Global Water Bankruptcy: What the UN Is Not Saying.
By Riccardo Petrella.
(…) The great silence concerns many fundamental aspects necessary for understanding the nature of water failure and its position within the global failure of the governance of life on Earth. The silence on responsibilities and those responsible leaves failure without mothers, without fathers, without accomplices—thus in a state of general impunity.
Yet, over the last 70 years, we have witnessed major upheavals in economic, social, political and technoscientific systems that “have changed the world”, particularly in terms of water and life policies, leading to the fragmented, violent and deeply unequal world of 2025.
Our goal is not to put anyone on trial or find culprits. Rather, it is to try to “see” the critical changes in the world, the key challenges, and the appropriate solutions in the general interest of all the inhabitants of the Earth.
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