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OMNI UN WORLD WATER DAY NEWSLETTER #6, MARCH
22, 2021.
World Climate Justice Month Begins,
COMPILED BY Dick Bennett for a
Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
(#1 August 9, 2011; #2
March 22, 2012; #3 March 22, 2014, #4, March 22, 2015; #5, March 22, 2018).
What’s at stake: This year’s World Water Day theme is simple -- the value of water. It’s
important to understand just how essential this resource is; if managed
correctly everyone can benefit. A core focus of World Water Day is to help
achieve one of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals: water and sanitation
for all by 2030. As we’ve pointed out elsewhere on this site, not just millions but billions of
people around the world suffer due to poor access to water, sanitation and
hygiene.
Contents
UN
World Water Day
Countries Most Affected by the Global Water
Crisis
Stock Market Trading in Water
US Military Operations Have Contaminated the
Pacific Region
Trump
Promotes Privatization
Afghanistan
TEXTS
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WATER DAY MARCH 22, 2021
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Commentary and coverage on the UN and UN-related issues
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"A New UN Report Shows
What Countries Are Most Affected by the Global Water Crisis"
Full
Story: UN Dispatch (3/23)
 
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Water futures: the latest battleground in the defence
of the fundamental right to water.
Mronline.org (2-16l-21).
Stock market trading in water futures is the
latest battleground in the defense of the fundamental right to water.
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New Book: Poisoning
the Pacific
Poisoning the Pacific- by
Jon Mitchell, investigative journalist with Okinawa Times, is based upon 12,000+ pages of FOIA documents,
it reveals how US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific
region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve
agent. Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people and US service members
have been exposed—but the DoD has hidden the damage and refused to help
victims.
Noam
Chomsky, Oliver Stone and Nobel Peace Prize winners, ICAN, have all thrown
their support behind the book
Read more here! From Veterans for Peace 10-2-20
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TRUMP
PROMOTES PRIVATIZATION
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Dear Dick,
Welcome to Food
& Water Action!
4-10-20
I want to let you know that you're
doing something great. By taking action with Food &
Water Action you're part of a movement of people
standing up to greedy corporations that put our food,
water and future at risk just to turn a bigger profit.
There's nothing we value more than
supporters like you.
Here's what you can expect from us:
· We'll keep
you updated on the local and national issues
that impact your food and water, that threaten your
climate, and that put the future of our planet in
danger.
· We'll give
you the chance to take more actions — signing
petitions, calling your legislators, donating,
spreading the word on social media and even
volunteering in your community — to make it easy for
you to make a difference.
· YOU can send us
your feedback by
replying to any of our emails — we'd love to hear
from you!
Right now, I hope you'll take
another step with us and say
NO to Trump's scam of a plan to privatize our public
resources!
Donald Trump's proposal to
"fix" America's infrastructure is actually a
huge threat to our country.1,2 He wants
to sell our water systems, bridges, roads and schools
to the highest bidder — big business wins, we lose.
Trump's privatization scam only
benefits his Wall Street billionaire friends and
foreign corporations. They'll put their profits before
your well-being — hiking water rates and tolls.
Keep
Wall Street away from our public systems — sign
now to REJECT Trump's plan!
Trump's plan would hurt working
families across the country and disproportionately
impact low-income and rural communities and communities
of color. We consistently see that when big
corporations take control of our infrastructure,
taxpayers carry the costs.3
Take our crumbling water systems,
for example:
The American Society of Civil
Engineers' report card for water infrastructure gives
the United States a D. It's not just
communities like Flint that are suffering. Already, 12%
of househds can't afford their exorbitant water bills.4 Unless we
do something to fix this problem, it’s likely to get
worse: by 2019, nearly 36% of U.S. households could be
unable to afford their water service!
American communities need help
fixing water infrastructure, but privatizing our water
systems is NOT the answer.
Privatizing water means higher
water rates, job loss and little accountability to
customers like you. Food & Water Action studied
water rates of the 500 largest U.S. community water
systems and found that large
for-profit, privately owned systems charge 59
percent more than large publicly owned
systems.5
On top of that, privatization
will not help communities like Flint address
their water problems. Private investors would
cherry-pick service areas to avoid cash-strapped
neighborhoods where households can’t afford to pay the
cost of privatized service.
We need public investment in water
systems, roads and schools, NOT a Wall Street giveaway!
That's why Food & Water Action
is fighting alongside hundreds of other organizations
and unions to ensure that our infrastructure is public
and has the resources necessary to keep everyone safe.
That’s why we support the WATER Act to provide
dedicated federal funding to improve and maintain our
aging water systems and pay for it by making sure
corporations pay their fair share.6
It's up to us to demand the right
thing from the people who represent us.
Call
on your members of Congress to REJECT Trump's Wall
Street giveaway and instead support the plan for public
investment!
The American people deserve a fix
to our infrastructure that puts people first — NOT Wall
Street.
Onward together,
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch
1. Trump
pivots to infrastructure as he enters bruising week, Politico,
June 3, 2017.
2. Trump’s
Infrastructure Plan Is a Corporate Giveaway,
Food & Water Watch, June 14, 2017.
3. Public-Private
Projects Where the Public Pays and Pays, New
York Times, June 6, 2017.
4. How Many
People Can't Afford Their Water Bills? Too Many.,
Food & Water Watch, March 21, 2017.
5. The State
of Public Water in the United States, Food
& Water Watch, February 16, 2016.
6. Water.
Jobs. Justice. The Case for the Water Affordability,
Transparency, Equity and Reliability (WATER) Act,
Food & Water Watch, April 25, 2018.
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AFGHANISTAN’S WATER
Digging Deeper by Kathy Kelly
VFP Weekly E-News, June 8, 2018
"The
most sophisticated and heavily armed warring party in Afghanistan is the U.S.
military. Despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars on non-military aid
to Afghanistan, the United States
has done little to improve Afghanistan’s infrastructure or alleviate its alarming water crisis. President Donald
Trump’s interest in what’s happening under the ground in Afghanistan is focused
exclusively on the U.S. capacity to extract Afghanistan’s mineral wealth,
estimated to be worth trillions of dollars.
Ordinary Afghans
could be forgiven for feeling paralyzed and defeated by controlling elites who
ignore their most basic human needs. Yet every day, Afghan communities reject
continued war and call for peace."
Read the Entire Article
CONTENTS: UN WORLD WATER DAY NEWSLETTER #5, March 22, 2018
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/03/omni-un-world-water-day-newsletter-5.html
Greenberg,
Mighty Earth 2018 World Water Day Forum,
Farrell’s Lounge, 3-22, 6:30
UN
World Water Day, March 22
Recent
Books on Water
Matt
Damon’s Water War
Context: Books on Rising Seas
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UN WORLD WATER DAY NEWSLETTER #6
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