Water Privativation [PDF]

Read this disturbing report from the Public Citizen, on the policy of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in last couple of decades to use its economic and political influence to force third world counties to private their natural resources, including water. Under the scheme, the World Bank and IMF gets private first world corporations to own the water supply, including rain water, of third world countries. The results have been damning [PDF]. Social upheaval, including riots and deaths; escalating water rates; lack of investments; and environmental disasters. Who does the World Bank work for? Certainly not the poor of the world.

Don't think the third world citizens are going to be the only ones screwed. Read the Center for Public Integrity's report: The Water Barons to see how widespread this has become.