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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

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