Has anyone not noticed the insidiousness of the bottled water industry? They have got us shunning tap water and paying mucho $$ to drink it from a bottle. For one thing, at least in the US, or most of the US, anyway, what comes from the tap is as good as anything out of the bottles. And it also has fluoride to help fight tooth decay. (Yes, this is a GOOD thing.)

Furthermore, it doesn't need an expensive delivery system (train and truck), and it doesn't disgorge millions of pounds of plastic to fill the landfills. And another thing, does anyone not also know that those self-same bottles are made from, guess what? Petroleum! See other threads for discussions of THAT shortage.

What has this to do with water being the cause of war? Dunno. There's probably a connection that I haven't made due to insufficient blood/caffeine level. But rather than working on convincing millions of third-worlders that they need water from bottles, we should focus more energy on finding ways that they can have locally based water supplies that they don't need to keep buying from some multi-national. Kind of like the old baby formula issue.

BTW, do you know that it takes approx. 3,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef? Interesting "food" for thought. Mother nature wants us to eat more lower on the food chain and not populate the earth beyond its capacity to support us AND her other children.