Transnational push for privatisation of worlds second largest aquifer

[Judi Lynn]

PUBLISHED 19:21 FEBRUARY 12, 2018UPDATED 19:49 FEBRUARY 12, 2018
By NEOnline | IR

PUBLISHED 19:21 FEBRUARY 12, 2018 UPDATED 19:49 FEBRUARY 12, 2018
By NEOnline | IR

Major transnational conglomerates are lobbying governments in Latin America to achieve the privatisation of the second bigger aquifer system in the world.

According to the Brazilian press, the lobbying in South America concerns the Guarani Aquifer located underneath Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Two-thirds of the aquifer – or 1.2 million km²– are located in Brazil.

A consortium of companies that includes a number of European behemoths is looking for a 100-year concession. The consortium has managed to secure a nod from Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Uruguay remains the sole hold-out, having yet to approve the concession.

An aquifer is an underground layer of permeable rock or material that can be used to extract groundwater from a water well.

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/towards-privatisation-second-biggest-aquifer-world/

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141985935

(Short article, no more at link.)

(As you may recall, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay were all in the hands of vicious right-wing dictatorships until the recent past, after which they were all snatched back by pro-dictatorship forces.)

[tech3149]

1. remember this?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/23/mainsection.tomphillips

Rumours of Mr Bush's supposed forays into South American real estate surfaced during a recent 10-day visit to the country by his daughter Jenna Bush. Little is known about her trip to Paraguay, although officially she travelled with the UN children's agency Unicef to visit social projects. Photographers from the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color tracked her down to one restaurant in Paraguay's capital Asunción, where she was seen flanked by 10 security guards, and was also reported to have met Paraguay's president, Nicanor Duarte, and the US ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Reports in sections of the Paraguayan media suggested she was sent on a family "mission" to tie up the land purchase in the "chaco".

This is land over that aquifer

[Judi Lynn]

2. The Bush family was so lucky that a vast estate had already been taken by S. Korea's Sun Myung Moon,

an intensely close friend of former CIA head, and US President, George H W Bush, whose family for ages has been tightly connected to controlling interests in Latin America.

No doubt his having attained the enormous holding in Paraguay first helped pave the way for the Bushies of the next generation.

Your info. on the newspaper's story on catching her with TEN security guards to formalize the transaction is so good to hear. Mind-boggling image, one President's daughter, travelling with so much protection.