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"Crónica de los Tiempos"
April 2002.
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We are in the year 2070.
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I remember, when I was 5 years old
everything was very different.
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Before, women were proud of their beautiful hair.
Now, we have to shave our head to keep it clean without using water.
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I remember the many warnings:
”DON’T WASTE
WATER”
But nobody paid attention.
People assumed that water was
unlimited.
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The landscape that surrounds us has turned into nothing more than an
immense desert.
Gastro-intestinal infections, and skin and urinary tract diseases have now
become the main causes of death.
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Industry is paralysed, and the jobless rate reached a dramatic level.
Desalination plants are the main employers.
They give one drinking water instead of a salary.
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People are constantly being mugged for water on the deserted streets.
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Since we cannot wash our clothes, we throw them, which increases the amount
of trash.
We had to go back to using septic tanks, just like in the past century, because
the sewage system stopped working due to the lack of water.
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People look scary: their bodies are weak; parched by extreme dehydration;
covered by sores caused by ultraviolet rays that the atmosphere can no longer
filter since the ozone layer is depleted.
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Due to the dryness of her skin, a young 20 year-old woman looks more like 40.
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The morphology of many individuals’ spermatozoa was altered...
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The government even makes us pay a tax for the air we breathe:
137 m3 per adult per day.
[31,102 gallons]
The air supplied in the “ventilated areas” is not of very good quality, but at least
one can breathe there.
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Some countries succeeded in preserving a few islands of vegetation with their
own streams. These areas are closely monitored by the army.
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Here, though, there are no more trees because it hardly ever rains. And
whenever it does rain, it is acid rain that comes down.
We were warned about the need to take care of our environment, but nobody
bothered.
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When my daughter asks me to tell her how it was when I was young, I describe
the beauty of the forests.
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She asks me:
- Daddy! Why is there no water anymore ?
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I can’t help feeling guilty, because I
belong to the generation that
completed the destruction of our
environment by simply not taking
seriously any of the warnings ... and
there were so many of them!
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Today, our children pay the hefty
price.
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Quite frankly, I think that, within short, life on this Earth will no longer be
possible, because the destruction of our environment reached its point of no
return.
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How I wish I could go back in time and get the Human race to understand
this ...
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Send this letter to all your contacts and
contribute, even if it is only by a fraction, to
the necessary global awareness on the
water issue.
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