Month: September 2022

WATER BOTTLE LEGACY. "Most bottled water comes in recyclable PET plastic bottles, but only about 13 percent of the bottles we use get recycled. In 2005, 2 million tons of plastic water bottles ended up clogging landfills instead of getting recycled." http://lnkd.in/dphTWNT View in LinkedIn

"WATER IS THE NEW OIL for global financial powerhouses and water is being commoditized and traded in global stock exchanges." http://lnkd.in/dNQkvrN View in LinkedIn

"WATER PROMISES TO BE to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century: the precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations." (Fortune Magazine, May 2000). http://lnkd.in/dgRyYaa View in LinkedIn

NEW TEXAS OIL. "T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100 million that he's right. Pickens owns more water than any other individual in the U.S ... He hopes to sell the water he already has, some 65 billion gallons a year, to Dallas, transporting it over 250 miles, 11 counties, and about 650 tracts of private property." http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-06-11/there-will-be-water View in LinkedIn

T BOONE PICKENS WATER PLANS. "Thanks to many state legislators whose campaigns he helped finance, Pickens has been bestowed with a tremendous power generally reserved for state and local governments, the power of "eminent domain." He did this by creating a Fresh Water Supply District—a government entity that is allowed that kind of power." (By over $1 Billion in campaign support). http://lnkd.in/d2Dvt8D View in LinkedIn

T BOONE PICKENS WATER PLANS. "Thanks to many state legislators whose campaigns he helped finance, Pickens has been bestowed with a tremendous power generally reserved for state and local governments, the power of "eminent domain." (By over $1 Billion in campaign support). http://lnkd.in/d2Dvt8D View in LinkedIn

"THE NEW "WATER BARONS" are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace ... Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank ... T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush ..." http://lnkd.in/da66bXH View in LinkedIn

"THE BUSH FAMILY has purchased nearly 100,000 acres of land in Paraguay. The land that George W. Bush purchased in 2008 just so happens to sit on one of, if not the largest underground aquifers in the world, the Guarani aquifer ... it is protected by its own U.S. military base ... Mariscal Estigarribia air base, is run by US soldiers who have been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguayan government." http://lnkd.in/d2Dvt8D View in LinkedIn

SOURCE OF BARCELONA WATER SHIPMENT. "The Ogallala Aquifer in central US is being rapidly depleted by intense municipal use, and in 2008, 438 million gallons of water were shipped to Barcelona, Spain, to relieve the worst drought that the region had experience in over 60 years." http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/04/13/the-guarani-aquifer-a-little-known-water-resource-in-south-america-gets-a-voice/ View in LinkedIn

LARGEST SOURCE OF FRESH WATER IN EARTH. "The Great Lakes are the largest surface freshwater system on the Earth. Only the polar ice caps contain more fresh water ... 84% of North America's surface fresh water ... about 21% of the world's supply of surface fresh water" is in the Great Lakes. http://lnkd.in/dmj8N_v View in LinkedIn