Hydronarratives: The Confluence of Water and Environmental Justice

Factors of the American government's blind eye to what's harming their citizens

The United States and many first world countries like it are nations fueled by conquest. It always used to be. In terms of global power acquisition, there’s no better way to make things your own than by taking it from others. It’s been a hard habit to shake for the American government – even for government agencies that only operate within their own country. It’s kind of counter intuitive, but a search for more power doesn’t disqualify anybody, even its own citizens, from being targets. The conquest we will be examining primarily takes place on the front which has no advocate – nature. The complicated and morally ambiguous problem here is that the US government assigns themselves to be the ones to monitor and restrict themselves.

It would be like if you heard about a child in the position of determining if he should get dessert every night. In both cases, you can expect the judgment ruling to be very self-serving for the immediate return. So how can we provide nature, and subsequently our own people with a stronger advocate? By looking at data of drinking water safety violations, we can see that environmental damage is treated as necessary for economic development, which most readers don’t see; this is important because agencies in charge of water safety could be cutting corners because their victims, nor mother nature herself, don’t necessarily have the means to research the hazard or to acquire legal representation in the event that they are harmed by aforementioned corner cutting or lack of accountability.

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