Polluting water is the biggest single misuse of this essential resource. The extent to which pollution degrades and limits other uses of the water registers a loss, regardless of monetary gains to the polluter. As we are seeing with BP, this loss does not enter standard accounting of market costs. Other people pay the price of water pollution, while the private firms’ profits are not redistributed to the disasters most immediate victims, human and otherwise. As the oil slick travels to Florida and fingers its way up the coast, we may soon get a taste of what communities in other parts of the world have known since last the last century.
With this in mind, Tuesday, July 13th, 6-8pm, Atlantic Gallery will host On the Water Front, a panel discussion about WATER today, and how to turn the tide.
Jacques Leslie, author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People and the Environment , Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs and the Battle Over America's Drinking Water, Wes Gillingham, program director of Catskill Mountain Keeper , and Josh Fox, writer and director of the new documentary GASLAND.
On The Water Font Press Release in pdf
