What is the deal with international water?
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No you can't just do anything in international waters. Generally, the country of origin has jurisdiction over the vessel (flag=jurisdiction). It is kinda how they shut down (or are shutting down) all the off-shore radio stations. But there are also international treaties that cover this and a whole body of maritime and admiralty law.
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This is, of course, not a comprehensive answer, but any business that trades with people or businesses in other nations is part of the international economic system.\n\nFor example, Nike is based in Portland, Oregon. It's a publicly traded company, so theoretically it's owned by any number of people in any number of places. These are it's shareholders. It's shoes are designed by designers and engineers in the US mainly or possibly Japan or Canada or something. That shoe is analyzed by marketing people in the US and other offices of the company.\n\nThen the plans are sent to Nike's suppliers. These could be anywhere, but they tend to be in poorer countries (Mexico, Thailand, China) that have good infrastructure (health care, working roads, stable electricity, stuff like that.) This is because it's cheaper to make shoes where you don't have to pay as high wages but you can still move stuff around easily and depend on communications. The suppliers will acquire the materials they need. For a shoe, this includes rubber, leather, metal, cloth, plastic, etc. Leather can come from anywhere with cows. This would likely be Brazil, Canada or the US. Rubber comes primarily from Indonesia and South East Asia. Plastic is made of oil, which comes from Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, etc. It can be refined and turned into plastic in a lot of places. Let's say this oil comes from Brunei, in South East Asia, and is refined in the Philippines. Let's say the rubber comes from Indonesia. The Leather comes from Australia. And so on. All this is taken to a factory, let's say in China. Workers make it all into shoes. These are shipped out to be sold in South Korea and Italy and South Africa and Argentina and South Dakota and a million other places.\n\nThe part of the price of the shoe that isn't spent on materials or taken out by the store goes to Nike. This is Nike's profits. If Nike keeps making profits and increasingly high profits, shareholders will keep buying "stock" in Nike. Nike has to keep making profits, so it has to keep finding the cheapest way to make shoes and the cheapest way to make the most people buy the most shoes at the highest prices. That's the way it looks for Nike.\n\nIf you go backward, to the stores that sell the shoes, then you see that each of these stores is a link between a huge company and the local economy. People in the town or county buy the shoes and other people work in the stores. The suppliers in China link Nike to people in China and South East Asia. Chinese workers are paid (however small their wages are) and spend their money to buy food, clothes and stuff like that. This money goes into the local economy of Zhangwen or whatever. Then if we go back to Rubber workers in Indonesia, they are injecting shoe money into their local economy.\n\nYou can see that this shoe company involves people in many countries, but that it is all part of a huge complicated system. The economy now involves almost everyone on earth, so it is incredibly hard to predict how something will happen if 6,400,000,000 are all participating in the process. That is why economists so often disagree or end up wrong.\n\nMaking things and selling them is pretty straight forward compared to resources (like oil), currencies (like when people say the "dollar is weaker"), or finances (banks that loan money across the world and stuff like that). When you get into those sort of things, you're often dealing with what a lot of people think in New York or London, instead of actual events.\n\nFor example, if Bush says something about a war with Iran, the price of oil can go up. Not because oil is harder to get, but because a lot of Commodities Traders on Wall Street (Commodities are things like oil or gold that people can buy or sell) think oil will get harder to get. They might be right. If the US invaded Iran, it would make it harder to get oil, because a lot of pipe lines
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This is an interesting question. International law is seemingly in the process of being written. It is tough to decide what really is a violation of international law.\n\nThis also brings up the point of the idea of whether country's are sovereign or not. Is a country bound by laws made by an International group?
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There is a great demand for water because India has a large population of people.  People need to consume a minimum amount of water to stay healthy.\n\nThere is a smaller supply of water for many geological and economic reasons.  In short, India's climate doesn't produce as much water as is needed given the technology and sophistication of their water distribution system.  Given an improvement in their economy (which is happening) that allows a better water distribution network or a change in climate (some argue this is happening) the supply may catch up to demand.\n\nGood luck.
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Why do you think that?  International business is growing be leaps and bounds. Now is the time to get involved.
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As an International "union" with members that include over 650 nations, the ITU's specific purpose is to bring or broker standards of communication (like v.92) so that not everything is a a piecemeal collection of not interoperable parts.\n\nIn simple terms, without the work of the ITU (and/or similar programs), you would not be to make an international telephone call because how the phone network works in one country may not be compatible with another.
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I used to work for the United States Commercial Trade Service in San Francisco, and we deal with this sort of thing all the time. We connect small businesses here in the US with international vendors. Plus, it's a free service offered by the government, for the most part. If you want specific information, then they start charging you. Their website is www.export.gov \n\nGood Luck!
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because people in europe have small apendages(if ya know what i mean) no actually idk i think it has something to do with their water systems
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Other countries tend to enter into territories not their own.  Perhaps this is because they want to contain any "bad" factors that could affect the entire globe.
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Water as fuel is not reality. Neither is the belief we are fighting for oil.\n\nYou might as well believe in the tooth fairy and Easter bunny.
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they charge a lot more for water than we do here in NA.\nTherefore, it encourages people to conserve more.
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The amount of rivers emptying into the ocean taking dirt and silt with them and dumping it there, muddying up the waters, so to speak.  Water around the Bahamas is as clear as vodka -- no rivers (I believe they have to import all their drinking water)
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If the new island is in international waters no single nation can legally lay claim to it. However, any nation can adjust the extent of their territorial waters to suit themselves. Of course this can lead to the nation having to duke it out with other countries over the ownership issue.
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Hell NO! .. If we let that happen, money ( and really big companies ) would be our oppresors, really , see what's happening in the World Water Forum, the people and the companies are triyng to change the point of view aboute water, from being a right, to just a necesity, that really means a lot, cause if we accept this, then, watch out, perhaps the atlantic ocean, will be named NESTLE Ocean ...
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I take it they won't allow you (for some unGodly reason) to tour your local water utility company, hence the reason for your question?? It's a shame but since that appears to be the case, i'll run it down for ya. All modern systems (unless designed by buffoons) are both, in series , parallel systems with built in redundencies to help isolate sectors with problems but yet still allow adequate & equal water distribution/pressure throughout; Why do you ask??
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"Daniel Dingle from the Phillippines developed a [a means for cars to run on tap water].  But he got strong armed by the International Monetary Fund who forbid him from ever manufacturing his technology for public consumption.  At least Mr. Dingle is still alive. The IMF has massive oil stock holdings and forbids ANY country that borrows money from them to ever compete with any of their holdings. \n\n"Daniel was visited by representatives from Honda and BMW.  Apparently they also feared reprisals by IMF and although confirming his technology, chose not to use it themselves.\n\n"The corrupt oil industry has rallied behind any faulty alternative energy technology that ultimately leads to more consumption of oil.  But true alternatives like these found by Dingle and Meyer are stifled."
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Although I have not read this book, I do understand the importance of water, and how little of it we really get. Also the quality of the water leaves something to be desired. Weather you drink bottled or tap, you really have to drink a lot, because of all the other things that are in it. Most people walk around "drinking from the toilet" (your bowel). Because when you do not drink enough water your body must get it from somewhere. And despite what most think, you CAN NOT get enough water from sodas, tea, and coffee. I found what I believe to be the best water in the world, it is a filtration system and they even have a sports bottle so you can have GOOD water where ever you go. You can check out the link below to see these things, and please drink more water no matter if it is bottle or tap.