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Water’s value will continue to increase

Fresh clean water. We take it for granted because we have all we need and a surplus. Fresh water is the most valuable natural resource on planet Earth; no one can live without it

Fresh clean water. We take it for granted because we have all we need and a surplus. Fresh water is the most valuable natural resource on planet Earth; no one can live without it.

As oil has been called “black gold” this past century, water will be known as “liquid diamonds” in this century.

The developers of the SmartCentres mall have given the future much thought. We need to think about the future too.

The Walmart corporation has a worldwide network to obtain and distribute their products. Fresh water is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity. It is being shipped all over the world and in many places consumers pay more for a bottle of water than they do for gasoline.

The developers want the land today so they can take the water tomorrow. I see that as the hidden agenda. It makes no sense to put a shopping mall in such an unsuitable location. Putting a pipeline into the lake, sucking out and bottling our water to sell all over the world makes a lot of future sense and mega-profits. Liquid diamonds bought for pennies, sold for gold.

The location is about the water, not the land. The mall is just a way of “holding the fort” until the time is right to start extracting the resource: fresh water.

Once again British Columbians are being shortsighted by allowing foreign corporations to take our natural resources and leave our future generations with a loss and a mess to clean up.

Multinational corporations know a precious resource when they see it. Are we blind to what is right in front of our eyes? We have a valley full of liquid diamonds, will we allow our wealth to run through our fingers like water?

 

 

Kalene Bourque