panacea of a piece of magic paper

How Do We Ensure Clean Drinking Water for All ? … By Khalil Abdullah, New America Media … Posted on March 17, 2008, Printed on March 18, 2008 …http://www.alternet.org/story/79883/
Washington, D.C. -- The rapture of fresh water dances across the faces of the world's children, whether they appeared in the photographs Gil Garcetti shot along the sand-dusted roads of a morning in Burkino Faso or in the let-it-rock-the-house video from Charity Water.
Among the viewers of the full house that packed the auditorium at the National Geographic headquarters on March 12, was a cohort of representatives from organizations that implement clean water projects in varying regions of the world. They indeed comprised the choir that over 15 speakers were singing to as the WASH-in-Schools Initiative celebrated its U.S. launch. They already understood what Earth Echo International co-founder Alexandra Cousteau meant when she said the issues around access to clean water will be "the defining crisis of this century." And, regrettably, they also were the choir that bore witness to the undiluted truth of Carol Bellamy's succinct summation of the day's topic: "We're talking about death."

Perhaps the more salient and relevant question might be … are “we” – that’s contemporary Americans - even “aware” that clean drinking water is an issue…?

Given our overarching hubris do “we” even care…?

Like, hey, that’s their problem, I have enough of my own with a national economy quickly going down the drain, the beginning of year six of the war on Iraq, and immigration issue the experts say is out of control, a local real estate market in a severe decline, a precarious job market, and you want me to think about – water..?

Don’t bother me with this crap, after all our Governor and the heads of her dept. of water resources, (ADWR) her dept of environmental quality (ADEQ) continuously assure us that “we” have sufficient quantity and quality of water for a minimum of the next 100 years.

And besides ADWR rules requires that developers and realtors deliver a certificate of 100 year’s of adequate water supply to buyers.

The panacea of a magic piece of paper…?