Question

Globalization Concept:

Increasing access to clean water seems like a no-brainer on the surface. Installing local wells brings clean water to remote villages, thereby eliminating exhaustive trips carrying dirty water from contaminated sources. How could installing wells be anything but good and ethical?

This debate gives you the opportunity to consider this question. In this discussion, you will explore how the forces of globalization, modernization, and colonialism influenced the installation of clean water wells in less developed places like Africa.

Answer 1

Most part of the world was fertile until colonization, modernization and globalization. When Europe needed more resources, they started finding new routes that would take them to different parts of the earth, enslave the natives and exploit people and resources. Modernization has started killing agriculture thus started cutting all the trees and built homes and finally globalization bought the agricultural lands and built their factories and offices there. These factories started to pump huge volume of water thus depleting the underground water.

Today, bore wells are the new concept by piercing the earth with giant machines thus sucking the remaining water which imbalances the earth in many places because the natural layers of the earth balances its functioning. If the natural water body is contaminated, there should be a factory nearby. It’s modernization and globalization’s gift to poor and developing countries. Today, they need to dig deep into the ground water in order to access pure water. This has caused digging bore wells which would not only contaminate the ground water but also leave the next generation without any water. People with enough money dig bore wells and access water where as the poor cannot afford to do it.