“The next World Water Forum is planned for South Africa in 2012, and it can be expected that that nation’s social movements led by the militant South African Anti-privatization Forum, will be ready for a fight.”
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“The WWC knows about big money: It is led by two of the world’s largest private water corporations, Suez Environnement and Veolia Water. Fauchon, president of the Council, is also the president of Groupe des Eaux de Marseille, a company owned jointly by Veolia and a subsidiary of Suez. Critics such as Maude Barlow, director of Canada’s Blue Planet Project and recent appointee as senior advisor on water to the U.N. General Assembly, contend that the Council’s links to private water operators and to AquaFed, the industry lobby group strategically headquartered across from the European Union Parliament in Brussels, compromise its legitimacy.“I call them the Lords of Water,” says Barlow.”
Its dry in Plettenberg Bay,SA. We need a desalination plant like Sedgefield and I can’t understand with all the tax we pay why we haven’t got it, however the majors bullet proof car and bodyguards may be where the money is being spent.
Kev…a desalination plant is not what is needed. It’s the wrong approach in 99% of the cases it’s used. It has high CO2 Emissions, it’s energy intensive, and creates brine which destroys ecosystems further. Do a search on this site for “desalination” and take a look at the CONS of desal. Interrupting the planet’s natural water cycles is what got us here in the first place. Rain catchment, less groundwater pumping, conservation, and dam removal to name a few are answers to the water shortage everywhere. another great source for you is this: http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/actionplan/index.html