Global Debate on Water

By Jason Antczak, Brother Rice High School

Using water as a national resource would be the most effective technique in managing water resources and delivering them to the people. Nation’s where the water resources exist should possess the rights to distribute and consume their water as they please (with environmental restrictions). The water rights should not be privatized. Water rights that are being managed by city and state governments receive more attention than if they were to be sold to corporate control. City and state water managements provide the people with more democratic control over decisions about their own water rights.

A Parting Gift

I thought I'd take this opportunity, on my last day at The People Speak, to mention something really cool that a friend of mine introduced me to a couple of months ago. There are all kinds of web browsers out there, but did you know that there's an eco web browser now? 

Go Government

Guest Blogger: Brian Ashburn, Brainerd High School, Brainerd, Minnesota, USA

Have you ever wondered where the drinking water you receive comes from? Where do those pipes originate? You’d be surprised to know they lead to a government supplier. Is that a good thing though? Does the government do the water-providing job adequately? Or should we give the reigns to a private company? I naturally took the position of the government. 

Water Conservation

Guest Blogger: Colin Sullivan, Brainerd High School, Brainerd, Minnesota, USA

Survival. Since the time of our earliest ancestors, this has been the prime objective of life. For humans, there are certain requirements that must be met in order to obtain survival. Surely the most prominent of these requirements would be water. Without water, the average human will die in three to five days, according to National Geographic. So how then have we allowed fellow human beings to suffer and die in the pursuit of water? In ancient times, help would not have been offered, for competitive reasons. But now, with morals and standards as a key part of our society, and competition is no longer an issue, what is stopping us? How has we let this detrimental problem that plagues our ancestors evolve into a continent-wide epidemic?
 

Privatization is Paramount

Guest Blogger: Brian Ashburn, Brainerd High School, Brainerd, Minnesota, USA

What is one thing that all humans cannot live without? What is the one thing that makes us function every single day? While many of you think that Gray’s Anatomy is the answer, water is much more important to your existence and well-being. Now most of you have easy-access running water at your disposal, just sitting in your sink waiting to be used. Others aren’t so lucky. People across the world go without water for days, barely surviving. Whose responsibility is it to give these poor people drinking water? Many would say their government. However, they often are incapable of doing such an action. Because of this, I think that private companies should provide water to people.  

Government Negligence

Guest Blogger: Brian Ashburn, Brainerd High School, Brainerd, Minnesota, USA

The only agent acting to regulate water pollution is the government, and in most cases the state government. I recently read an article from the New York Times about the state of New York and their pollution codes. What I read was quite shocking.