Opinion: Many Lack Potable Water

[KittySkyfish]

Source: The Onion

http://www.theonion.com/lib/createHeadline.php?h=Many+Lack+Potable+Water&max=411

According to a recent U.N. report, more than one billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. What do you think?

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Jennifer Gerber

Auditor</TD><TD class=textreg vAlign=top align=left>"The law of nature is 'adapt or die.' If those one billion people want to survive, they'll just have to evolve past the need to drink water."</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>

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Jesse Miller

Clerk</TD><TD class=textreg vAlign=top align=left>"Yesterday, I poured a bunch of water down the drain after cooking some pasta. I could've helped an African with that water. I'm so stupid!"</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>

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Mark Kunde

Systems Analyst</TD><TD class=textreg vAlign=top align=left>"This problem will be gone as soon as the earth's temperature increases enough to boil the world's lakes and streams, effectively sterilizing them."</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>

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Kristin Leffe

Publicist</TD><TD class=textreg vAlign=top align=left>"I'm sorry, but if these people are too lazy to refill their Brita pitchers..."</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>http://graphics.theonion.com/global_pics/blank.gif</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>http://graphics.theonion.com/global_pics/blank.gif </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=197><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=197 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width=85>http://www.theonion.com/images/static/wdyt_photo3_75x97.jpg

Mark Henley

Musical Director</TD><TD class=textreg vAlign=top align=left>"When I was a kid growing up in Love Canal, we didn't have uncontaminated water. Did we complain about it? No. We just shut up and got cancer."</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>http://graphics.theonion.com/global_pics/blank.gif</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD vAlign=top width=197><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=197 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width=85>http://www.theonion.com/images/static/wdyt_photo5_75x97.jpg

Jeffrey Larsen

Usher</TD><TD class=textreg vAlign=top align=left>"Thus we see the first tremors of what history will someday call 'The Volvic Wars.'"</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

http://www.theonion.com/wdyt/index.php?issue=4035

If you couldn't tell...this is satire. https://forum.makeuptalk.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

My opinion: We should put pressure on their goverment leaders to stop skimming all the relief money for personal use and actually build up their dinky little rathole countries. https://forum.makeuptalk.com/images/smilies/wink.gif