Water is life,
water is power
water has become the new oil
Sadly, it's becoming an increasingly scarce resource
across the globe through overuse and pollution
But who really controls the water we drink
A deep dive into the planet's water situation
reveals that in the coming decades
every country including the United States will have to determine
how to treat water as an economic good,
a human right,
And a depleting resource.
As these issues become more acute,
tensions have already begun to escalate,
but who's really behind this
All of this and more on today's episode of Edge of Wonder.
Welcome Edge of Wonder.
I'm your host Ben
and I'm Rob
Previously we did an episode on poles shifting—
the real life possibility that life on earth could massively change if the magnetic poles reverse.
We care about letting you guys know about
potential issues related to the Earth that not a lot of other people are talking about,
but should.
Today we're going to talk about a potentially even bigger issue!
Water.
Have any of you seen the movie The Big Short?
You all know that it was based on the real life story of Michael Burry,
who saw the coming financial crisis in 2008
and bet against the housing market while making millions.
At the end of the movie, though, it says something very strange.
Burry is putting all of his money into one thing…water.
Some of you might be thinking,
well how can you invest in water
and why would you want to when … well ... water is everywhere?
Well water is everywhere,
but did you know only about 2.5% of our water in the world is freshwater
and only about 1% of that is easily accessible?
Also what about contamination?
Is drinkable water becoming the new oil?
And just like oil, do we have to treat water as an economic good,
or a human right,
and a depleting resource?
In this episode we wanted to take a step back
and talk about something truly needs to be addressed,
because the reality is
water is already becoming a scarce commodity for many people in 3rd world countries.
If people don't take action in the future, this could affect everyone.
This really brings up a lot of moral and ethical questions as well.
We've been talking a lot in recent episodes about who controls the large corporations.
Should they control and own a lot of the freshwater?
And if so what does that mean for us?
In the US, an average American uses over 100 gallons of water a day
and the average European uses about 66 gallons!
Now granted cooking, washing clothes, flushing toilets, taking showers, drinking water, etc.
all these are included but that is a lot of water.
Now factor in industrial use
and ready for this, a whopping 400 billion gallons of water
are used per day in the US alone
with half of it being used for thermoelectric power generation.
We don't even have the biggest population in the world in the US
Did you know about 1.8 billion people worldwide are drinking water that is contaminated with feces?
1.8 can you image that
And 2.5 billion people do not have access to an improved sanitation facilities.
Also in many developing nations, the women spend 25% of their day collecting water.
But that isn't what is most shocking,
if you count all the South African women and children
they walk a daily distance equivalent to 16 trips to the moon and back to just fetch water.
The World Resources Institute has estimated that by 2025
two-thirds of the world's population will live in water-stressed areas,
concentrated in the Middle East, North Africa, and western Asia.
So what could happen
Well this could actually lead countries to go to war with each other over water shortages
which has already started to happen in Syria.
According to a recent report from Newsweek,
the next major war could be over water between Iraq, Syria and Turkey
over two vital rivers that run through the region.
Nabil al-Samman, a Syrian expert on international waters,
called this the "Water War,"
as this is being used as a weapon
for the commercial commodity controlled by the state for political ends.
Private vs. Public who owns the water
Water investments are lucrative for companies
since there is always going to be an unwavering demand for this increasingly scarce resource.
So of course this brings in a lot of fear which is …
will private investment determine water management and market rates
or will basic human necessities drive it
Opponents of water privatization also have problems with companies profiting from water,
which they argue is a public resource.
They say is the air we breathe the next essential resource for sale?
Make sense
So some people think it shouldn't really be for sale.
That kind of reminds me of spaceballs,
selling the..
canned air
Cue it
So A Pepsi VP said in 2000 "The biggest enemy is tap water."
So already we know where this is going
which was also followed up with "When we're done,
tap water will be relegated to irrigation and washing dishes,"
said Susan D. Wellington of Quaker Oats.
The scary part of this is that the three big corporations of Nestlé, Coke, and pepsi,
are all purchasing water and on a large scale.
The city of Sacramento in California,
let Nestlé bottle and sell "excess" tap water.
They are purchasing the water for 1$ per 750 gallons
and then selling this 1-3$ for a 16.9 ounce bottle water.
By the way, for those of you who watched our committee of 300 video,
and know that everything of the 300 comes from Switzerland,
well so does Nestlé's headquarters.
The world's largest water company, Suez,
serves about 1 billion people worldwide—
including 20 percent of China's urban population.
According to the in Depth Water Yearbook
63 million people in the US are now served in some way by private water companies.
American Water is the biggest water company here
and in 2016 its revenue was over $3.3 Billion.
However, it does cost a lot to treat water.
Globally, about $420 billion in capital spending is needed annually for water works,
but realistically only about $190 billion is actually spent,
according to Global Water Intelligence.
So as a result infrastructure is deteriorating.
But like everything and considering the missing hundreds of billions of dollars,
corruption is a huge factor because of lack of oversight.
According to a New York Times article:
"Bottled water manufacturers are not required
to disclose as much information as municipal water utilities of gaps in federal oversight authority."
It goes on to say that The Food and Drug Administration oversees bottled water,
and U.S. EPA is in charge of tap water.
There is one good thing about private companies though
owning the water is that they will invest more
and have state-of-the-technology to keep water clean and fresh.
But the question on everyone's mind is
if water does become more scarce
will they raise the price and force us to pay more for it
It's on my mind
It's on everyone's mind
So we gotta talk about China
One of the countries that has the most people
and the most serious water problems is China.
Authorities estimate that about 80 percent of China's surface groundwater
is not fit for drinking,
and 90 percent of the groundwater in urban areas is contaminated.
More than 360 million people,
that's more than the population of the United States,
or about a quarter of the country's population,
do not have access to clean water.
With the main sources of water pollution in China come from manufacturing—
chemical, fertilizer, paper, and clothing.
According to an official Chinese report,
70 percent of China's rivers and lakes are so polluted
that they can't even sustain marine life.
Things are so bad that it caused the extinction of the baiji dolphin,
a mammal native only to the Yangtze River.
I'm speculating that that's where the 3 eyed fish came from in the Simpsons
Probably
The Yellow, which is the 2nd largest
and is known as the cradle of Chinese civilization,
has over 4,000 petrochemical plants on its banks
and that polluted its waters beyond recovery.
China is one of the most water-stressed countries in the world.
China has a fifth of the world's population,
but less than 7 percent of its fresh water.
Beijing's groundwater was considered inexhaustible,
but that too has been being pumped faster than it can be replenished,
having dropped by nearly 1,000 feet in the last 40 years.
However, a lot of this contributes to corruption
throughout the communist party's history.
Mao's cultural revolution produced huge amounts of sewage and waste,
and these pollutants were discharged into rivers which still continue to this day.
In 2008 a report came out that
3,000 out of 21,000 petrochemical plants on the Yangtze and Yellow rivers
discharge billions of tons of wastewater per year.
There is even something called Cancer Villages in China,
where over 50% of the people who live in any one of these 400 villages
have cancer and these statistics were back in 2002!
I am sure it is way higher now if these things exist.
Many experts and scientists say
a solution for China to start improving water quality for urban areas
would be to include forest restoration,
more efficient agricultural practices,
and other conservation best practices.
But really, China would have to undergo a massive massive change for this to happen.
Ok, let's talk about chemicals in Water
Pollution is a huge problem when it comes to water
but there is a greater threat because it has more sources,
no way to stop it,
and seeps into our tap water inconspicuously in small amounts,
and is starting to add up.
What is it?
It is pharmaceutical ingredients, illicit drugs, and numerous substances of modern life
with largely unknown health effects.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the EPA,
which regulates drinking water,
has identified 126 substances (and counting)
that may be pervasive in the U.S. drinking water supplies
which it calls "contaminants of emerging concern" (CECs)
or "emerging contaminants."
And how does it enter our waters?
Well when we take medications or illegal drugs,
part of it is absorbed in our bodies
and the rest passes well
when we go to the bathroom,
when we flush the toilet
I think they get it Ben
Some people also dispose their drugs in the toilet
in which their particles don't end up getting filtered.
The wastewater containing CECs is then released into rivers
or other bodies of water used as drinking water sources.
CECs enter the body not only through drinking water,
but also through the produce grown on land irrigated with water containing contaminants.
According to the Epoch Times,
Research hydrologist Dana Kolpin,
chief of the USGS Toxic Program's Contaminants of Emerging Concern Project,
that's a mouthful,
said: "You get exposed to a whole soup of things.
For a fish, it's what they live and breathe in,
but for humans it's what we're breathing,
it's what we're drinking,
it's what's we're lathering up on our skin for cosmetics,
it's what we eat."
Now what is really alarming is that
a study by the Idaho State University School,
hypothesized that the effect observed in fish indicates that this mixture of pharmaceuticals
in the drinking water may be triggering autism in some people.
Some scientists are hopeful that new tools will be invented
and new testing will be done to start catching these before it is too late.
A study at Harvard found that 6 million Americans are exposed through tap water to Polyfluoroalkyl
and perfluoroalkyl.
These substances are also known as PFOS and PFASs,
a class of chemicals used in paints and fire-fighting foam,
at levels at or above the safety limits.
PFASs have been linked to kidney cancer, elevated cholesterol, obesity, and endocrine disruption.
By the way, these chemicals bond with fluorine known in chemistry as a very deadly poison.
Wait a minute,
so what is the difference between fluorine and fluoride then?
Ok fluoride is actually a reduced form of fluorine
and they say it is only harmful in large quantities
but I mean it's in everything
With all the exposure that we are getting,
who really knows what it is doing to our bodies.
Someone found it reduces cavities
which is why of course everyone thought it would be good to spread it everywhere.
Yep great plan.
So we know that fluoride is becoming a major concern for a lot of people
and we covered a little bit of this in our 3rd eye episode
but we will be diving deeper into the fluoride conspiracy,
well doesn't really seem there is one,
but we will talk about it more in our next episode of water.
Also for those of you following our videos
you know that we are doing a whole series on exposing the deep state
and what their ultimate goal is.
We started with the committee of 300
and their plans for how to form their One World Government.
We also talked at length about Eugenics
and all the methods they are doing to carry out their plan.
The big conspiracy out there is that they are purposely polluting our waters,
to make us sick, to kill us off, to force us to buy their drugs,
and mixing pollutants in water
such as fluoride to actually significantly dumb us down.
Since water is crucial to our survival,
it would make sense that they would start to have these systems in place.
So this is what we will be talking about in our next episode.
But this water topic is huge
and the scope of it is just too broad,
so we will do one on the dangers of plastic bottles and fluoride.
Now if you are worried about your own drinking water,
most cities have free water testing kits that they will send you
and you can test your tap water.
And if they don't,
then you can find tests online that are not too expensive.
Or you can go to www.epa.gov/ccr
to see the rating of your own public water.
So guys, be on the lookout for those next episodes,
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