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years since 1985 has failed to reach the ocean. 5 The once mighty Nile,<br />

Ganges and Colorado Rivers barely reach the sea in dry seasons. 6 The<br />

introduction of industrial agriculture into India and Northern China<br />

has in those areas led to dangerous lowering of the water table.<br />

The construction of large dams, whether for hydroelectric power<br />

or for irrigation does incalculable environmental damage, as well as<br />

annihilating viable human communities. Dams destroy ecosystems<br />

and sever the balancing of energy from one part of the landscape to<br />

another. Since 1970, when Egypt's Aswan High Dam came into operation,<br />

the number of commercially harvested fish species in the Nile<br />

dropped by two-thirds, and the Mediterranean sardine catch has<br />

fallen by 80%. 7<br />

Water for profit<br />

Traditional societies know how to manage their water, but increasingly<br />

the supplies of rural communities are being privatized by<br />

companies whose major priority is profit. In April 2000 the protesting<br />

citizens of Cochabamba in Bolivia suffered over 180 casualties<br />

at the hands of their police before their government revoked the<br />

right of International Waters of London to impose a 35% increase<br />

in water prices. The Bolivian government has now reconsidered its<br />

policy to privatize all public water supplies.<br />

Vast new networks of supply and disposal pipes must be built in<br />

the cities if basic water needs are to be met. Governments, unwilling<br />

these days to invest in social infrastructure, are privatizing<br />

water utilities, and the results seldom benefit the consumer. A shortage<br />

in any essential commodity brings out the profiteers and extortionists.<br />

Pro-privatization propaganda reached a climax at the<br />

Water Forum meetings in The Hague in March 2000, but the abuses<br />

and inadequacies of commercial control have become apparent.<br />

One study has shown that Swedish municipal water authorities<br />

delivered water at around a third of the cost, had operating costs of<br />

about half, and produced nearly three times higher return on capital<br />

than English private water companies of similar size. 8 However,<br />

since the economic downturn of 2001, several English private water<br />

companies have been experiencing financial difficulties. It makes<br />

complete nonsense that essential water supplies should be subject<br />

to the ups and down of the financial markets.<br />

A great danger to our water comes from the globalization of sup-<br />

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