
"Thandi Sihadi stands next to a dry tap. As a maize and dairy farmer in one of South Africa's driest districts, the lack of running water is nothing new to her."
"Perhaps worse still, it appears that hawks on both sides are attempting to use water to create an insurmountable impasse in the dispute over Kashmir, rather than acknowledging that the sharing of rivers forms a framework for the two enemies to cooperate."
"Flow" Sounds The Alarm on Worldwide Water Shortage
Will The World's Oceans Be Our Next Drinking Tap
(And the answer is as of May, 2010, apparently not)
Stephen Hawking is no dummy. That much has been established.
"Yet in 2006, when the acclaimed scientist told an audience of mostly university students and professors in China that he was "very" worried about global warming" and that Earth "might end up like Venus, at 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulfuric acid,'' the dystopian prediction nevertheless dropped off the cultural radar after a few short weeks."
"The Bushmen were at the Botswana High Court to hear their application for permission to use their borehole which the Botswana government has banned them from using."
"Plastic bottle recycling can help�instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.
Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills."
To ba fe lo weh omi lo- malo
If you wan go wash - water you go use
Toba fe sobeh omi lo - malo
If you wan cook soup - water you go use
To ri ba ngbona omi lero lero
If your head be hot - water it cool am
Tomo ba ngagda omi lo - malo
If your child dey grow - water you go use
If water kill your child - water you go use
Tobi ba bwi nao homi lo - malo
Ko sohun tole se ko ma lomi- o
Nothing without water (repeat this couplete)
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*[CHORUS] WATER, IT NO GET ENEMY - [AFTER EACH LINE]
Oh me a water - o
No go fight am, unless you wan die
I say water No get enemy
No go fight am, unless you wan die
O me a water-o
O they talk of Black-man power
O they talk of Black power, I say
I say water No get enemy
No go fight am, unless you wan die
I say water No get enemy
I say water No get enemy
O me a water-o
O me a water-o
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