I was once a card carrying member and a capitalist of the American for-profit free enterprise system strongly opposed to union membership, idealistically supporting the notion of profit maximization and advocate of American leadership worldwide. In the intervening years between my birth in 1943 and today, that bubble busted replaced initially by a cloud of disillusionment, distrust, defiance, anger and frustration. What I saw and envisioned in my youthful idyllic state I found as I entered the reality of business was that to attain the pentacle of financial success one had to sell his integrity for the sake of profits, for the sake of being invited into a particular meeting or function, there was an expectation that if you do for me I am expected to do for you though I may not have any control over the ethos of the situation.

In the past 33 years I have been actively involved in the water and wastewater issues affecting homeowners and small flow business environments. I have in my home state of Arizona, witnessed the unrelenting increase in the power of large for profit corporate structures as they insidiously exercise power over many aspects of our water. By our inability to secure the truth and the facts about our water and/or wastewater increasingly “we” are befuddled and bamboozled by the “double-speak” coming from their mouth pieces in academia and government. In Arizona, we do not know the truth about the current quantity nor quality of the water in our state as it convenient lays behind closed doors of regulator bodies essentially controlled by these for profit corporate enterprises. There is a disparity of information, those on the “inside” knowing what is needed to enable them to manipulate public opinion so as to increase their bottom line, but at the expense of the public’s health if necessary.

Our public regulatory bodies are merely training grounds for the for-profit corporate entities such as engineers, water purveyors, water product mfr wherein a revolving door exists. The regulator of today becomes the engineer whose firm now needs the acceptance of the agency for whom he worked only yesterday. The science produced by academia is now funded, for example, by the corporation needed to secure a permit for construction of a new facility reputedly designed to render previously contaminated water into now acceptable potable (drinking) water to be sold to you and me. Conveniently, however, we don’t every mention that fact the “standards” to which this new facility adheres is the product of backroom negotiation between these same for profit water purveyors, academia funded by these for profit water purveyors and regulators who have been employees of these for profit water purveyors. Notably absent from a seat at this table is the only honestly independent third party capable of providing oversight – you and/or me – deliberately excluded though we pick up the tap for the whole enchilada.

If you’re part of the cabal controlling America’s water you gota love it, don’t you…?

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There is a misconception perpetuated by the MSM and the blocks of politicians and corporations who profit by conflict and war: it is that the struggle between the Jews and Palestinians is a religious war, while it actually a long conflict over limited water resources in Palestine-Israel. It is an attrition of Have-water and Have-not water.

This is a difficult Myth to retreat from. To address the problem, the minority militant wing of Israel will have to admit the mistakes and aggression over watered lands taken from the non-Jewish Palestinians in the past. Only then can the next step be reached: negotiate to desalinate Mediterranean seawater and pipe it to the Palestinians while teaching them to use it productively for food and industry.

In short, there is opportunity to trade water for peace, but the political minority stands in the way of long-term solutions.

Yet, in spite of the historic and present conditions of inadequate freshwater supplies for the non-Arab population of Israel that looms on the horizon as an ever-present danger of human disaster, those in power prefer to maintain that the struggle is not about water and its scarcity.

Ironically, water is the age-old symbol of spiritual depth, purity and richness; the dearth of fresh, clean water in Israel and the Palestinian territories perhaps mirrors the conditions in the hearts of the people on both sides of the controversial fence.

To offer water is the sign of Peace.

These are the words of Thomas A. Nagy.

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