ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a number of enormously unsustainable practices presently linked to globalisation. As N. Craig points out, the first world and some of the third world are exploiting aquifers at a prodigious rate. The same sort of profligate exploitation of environmental resources by the first world is evident with respect to water. In most of the places in which the author has been privileged to be of service, all except the very wealthy people have to carry water for long distances for domestic necessities. Even in countries such as the Dominican Republic, a major tourist spot for wealthy people from the first world, tap water is often unsafe. The wealthy buy safe water in large bottles, regularly delivered to hotels and to their homes, but the great bulk of the population routinely experience typhoid and other water-borne diseases. Water consumption in the Balearic Islands has increased to 35 times the 1980 levels.
