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@cee-dee wrote:

Complainers there may be, but things that are needed to be done eventually get done.

 

There's currently an appeal being repeated ad infinitum during advert breaks showing a little girl collecting water and showing the dirty water hole from which she collects it. An animal is shown wading in the water and urinating in it.

 

Now then, a sensible group of people would surely make some effort to improve that situation by making some sort of attempt to widen the "lower area" of the pool for animals but keeping them away from the higher spot where the spring surfaces where the water is likely to be relatively clean?

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And if the land belonged to the farmer or village who owned the animals and didn't allow those changes to be made because it would make life more difficult for them then what do you suggest?

The only reason we enjoy the water supplies we do is that local and national governments granted access to land to enable streets to be dug up and pipes laid whether the landowner agreed or not, gave land to early 'developers' for reservoirs and so on.  Remove those rights and how long before our whole infrastructure would fail. 

So you lose the water supply to your house - what would you do? - how could you as an individual go about changing things so that your water supply was restored? - possibly sink a well, but could you do that without the finances, expertise or tools - that is the situation those in the advert you describe find themselves in.