Provide Safe Water by Law: Now

Safe water is something that everyone should have access to. Could we not enshrine in law the effort to provide safe water.

There are various organisations sinking bore holes and wells; they are not necessarily the appropriate answer to people's water supply problems. In some areas the ground water becomes easily polluted by natural means and the bore holes and wells in those areas soon become worthless. This is not good enough: we must learn by these mistaken efforts to help and proceed with a more sustainable approach.

Law could provide the funds necessary to make the supply of safe water effective and widespread. We are spending millions on the exploration of space yet many people are dying because of the state of their water or because they do not have sufficient to survive.

Do you want the law to intervene in this way? I do.

Curb Nuclear Weapons

I've wondered, both recently and before, whether any nation's nuclear weapons remain to be targeting any cities of other nations. While it could be the case that such deliberate targeting was no longer indulged in, there remains the fact that many nuclear missiles are each capable of destroying a huge amount.

Also, there is the fact that nuclear strikes against cities would, almost certainly, be regarded as illegal according to United Nations law. Why, then, do we continue to have such powerful weaponry available for use?

Some could argue that high yield weapons might be required to attack large swathes of troops and their vehicles. However, with the use of a particular yield of weapon it is not possible to downsize your attack. A far more sensible approach is to use a less powerful weapon so you can deal with the situation in a much more targeted way while, therefore, not having to destroy that which it is not necessary to destroy.