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| From
the February 2003 Idaho Observer:
Water in the 21st century will be what oil was to the 20th Global corporations scrambling to control water As human population grows; as more trees
are cleared to grow crops to
People must have food, water and shelter
to survive. Since the beginning
Because since prehistoric times clean water
was able to be taken for
Times have changed so much, in fact, that
in its 1993 Water Policy Paper,
The World Bank determined that water is
a global resource and that we
Fortune magazine recently observed that
water is “one of the world's great
Water's big three Mother Jones magazine published an excellent
series of articles in its
Thus far, three main water magnates have
emerged: Suez (120 million
The picture has changed some since Nov./Dec.,
2002. According to the
The cost of privatization In 1999, Bechtel Corporation took over
the water systems in Bolivia.
Bechtel's contract was cancelled and its
employees moved away for their
In Atlanta, Georgia, United Water's contact
with the city was discontinued
The “Big Three” reportedly spend a lot
of time in court with unhappy
The basics The world is currently run by big oil.
The World Bank and Fortune
If current water privatization schemes
are a window into the future of how
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