| By Bpb Weaver
During the mid-seventies I spent a day with a water resource engineer who
practiced his profession in New Mexico. The man, a former resident of Lewis County,
died a short time later. His passionate convictions, etched in my memory, were
about water and the State of West Virginia.
Simply put, he said in the 21st century it will be the state's most precious
commodity, with our countless streams and rivers and the thousands of valleys
which have the potential to store rain.
Today, like all our natural resources, we are selling our water rights to large
multi-national corporations, to be left at the bottom of America's financial heap, a
place reserved for mountaineers.
I am amazed about the lack of outrage, the selling of our souls, livelihoods and
futures to the global market, just because our government says it will be good for
us.
Elected officials have expressed concern international trade law may take
precedent over the sale of American-West Virginia Water to a German investment
group. Attorney General Darrell McGraw is continuing to pursue the issue after the
state's PSC said the deal could move ahead.
READ the Charleston Gazette story
W.VaWater
Already Siphoned By Neighbors
Sunday Gazette-Mail
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