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Friday, April 20, 2012

Take a look at the future of the privatization of water

not only is the privatization of water resources another way the world's super-rich elites can continue to bleed the peasants by monopolizing what should be a freely available commodity and is the fundamental right of every living thing on this earth, we now can see how it's designed to make even MORE money by selling water to the highest bidder and treating the wastewater results...
Shocking Conflict of Interest: Private Water Companies Partner With Fracking Lobby

Selling water to drillers, two of the nation's biggest private water utilities may soon profit from treating the wastewater.

Two of the country's largest private water utility companies are participants in a massive lobbying effort to expand controversial shale gas drilling -- a heavy industrial activity that promises to enrich the water companies but may also put drinking water resources at risk.

The situation -- which some watchdogs describe as a troubling conflict of interest -- underscores the complex issues raised by the nationwide push to privatize infrastructure and services like water, prisons, and roads.

just when you think out-of-control greed and profiteering can't possibly get worse, lo and behold, it does...

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