"On October 12, 2012, Forbes Magazine announced that Zong Qinghou has regained first place on 2012 Forbes list of the richest people in China. He is known as the "drinks king" and made his $10.8 billion fortune with China's largest beverage producer, Wahaha, which translates to "laughing children". The company had a 24 percent increase in sales in 2012 and serves 1.34 billion customers in China with bottled water and drinks. The main water source is Hangzhou's Qiandao Lake. Hangzhou's Xin'an River had a carbolic acid spill in July 2011, causing a run on bottled Wahaha water.
In 1998, a Canadian company called Nova Group received a permit from Ottawa to sell China Lake Superior water at the rate of 160 million gallons by tanker ship. After much political and public outcry, Ottawa officials canceled the permit in 1999. Concern for protecting the Great Lakes Basin resulted in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact which was signed by President Bush in October 2008.
A loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact allows the water to be called a product and sold off outside the basin. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, after public interest organizations and politicians campaigned for it for ten years, was an effort to permanently safeguard the Great Lakes' twenty percent of the world's fresh water.
There have been some as yet unsuccessful attempts to close the "bottled water loophole" by people like Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak. He introduced H.RES.551 to amend the Compact and prohibit sales, diversion or exportation of Great Lakes water outside the basin. The Great Lakes Basin is a 290,000-square-mile area whose waters feed the lakes and includes parts of eight states--Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec are also affected. The resolution remains in the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
Michigan House Bill-5319 was introduced by Rep. Dan Scripps to establish that both groundwater and the Great Lakes water are a “public trust". It was referred to the House Great Lakes and Environment Committee in September 2009. "
Not too many people talk about that, and I agree with you... water will be the major cause for wars in the near future, as "drinkable water" will be scarce due to pollution, climate changes etc, etc...
By the way, did you know that China was (not sure if still is) was importing water from US?
traditional marriages, as we see it, is gone already, as we turn more individualistic, obsessed by “fast life”, volatile, and egoistic. it is an interesting paradox, as we all want more egalitarian, companionate and romantic relationships.
i also think excessive divorce rates make couples believe their changes of a long-term marriage are less than what they really are, and it has to do with the way we grow into or society turns out to be.
the key to marital success is that both partner are happy with their roles and feel respected by their partners. .. respect for each other, independent of what we are/want/think.. but marriage/relationship will be at risk as always...
also, i am surprised at how much impact hollywood seems to have on what people believed to be true…but that's another issue..
you have "your" answer already.. independently of who "sought who".. "I know what I would not allow from anyone else and this certainly fits that category"
I don't give "advices"... but relationships are only superficial, independent of distance, if you make them so. You dont have to do things in any set way, or let anyone make you feel that way; just do things however feels best for you....
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.. his name is Cruise,.... Tom Cruise !!..
you are on tv!!
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