mary jo fahey
04-01-2002, 11:18 PM
the latest issue (apr 8) of the new yorker magazine has an article called
"leasing the rain" by william finnegan. it's about water privatization
(activity of the world bank and imf). water privatization is evil.
finnegan covers the cochabamba water war in bolivia. i read about the water
war in bolivia two years ago in a british magazine called the ecologist. in
2000, the bolivian government turned the water utility over to a corporate
consortium dominated by the u.s. based bechtel corporation. the price of
water shot up and people were paying more for water than they were for food.
there were demonstrations and a 17-year old boy was shot in the head.
corporations are closing deals in countries all over the world -- ecuador,
chile, panama, peru, indonesia, pakistan, india, south africa, poland and
hungary. fortunately, protests have erupted everywhere.
nearly everyone involved is rubbing their palms together -- planning
profits --because the world's fresh water supply is on the decline. alaska
believes the state's earnings from fresh water will eventually dwarf its
earnings from oil.
mary jo
"leasing the rain" by william finnegan. it's about water privatization
(activity of the world bank and imf). water privatization is evil.
finnegan covers the cochabamba water war in bolivia. i read about the water
war in bolivia two years ago in a british magazine called the ecologist. in
2000, the bolivian government turned the water utility over to a corporate
consortium dominated by the u.s. based bechtel corporation. the price of
water shot up and people were paying more for water than they were for food.
there were demonstrations and a 17-year old boy was shot in the head.
corporations are closing deals in countries all over the world -- ecuador,
chile, panama, peru, indonesia, pakistan, india, south africa, poland and
hungary. fortunately, protests have erupted everywhere.
nearly everyone involved is rubbing their palms together -- planning
profits --because the world's fresh water supply is on the decline. alaska
believes the state's earnings from fresh water will eventually dwarf its
earnings from oil.
mary jo