Water

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. — Mark Twain.

I thought that quote was a good way to start this post on water. Drinking water: tap vs. bottled. Government controlled vs. conglomerate. Here are some great articles and websites about our water for your edification.

• I'm starting with this N.Y. Times article that was just published today that shows the pending crisis in China over their water problem. And as we are beginning to realize; when China gets the sniffles over a natural resource, we catch a cold.

Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up

• The Natural Resources Defense Council's September 2007 This Green Life:

The Future of Drinking Water, Could this be ebb tide for the bottled water craze?

• From the July 2007 issue of Fast Company:

Message in a Bottle: Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion. A journey into the economics--and psychology--of an unlikely business boom. And what it says about our culture of indulgence.

• A PBS POV on water:

The Invisibility of Water

• A Marketwatch article on the water taste challenge:

Thomas Kostigen's Ethics Monitor
Bottle nose: Taste challenge aims to create wellspring of support for tap water

• A CNN video on bottled water:

Bottled water faces taxing time

• A Bloomberg article on a Canadian church boycotting bottled water:

Bottled-Water Boycott by Canadian Church Targets Beverage Sales

• Four organizations fighting for the Great Lakes and Michigan's water supply:
  

http://www.wearemichigan.com/environment/SaveOurWater/
http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/
http://www.waterissweet.org/index.html
http://www.savemiwater.org/

And to end with another quote:

If the wars of this century were fought over oil,
the wars of the next century will be fought over water.
— Ismail Serageldin (1995 World Bank Vice-President)