CORPORATIONS ARE THREATENING TO PRIVATIZE OUR GLOBAL WATER SUPPLY!
On March 22nd the world's governments will meet in the Hague at a World Water Conference to adopt a Ministerial Declaration on Water Security in the 21st Century. The Global Water Council, established by the World Bank, has drafted a badly flawed declaration. Despite the urging of NGOs that the declaration should establish that access to water is a human right, the corporate dominated Council has proposed that clean, safe, adequate water for all people is merely a basic human need. Expanding the crippling tentacles of globalization, they further propose that water should be valued as an economic good. One Swiss Fund is already offering a stock prospectus for investors to take advantage of the coming trend to privatize public water supplies and make individual fortunes from Earth's most precious resource--water--which sustains all forms of life on our planet. HELP STOP THE GLOBAL CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF OUR COMMON HERITAGE--THE VERY WATERS OF EARTH!!!
Write to Reginald Parish, the US Representative at the Ministerial Conference on Water Security and tell him water should be a human right, not a private commodity!
Mr. Reginald Parrish Office of Water Environmental Protection Agency, Rm. 4101 401 M St., SW Washington, DC 20460 202-260-6095 (tel) 202-260-5711 (fax) parrish.reginald@epa.gov
cc: President Bill Clinton The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Phone: 202-456-1414 Switchboard Phone: 202-456-1111 Comments Fax: 202-456-2461 president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Albert Gore The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500 Phone: 202-456-2326 vice-president@whitehouse.gov
Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org
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