Water: Blog Action Day 2010
I am haunted by words from the great Prophet Isaiah, from a bible study we are doing this year in Bible Study Fellowship.
In Chapter 3, Verse 15 he says:
“What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord Almighty.
The saddest thing of all is that he is speaking to his own people. He is also speaking to us.
Water is so fundamental to human life that we hardly think about it, yet, like all commodities, it is bought, sold, and while readily available in its natural form to many, it is scarce, rare and expensive to many of the poorest of the poor. Worse, it is hopelessly contaminated by fertilizers running from our fields, from the refining of our fossil fuels, from the effluent and poisons emanating from our factories, and from the sewage of an ever expanding earthly population.
I’m becoming more and more uncomfortably aware of my oblivious footprint on this earth, the amount of earth’s resources I am using up, much more than my equal share . . . not for life sustaining necessities like drinking and cooking, but by watering my lawn and washing my car, by letting the water run while I brush my teeth. The more I change my behaviors, the more aware I become of all the ways in which I waste. 😦
This is written for Blog Action Day 2010
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Intlxpatr :
Do you pay for water for your household use . Is it fixed rate or is it metered ??
Daggero, it is metered. It is not expensive, not yet, not like it would be in Kuwait or Qatar. The dry season is just beginning, however, and I have a system installed to water the lawn. Here is the dilemma – if I don’t run the watering system, my lawn goes bad and my neighbors hate me because I make the neighborhood look bad. 😦 We are exploring turning parts of the lawn into more ‘naturalized’ gardens, natural grasses, not lawn, and Florida plants. There’s a lot to think about.