Looming Water Shortage Creates Profit Opportunities for Investors

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Water as the Ultimate Liquid Asset

JUPITER, Florida June 5, 2008 — By 2020, 45% of U.S. water utilities will need repair. That's just one of the reasons that water should become one of the most lucrative commodities of the 21st Century, according to a new report by Weiss Research commodities analyst Sean Brodrick.

In Cloud 9 Cash Report, Brodrick provides an insightful analysis of water as an investment vehicle and strong data supporting further pressure on the price of the natural resource, including:

* Americans spent $15 billion on bottled water in 2007.

* A United Nations report that the Himalayan glaciers that are sources to Asia's biggest rivers — the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Yellow Rivers — means that they could disappear by 2035 as temperatures rise. It is estimated that 2.4 billion people depend on that water.

* Less than 15% of the Chinese population has access to clean drinking water. China's government will spend $128 billion on water infrastructure in the next five years.

Water is a valuable natural resource and the demand for it is not elastic — as prices rise, consumption does not decrease," said Brodrick. "Investors should see steady price acceleration as demand continues to surge around the world."

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Its an older article (no personal interest and not promoting author), but, just thought it was worth passing on. Over the years, articles and stories about the Global Water Consortium suggest the consortium had not worked out the micro-economics of controlling water. It seems now, they have, if these folks are serious.

[Speck Tater]

1. People in dire need? Oh goody. let's exploit them for obscene profits. NT

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2. another reason we should start eating plants.......

not beef; it was estimated in 1992 to take 3682 liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of dressed beef, or almost 1000 gallons to produce only 2.2 pounds of the stuff; man that beef is gonna cost us!


http://jas.fass.org/cgi/content/abstract/71/4/818

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3. 15 billion on bottled water?

That's 15 billion of immediate savings, not having to pay Coca-Cola to fill plastic bottles with tap water.

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4. the war is on here in Maine

In one community after another, the comglomerate that owns Poland Springs has been trying for years to expand with the promise of a few jobs. So far, they've been losing each battle. Too many people here with private wells they'd be depleting. Enough agriculture dependent on that water too. And fortunate smart enough people to realize that in exchange for a few minimum wage jobs, the profits would all be going somewhere else and their neighbors would be without water.

It's a scary thought. The mega-corporations would just *love* to get complete control of water.