WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

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11.5 A Century of Industry – A Century of Water Pollution__206 11.6 Radioactive Waste – The Asse II Salt Mine__207 11.7 Nuclear Weapons – Radioactive Contamination in “Times of Peace”__210 11.8 Depleted Uranium Munitions – Contamination via Radiotoxic Respirable Dust__211 11.9 Bunker-Buster “Mini-Nukes” – Particulate Matter Is Released on Impact__213 11.10 Megaprojects and the Aftermath of Accidents__215 12 <strong>WATER</strong> MANAGEMENT IN URBAN AREAS__219 12.1 Problems and the Search for Possible Solutions__220 12.2 Contradicting the Most Common Arguments of Those in Favour of Privatisation__223 12.3 Some Other Objections to Water Privatisation at Communal Level__226 13 WHAT ACTION CAN WE TAKE – AS LOCAL AUTHORITIES, INITIATIVES AND INDIVIDUALS__229 13.1 Spreading Information__229 13.2 Withdrawal from Existing Contracts and the Remunicipalisation of Services__229 13.3 Cross Border Leasing (CBL)__231 13.4 Legal Options__231 13.5 The Participatory Budget – A Prime Example of Direct Democracy__233 13.6 Foreign Aid Programmes – Who Are the Real Beneficiaries__234 13.7 Which Legal Form Would Be Best-Suited to Water Supplies__235 13.8 Changing Suppliers and Boycotting Certain Products__236 13.9 Alternative Methods of Supplying and Distributing Water__238 13.10 Who Has the Power of Control over Water Supplies__239 10
14 USEFUL WEBLINKS WITH COMMENTS__241 14.1 Critical NGOs and Networks__241 14.2 Critical and Alternative News Coverage__254 14.3 Alternative Concepts and Possible Solutions__257 14.4 Democracy, Plebiscite and Referenda__259 14.5 Useful Websites in German__261 15 GREEDY CORPORATIONS AND NEOLIBERAL INSTITUTIONS__265 15.1 Some of the Titans Actively Engaged on the Water Battlefield__265 15.2 Water-Bottling Giants__278 15.3 Neoliberal Institutions with a Privatisation Agenda__280 16 SOURCES__291 16.1 Films Relating to Water and Globalisation__291 16.2 Literary References__298 17 FREQUENTLY-USED ABBREVIATIONS (with explanatory comments)__311 17.1 UN Organisations, Programmes, Funds, Agencies and Offices__335 18 NOTES__341 19 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS__349 20 ABOUT THE AUTHOR__351 11
Page 1 and 2: J E N S L O E W E WATER ABLAZE THE
Page 3 and 4: WATER ABLAZE © 2010 Jens Loewe Wit
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS 1 FOREWORD__13 2 THE FINAN
Page 7: 9 THE NEOLIBERAL CONSPIRACY -THE RO
Page 11 and 12: With this in mind, I have made a de
Page 13 and 14: There are numerous examples to prov
Page 15 and 16: solely from its trade in derivative
Page 17 and 18: THE STRUGGLE FOR WATER 3 We citizen
Page 19 and 20: y Alexander the Great whilst cleani
Page 21 and 22: several hundred metres, because loc
Page 23 and 24: aim is to spread. Genetically-engin
Page 25 and 26: well aware of this fact, of course,
Page 27 and 28: 3.5 The Climate Change - Pretext fo
Page 29 and 30: main building and some of them were
Page 31 and 32: take into account those positive re
Page 33 and 34: 4.2 The Philippines - Manila and th
Page 35 and 36: “Reconstruction Programme”, an
Page 37 and 38: to halt the construction of the can
Page 39 and 40: transparency and public participati
Page 41 and 42: and irrigated for sugar cane planta
Page 43 and 44: At the present moment in time, i.e.
Page 45 and 46: Excavators dig out a new river bed
Page 47 and 48: Protests in Sobradinho in December
Page 49 and 50: The sociocultural damage which the
Page 51 and 52: ut also on the country’s cultural
Page 53 and 54: organisations to its cause, so that
Page 55 and 56: the architect of the scheme, Voith-
Page 57 and 58: 4.8 Indonesia - Water Suppliers Dan
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not been delivered. In practice, ho
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ased on water rights the company ac
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their position - between the IMF, t
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WARS FOR WATER IN BOLIVIA 5 Evo Mor
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companies. Chile used the revenues
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the contract with Suez/Aguas del Il
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The institutions named here seem to
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country”. In reality, it has devi
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The GTZ, in consultation with the D
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5.3 From the Struggle for Water to
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just who is in greater need of deve
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who oppose President Evo Morales’
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philosophy that forms the foundatio
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A CITY’S MAD PRIVATISATION SPREE
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today - that Stuttgart’s water su
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6.2 The Strategy of Insidious Priva
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2004, these deals were finally decl
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thus became the 100 per-cent owner
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1.) Water belongs to the public. -
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liberalised because different suppl
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there can be no real democracy - is
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In October 2004, the Water Forum br
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Turning these into private monopoli
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not need to be reintroduced but the
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“Bread for the World” and other
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CROSS BORDER LEASING - FICTITIOUS D
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of the transaction volume and the b
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and 2003 - in other words, to almos
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A protective human chain encircles
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(not to mention a national bankrupt
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to build a bridge in the grounds of
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arrangement, these corporations, wh
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partner offered to rescind the cont
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• When CBL deals are in the proce
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HOW POLITICS, THE BUSINESS WORLD AN
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with one another. Under the motto
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eal beneficiaries of this “develo
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manner, as a great number of exampl
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who, as early as 1903, developed th
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epresents the Federal Republic of G
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e successfully continued - which is
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who have the necessary instruments
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these interests continue to assert
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organisations,48 all of which have
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in January 1995 (see page 156). At
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9.7 The GATS Agreement The General
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poses a minimum of restriction and
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existence today, WIPO has dwindled
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modified canola, which is why Monsa
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the then French Foreign Minister, R
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This document of ratification will
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- which has meanwhile lost its “s
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sents the interests of the business
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associations which play no role at
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and international level and in the
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unspectacular title Public-Private
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even further into the financial aby
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get into the sewage disposal market
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1996 onwards, which resulted in the
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means. Matters concerning the gener
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that it would not have to pay back
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same goals and striving to heighten
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electricity and gas supplies as wel
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the hammer and the community of Wan
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comes to around €50,000, money wh
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10.11 The Anti-Privatisation Networ
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The industrial nations continue to
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EWG set the limiting value at 50mg
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The production of fertilisers is in
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are also poisoning our drinking wat
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11.5 A Century of Industry - A Cent
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Brunswick against the Minister for
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11.7 Nuclear Weapons - Radioactive
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uranium enrichment, manufacturing t
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to its destination. Every single on
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Worldwide, there are 40,000 huge da
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are released, a greenhouse effect i
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12.1 Problems and the Search for Po
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lines. His high-tech “separation
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The council has no choice but to se
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the resultant financial damage - e.
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water in order to increase the sale
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In the Netherlands, a water act was
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As far as the pollution and contami
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13.6 Foreign Aid Programmes - Who A
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set in such a way as to relieve peo
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13.9 Alternative Methods of Supplyi
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USEFUL WEBLINKS WITH COMMENTS 14 14
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Center for Corporate Policy Non-pro
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sustainable manner and public, rath
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Inside the Bottle Project initiated
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Peoples Health Movement w w w . p h
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Shiva, Vandana Physicist, environme
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Water Privatization (Wikipedia) w w
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The Ecologist UK-based monthly maga
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Undercurrents Alternative news and
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decentralised water treatment, usua
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14.5 Useful Websites in German Arbe
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Stuttgarter Wasserforum is a citize
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evenue amounting to US$31∙4 billi
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which has aquired a number of water
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was charged with bribery and fined
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and gas to more than 30 million cus
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Suez Environnement Suez Environneme
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the firm announced a 31% rise in pr
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15.2 Water-Bottling Giants Coca Col
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PepsiCo Company PepsiCo Incorporate
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BusinessEurope After the ERT, this
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ERT European Round Table of Industr
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International Financial Services, L
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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) One of
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WWC World Water Council Think tank
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H2O up for Sale - The Privatisation
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The Never Never Water By Alessandra
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fashionable panacea is privatisatio
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The series tells the dramatic story
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Cohen, Saul The Geopolitics of Isra
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Hinz-Karadeniz, Heidi und Rainer St
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Lenglet, Roger and Jean-Luc Touly L
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Pearce, Fred WATER - The Defining C
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Roy, Arundhati The Shape of the Bea
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von Arnim, Hans Herbert Das Europa-
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ANA Agência Nacional de Águas Bra
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BT Bacterium Thuringiensis Bacteriu
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the votes cast and establishes that
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ECB European Central Bank One of th
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EU Constitution Treaty establishing
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GMO Genetically-Modified Organism (
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IHK Industrie- und Handelskammer (G
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MSR Multistakeholder Review Study i
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covering the area to the east of th
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y the Bolivian government in the co
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SWAMP Sustainable Water Area Manage
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WSF World Social Forum Drafted as a
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UN-INSTRAW United Nations Internati
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Criminal Courts ICJ International C
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NOTES 18 1. UN prognosis of 2008; s
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23. Recommendations for resolutions
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in 2002 contains around 2,600 pages
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61. The lawyer John Roberts, presid
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 19 The list of peo
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR 20 Jens Loewe live
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