Today's is international Women's Day and I post this picture for all the women around the world who do not have access to clean water and have to spend hours every day to collect water, boil it, re-use it in order to feed their family and keep themselves and the children clean. Respect.
I recently viewed on my beloved Arte Channel +7 player the very informative film Water makes money, un film de Leslie Franke et Herdolor Lorenz. The site is listed as containing informatics malware at present and most links to it are either in french or german but to give you an idea, it is about the profit only management of water by private french company Veolia, with the complicity of some banks and government official. Yes, water has become big business, tis the 21st century gold and, again, who is left to collect the broken pieces?
My grandmother always told me that mankind best invention was not the airplane or the steam engine but the washing machine and I, looking at the deformity of her hands partly brought on by years of washing in ice-cold water and visualizing myself bent over a washboard rubbing bedlinen in January, knew she was right.
Sometimes, the glass is half-empty.
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