rallmon's Stuff

This trail goes through the global impact of water availability and its implications for international relations. Beginning with the national impact within the US, the discussion broadens to global issues and then to specific issues that other nations are facing. Discussion of particular nation’s crises brings the trail-follower back to the US national level in terms of security issues and alliances with other nations. Water availability is not a linear issue that moves from step to step without ever returning to the start. This is a circular discussion, with each part affecting the whole. If you take a glass of water and put a drop of red food coloring into it, the whole glass will turn red. Nations can not fully isolate their water sources, because they flow through the world in the forms of oceans and rivers; water does not naturally heed to state boundaries. The majority of our world and our bodies are made up of water, and to be without sufficient quantities is a critical emergency. This global issue is one that affects every single person in this world, and perhaps it is at that individual level where real solutions can come to fruition.