Blue Gold: World Water Wars

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I watched this last night and it gave me a major panic attack. A movie hasn't effected me that intensely in awhile, so I would suggest checking it out if you're interested in the subject matter and giving your opinion. Likewise if you've already read the book or seen the movie. Or just give your thoughts about the privatization of water in general.

Personally, I don't believe that water is a commodity and the fact that it's exploited the way it is makes me absolutely sick. I live in a desert city that depends on an unsustainable, unnatural water source so the idea of a diminishing water supply is particularly scary.

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Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive?

The full movie:
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Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TpZizaal4M) Part 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggur6nIELrE) Part 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIW4_r3LBxw) Part 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CxwKNUlNss) Part 6 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFYXogrxy78)

[The Ripper]

Hurray, we're rich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Lakeland)!

Seriously speaking, the documentary sounds interesting and I'll watch it. :)

[Eldritch]

Hurray, we're rich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Lakeland)!


Which is why our politicians are so eager to privatize the water and sell it off to foreign investors for a pittance.

[The Lawspeaker]

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Blue Gold World Water Wars

Similar dilms at http://fulldocumentary.com - In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

[Albion]

There's been a mini-water war between Wales and England really.

The English Midlands holds a large population whilst the largely deserted Welsh hills hold a large amount of water.

Now in international relations the water rights would largely go to England since many rivers which form in Wales flow largely through England which has a right to use the water.
Where it becomes a little negative is when English waterboards are given authority over the water catchment areas in parts of Wales and start building dams.

The Welsh are a bit pissed about Trywern, but it is a load of bullshit really. A Welsh-speaking village was flooded to make way for a damn. Now if this damn was for water to Welsh households it would have been fine, but because it was going to Liverpool the Welsh took offence.

If Wales ever went independent (unlikely), England would probably try to negotiate deals for the water.

The problem is that whilst England has got plenty of water, it is in the wrong places.
The water occurs in the wet NW and SW more than anywhere else and the population lies in the drier West Midlands and South East, with the most important farmland in East Anglia.

Many people have proposed using the old canals to move water from the wet areas to the drier areas but as of yet it hasn't been implemented.
Many years the South East faces the risk of drought as does East Anglia. If this keeps happening I think the water network will be constructed. It won't be too hard to get the canals to do this since they cover most of the country.

East Anglia is England's and the UK's breadbasket, the South East and Midlands are it's house and place of work.

Cumbrian, Pennine and Devon water could easily fill the void left if Wales decided not to be the convenient well for the Midlands.