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The Corporate Theft of the Public's Natural Right to Water
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri May 2, 2008 7:57 AM EDT
Article Source: Common Dreamsadvertisement
The Growing Debate on who will Control the World's Water Supply
The current 1.1 billion people worldwide without access to potable water only opens one of the smaller windows on the injustices and the multiple casualties being wrought by private water-related industries. In fact, many are clueless to the magnitude of the victims — present and projected — of the growing water crisis as well as to the inhumane implications of the role of the private sector in regards to treating water as a commodity that can be owned and sold for profit. As of now, 2.6 billion people are at high risk for not having access to potable and an additional 1.8 million children die each year from water-related diseases.
In the mix of chaos, despair, and confusion, which most affects the poorer elements of society, it is important to note the private corporations' role, which some critics have identified as being among the major culprits in causing the crisis. Within recent decades, water privatization firms such as Suez, Vivendi, and RWE have bought control of a number of communities' municipal water services, and then drastically increased the price of water; with some of them failing to effectively purify the water resources they had come to monopolize.
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{"commentId":1757436,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
For America: Oil today, water tomorrow.
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- 6 votes
#1 - Fri May 2, 2008 7:59 AM EDT{"commentId":1757548,"authorDomain":"Wheel"}
If the corp'rats' could figure a way to charge for breathing, they would do it. There are states that are verging on undeclared war here in the southeast US because of water and the long term drought we've had here.
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- 4 votes
#2 - Fri May 2, 2008 8:38 AM EDT{"commentId":1757556,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
Oh I know, Wheel, it's scary.
I frequent New Mexico several times a year and I am amazed that they still even let golf courses be developed! But they do, more and more of them.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":1757561,"authorDomain":"Wheel"}
I firmly agree with George Carlin about golf courses. They're the perfect spot for public housing.
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- 10 votes
{"commentId":1757773,"authorDomain":"lc3"}
I don't know which is worse, the corporations selling water or consumers being so naive, self-aggrandizing, and easily led astray. Until the recent jump in oil prices, people were paying more for a gallon of imported water than for a gallon of gas. If you're worried about your tap water, get a filter.
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- 4 votes
#3 - Fri May 2, 2008 9:45 AM EDT{"commentId":1757845,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
yes, or distill it, it tastes great.
{"commentId":1757845,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"nearing"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1757976,"authorDomain":"kidsarocker"}
{"commentId":1758210,"authorDomain":"lc3"}
Mars, do you think the bottled water companies are more trustworthy?
{"commentId":1758210,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"lc3"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1758510,"authorDomain":"kidsarocker"}
None of them are, where is the logic in buying bottled water?
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1758222,"authorDomain":"partisanhack"}
A British water company bought our local public utility not long ago and immediately started blackmailing towns by threatening to sell of the undeveloped land surrounding our reservoirs to developers. Water corporations are not good citizens.
And of course the Bushes own land in Paraguay above one of the world's largest aquifers.
It will be nice when we do away with our re-emerging divine right of kings.
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- 3 votes
#4 - Fri May 2, 2008 11:16 AM EDT{"commentId":1758239,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
PH, did you seed that?
I might if you didn't.
{"commentId":1758239,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"nearing"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1758248,"authorDomain":"partisanhack"}
It's old news, this has been known for a long time, now.
There's a level of corporatist thinking that believes that monopolies that come along by sheer luck or through guile were God-given.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":1758887,"authorDomain":"charnello"}
From what I've seen, "water wars" are unlikely. I'm not saying that water concerns are unimportant, far from it, but the "water war" rhetoric generally lacks backing.
I read the Woodrow Wilson Center study, and listened to the project's head talk about it. Based upon what he/they've said, I'm inclined to go with them.
Again, water issues are incredibly important (more important than most people realize, I think), but the "water war" refrain doesn't bear up.
Read an article here
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- 2 votes
#5 - Fri May 2, 2008 1:30 PM EDT{"commentId":1759677,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
Thanks I will take a look!
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1759765,"authorDomain":"Wheel"}
I saw 'Say NO to Water Transfer' signs on the way to Asheville the other day. There is conflict over water, financial and political. Transferring water between river basins is hotly contested. The amt and quality of water in downstream states is also a bone of contention. The EPA needs funding and teeth. Industries must be held accountable for their impact on the environment. Corporations are not people, but the people who run the corporations must be held accountable. Due diligence is going to have to give way to environmental accountability.
{"commentId":1759765,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"Wheel"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1759834,"authorDomain":"noe1"}
Stay close to the great lakes in the coming years, the further north the better...
{"commentId":1759834,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"noe1"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1764565,"authorDomain":"Wheel"}
Related story Nearing, I crossed linked your seed to mine. Hope you don't mind.
{"commentId":1764565,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"Wheel"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1764889,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
I crossed linked your seed to mine. Hope you don't mind.
Not at all!
Thanks.
{"commentId":1764889,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"nearing"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1765875,"authorDomain":"mock"}
charnello...
Asked about water wars, Prof. Asit K. Biswas of the Mexico-based Third World Centre for Water Management, told IPS: "This is absolute nonsense because this is not going to happen -- at least not during the next 100 years."
Seems contradictory, no?
It's already starting. I live near the Great Lakes (20% of the world's fresh water) and this is what my hometown paper has to say:
Not sure how I feel about this.
More here.
{"commentId":1765875,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"mock"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1765993,"authorDomain":"nearing"}
But Ohio, the other Great Lakes states, and Canada will not and must not ship even one drop of this essential resource elsewhere - at any price.
Wooo, I see a nasty fight on the horizon!
{"commentId":1765993,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"nearing"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1768900,"authorDomain":"inghar2004"}
Yeah, we Canadians may get some help from the states that border the Great Lakes. The day seems ever closer to me.
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{"commentId":1775779,"authorDomain":"charnello"}
Fights/skirmishes/battles over water are different than a war.
Nobody is saying conflict over water is unlikely, just that an actual war is.
{"commentId":1775779,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"charnello"}
{"commentId":1765069,"authorDomain":"inghar2004"}
Thanks for this, nearing. I didn't know that the Walkerton water supply was privatized. Makes sense.
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- 1 vote
#6 - Sun May 4, 2008 5:02 PM EDT{"commentId":1770274,"authorDomain":"kidsarocker"}
Future wars will be fought over resources (gas/oil/water) rather than land and ideologies. better start building my bunker lol
{"commentId":1770274,"threadId":"258612","contentId":"1465259","authorDomain":"kidsarocker"}
- 3 votes
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