Water

I see water as a natural resource, the same as oil. If a person is allowed to take oil from a area why can't they take water. Wouldn't, Zephyerhills, whom divert water that floats to the surface in the form of natural springs, bottle it and sell it for profit be guilty of the same accusations made in the article. Now just because T. Boone Pickens is in Texas where the aquafer is deeper and therefore prob requires drilling for a well does that differentiate him from Zephyrhills who actually are able to cut costs because nature brings the water to the surface. I saw a documentary on the history of drinking water and it was nuts. People have been drinking bottled water for hundreds of years and that is becasue until the early nineteen hundreds chlorine the chemical in the liquid form was just developed. This gave the ability to purify water running through city pipes for citizens for drinking purposes. Before this people depended the well itself to filter the water which was perfected by the romans thousands of years ago. When studying the dark ages in school they always said this is when people forgot about writing and literature and the thing the never mentioned is people forgot the technology from the romans on how to properly construct wells using sand as a filter. So in the dark ages when kings ran enclosed towns the people living on top of each other developed disease and contaminated the water. So this lead to making beer a every meal requirement because the alcohol in the beer actually kills disease. The lowest peasants were relegated to drinking water and it was seen as a symbol of low status to drink water because one could got sick from it. So for us to pick and choose who can rape and pillage our natural resources seems a bit too much for me.