Selling Bottled Water is an Epic Dystopian Scam
There’s nothing more refreshing than a glass of cold water on a hot summer day. Especially now, with fires raging across the whole planet, smoke on the horizon, and heat domes pinning us under sweltering, oppressive temperatures. Being able to sip some ice water, and splash it on your face or the back of your neck helps keep the worst of the discomfort at bay. Staying hydrated is essential for your health, and good clean water is a necessity for everything from drinking to washing up. It’s difficult to overstate the importance of water. Next to clean air, it’s the second most vital need that living beings have. We need water before we need food — in fact, we can’t even digest the food we eat if we’re too dehydrated. We need water. We depend on it for our survival in so many different ways. You’d think we could all agree that it’s important to ensure we all have access to it for that reason…But when some people see the basic necessities of life, they don’t see a need to safeguard them for our use.I want you to imagine living in a terrible drought. The water levels in your town are so low that the taps in your home aren’t working — there’s no pressure to draw from. The municipal cisterns are close to empty. You have no clean water to drink. You can’t bathe or shower, you can’t wash your clothes. You can’t do the dishes, mop your floors, you can’t water your garden, or wash your car. You can’t even flush your toilets. Your children are being sent home from school because they aren’t clean enough. You’re spending every day waiting for a city truck to come by, holding up a bucket to catch your prescribed volume of brackish water from the river. It’s all anyone has to work with. You have to make do. You’re feeling sick from drinking from the…
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