'Greedy Water Barons seek to dominate water resources' - Post 2 today @ 3:36 PM CST

"All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants and animals, or collectively the land." The Land Ethic, A Sand County Almanac.

My two last poems refer to this premise when I say "all of it" in each of them. 

This is also why I stand with the Native Americans regarding their rights - when water supplies are threatened by large corporate projects - when it is not necessary.  (in the case of the Dakota Access Pipeline and Lake Oahe)  

Since the pipeline endangers the entire Missouri River watershed - if it is breached - it sets up water barons to reap the benefits of the disaster.

Water barons - seek to dominate water resources around the world.   For if you can control water - what population can you not control ?

To control water - and to sell it at a profit - makes the poor - poorer - and further eliminates the population of the middle class.

While I support American interests - and becoming more energy independent, endangering water supplies when it can be avoided - is essential to keeping our number one resource - water - out of the grip of greedy power-mongering interest.

I was not aware of the details regarding the pipelines threatening water supplies until recentely.   However, as we have seen already, one 'accident' can destroy an entire region.

The Deepwater Horizon fiasco - destroyed the Gulf of Mexico - and thousands of poor and middle class who depended on the fishing industry there.   We should not be setting up more scenarios for this to happen.  

Water rights need to be settled - without endangering the water supplies of the American people - and not simply given over to powerful corporations (of which their primary necessity is always profit for its shareholders).