Do you know who owns the water you drink?

So now we know the bloody hands bushgang can turn our electric off and on at will.

And, remember that bloody hands bushgang shadow govt.? They are busy bees sucking up water rights the world over. (Jeb just finished doing water business with Ga. and Ala.)

So now they can turn our water off and on at will.

Really! do you know who owns the water you drink? (I mean this in america and the world over.) Who holds power over the water you drink?

I hate that company's guts, what with their evil GM seeds, and for snapping up all the water rights.

or "manages" it, as they like to say. I can't remember the name, but I was on their website. I could look it up. It's been that way for years and it's bad business in my opinion.

But hey....who cares? I live in a community of pod-people who think Bush's shit smells like perfume. They'd sell their children to pay for water if the uber-reichmarshall told them to. Stupid shits, the lot of them! :puke:

edit> It's OMI (Operations Management International) and Earth Tech.

There was a reduction in water rates several years ago; but that doesn't make up for the fact that there's little accountability in any of these privatization schemes.

We are fighting them. the local company would not even consider a bid from the city when the water company came up for sale. RWE must have greased the palm of the owner to get him to shut us out.

We are going to condemn the company and turn it over to local control. Fuck em.

RWE in England goes under the name, Thames Water, and are considered the top polluter in the country.

There were some media reports on corruption around RWE and Babcock; I wouldn't trust them.

Get your water back!

who has a well. All around me the neighborhoods and shopping centers sprout up but our quiet little no-outlet oasis has been left alone.

We'd have to vote as a group on whether or not to bring it in past the corner of our street (same with sewage) and not one of the 28 property owners has any interest in doing so.

I sympathize with the rest of you though.

Julie

or gets fouled by industrial/farm runoff/seepage?

If you haven't seenit, you might like to give "Erin Brockovich" a viddy.

And don't sympathize with me- My water comes from Lake Michigan. and it's Mmmm...mmmm...Good.

Bush want to privatize air next?

A five-member Board of Water Commissioners is appointed by the Mayor of Denver to staggered six-year terms.
The Water Board is responsible for ensuring a continuous supply of water to the City and County of Denver and nearly 50% of Denver Water customers who live in the surrounding suburbs (water service contracts).
The Board appoints a Manager who is chief executive officer of day-to-day operations; the Manager also serves as Secretary to the Board.


Responsible for the collection, storage, quality control and distribution of drinking water to nearly one fourth of all Coloradoans
Primary water sources: Blue River & South Platte River
Other water sources: Fraser River, Williams Fork River, South Boulder Creek, Ralston Creek, Bear Creek
Established in 1918 (Denver citizens purchased water system from a private company)
Colorado's oldest and largest water utility
Denver Water is a separate entity from City of Denver

facilities.

his property. We also have back up generators because the electric goes out on a regular basis when the weather is bad. However erosion can poison the well water, which is why environmental laws are so necessary.

However, I don't trust any Republican led government to care about these issues as long as it's not in their backyard.

Via a pipeline from Whitefish Point (just north of where Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron meet).
We proudly proclaim ourselves to be the consumers of "The World's Best Water" (sorry NYC). The system itself has been paid for for years and, if it wasn't for the Feds demanding the city of Saginaw spend nearly $100 million to build waste water treatment plants which proved useless as teats on a boar hog (Flint, upstream to the south and Midland, upstream to the north, continue to pump their garbage into the Flint and Tittabawassee rivers, respectively), we'd have some of the cheapest, too. My water/sewer bill last month was $6 for the water and $48 for the sewage. Talk about value added!!!
Now, we hear of the parched states of the south and southwest eyeing all our beautiful, clean, fresh Great Lakes water to provide steam to their economic engines. Isn't going to happen -- there will be NO diversion of our most precious asset to those places where, so I hear, where there isn't even water under the bridges.
Sorry about that. But, as always, life is good in Michigan and, as you can see, even better in Saginaw.
John
Want to build a factory and provide jobs? Great!! Build it in Michigan, or Wisconsin or Ohio. We can always use more jobs and we've got plenty of water.

well with plenty of spring water....but thiis issue is why i bought this land and moved here 18 years ago....everyone must "Blue Gold" by Maude Barlow & Tony Clarke...soon very soon water will be more valuable than oil and will be shipped in tankers larger than the mega oil tankers shippng oil around the globe now...

read bush's "Water Privatization Act of 2002"http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/water/

and The Water Barons
http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/water/

Several corporations have already begun specializing in the use of this new technology for bulk water exports. In the UK, the Aquaris Water TransportationCo. (whose corporate investors include Suez) began the first commercialized deliveries of freash water using polyurethane bags towed by tugboats. The company's bag fleet consists of 8 720 ton and 2 2,000 -ton water capacity bags (which hold 2 million liters, or a half million US gallons). Aquaris, whose corporate investors include the water service conglomerate Suez, has bee delivering water to the Greel Islands since 1997 using water-bag technology. bags 10 times larger have been designed. Aquaris predicts that water bag shipments willsoon exceed 200 million metric tons a year and the company plans to secure contractsa in other mediterranian Islands, Israel, and the Bahamas.