Just hold on before we go any farther -- I want to take a moment to talk about water.

That liquid that you’re holding that bottle in your hand: you though it was water you were drinking not a corporate brand. You thought it was cleaner and safer, and better for your health but were you thinking about who profits from the wealth of the public water that’s been taken for free and sold back to you for an exorbitant fee?

Listen my friends, listen up folks: Aquafina is Pepsi. Dansani is Coke. They’re selling filtered tap water and this is not a joke.

These corporate giants buy tap water at a tax-free-super-discount filter it five times then sell it back to you for five thousand times the amount that you pay for running water from your tap and when I start thinking about that my blood starts to boil, my head starts to spin as I try to understand where to begin.

That H20, the bottle you just tossed it represents garbage, safety and cost water table depletion which is all our of loss. Let’s talk about land-fill: plastic bottles piled high slowly decomposing, leaching toxins back into our water supply. Furthermore, the more water bottles we buy the more we send a signal to the powers that be that we believe the fear that they’re selling us about water safety we’re swallowing the idea that good water isn’t free that of course one must pay for water of quality

Meanwhile, beyond the periphery of our rich country (where, incidentally, tap water is actually tested far more stringently and regularly than bottled water) women walk farther and farther to find water for their families, a desert spreading rapidly while we sit sipping on a billion dollar industry.

They say “water is the new oil” Water is the new oil! And Canada’s got it, so this war will come to our soil.

But oil is a luxury; water a necessity. We’re fighting over oil ‘cause we like to drive cars ‘cause trucks must deliver, ‘cause we want to fly to Mars but a body can only live without water for so long

water should not belong to anyone water belongs to everyone water must be public water must be free clean water should not be a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market which pits those who can afford it against those in need water is a human right, not a luxury water is a human right, not a luxury you gotta think about what you drink.

Think! Think about what you drink.

Let's talk about India, let's talk about Africa let’s talk about China…or right here, in North America

let’s talk about the watersheds and aquafirs let’s talk about Walkerton and Native reserves this matter is urgent, it requires our attention it demands immediate public intervention

if we’re going to be paying, it should be for water from our tap ensuring it remains reliable clean and safe so that we can take a container, fill it again and again fill our bodies with the water we need and then leave enough for our neighbours, enough for the farmers enough for the future, our sons and our daughters it’s the blood of the earth in that bottle right there a resource we have no choice but to share before you buy another bottle and down what’s in there Think about what you drink. Think! Think about what you drink. Maybe I’m preaching to the choir, to the converted masses the concerned and the conscious, the educated classes but even you out there, who already know everything I’ve said how many times does convenience win out instead of what you know is right, and what you know you should do you know ignoring the facts doesn’t make them less true Think about what you drink. Think! Think about what you drink. tell your friend, tell your neighbour, write a letter to your leader if you wanna, buy a filter, but Think! About what you drink It is never true that there is nothing you can do you can think about what you drink. Think! Think about what you drink. Water must be public, water must be free, clean water is a human right, not a luxury. Think about what you drink. Think! Think about what you drink.