Water privatization by the richest rich is happening now ("hydraulic empire") incl. the Bush family

[matthews]

74. Me too. I live in Omaha 6 blocks from the Missouri. Sometimes last year it was so low

stretches of it had to be closed to barge traffic. I watch our water table too. The University of Nebraska has excellent resources for studying the changes in our water levels or where serious drought areas are, etc.

http://snr.unl.edu/data/water/groundwatermaps.asp

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Will The Next War Be Fought Over Water?

January 03, 2010 2:36 PM

Only 2.5 percent of the planet's water supply is fresh, Solomon writes, much of which is locked away in glaciers. World water use in the past century grew twice as fast as world population.

"We've now reached the limit where that trajectory can no longer continue," Solomon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. "Suddenly we're going to have to find a way to use the existing water resources in a far, far more productive manner than we ever did before, because there's simply not enough."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122195532