Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted April 25, 2007.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50994/

All across the United States, municipal water systems are being bought up by multinational corporations, turning one of our last remaining public commons and our most vital resource into a commodity.

The road to privatization is being paved by our own government. The Bush administration is actively working to loosen the hold that cities and towns have over public water, enabling corporations to own the very thing we depend on for survival.

The effects of the federal government's actions are being felt all the way down to Conference of Mayors, which has become a "feeding frenzy" for corporations looking to make sure that nothing is left in the public's hands, including clean, affordable water.

>more at http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50994/

We can't have a life resource privatized. The private sector cannot be trusted to work for the good of the people as we well know. Certain things cannot be subject to the profit motive. Water is one of them. Otherwise, LA will own all of our water and we will die of thirst watering a desert.

to foreign interests. Total BS!

We all need to pay attention to who what and where our and I emphasize OUR resources are being taken. We need everyone around the country to start reporting what is being acquired locally so we can keep track.

that I bought a large property that sits on one of the best and largest aquifers in California and it will allows me and my husband to get our own water, WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT!!

Just another way to send the bill to succeeding generations.

also a comment about "air", yes, air.

I posted this before - but:
snip from "Innovation and markets key to overcoming next limits to growth"

Other formerly "free" resources like fresh air, blue sky and free jobs, are also difficult to set a market value, said Fred Kindle, President and CEO, ABB. E. Neville Isdell, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company, gave the example of South Africa which attempted to do just that with water. They set the basic water requirement at 60 litres, which would be supplied for free to every citizen. Anything in addition would be priced according to usage.

http://www.weforum.org/en/events//AnnualMeeting2007/index.htm#innovation

Until and unless we reign-in these voracious pseudo-beings, all efforts to improve in any area will be stifled.

From election fraud to health-care, global warming, equal rights, fair trade, economic security, peace, you name it, it is corporate interests that are fighting it and will prevent us from achieving our goals.