{"id":741,"date":"2007-03-24T00:48:34-04:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T04:48:34+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/water-is-the-new-oil\/"},"modified":"2007-03-24T00:48:34-04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T04:48:34+00:00","slug":"water-is-the-new-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/water-is-the-new-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Water is the new&nbsp;oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/quirks-blog\/2007\/03\/world_water_day_came_and_went_1.html\" title=\"Bob McDonald: World Water Day came and went --- again\"><p>The sight of someone walking along the shores of the Great Lakes, drinking bottled water, at a cost per litre higher than gasoline, while the largest fresh water system in the world lies polluted at their feet, is mind-boggling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.evalynparry.com\/evalyn.htm\" title=\"Evalyn Parry: Bottle This!\"><p>that liquid that you&#8217;re holding, that bottle in your hand<br \/>\r\nyou though it was water you were drinking, not a corporate brand<br \/>\r\nyou were thinking it was safer, cleaner, and better for your health.<br \/>\r\nbut were you thinking about who profits from the wealth<br \/>\r\nof the public water that&#8217;s been taken for free<br \/>\r\nand sold back to you for an exorbitant fee<br \/>\r\nlisten my friends, listen up folks<br \/>\r\nAquafina is Pepsi; Dasani is Coke<br \/>\r\nthey&#8217;re selling filtered tap water, and this is not a joke<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sight of someone walking along the shores of the Great Lakes, drinking bottled water, at a cost per litre higher than gasoline, while the largest fresh water system in the world lies polluted at their feet, is mind-boggling. that liquid that you&#8217;re holding, that bottle in your hand you though it was water you&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}