2. What does water represent for humanity?
• An indispensable • One of the
element for our most powerful
survival instruments of
• A primaryneed to
be guaranteed to speculation
everyone

3. What is the percentage of water in the
human body?
Our body is mainly
made up of water
(65%).
Unesco’s data tell
us that 30.000
people everyday
die of lack of water.

4. How is water distributed on the earth?
• 71% of the earth’s surface is covered by water, but
only 2.5% of it is drinkable.
• Between 1950 and 2000 the world reserves of water
per inhabitant have gone down by half and have
decreased for about 50% in the following five years.

5. How can drinkable water be defined?
• It’s the underground water,
surface or brackish water,
that after treatment is
destined to daily consumption
• Drinkable water must have a
maximum fixed residue of
1500 mg/l

6. Is it possible to measure the materials
needed to produce plastic bottles?
The production of a PET bottle needs 1.5 litres of
water, 120 cm3 and generates 45 litres of CO2.

7. How much does tap water cost?
• In our zone a cubic
metre water costs
1.50 Euros
• It would cost about
300 Euros if it was
bottled

8. How can you get drinkable water?
From the water
tables.
In our area they are
concentrated below
the
Apuan Mountains.

9. What are the European laws regarding
water?
Water is considered as public
good from which nobody must
earn money.
So that you need to pay just
the transport cost and the
purification costs.

10. There’s a Public Water Forum also in Italy. Why?
•We fear the privatization
effects.
•The Ronchi law of 2009
provides to assign water
management to a private
capital not inferior to
40%.

11. Is water to be considered people’s right or
simply goods?
Water is
everybody’s RIGHT!