Thirst, the movie

[jaqeboy]

re-posting to the top:

Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 7 pm:

Film: THIRST

Countries all over the world are losing control over the essential resource of water when corporations are buying up local water, as in Northwood. This excellent film tells that global story. Part of Summer Film Series on current global and international issues sponsored by CREATE A PEACEFUL WORLD BY SUSTAINING OUR FUTURE at Dover Friends Meeting, 141 Central Ave., Dover.

Location: Dover Friends Meeting House
             141 Central Avenue
             Dover, New-Hampshire

[Insurgent]

It's official--we'll be carpooling from Concord at 5:30. Address is 66 Airport rd, right across the street from the airport. See you there!

[error]

Hm, wait, governments are complaining because private companies are selling water? Or are they complaining because the private companies are getting water to the people the governments didn't want to have it?

[CNHT]

Hm, wait, governments are complaining because private companies are selling water? Or are they complaining because the private companies are getting water to the people the governments didn't want to have it?

It seems anti-capitalist to me.

[EthanAllen]

It's official--we'll be carpooling from Concord at 5:30. Address is 66 Airport rd, right across the street from the airport. See you there!

Sorry I couldn't make it! My mother is in town visiting.

[EthanAllen]

Hm, wait, governments are complaining because private companies are selling water? Or are they complaining because the private companies are getting water to the people the governments didn't want to have it?

All groundwater in NH is held in common as an individual equal access opportunity right. The question that needs to be answered is when does a private water company infringe on the rights of individuals in water withdrawls from a common asset?

[jaqeboy]

All groundwater in NH is held in common as an individual equal access opportunity right. The question that needs to be answered is when does a private water company infringe on the rights of individuals in water withdrawls from a common asset?

Is that in the Constitution or RSA's somewhere?

[EthanAllen]

All groundwater in NH is held in common as an individual equal access opportunity right. The question that needs to be answered is when does a private water company infringe on the rights of individuals in water withdrawls from a common asset?

Is that in the Constitution or RSA's somewhere?

For some reason the info. is not available on the website:

from fact sheet section:

WD-WSEB-22-13 Who Owns New Hampshire's Groundwater?

http://www.des.state.nh.us/dwspp/lgwith.htm

[jaqeboy]

From the discussion after the film viewing, there are apparently interesting ongoing water cases in the region, of one type or another, in Nottingham, Kingston, Barnstead, Somersworth and Sterling/Clinton, Massachusetts.

This includes, in one case, an ordinance making the definition of water something that can't be "owned."

I'll post more from my notes later. There are a couple of advocacy groups of note that I'll post links to when I find them.

What's interesting is this group also shows films like "the Money Masters" and they are on the same wavelength as libertarians re the Federal Reserve.