we are in the Year 2070.
I’ve just turned 50 but my appearance is of an 85 year old person.
I have serious kidney problemsbecause I drink to little water.
I believe that I’ve little time left.
Today I’m one of the oldest persons in our society!!
I remember when I was 5 years old.
Everything was different.
There were many trees in the parks, the houses had nice gardens and I was able to enjoy a bathor take a long shower.
Today we use hygienic tissues humidified in mineral oil to clean our skin!
In the past women showed their beautiful hair.
Today we have to shave our heads to keep them clean without the use of water.
Back then my father washed his car with the water which came out of the water house.
Today the children can’t believe that water ever was used in such a way.
I remember that there were many Announcements that said:
DONT WASTE WATER,
Only that nobody cared;
everybody thought that water would never finish.
Today all the rivers, dams, lakes and other water sources are irreversibly contaminated or usedup.
Huge deserts replace the landscape which is all around of us.
Gastrointestinal infections, skin diseases and diseases of the urinary evacuation system are themain causes of death.
The industry is paralyzed and unemployment is dramatic.
The desalination factories are the mainsource of employment and they pay you with potable water instead of wage.
The assaults for a can of water are common in the deserted streets.
The food is 80% synthetic.
In the past the ideal amount of water as indicated to drink was eight glasses per day for an adultperson.
Today I only can drink half a glass.
The clothes are wear and tear, which increases the amount of trash;
we had to return to oldfashioned wells and septic tanks like in the last century because the networks of sewers cannotbe used due to the lack of water.
The appearance of the population is horrible;
bodies become weak, wrinkled by the dehydration, plenty of sores in the skin by the ultra-violet rays that do not have the ozone layer that filteredthem in the atmosphere.
Because of the dryness of the skin a young person of 20 years appears to be 40.
The scientists investigate, but there is no possible solution.
Water cannot be made;
oxygen also is degraded by lack of trees.
This degradation of oxygen hasdiminished the intellectual coefficient of the new generations.
The morphology of sperm of many individuals was altered.
As a consequence many children areborn with insufficiencies, mutations and deformations.
The government even makes us pay for the air we breathe, 137 m3 per day by adult inhabitant.
The people who cannot pay are excluded from the “ventilated zones”, that are equipped withgigantic mechanical lungs that work with solar energy.
They are not of good quality, but it ispossible to breathe.
The average age of humans is 35 years.
In some countries some vegetation spots with their respective river are left and are stronglywatched over by the army.
The water became a very coveted treasure, more than gold or diamonds.
Here however, there are no trees because it almost never rains, and when a precipitation getsregistered, it is of acid rain.
The years seasons severely are transformed by atomic testing and from the polluting industriesof the 20th century.
It was strongly advised then to watch the environment but nobody followed that advice.
This document is from magazine “Crónica de los Tiempos” April 2002.
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