Water Only for the Rich? The Banks & Funds Profiting from the Water Crisis

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They call it ’blue gold.’ Around the world, demand for water is exploding. By 2050, we will be living through a water crisis - at least one in four will live in a country suffering from water shortages - creating ideal conditions for a new market…
Goldman Sachs, HSBC, UBS, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, BNP. Banks, investment funds and hedge funds are all rushing to invest billions of euros in anything related to water. A real monopoly of water has begun. From California to Australia, from New York to London via Marseille, we investigate the financialization of water. New power relations are being established and access to water is being threatened.
It’s a battle taking place on many fronts: ideological, political, environmental, and of course, economic. The fate of nearly 10 billion inhabitants around the world depends on its outcome.
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@g.t.g1111 2 жыл бұрын

This has to STOP! WATER IS NOT A COMMODITY!!

@adame.9230 3 ай бұрын

yet

@mikerock8177 2 жыл бұрын

Greed is what's ruining everywhere

@needmoreramsay 2 жыл бұрын

What a world we live in. Can't wait until they can figure out how to charge for oxygen. I'll be checking out then.

@loveme77527 2 жыл бұрын

Been saying this for the past 2 yrs too...🙄

@FletcherFinance 2 жыл бұрын

We're working on that next.

@ayupmeduck5708 2 жыл бұрын

Breathing is taxed. Try going carbon neutral while breathing out.

@jha5301 2 жыл бұрын

@@ayupmeduck5708 and farts

@MankindFails 2 жыл бұрын

@@ayupmeduck5708 Exactly. This Climate Change tax is meant to tax you for existing.

@kevind8446 2 жыл бұрын

This is just bonkers! If this is permitted to continue without being reversed the future for all living plants and creatures including humans looks bleak indeed! is this not the financial markets going to far - this practice should be outlawed worldwide.

@FletcherFinance 2 жыл бұрын

A water shortage on a planet that is 70% water. Makes no sense.

@arnowisp6244 2 жыл бұрын

Most of tyat water is too salty from the tears of thirsty people.

@pipfox7834 2 жыл бұрын

Australia is so dry, and some stattes have such low rainfall that our governments have built Desalination Plants, just in case of water shortage due to changing climate. Perth's Desal plant is i beleive operational at this time, so far Adelaide hasn't needed it since the last major drought twelve years or so ago.

@pipfox7834 2 жыл бұрын

states, that should read!

@MikeSmith-nu9wt 2 ай бұрын

The water is owned by the people here , its why we didnt give up our second ammendment

@danjessen1903 2 жыл бұрын

What stupid comments you can do without oil or diamonds it's everyone's right to have free water

@KasirRham 2 жыл бұрын

The diamond analogy is so stupid. Diamonds are borderline useless, water is essential for life. The finance boys are INSANELY out of touch. Now we have these vultures casually babbling on about exploiting water. This is some truly disgusting stuff.... and of course there's a jackass in a suit telling you it's good.

@needmoreramsay 2 жыл бұрын

What a dystopian nightmare we are living in.

@MoAli-wm4of 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not a pessimist in any sense of the world ... But looking at the constant waves of natural disasters and how theyre increasingly more destructive with each year and event ... Decisions made by national leaderships around the world, secondary or tertiary effects and consequences from man made choices from 100 years ago to 100 days ago ... Things only going from bad to worse .. no matter which way you want to look at it .. I believe we have a solid few generations, or maybe 1-150 years to go before some serious global events which wont leave humankind in the same state ... Thats just my two cents tho

@ayupmeduck5708 2 жыл бұрын

Diamonds versus water? Quench a thirst with carats.

@davidfairfield651 2 жыл бұрын

the water we do have left would be better spent washing away the evil and wicked from the face of this spinning sphere of shit

@needmoreramsay 2 жыл бұрын

Someday enough people will have enough and reach their breaking point. When that happens, the people controlling the wealth and "assets" will have to reconcile their behaviors.

@famousbowl9926 2 жыл бұрын

We need to redistribute wealth..

@needmoreramsay 2 жыл бұрын

@@famousbowl9926 yeah, or change the system so that the people making the products (clothes, food, software) are getting a much bigger piece of the pie. There's no way 1 or 2 people at the head of a company should be making billions when half their employees can't pay their rent.

@FletcherFinance 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 That'll be the day.

@kpackard1 2 жыл бұрын

@@famousbowl9926 So you're from taking money from someone else because you couldn't work and make it yourself? Figures I don't begrudge wealthy people good for them if they made it. That's what America is about anyway

@darthvader5300 2 жыл бұрын

BAN THE COMMODITIZATION OF WATER AND BAN THE PRIVATIZATION OF WATER AND BAN THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC WATER UTILITIES AND BAN THE PRIVATIZATION OF NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES.

@einienj3281 2 жыл бұрын

Water will be sold to the highest bidder.. 😠👎🏻

@PurplePerinaise 2 жыл бұрын

We need a people's army to stop these injustices

@vintageb8 2 жыл бұрын

no, you need technology

@snagfalarski109 2 жыл бұрын

people who profit from water dont have the rite to breath oxygen we need to take that away from them

@MankindFails 2 жыл бұрын

@@snagfalarski109 *"people's army"* Is that disarmed serfs' humors ?

@paulmetsker1127 2 жыл бұрын

This just feels like slavery with extra steps...

@danthomas6587 2 жыл бұрын

And once again capitalism wins while the people lose. This is tragic. People will die because of this horrific policy.

@CP1234. 2 жыл бұрын

Thats not capitalism brother, that is unhuman GOVERNEMENT policies ! Yet again, POLITICIANS, have sold " their " people

@Adam-zd2bk 2 жыл бұрын

thatched fucked up many things and then forget everything she did and died.

@michelledavies2197 2 жыл бұрын

She certainly did.

@g.t.g1111 2 жыл бұрын

This has to end!!

@crooger3594 2 жыл бұрын

You don't need diamonds to survive ... Redicilous

@allnamesaretaken 2 жыл бұрын

Water was privatised here in the UK back in the 80s. Laws had to be brought in to make it illegal for water to be turned off in homes, to make sure its clean etc. and with Ofwat who regulates water blocking price increases, it has changed ownership every few years in some regions because its costly to run. We have laws that protect water supply for the most part but most countries are unlikely to have the safeguards we have, privatisation is bad without strict government oversight.

@famousbowl9926 2 жыл бұрын

They literally started with that story. Did you even wait to comment?

@lo2740 2 жыл бұрын

"it is what we are here for, deliver a profit for the shareholders" that, is the main problem nowdays, these peoples are roten, they cannot be considered as normal human beings, and they exclude themselves from humanity, therefore we should be able to take any action to destruct these "companies"

@chuckeynewkirk199 2 жыл бұрын

Now you see with your own eyes, the future!

@yitezeng1035 2 жыл бұрын

How can you privatise a public good? That's why we have a government

@arnowisp6244 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah until the government gets too big and now instead of Private corporations with all the power. Its the Government. Power Corrupts and attracts The Corrupt.

@g.t.g1111 2 жыл бұрын

Government is the problem!

@mirekchance 2 жыл бұрын

People think that the stuff will be cheaper if private... Not so at times...at the least... The 2030 hing will make things interesting, I expect many things to be a privilege We will finally come full circle back to some version of feudalism....:(

@gengrant5291 2 жыл бұрын

This documentary is sickening and scary

@mirekchance 2 жыл бұрын

Water is a commodity... We help 3rd world countries by providing them water.... Really??? One day God will come back and there will be justice. I am aware of some issues, which arise when western companies come to help deliver good water...:( And in part people are stupid for allowing politicians to sell that basic product.... Not much different in Czech republic...:( Grabby, greedy corporations can sell many products, but some basic and necessary things should be under national/community control/ownership. We are so "evolved"....:(

@nealrcn 2 жыл бұрын

You can now buy a machine that will produce water from air $2k for 4 gallon a day

@davidpethick83 Жыл бұрын

Government must control and administure this is not the markets. Most people have metered water that's charged for(without profit motivators)

@CoreyChambersLA 2 жыл бұрын

In other words, the price of water will go up.

@kajjebre 2 жыл бұрын

Crisis level still not high enough for people to get on the streets?!

@vintageb8 2 жыл бұрын

one day when desalination becomes DIRT CHEAP (somehow), water will be cheap

@1955RKE 2 жыл бұрын

The first time I saw water for sale was in 1986 in San Diego, California. I had just finished boot camp and saw it for sale at the commissary. As a city boy from Indiana, I couldn't believe it. It sounded crazy. I don't understand if water is so scarce in these places, why do they live there?

@victoriaivankovasmith872 Жыл бұрын

Mineral and spring bottled water is sold in supermarkets everywhere. I suppose you mean you saw ordinary tap water being sold the same way.

@pascalw.paradis8954 2 жыл бұрын

I will miss food and Water a lot. ❤️❤️🌎❤️❤️

@troyball6623 2 жыл бұрын

Mark my words, the day will come where they charge us for the oxygen we breathe.

@berryberrykixx 2 жыл бұрын

WOW. That CEO of Citigroup is so cold, his lips are literally blue!

@isosthenie8271 Жыл бұрын

Water doesnt just fall from the sky anymore. Our industries require it for everything, even if the product isnt really by any standard necessary. Livestock farming is bad, almonds in monoculture are bad and so on - they cause pollution, resistances against antibiotics, degrade the biosphere, cause emissions (cows and methane, google it) and so on. So yes, at least pay for the water. Looking back at how we treat water, if it doesnt hurt, we heavily pollute it. So yes, there is a price tag. It includes a fee for its recovery, latest when there isnt enough anymore without investing in its recovery. Of course normal people should not be affected in the sense that they should have favourable and sustainable as well as stable water prices.

@simamkelemqenge6519 2 жыл бұрын

why did they let those private businesses to install those valves in their farms

@kpackard1 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I have a well 🤪

@m.g4441 2 жыл бұрын

There is a certain hades coming I'm wholly certain for the very rich who don't think clean drinking water is a human right.

@MikeSmith-nu9wt 2 ай бұрын

Dont they have creeks and rivers ? In sw florida there going through some creeks and cutting the trees down both sides , for flood mitigation , we get alot of rain . But im thinking that's not a good idea , were gonna be flipping on our weather last year of el nina , now were gonna turn into a desert but there be less hurricanes , and maybe colder winter days , rain was 2 months late this year , next year it will be even later before it starts .

@amitgupta25121993 2 жыл бұрын

Just like water, trees also should have price, reducing deforestation and increasing reforestation

@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022 Жыл бұрын

Earth was a water world where no land had been visible. Why do people keep saying that water came from space? (Genesis 1:1,2,6-8)

@davidpethick83 Жыл бұрын

"They will soon go after AIR WE BREATHE these polices must be stopped people!!!😂

@chuckeynewkirk199 2 жыл бұрын

There is no getting over it!

@AustinTXRealEstatebyFelix 2 жыл бұрын

#Dasani and other companies are to blame.

@CP1234. 2 жыл бұрын

Cant we just collect rain water on a grand scale and then purify it ?! 🤣

@poundtrader1414 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if you came up with a system where people can do this on their own, you will be dead in a weak

@CP1234. 2 жыл бұрын

@@poundtrader1414 That was normal back than !

@poundtrader1414 2 жыл бұрын

@@CP1234. 👍👍

@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂We respect something we can’t live without, because we now have to pay for it?!!!😅😅😅

@famousbowl9926 2 жыл бұрын

13:10 oh shi/ mad max! Lol

@bjorkirl 3 ай бұрын

these business men are demons

@43nostromo 2 жыл бұрын

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

@jha5301 2 жыл бұрын

There is a waterfall oldaker falls, on the next island that just plunges into the sea from some height. Could that not be used to bring to you with pipes?

@timothytripp4594 2 жыл бұрын

Yes that water could be brought to you at a price in pipes but that means you would still have to pay for it

@timothytripp4594 2 жыл бұрын

Unless you are willing to go get it yourself and pay for delivery and container rental or purchase fees

@timothytripp4594 2 жыл бұрын

And it could also be filtered to make sure it is safe enough to drink and use for cooking or cleaning or feeding livestock or watering crops but that all comes at a price so therefore water is not free even if you have a well that you get the water from you pay for the pipes the pump and the electricity or power supply to get the water to the tank which you pay for also and the dwelling of the well so unless you have running water on your property or well water you will have to pay more for it just like me if I go to the big city and I want something to drink I have to pay to get it because more than likely no one's going to offer to give me theirs to drink

@timothytripp4594 2 жыл бұрын

The pipes labor and installing it to deliver water from their cost money so even if they did transport water from the island

@g.t.g1111 2 жыл бұрын

The source of confusion sold everybody a "Poor Bags Of Goods".

@berryberrykixx 2 жыл бұрын

Yeaaahhhh, I'm gonna just keep my butt right here by Lake Erie. Canada owns half of ALL of the Great Lakes (Except Lake Michigan but they are all connected) and good luck getting Canada on board with this BS!!

@elizabethlode9822 Жыл бұрын

Is it too late.... well. If ya gotta ask, it probably is.

@fredpotgieter7329 2 жыл бұрын

Why doesn't California build desalination plants.

@lo2740 2 жыл бұрын

my god, do you have any idea of what you are talking about? desalination is total heresy in term of ressources usage. Desalination plant in CA is as wise as indoor skiing in dubai.

@olanlevan8470 2 жыл бұрын

Aa an essential basic human right water should absolutely be free. But if you live in the desert and water the hanging garden of Babylon that's in your backyard or maybe the front,. then that is a luxury and you should pay. However if you grow your own food that is not considered a luxury.

@themallard1515 Жыл бұрын

Another question I have with the California situation is how do they know that the farmers are sticking to their quota? Are they going to have water police driving around and monitoring wells? Who owns and controls the wells and the infrastructure to operate them? This creates a whole new question of trust. We have to have some enforcement in order for this to work otherwise it really has no merit. You’re working off the trust of people. And we know that that’s not possible

@davidpethick83 Жыл бұрын

That's why we can't let the "market" cant trust the market!

@sidharthcs2110 2 жыл бұрын

Short answer : No

@davegibiko8533 2 жыл бұрын

NESTLE WILL DOMINATE AnD BE VICTORIOUS!

@pamhancock7891 2 жыл бұрын

Your Dublin Chippewa connection sinks your investors of water and electricity right into the pits of real hell on earth. TARGETS!

@timecrook1003 2 жыл бұрын

WallSt vanished in the L.E.O/DLT after the 99% banged on their doors. Not good seeing water-futures in WallSt's grip. Yikes!!

@pamhancock7891 2 жыл бұрын

You can not hunt a hunter, but, I can hunt your investors. YOUR TRUTHS NOW COME FORWARD!!!!!! A.I. LOVES WATCHING YOUR BIG CONGLOMERATE INVESTORS! A.I. GATHERS TRUTHS WITH EASE. A.I. CAN PUT THOSE INFORMATION PUZZLES TOGETHER IN JUST MOMENTS. YOU ARE FINISHED!!!!!!!

@eiliannoyes5212 2 жыл бұрын

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@themallard1515 Жыл бұрын

The question is though how can you trade a commodity in which you’re not trading a physical commodity? For example if you trade corn or corn futures you in some cases may hold that physical product. If you’re only hedging against or betting against water but you don’t hold that physical product under any control you technically have no right to it. The bigger question is how do you enforce it? If you own a certain amount of water but don’t actually physically hold onto that product how can you enforce somebody else not to take it? You can’t.

@needmoreramsay 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, water arrived on earth from space. Nevermind the possibility or acknowledgement of it being a creation of a divine power. It came about from a bunch of NOTHING, exploding in the universe and turning into something. Brilliant

@AK-hk3hs 2 жыл бұрын

A divine power ?

@arnowisp6244 2 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@matejperko7696 2 жыл бұрын

Is discusting

@hotstepa2792 2 жыл бұрын

water air and fire is not in your control ha ha ha batty holes

@themallard1515 Жыл бұрын

Just because it’s life does not mean it can’t be priced. There’s your problem right there, there’s your entire thought process that drives this greed filled economy that we have and live with today. That is the thought processes that need to stop

@g.t.g1111 2 жыл бұрын

Here's the one and only solution... If my people who are called by my name should humble themselves, pray and seek my face; turn from their wicked ways; Than will I The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, hear from Heaven, and will heal their land. Go to the Source... Return Back To THE TRUE And LIVING GOD.

@lo2740 2 жыл бұрын

poor sick bigot, get some help

@troyball6623 2 жыл бұрын

Wait untill the water runs out, you don't own the water God does. The devil will reign for 1000 years.

@chuckeynewkirk199 2 жыл бұрын

Water the number one selling beverage in the world!