New Report: TTIP free trade deal 'would remove people's rights to access basic human needs like wate

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10. I live in an area where good, clean water is plentiful and

most of us have wells. I suspect climate change will not detrimentally affect this abundance. Nestle Water has been buying up aquifers all over the place up here in towns that let them. I assume they see this coming too.

Most of Canada is in a similar situation, btw. At least most of the eastern Provinces. I don't know as much about the others...

My fear though, is the so-called 'Resource Curse' --if we continue on this path of neoliberal capitalism, that is:

Resource curse thesis
The idea that natural resources might be more an economic curse than a blessing began to emerge in the 1980s. The term resource curse thesis was first used by Richard Auty in 1993 to describe how countries rich in natural resources were unable to use that wealth to boost their economies and how, counter-intuitively, these countries had lower economic growth than countries without an abundance of natural resources. Numerous studies, including one by Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner, have shown a link between natural resource abundance and poor economic growth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

It will probably not happen in my lifetime, but perhaps in my daughter's, and she will be inheriting this place. She might be better off staying where she is in NYC.

Just a somewhat off-topic random thought. Sorry, and don't mind me. Please carry on.