Entiltement of Water

We come to this world with nothing, and we leave with nothing. What is on Earth belongs to Earth, and to all the life forms. We have equal rights to all nature resources that has been provided to us by Earth, no one is above all, and no one is under. Locke said it the best “Property can only be owned with the use of one’s body and the work of his hands”. One cannot own or claim something that’s been given to all mankind in common, unless it’s removed from it’s original common state, which means it can only be owned privately through one’s labor.

It hit me so hard after watching documentary “Flow- for the love of water”. I knew accessible water and clean drinking-water was a huge issue around the globe, due to climate change and industrialization. What I did not know was that so many corporations were taking this opportunity to take advantage of those who suffered from it. It is wrong to dump toxins into rivers and lakes that people used to consume water from. What was even worse was knowing the situation of those people were in, not only they were not helping the situation, they had to make it worse by controlling the distribution of the water, selling it to the highest bidder. In the process, those corporations have made water industry a billion dollar business.

Is it all about the Benjamin"s? Where has humanity gone to？ Water is a basic need for not just mankind but all living life forms. It is to support and comfort our being, it is not a commodity, especially when one knows his fellow-commoners are suffering from the support of it. In Locke’s theory that when one has what’s beyond of one’s needs, is more than his share, and belongs to others. Water is a nature resource, therefore it is common to all of us, one cannot possess it when it is harming the others with knowing.