'Suffering ... for water':Riots surround a global summit seeking answers t

March 17, 2006, 2:42AM
VIOLENCE IN MEXICO CITY
'Suffering ... for water'
Riots surround a global summit seeking answers to a problem that's getting more acute

By MARION LLOYD
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Foreign Service

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - Violence broke out Thursday as experts and conservationists from around the world gathered to search for ways to safeguard one of the world's most precious commodities.

A gang of youths, many of them in ski masks, attacked a patrol car with sticks and rocks, and riot police fired tear gas into the crowd, local media reported. At least a dozen protesters armed with knives, pipes and Molotov cocktails were arrested in a separate incident on the first day of the fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City.

Mexican President Vicente Fox urged 11,000 delegates from about 120 nations to work together to prevent a worsening of the water crisis that is already plaguing parts of the world. "Our survival depends on a profound change in attitude," he said.

One billion people lack clean drinking water and 2.6 billion are without adequate sanitation, according to the United Nations, and shortages are expected to get worse when the world's population hits 8 billion in two decades.

In the Mexican capital, tomorrow's crisis is already here.
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http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3729632.html

Actually, our survival depends on having fewer people on earth. Sadly, there isn't enough fresh water to go around, and there aren't enough jobs to go around.

boats. and said they will fire warning shots to any boat that won't stop on command

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Thirsty For Progress: 17 Arrested At Mexico Water Forum Protest
Police Detain 17 People Amid Violent Protest at World ater Forum in Mexico City

By MARK STEVENSON

MEXICO CITY Mar 17, 2006 (AP)— Groups of young demonstrators battled with police, smashing a patrol car and hurling rocks during protests that continued into Friday morning at the World Water Forum.

Police stopped a massive march late Thursday about a mile from the convention center where representatives of 130 nations were debating ways to bring more water to the poor.

The government news agency Notimex reported that police detained 17 people found carrying homemade gasoline bombs, rocks and sticks. At least one police car and a police motorcycle were smashed and at least two journalists were injured.

The seven-day forum, which began Thursday, pledged to focus on the world's poor, many of whom live on less than 2 1/2 gallons of water per day one-thirtieth of the daily usage in some developed nations. But protesters said the conference represented big corporations interested in running water systems for profit.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1737514

to the poor... its the way to slowly poison the population!!!