Water is one of the most valuable resources on earth. However, many Singaporeans, even if they claim to know the needs to conserve water, or maybe some who are still unconscious of the limited amount of precious water, are still wasting this priceless resource. Ministers have for a long time, stretching banners to convey the importance of water conservation to civilians, yet people still use water so extravagantly and excessively that the world’s amount of water is being consumed away at an incredible rate. Notwithstanding this, should water really become a commodity to deliver the importance of water to people instead of being treated as a human right? I think that water should indeed be treated as a commodity.
The nature of Nature is cruel and cold-blooded, having the strongest to prevail and the weakest to diminish and die out, thus treating water as a commodity is not a problem. In other words, the law of club and fang justifies this belief. The rich, getting their fair share of water because they have the ability to earn sufficient money thus being able to provide for themselves; whereas the poor, incapable to earn themselves a living, could not afford for water and thus dying of thirst. Therefore, Nature, being harsh and punishing, must be same as how she treats other animals, by only allowing the richest to sustain on and dominate the earth, having control and power over this necessity of living, and letting the poorer to perish on our very world. This is a bit of exaggeration, but it is quite how the world would be like when precious necessities of living is diminishing.
Many might say that humans are creatures of emotion, and that by letting the poor die and 'discriminating against' them is truly unacceptable in our society. However, policies have already been implemented to subsidize those of more needs unprovided for. Thus, the situation would not seem so cold and cruel, so wild and uncivilized as I have previously elaborated about how people would die on earth. The necessities of others would be readily taken care of, and they, and us people, would not need to fret and worry about how these poorer and weaker would carry on their lives.
Furthermore, by measuring water using economic means and treating it as a commodity would solve the problem that ministers had tried to solve, which is, to ensure that people treasure water. People treat money if not but as one of the most important things of earth, since money is what businesses are about, what jobs are for and most importantly, how meals are settled. Thus, people would by all means figure out how to be thrifty and ways to save money, thus, by treating water as a commodity would let the painful truth of water being limited dawn on human beings, therefore, people turning to become more sensible and attempt to save every drip and drop of water.
In a nutshell, I would like to reiterate that water should be treated as a commodity. It would bring forth to us the biggest benefit of human conserving water through exposing the most shocking truth that water is limited to us. Many might say that it is unjust by letting the poorer suffer a miserable death, however, this is too justified by the law of the Jungle, and that subsidies are also provided for the needy. As humans are a part of the nature and environment, we should not be treated differently as how nature works, and on the other hand, getting to people that everything has a cost and effect, especially those richer. Seeing to the point that the poorer are subsidized but the richer are not, I conclude that the main aim of treating water as a commodity is actually trying to get the richer to treasure water, as it is mostly the richer that takes these precious resources for granted, thus wasting them. And water, not only has an economic cost now, losing it would also have a drastic impact on the environment.
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