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WORLD WATER PRIVATIZATION. "The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund played an important role in this process through the conditionality of their lending." There is a sea of misinformation about the extent of water privatization, but one thing is sure, it is happening at a real pace. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization View in LinkedIn

WATER CRISIS. "If you Google “water crisis,” you get about 180 million hits. This global “water crisis” is in some ways analogous to what we once viewed as an oil crisis, and now see as a much broader energy crisis." http://lnkd.in/dkBHPAW View in LinkedIn

AUSIE WATER GRAB. "In Australia, now in the sixth year of a drought, brokers in urban areas are buying up water rights from farmers. Rural residents around the U.S. are trying to sell their land (and water) to multi-national water bottlers like Nestlé." http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-06-11/there-will-be-water View in LinkedIn

US LAWS GOVERNING WATER OWNERSHIP. Most laws are based in 19th and 20th century common law decisions and badly need updating. Today, speculators are having a field day purchasing these rights. The situation worldwide is worse. http://lnkd.in/dRt4x5p View in LinkedIn

HALIBURTON AND BECHTEL are betting on water privatization in Iraq by winning large contracts to rebuild the water system, followed by the privatization of water. Bechtel is already one of the top ten water privatization companies worldwide, with a long record of abusive actions. http://lnkd.in/dtF9-Wn View in LinkedIn

DUBIOUS PROVENANCE. "In June 2003, Poland Spring was sued for false advertising in a class action lawsuit charging that their water that supposedly comes from springs, is in fact heavily treated common ground water ... stands over a former trash and refuse dump, and below an illegal disposal site where human sewage was sprayed as fertilizer for many years." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%25C3%25A9_Waters_North_America View in LinkedIn

LONDON WATER PROBLEMS. "In May 2006 the leakage was nearly 900 megalitres per day (Ml/day) and in June that year Thames Water missed its target for leakage reduction for the third year in a row. The Consumer Council for Water, a customers' group, accused Thames Water for continuing to miss their targets for the past five years." http://lnkd.in/dPHvd8U View in LinkedIn

LEADING BOTTLED WATER COMPANY. "Nestlé S.A., the World's largest producer of bottled water, is frequently criticised for the ethics of its global control of limited water sources, often with the result of limiting access to those resources by local peoples, as well as environmental concerns." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%25C3%25A9_Waters_North_America View in LinkedIn

LONDON WATER INFRASTRUCTURE. "Every day, Thames Water ... treats and supplies 2.6 gigalitres (2.6×10(9) litres) of potable tap water from 102 water treatment works via 288 clean water pumping stations through 31,100 km (19,300 mi) of ... mains to 9 million customers ... across London ... 30 raw water reservoirs and 235 underground service reservoirs." http://lnkd.in/dPHvd8U View in LinkedIn

POSTER CHILD. "The Ice Mountain Spring Water Bottling Factory is pumping hundreds of millions of gallons per year of Michigan water out of enormous bore hole deep wells — taking billions of dollars in corporate profit from water that belongs to the people of Michigan. Ice Mountain Spring Water™ is a wholly owned division of Nestlé Waters North America, Inc." http://lnkd.in/d2ag6Jt View in LinkedIn