incomplete, or they changed their name like Blackwater.

I am glad they were not successful in Bolivia.

I was not aware of the specifics. But it did not surprise me that "big money" was trying to own as much of the water sector as possible. It is a limited resource. Thanks for reminding me.

edit: upon further reading I found this interesting:

Former President George H.W. Bush’s Family Bought 300,000 Acres on South America’s and World’s Largest Aquifer, Acuifero Guaraní

In my 2008 article, I overlooked the astonishingly large land purchases (298,840 acres, to be exact) by the Bush family in 2005 and 2006. In 2006, while on a trip to Paraguay for the United Nation’s children’s group UNICEF, Jenna Bush (daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush) reportedly bought 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay). This land is said to be near the 200,000 acres purchased by her grandfather, George H.W. Bush, in 2005.

to be able to buy up huge tracts of foreign land like it was nothing when you're only 24. And to combine the land grab with a humanitarian visit. Pretty sick stuff.

They are wrong. Humans have to have water. These bastard's greed will end up being their demise.

This time they are going to go too far. People are not going to take tolerate it.

The Cochabamba protests of 2000, also known as the Cochabamba Water War or the Water War in Bolivia,[1] were a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's third largest city, between December 1999 and April 2000 in response to the privatization of the city's municipal water supply company Semapa. The wave of demonstrations and police violence was described as a public uprising against water prices.[2]

The tensions erupted when a new firm, Aguas del Tunari – a joint venture involving Bechtel – was required to invest in construction of long-envisioned dam (a priority of Mayor Manfred Reyes Villa) - so they had dramatically raised water rates. Protests, largely organized through the Coordinadora in Defense of Water and Life, a community coalition, erupted in January, February, and April 2000, culminating in tens of thousands marching downtown and battling police. One civilian was killed. On April 10, 2000, the national government reached an agreement with the Coordinadora to reverse the privatization. A complaint filed by foreign investors was resolved by agreement in January 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests

Bechtel -- all about it during the Bush administration.

Bechtel gave $1.3 million in individual, PAC, and soft money contributions; 59 percent went to Republicans, 41 percent to Democrats.

http://www.sfweekly.com/2003-06-18/news/the-world-according-to-bechtel/2/

Corruption.

that conditions were place on loans from world bank that kinda forced countries to privatize their water systems at the time Enron got busted for their illegal financial reporting and business model. I know public entities are under severe financial pressure and many are selling their assets like the water system to generate a short term financial gain, just like states are selling their highway systems and such.........

- food
- water
- shelter


thats what people need and that is where big money is moving to with buying up farmland and foreclosed housing and water systems.....I owe my soul to the company store will be the new norm, for America soon enough

you owe it to the company store and you owe your existence to programs controlled by the government...and we know /suspect who owns the government.

A price tag on everything in nature except the resources they take for themselves and resell.

so they would need to sell off their highways, water systems, government land... This has to stop soon!
Fight for Publicly funded elections and complete campaign finance reform! Let's get the money out of our politics and we will get our Representatives back!

People and government need to fight these stealth, thieving vampire squids. By any means necessary.

planning for how to protect citizens from these vulture capitalists. Nothing yet.

It's just a matter of time before the mass revolt begins. BTW by the term "destroyed" I mean take away their operations.

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But of COURSE, all we need is a little "regulation". We don't need a total systemic change, just a few tweaks!

This it yet another symptom of end stage capitalism. Acquiring ALL of the resources that people need to live. THIS type of shit is the reason that revolution is inevitable. Maybe or maybe not soon, but inevitable. Unless somebody seriously thinks that this rotten system will check itself?

they could actually be useful in that capacity, as the main problem with that is getting the clean water where it needs to be.

i suppose they prolly are.

Yes, farmland.

Serf's up!

The longest running scam in history. Ask any subjugated people at the hands of Western imperialism.

private millionaires own "hobby" farms and get a great benefit from farm subsidies.
----read some of your farmland link
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/03/land-grabs-not-just-africa-anymore

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Almond growing caught my eye. I think I remember something about the government spending money to promote the almond market overseas... which generally raises the price I pay.