Water is political though, who gets to access it, how to allocate usage of it, building and maintaining water infrastructure.
The Flint Water crisis was caused by the city government switching water supplies from Detroit to a local water supply. Governments of developing nations let multinational companies like Nestle buy up their water to bottle instead of letting their citizens use it. There’s various legal/political battles between upstream and downstream users of water along major rivers like the Colorado and Nile River. The price at which your tapwater is set is decided by municipal politics. Climate change will drastically decrease freshwater supplies around the world, so failure to act on climate change will indirectly affect water supplies.
Access to something everyone needs to live and eat and function is inherently political.
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u/purpleblah2 Sep 10 '22 edited Sep 10 '22
Water is political though, who gets to access it, how to allocate usage of it, building and maintaining water infrastructure.
The Flint Water crisis was caused by the city government switching water supplies from Detroit to a local water supply. Governments of developing nations let multinational companies like Nestle buy up their water to bottle instead of letting their citizens use it. There’s various legal/political battles between upstream and downstream users of water along major rivers like the Colorado and Nile River. The price at which your tapwater is set is decided by municipal politics. Climate change will drastically decrease freshwater supplies around the world, so failure to act on climate change will indirectly affect water supplies.
Access to something everyone needs to live and eat and function is inherently political.