Brad’s Reviews > The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos > Status Update

"even the World Bank started to admit that wealth was becoming concentrated among the very rich around the world, which means that the rich are having trouble finding new places to invest their money. The poor are simply too poor to buy more things, including water."

If only someone sat down and systematically analyzed what the declining profitability of investments signalled for a capitalist economy...

"Unfortunately, Israel has conflated water rights in the Occupied Territories with rights to territory and self-determination, arguing that the demand for water is a veiled demand for territory. At the same time, Israeli settlers in the Occupied Territories are clearly aware that there is no better way to drive people out of these territories than shutting off their water."

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After the bank's decision to mandate privatization in the 1990s, the idea that the 'poor' must be educated about what they should pay for water quickly followed. Thames Water executive Peter Spillet said, 'Clearly people do not understand the value of water and they expect it to fall from the sky and not cost anything.'"

...Yeah, enough said.