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2009, PARIS RECLAIMS WATER SUPPLY after a century of private management. The city reclamation was in response to decades of poor performance and neglect of the public water supply. Paris is not alone as a major metropolis struggling with a crumbling water infrastructure and under-investment. http://lnkd.in/dUZtZhP View in LinkedIn

GREAT SUCKING SOUND. "By using a little-known loophole in the 2006 Great Lakes Compact, Obama minions are allowing Nestle Company to export precious fresh water out of Lake Michigan to the tune of $500,000 to $1.8 million per day profit." http://lnkd.in/dJtFazg View in LinkedIn

GLEAMING CHROME TAPS in our tidy clean houses create a stunning mirage of water quality, and obscure the realities of the vast water distribution systems that deliver our public water, and the under-resourced water treatment plants charged with delivering clean water. View in LinkedIn

PUMPING THE GREAT LAKES. "A few companies have gone even bolder yet, such as Perrier, a subsidiary of the multi-national Nestle corporation. They have invested heavily in Michigan and the Great Lakes ... Much of the Great Lakes water is headed for China, filled in massive cargo bags which are pulled across the ocean by a large supertanker." http://lnkd.in/d2Dvt8D View in LinkedIn

THE MAJORITY OF WATER WILL BE PRIVATIZED, and by that time, it will be substantially too late, with enormous power and wealth concentrated into under a dozen companies worldwide. Given the track record of the leading contenders, this is a very gloomy prospect. View in LinkedIn

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF WATER PRIVATIZATION. "Their growth is exponential; a decade ago, they serviced around 51 million people in just 12 countries. And, although less than 10 percent of the world's water systems are currently under private control ... the top three alone will control over 70 percent of the water systems in Europe and North America in a decade." http://lnkd.in/dqG2Hru View in LinkedIn

TEN MAJOR WATER SERVICES COMPANIES. "Between them, the three biggest -- Suez and Vivendi [recently renamed Veolia Environment] of France and RWE-AG of Germany -- deliver water and wastewater services to almost 300 million customers in over 100 countries, and are in a race ... to expand to every corner of the globe." http://lnkd.in/dqG2Hru View in LinkedIn

ONE ESTIMATE OF WATER PRIVATIZATION 2007-2011. "909 million in 62 countries or 13% of the world population were served by the private sector ... 309 million people in China, 61 million in the United States, 60 million in Brazil, 46 million in France, 23 million in Spain, 15 million in India and 14 million in Russia. In England and Wales the entire population of 55 million is served by private companies." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization View in LinkedIn

WORLD BANK LOANS often explicitly require water privatization, and through its International Finance Corporation, funds these private water companies. A major force worldwide in water privatization, it has lent ~$20 billion in the last decade to further these goals. http://lnkd.in/dqG2Hru View in LinkedIn

WORLD BANK AGENDA. "Less is known about the impacts of the World Bank's latest obsession -- the privatization of water services. In country after country in recent years, the World Bank has been quietly imposing a for-profit system of water delivery, leaving millions of people without access to water." http://lnkd.in/dqG2Hru View in LinkedIn