Many Rivers To Cross

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A troop-rallying video for this Saturday’s Right 2 Water protest in Dublin city centre comprising images of recent local protests around the country (including Dundalk above)

Mmf.

Soundtrack: Enda Kenny Forrest Gump by Alan Silvestri.

Buses For The National Demonstration (Right2Water)

Meanwhile…

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Water stress by Country: 2040.

Via World Resource Institute

Thanks Nelly Bergman

 

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21 thoughts on “Many Rivers To Cross

  1. b

    2 year olds can be notoriously stubborn, if they’ve managed to convince that child in the buggy to get behind the movement and start waving placards, that’s me convinced

  2. Owen C

    Oh look, Ireland has practically no projected water stress in 2040. Perhaps we should invest in it to make sure that ends up being the case, and not forget just how lucky we all are to have some ease of access to drinking water.

    1. sǝɯǝɯ ʇɐ pɐq

      Perhaps, but do you not reckon there might be a better way to this.
      This shower can’t do anything right so far.

      1. Snake

        Would you be able to do your job with people actively trying to block you and examining every single thing you did in minute detail?

        I doubt it.

  3. Randy Ewing

    Thats a trip to town for me on saturday so, the shops are always nice and quiet when this muppets are up having a (ever smaller) march.

  4. Snake

    I have to submit a payment to revenue before the end of the month but those kids have just informed me that I can simply say “No” and absolve myself of my responsibility to society.

    Thanks Kids!

  5. JD

    The Right to Water keeps focusing on the idea that it should be free or we are paying for it though other means such as general taxation. The UN stipulates the right to AFFORDABLE water.

    “The human right to water is indispensable for leading a life in human dignity. It is a prerequisite for the realization of other human rights”. Comment No. 15 also defined the right to water as the right of everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable and physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses.

    It is a pity the government made such an unparallel pigs arse of setting up the entity as it has provided a lightning rod for other issues and rallied a base against any broadening of the tax base.

  6. Bonzor

    The water stress graph seems a little simplistic. Yes, Ireland is wet, but Dublin already operates dangerously close to its maximum capacity. And what happens if, due to lack of investment, the tunnel from the Vartry Reservoir collapses? ~150,000 people rely on that supply.

    I’m not saying that Irish Water isn’t a shambles, and I don’t doubt that many people struggle enough without water charges lumped on them, but the progressive central taxation model is a failed model, and there is no reason to encourage bringing it back.

    Water charges are a sensible and sustainable means of funding a national water supply. I support a constitutional amendment to keep it in public ownership, but enough of this Can Pay, Won’t Pay rubbish.

  7. ____

    Although our weather is constantly crappy and damp, it isn’t “wet”.

    In terms of annual rainfall, it’s about average.
    (81st in a list of 176 countries)

    Drinkable water in this country really isn’t the limitless resource that we think it is.

    1. jc

      Yes and we are densely populated…

      Oh wait, we arent. Your assertion that we dont have plentiful water per head of population is amusing and unfounded.

  8. Kirkbadaz

    i suspect the juxtaposition here is that Ireland could be a water rich nation if natural resources are nurtured and maintained. meaning we could be a water exporter, a valuable resource when oil rich nations have very little.
    hence, if the state privatised irish water, then instead of the state getting rich off our water, potentially some capitalist will.

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