Hidden Nature

ply. Multinational companies are unaccountable and self-serving with

more interest in profits than in a sustainable environment. A group of

water companies tried at the 2001 Water Forum conference to foist a

new water order on the world, in effect to encourage water supply to be

removed from public control. American companies are negotiating to

build dams in India which would displace countless communities and

destroy their environments. Three French companies already control

more than 70% of the world's private market.^9 Increasing numbers of

privatized water schemes are linked to ventures to extract more water

through vast dams and reservoirs, with bulk water supply schemes

that guarantee profits by requiring consumption regardless of need.

Modern water treatments

Chlorination

Because public water is not treated with the care required to keep

water pulsating and alive, it degenerates, attracting pathogenic

organisms. As a result, the authorities routinely treat it with chlorine

to prevent the threat to the community of waterborne diseases. This

powerful disinfectant removes all types of bacteria, beneficial and

harmful alike, and in doing so, over a long period of time, destroys

or seriously weakens many of the immune-enhancing micro-

organisms in the body. It is a major contributor of lowered immune

resistance in older people. Medical authorities say that the amount

of chlorine is so small that it could not do this, but they fail to take

into account that the chlorine accumulates in the fatty tissue of the

body, so that the dosage is cumulative, nor that there is a homeo-

pathic action that amplifies the effect on the body.

Those of us who live in cities and are forced year-in and year-

out to drink sterilized water should seriously consider the fate

of that 'organism' whose naturally-ordained ability to create life

has been forcibly removed by chemical compounds. Sterilized

and physically-destroyed water not only brings about physical

decay, but also gives rise to mental deterioration and hence to

the systematic degeneration of humanity and other life-forms.^10

Fluoridation
The issue of adding fluorosilicates (fluoride) routinely to drinking
water is one of the worst outrages in public health policy. This is not

12. SUPPLYING WATER