& here is some more about the G8 of 2002 & if you saw the show on TV last eve about the Ganges then all this is like H2O off a duck's back!
How do TNCs convert water to gold? They charge more. When water is privatized, prices go up. When prices go up, access to water goes down. In the industrialized country of Great Britain, rate hikes after privatization caused poorer residents to lose access to water in their homes, because they couldn't afford to pay for it. The consequences in countries where two-thirds of the population lives in poverty, such as Cochabamba, Bolivia, are grave. There, people rejected a World Bank sanctioned privatization scheme, even after it was implemented. So too in Tucuman, Argentina. And the struggle continues in Ghana, as the government plans to privatize water there. Modern alchemists have succeeded in creating a reaction that increases the wealth of the few, at the cost of the many. Privatization experiments span all continents. The G8 summit deep in the Canadian forest last week produced plans to expand experimentation across Africa, as a component of Western "aid" packages to reduce suffering of hundreds of millions on the African continent.
