Water Wars John Nash

The commoditization of water has become an on going epidemic. Companies seeking to earn a profit in the western world have extracted massive amounts of natural resources now considered commodities, from undeveloped countries. This has created a term referred to by both authors June Nash and Christian Zlolniski called “water wars”.

In the article Water Floating North of the Border by Christian Zloniski the author places a huge emphasis on the exploitation of transnational capital and the global markets in order to gain water in Baja California. Zloniski argues that these companies know as the growers have used these mechanisms in order to gain access to better quality water in undeveloped countries. Policies and regulations have been created in order to promote fresh produce but it has been at the expense of local communities. The water power in San Quint’in has been unequal distributed causing inadequate access to water for local residents and small framers. Not to mention the water quality that the residents and framers receive are poor. Yet there are hundreds of pounds …show more content…
Nash says that this is due to privatization and monopolization of the water by companies. In the article it dates back to the Spanish rule of Mesoamerica and how it affected the region will the lasting resemblances of it today. Through the many different stages that Mesoamerica has gone through, Nash doesn’t claim that they have all affected the region although some have. A major impact that Mesoamerica is facing today is the water prices, once considered gifts from god. Local families are not able to afford water. Because the Spanish extracted so much water in the earlier years, companies now charge high prices for water for extracting groundwater. Diseases and death that could easily be avoided are now affecting the region because they can’t afford