Rex Weyler on Privatizing Water in South America and BC
Written by Rex Weyler
Friday, 07 August 2009 17:02

"If anyone thinks that privatizing BC's rivers is just about 'green power', they are deluding themselves. The ultimate goal: Control the water." - Rex Weyler, Save Our Rivers Board of Advisors

First of all, here's an excellent short video trailer about water, bottled water, corporate control of water, and citizen response. From the producers of "Who killed the electric car": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72MCumz5lq4

Rex Weyler
My nephew just returned from Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he's been working over the last decade with indigenous groups & campesinos fighting to get their water rights back from Bechtel Corp, part of a massive push to privatize utilities in the third world. Michael's stories of corporate security teams, lawyers, and infiltrators would make your blood boil. Once the globalized corporations own a region's water access, the people have a huge challenge on their hands.

Bechtel had been awarded a 40-year power generation and drinking water contract In Bolivia, and for a while, even attempted to make it illegal to collect rain water. If you don't know about the Cochabamba experience, there is lots on the Internet.

Here is a statement by my nephew, Michael Moss, and Marcela Olivera, a leader of the Bolivian citizens' movement.

Here is a hub of links..
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bolivia/links.html

"Leasing the rain" by William Finnegan, New Yorker

"The world is running out of fresh water, and the fight to control it has begun."

If anyone thinks that privatizing BC's rivers is just about "green power", they are deluding themselves.

The ultimate goal: Control the water.