Water

The natural element of water is the uniqueness and ability to sustain life here on Earth, it is distributed via pathways, like a vein system in a human body.

100 years ago, the creation of utility companies in the name of progress required redistributing this water and creating new paths, and holding to power and control electricity, water, and create consumer funds.

The government both at the Federal and State levels, state to state drowned ancient sites, and established prominent black towns, under the guise of progress with the backing of a newly established eminent domain to which there was no exchange, just erasure.

Since then, waterways continue to be redistributed, polluted, and drought dry. Abuse by companies get passed onto the guilt of consumers with no choice other than the companies who own the board.

Let's get into some current examples of societal issues with water, by region, exploring costs, access, sustainability and bridging the interconnection of past, present, future.

Example 1: Central Alabama Water has eliminated an estimated 211 jobs, of which 135 were filled leaving those workers without recourse, notice, and now without income. The unemployment in Alabama pays a percentage of wages, never the full wages, and the time constraint is limited to 20 weeks or under. None of these systems factor in wage difference, health insurance implications, nor any consideration to the physical impact of stress and transition on the human body and how that applies to functional performance, and baseline health.

Central Alabama Water is described as a public company, yet they have not provided any audit, or explanation for their financial insecurity that was immediately met with the options of rate increases or layoffs, or layoffs that may be followed by rate increases or better yet complete instability of functioning and potential closure creating a public health emergency.

Where is the accountability of the organization operations, and the board?

We will continue to explore this issue in depth as it interconnects and relates to all topics, as well as explore the numerous other issues with water as a distributed resource within our state, region and beyond.