Novelist Claims Water is Becoming the Petroleum of the Future

Dr. Dennis Edwards, author of “The Caduceus: A Water Chronicle Featuring Dr. Francis Allenton” exposes truths about the future of our natural resource – water.

Ozark, MO (PRWEB) April 7, 2006 -- We take water for granted yet nothing that lives on this earth could do so without liquid water. Like many of our natural resources, clean, free water is disappearing. We often relegate water to no more than a medium to carry human waste, yet when the availability of water declines, we realize our absolute and complete dependency.

“Looking back over the past decade, it is certainly credible that people have been manipulated to buy bottled water and not to trust their local water supply,’ claims Dennis Edwards, author of recently published “The Caduceus: A Water Chronicle Featuring Dr. Francis Allenton” (ISBN 1891386506). “In reality, municipal water supplies are more regulated than bottled waters.”

“The Caduceus” weaves a story of two people, Francis Allenton, a water scientist, and Cassidy Martin, a hospice nurse struggling with cancer, caught in the midst of a water cartel’s rise to power through militarization and commercialization of water. Edwards hopes that after reading “The Caduceus,” readers will become active in the issues surrounding water, both in their own communities and abroad. Edwards points out, “In addition to the strong profit motives, little control over the bottled water industry exists, and the cast off plastic containers are becoming a disposal problem. Only when people become aware and active concerning the vanishing resources of our world, can we alter policies and regulations.”

Comparing international oil and water profits, water already earns 40% as much as petroleum. The scarcity of clean water is a serious issue. World wide changes in climate and alterations in drinking water supplies impact all nations. As anything essential for life becomes scare, those who will profit from that scarcity emerge. Men have known for a long time the value of water or as Benjamin Franklin once said, “We know the worth of water when the well is dry.”

Shocking statistics exist on the state of world and U. S. water interest at the Earth Policy Institute. People are paying 1, 364 % more for water than it costs to make and bottle. Presently a gallon of premium water costs more than a gallon of premium gas. National Resource Defense Council studies have found many bottled waters to have significant contamination.

Improving consumer awareness would also guide the public when making water purchases. “The differences between spring water, filtered water, mineral water and sports enhanced water are vague and in some instances hard to determine,” states Edwards. “When possible, drink water from your tap. It is likely more regulated and pure than bottled water.”

Dennis Edwards received his PhD and Masters of Social Work from the University of Illinois. When he wrote “The Caduceus,” Dennis and his wife lived in concert with the wildlife on their seven acres overlooking Table Rock Lake in the Missouri Ozarks. Edwards is currently working on a sequel “Ancient Water.” “The Caduceus” may be purchased through any online bookstore.

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