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breaks up a conflict between pakistan and india this has implications for the rest of the world we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. hello nor in tailoring on the top stories on our 0 china has detected its 1st imported case of a new coronavirus variant that's spreading rapidly in the u.k. the chinese government insists it's brought the outbreak under control and has also proved its 1st homegrown vaccine for general use but in the world's 1st coronavirus epicenter many who lost their loved ones are still angry at all thora cheese the train here reports from. 12 months ago tongue high spot they checked into one hospital to receive treatment for a broken leg while he was there the 76 year old caught a fever and died he was one of the 1st victims of the mysterious disease which
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would later be named curve in $1000.00. before my father died he said song we are i don't want to die can you ask the doctors to say from a those were his last words junk is now suing the chinese government he says local officials withheld information about the corridor virus outbreak allowing it to spread. of course what words are merely a mistake it was a crime murder none of their relatives died only the ordinary people died why because they knew how bad the virus was they protected themselves but they were supposed to care for all their citizens. as the new morning alike disease took hold a crosswind in january a mass banquet celebrating chinese new year went ahead regardless just over a year ago one on one with
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a place locals to buy fresh seafood and meat today it's shut down completely then stopped and believed by many to be the starting point of the pandemic it's we asked the world and in that millions of people. china has not suffered as badly as other countries since the outbreak according to official figures about 90000 people have been infected and 5000 have died for almost 3 months millions of people would put a district locked out and able to leave their apartments. joe was one of them but the business owner says life has now returned to normal. with and with the over the barrier that the chinese government did the right thing they saved us there was no other way look at what's happening in western countries now it's scary it's a fear. a world health organization team will arrive in hot next month to investigate the origin of the outbreak beijing was reportedly initially reluctant
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to provide access when it comes to the coronavirus china's leaders appear to be doing all they can to control the narrative. this week citizen journalist judge john was sentenced to 4 years in jail for putting a long hard lockdown on charged with picking quarrels and provoking trouble. young high is still mourning the death of his father he says he's been intimidated by local authorities and called a traitor to his complaints against the government. or somewhere you grew warrior who are will never shut up even if i'm the only one left shouting chinese people say truth is always in the hands of the few if i don't speak up and hold those rebels bork over the ball. one year on he would be silenced and will never forget katrina you al-jazeera won the u.k. is reported $964.00 deaths and nearly $56000.00 cases in the last 24 hours surging
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infections in england are forcing authorities to reactivate emergency hospitals that were set up when the pandemic began most nightingale hospitals have been largely unused but officials say they're now being prepared to admit patients if other medical centers reach capacity south africa has announced a wreck or daily increase of nearly $18000.00 cases another coronavirus variant just thought to be behind the surge which is killing an average of $500.00 people over it every day south africa is part of a un scheme is helping poor countries receive vaccines a senior health ministry official says the country will find out when it will get its 1st doses within the next few days those are the headlines next stop the exploitation of earth's most valuable resource lords of water is next hour more news for you after.
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but you don't it is a perfect pre-show something to take you secret closer soon also to implement fossil much wrong that the minute you hook up to the accounts do what you did on my little press if rising northwards across the u.k. under 39 degrees breaking the july record well you have. got a lot given that i think rather many of you would rather got involved with someone to kill us for good gold top dog to give it. a big ego to tell you. don't smoke some of the good we should do to me don't i don't have specific terms to measure. some of 2019 in europe illustrated the urgency of the climate crisis which claimed its 1st victim. water. the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down i mean it is dark it's stark.
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i mean do you mean when i'm granting. immunity young money does you know more news when it rains down from this nearly. as a matter of fact in my wrist to farmers are losing their homes destroyed while mothers from i do want to live in the long run bring you. today 70 percent of the earth's pure water that is used to human consumption. it has become the most coveted resource on the planet we. live. in louis. doing in a think that because water to die and see how you go. you won't be wearing any clothes you won't be using a mobile phone you might be driving in
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a car might be living in a house you might be having breakfast might be having lunch be having dinner. water is in everything that we do you continue to lose money. to save humanity wall street wants to start a revolution. make water profitable and create water markets just like oil markets . water falls from the sky therefore should be free whenever i hear that i always say diamonds are current nature and they're not free. it's a financial product like any other financial product montes change your view of the way around i want to my late father $495.00 i believe i'm on that good just the beginning of to some water financial revolution. what about the guy that
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can't afford it that guy still needs water. the blue gold rush has begun. anyone stopped. the human right to water means that it's not a charity it's an issue of justice. this is the issue of our time this is the crisis of our time with financial pressure of human mobilisation rising the battle over water has already begun who will come out on top the planet the people on the markets. if you thought the hot weather was bad this weekend just wait until tomorrow the 5th day of our heat wave is expected to be incredibly uncomfortable and potentially dangerous as the cumulative very. today it's moving in from the midwest where they've been dealing with this well 3 feet and now it's moving here to the east coast secret stick around for several days becoming. make you want to
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have a commodity listed on the stock exchange. bet on its price and if will street replicates the australian model. money and your money and ever since the sub prime crisis causing economic ruin for countries and individuals the financial giants have been looking for new areas to invest in. june 20th. the investment bank goldman sachs starts to one. is water the new oil. the from invites his talk lines to take a bet on the future. goldman sachs the conference that was me i used to work at goldman sachs and in 2008 that
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was a conference that i held there's this absolute intuitive the peel that says population growth is outstripping the water supply that must mean companies are engaged in the water business are a sure thing that there can't mess they get mesmerized by these mega trend appeals and water. is water the next oil we set it up as a question and then mostly dismissed it. water does not have sophisticated trading market and has no substitutes. the question is not going to go away we're just probably not ready for it yet. goldman sachs and its investors must wait. public opinion is not ready yet.
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it's not until 2015 and the international climate change conference in paris that the will lead is finally declare a state of emergency. we act here if we act now. of replace our own short term interest behind. the air that our young people will bring even the food that they will eat no water that they will drink. in the hopes and dreams that sustain their lives then we won't be too late for them. in the developed world for the last 100 years. we haven't had to think about our water or worry about our water it's been essential unlimited wherever we want it whenever we want it it's been really inexpensive no one thinks about their water bill they don't say oh take a shorter shower the water's too expensive i think that era is over.
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climate change is going to have a huge impact on water availability around the world the same amount of water is going to be available in the big picture but we don't live in the big picture we live in a specific place we raise our food in a specific place and so the movement of that water will have a dramatic impact on how cities manage their water and how we are able to grow food to feed or. the climate that much unseen demands radical change wall street brim box on its mission. citi group one of the largest u.s. banks publishes a report announcing the end of free water. if you're wasting water on
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a gigantic scale in certain regions like california southern spain we are seeing scarcity of water sent to extreme degrees i mean we have had thankless silver's water. sailing to barcelona. there is no alternative to pricing water properly and making people realize that every time they take a sip of water there is an opportunity cost and they feel it in their wallet how else are you going to get people to use less if you give it to them for free. the dam has broken. the soft sounds of liberalism roll out to celebrate the union of finance and on time. they're going to see asset markets
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selling want to deliver to us even the high frequency traders that funds would become interested so no everybody sees this as opportunity did will come your question is just when and who will push it 1st and hardest. what would be their motivation in coming. profits while also you know it indirectly doing good for humanity so it's the best of all possible worlds it could be better it's very our morrow to tread water but i would be immoral to trade water because what is life he pay for health care. just because it's life doesn't mean it's cannot be priced.
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the last stage in the financial is a sign of 4 times. the long term a stock market index to bet on want to prices by nasdaq a stock exchange specializing in technology. this is the 1st time that water has been reduced to an. the man who came up with the equation works in central london. as a former trader in a swiss bank he launched the carbon markets industrialist trade rights to pollute
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in the form of credits. before he discovered water. water used to be free in the old but the world is changing is too much stress on the system and the most important commodity on earth can't be free forever if you wanted to put it into the creed scenario. if you don't control it and use it properly what will directly happen is those at the cash will have it and those are not the cash went to. lands coogan is the sort of man who looks to the future. in order to attract investors he's joined forces with the top water expert in the united states i want to drive around in your dad's just pull around to the side and last person hail.
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scoot way back up there. look like they're great. a cowboy living in idaho and the western united states. the only man who knows the secrets of a market that was until now reserved for experts and insiders. claim landry runs a company that has recorded every water transaction since the year 2000. when i got the call it was unusual it was a little outside of our you know our normal focus i was intellectually curious you know from our standpoint it was relatively easy because we had the data. ok we're going to go here on their dinner now. because they like lots of food just like you. it isn't a reliable index to be clear where you're not buying water you're buying the price
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of water so if you're not taking physical delivery of the water so it's a little bit on the future is a bit you know it is a bet we're just betting whether the price is going to be high or low 6 months from now so. this is. right is it a speculation i think we all are managing on what we think the future is going to look like. what is your 3 nobody watery we're all happy that's going back into the dark ages i was in the call market 2006 to 2012. people are talking about what is known since a cheater now it's in the front page of the news. if
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what people are saying is coming you better be on top of your water situation we're going to be without water and what i'm doing is getting people to focus through financial instruments to see what is actually going on on the ground it changes the world. the world of water. as in australia both partners have gained the support of powerful local environmental organizations 10 years after the financial crisis the finance years seem to be winning the environmentalists over.
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there see more nonprofit organizations forming to participate in that market and begin looking at ways to acquire water in areas where it's needed for stream flow either for fishery benefit water quality benefit or some other type of of habitat protection. environmental water trades make up about a quarter of the market. is it too late to stop a financial take of a bit on water. weight is letting up in the midwest and northeast temperatures are rising to dangerous levels in the west
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except that he watches and warnings are posted tonight in parts of california at the same time nearly 40 large wildfires are burning across the west they are burning telephony and has built up its wells through water. here the reserves are in the north whilst the cities and farms are in the south. in order to domesticate this resource ringback a huge can i. 7 transporting billions of gallons of water. climbing over the mountain irrigating the fertile valleys before supplying the people of los angeles . the california aqueduct is the essential artery that ensures the life and prosperity of 40000000 people. but climate change threatens the californian dream.
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california doesn't charge farmers for water if they drill a well and pump out of the ground they can pump as much as they want whenever they want not only is there no charge no one even keeps track of how much water they use and during the last drought which was just a year and a half ago some of the farmers in the central valley of california were pumping so hard that the ground was falling the ground was collapsing by an inch a month. that's a lawyer not so much water we're right down there so today i'm declaring a drought emergency in the state of california. record droughts and disastrous wildfires to california has been catapulted into the world of extreme weather phenomena. these humpbacks.
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these honesty sneak. in the middle of the last drought california passed a really important law that's going to change water use in the state forever it may change work it's grown in california is. may change who succeeds and who fails. under pressure from environmentalist's the government is forced to vote in the new law called the sigma which limits underground water extraction. from known california and foam is and cities will be entitled to a specific water quota based on their consumption. a revolution in the land of the free. sigma or the sustainable groundwater management act initially i think was viewed
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with fear and trepidation i think people recognize that it was a necessary piece of legislation just like balancing your checkbook for your home you can't live by writing checks for more money than you have and so i think collectively the value is endorsed it and supports the idea of sustainability. in bakersfield or the local water agency has decided to create a stock exchange to allow farmers to buy and sell their quotas. 10 years off to australia california is coming around to the concept of water mockeries maybe you're july and you say wow based on this projection i'm going to have a supply surplus you may decide you know i'm going to manage that i'm going to go into the market make that available and maybe generate some additional economic value so if it falls through afterwards we hit confirm and it falls through they didn't pay or they didn't you know doesn't work out how do we let you know again that i want take my water back you know maybe you can you know i that once you hit
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confirm this far as the district is concerned the transaction is complete and there's there's going to be some growing pains and certainly it's not going to be perfect every time but we're trying to structure something that seems straightforward. some of the people the wheels were beginning to turn and they were thinking you know can i turn this to my advantage is there a way for me to generate additional value and i think that just the word market invokes in people a sense of is there an opportunity can i somehow be advantaged by participating and that's by far the most common reaction that i have when people hear that you know we're creating a market for water i think they view it as an opportunity contract with the right project not a platform provider i don't have skin in the game in terms of your bottom line here again environmentalist are at the forefront encouraging the establishment of these markets you know we're here because we we see is an important tool for flexibility
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as folks are dealing with more and more scarcity under sigma and in you know climate change in general so we've been talking to air for some time since this is ground 0 for ground water over draft it would be great to actually experiment with how water training could benefit this region you know the here is definitely ground 0 but there's groups in sonoma there's groups in eastern. fox canyon. and oh sorry maybe you could see a valve and they were where you're going to yeah ok i thought you were i mean and i'm very surprised of the crew environments are approved markets i was to initially i think you know after we had a chance to talk and understand what their interest were recognized that we were very much aligned these transactions have to be evaluated not just from a financial standpoint but we also have to take into account environmental impacts water quality issues all of the things that they're concerned about and so it's good to have their input in their vision and so that if that answers your 1st
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question i mean we don't know we're right now we're just kind of trying to project into the future would you have imagined that situation before no this is i think taken many of us by surprise 45 years ago. this would not have been possible why supply has been constrained. by definition of sustainability and so the market i think is necessary. well california become the new australian. wool intensive agriculture monopolize this resource. will small farmers disappear sacrificed in the name of water profitability wall street's new creek.
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words from that save berlin or paris or london man in cairo on al-jazeera. is only a change because. people believe in a post that is because they're. trying to make a political muscle you know your arms they represented they put themselves out to make the changes something that we. should have taken this. has got to learn we have a discotheque to slosh or to create new areas we have to change this culture i am one of the fortunate ones and need an establishment outside but all the people and that majority of these illegal of us are talking about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to me and mark.
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hello naren taylor none of the top stories on our sara china has detected its 1st imported case of a new coronavirus variant in a 23 year old woman who returned from the u.k. the country is also authorized its 1st home grown covered 1000 vaccine for general use a santa found vaccine has already been given to health care professionals and essential workers under emergency guidelines china's government says the doses are around 79 percent effective. 425000 deaths have been recorded in the u.s. state of california hospitals or housing patients in hallways conference rooms
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a cafeteria and gift shops fewer than 3000000 people across the u.s. have been vaccinated before in far short of the government's target of inoculating 20000000 by now america's top infectious diseases expert has told he's concerned about a pushback against science in the country my concern is that there is a lingering into the science feeling in this country that is sort of mixed in with the manty back scene feeling that we've got to overcome by being transparent about what we've done and what we want to do with science south africa has announced a wreck or daily increase of nearly $18000.00 cases a new coronavirus variant is thought to be behind the surge which is killing an average of $500.00 people every day south africa as part of a u.n. skin that's helping poor countries receive vaccines a senior health ministry official says the country will find out when it will get its 1st doses within the next few days. the u.k.
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has reported 964 deaths and nearly 56000 cases in the last 24 hours surging infections in england are forcing authorities to reactivate emergency hospitals it was set up when the pandemic began most nightingale hospitals have been largely unused but officials say they are now being prepared to admit patients if other medical centers reach capacity. the u.k. will finally leave the single market and customs union in around 2 and a half hours more than 4 years after the country voted to leave the european union both sides have signed a last minute breaks at trade deal after several rounds of intense negotiations. as they head on straight stay with us lords of water continues next hour back to the news hour shortly after that. if you look at the history of morphine if you look at the history oh and if you look at the history of cocaine being
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we don't have water we don't have an economy and we we don't have anything you have the growers you have the packers you have the shippers you have the manufacturers but it's all based on what comes up out of the ground and you need water for that. historically the central valley has been the fortress that supplies the whole country the fruits and vegetables considered of national security it ensures food independence for the united states. but over the past decade the crops have changed. solid leaves have disappeared and the valley has become an almond producing machine. as in australia. financialization of water is transforming landscapes and encouraging moment culture.
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i can remember because i grew up in the valley you know driving up and down and all over the place that you had much smaller plots of land and farms and a lot more alfalfa and cotton especially cotton and now you have you know just as far as the eye can see in some areas on the trees. as the price of water increases and it becomes more valuable than the land and more valuable than the production of the land. well you have a commodity it's valuable somewhere if you can't use it on the land what else might you be able to do with that. farm it to sell. so you know where water is a new crop yes 100 years what is probably the most valuable crop in the central
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valley right now it's more valuable than oil. so what if blue gold were to replace black oh. john or that of each is what's known as a watered down a reference to the 1000000000 as of yesterday to control deal it's. i knew were l.a.
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was i knew where san francisco was this central valley is something that was foreign to me and after i bought the land was about 4000 acres i bought it bought 84270000 dollars and had today's value had $12000000.00 with the water rights and today's value maybe more and. a lot of people feel that john bit of it is not a farmer that he is a water farmer that he buys these lands and gets him self involved in the stuff in order to get control of the groundwater. my strategy has always been that it's not so much the land but it's the water and maybe i was a little bit early maybe i wasn't how much have you invested in the all these infrastructures i will say in the hundreds of millions so. that's that's what i have invested hundreds of millions of dollars yes or
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does it worth it yes. absolutely and the. john bit of beach is not afraid of soaring water prices nor the arrival street investors near him the danger lies elsewhere the. city's will always get the politics are there the money is there they can increase the cost of water so that the farmers can pay for.
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they're going to steal it by making it so expensive that the farmer. is that their mercy. that the fear is it's all going to go to l.a. because l.a. has all the money that's that's the fear remember m w d the metropolitan water district which is the big gorilla down south they have millions of customers where you could spread the cost out and it's not going to affect the individual customer. letter is money. it's power and it's money and it's becoming more and more and more valuable almost daily. in the land of free enterprise good competition is fair. city against countryside the colleges it's against farmers. some people are already
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preparing to become water bankers welcoming those who wish to stop their reserves for using all reselling them according to market prices. so much drop as we set up as a sponge to be able to capture as much water available when it's here and then we have the luxury when the surface water is not available we can fall back upon the stored water in the ground water basin. semi-tropical owns these canals we paid for the canals and maintained the canals we built the canals so if another lad the land owner was to actually have access to my canal them move water supply they acquired we're going to pay for. as a seller if it's more interesting to sell water to to cease than to farmers your body
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at a higher ability to sell water to cities. but they need where the city is getting their food supply the import of the super food supply from outside the state outside the country or they want to have a local food supply. there while calving the natural stream system your home where is where is the value is it fish is a farms as a people. that there really at the in the day is the hard issue for us to decide about where is the best use for water supply and berries based upon where you are. trying to the century economy centered around the oil trade or. nowadays water looks set to shape the 21st century. we have seen financial investors and others come in and look at ways to you know
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take advantage of that their goal is to get in before the market elevates the price of water and in some cases i've heard that they've done it. and how do you look at that. you know there are some that feel that that's kind of exploiting the system but you know there's nothing that we can do to prevent it but may not like it but that's just that's the way our system that's what capitalism is set up to accommodate as you meant them personally. no. does it make sense should we be trading water and i think we're past that question we we are treating water in this country and our people are moving to the west. may need water. good just at the beginning of this war to river lucian and water financial revolution.
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you can't let the market be the only decider of how water's allocated price can't be the only way you distribute water because then you have rich people with big swimming pools and poor people who are dead. down they get. to her yet far back that's. just the one that doesn't stop the morning starts and that the love that it's that funny and the genocidal sense that the stuff that the global water rush is accelerating. privatization competition profit. key words of the liberal.
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faced with this right one woman standing up. the canadian human rights activist. she has already won her 1st victory at the united nations in 2010 when the general assembly voted in favor of a resolution that recognized access to water as a universal right. it must be declared a public resource that belongs equally i was in the united nations up in the balcony the day that they voted and i thought we were going to lose i had staff with me they were trying we don't worry we're going to be back in 2 years or 5 years don't matter how long it takes we're going to be back and we'll do it and when they vote they vote they sit in their chairs and they vote alectryon ecclesia you know right away so boom 122 countries voted in favor and 41 but they abstained they didn't have the nerve to oppose even though they actually wanted to oppose.
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among the nations that are staying that they were australia united states and great britain countries that have all chosen to turn water into a financial product. the human family took an evolutionary step forward at that point and since then every country has ratified it in one way or another it's it's now universal so you've got it now you've got it now. may have won the battle but she hasn't yet won the war in stockholm and december 28th the activist was invited by the nobel committee to continue her fight at a conference about the future. so we thought we'd focus on activism from the start of. the comfort of the.
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united nations calls water scarcity the scour of the earth. to truly guarantee the human right to water we must protect it as a public trust and a commons not a commodity to be put on the open market for sale like oil and gas i must challenge the current power structures and institutions that support an equal access to the planet's dwindling water supply. our goal must be clean affordable accessible public water for all for everywhere for all time. is it the end of cheap or free water well the corporations and citi group and others want it to be the end of free and cheap water that's their argument they're saying oh yes it's a human right because they can't fight that anymore because everybody says you're
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awful person if you if you deny it so oh yes it's a human right but the end of free and cheap water when they say it's got to be a commodity it's because they know that the scarcer it becomes in a world where you desperately need water there's there's gold it's cool it's blue gold. stucco. appears as the grain of sand capable of bringing the water market machinery to a halt. there are an awful lot of people in elite circles and let's face it the nobels pretty elite that believe that the best thing to do for what the water crisis is commodified put it on the open market like oil and gas and see what seaward goes from there right so i think for me it represented a breakthrough in our in getting our message out that we have to see water as a human right as a public trust and something that belongs to everyone that's our goal it's
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a big goal and not one everyone shares i have to tell you thank you so much for coming really early it was wonderful the activists now. and sometimes it'll be hard because sometimes you'll find nobody else it's like why me why don't why don't other people care and it's just the way it is and you guys do i know your beer a little. rueful strength. during the fight against the financialization of water is fueled by the refusal to accept any sum to privatizing and in the streets of dublin room lin and paris citizens all spearheading the resistance. to hold you to step down and to believe looks awful but. i'm not sure it's see the
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real and if you see the film the sort of ability to get in the french capital politicians have also taken up the fight in 29 the city council ousted veolia and suez the 2 giants who. the water market and created its own water management company. on that will. be the raw meat best song makers are the best best sun the boss section airs. thursday. follow we're going to tell you on a pet get on the subway still as i say financial effect could. force. you course it was a young. but you really can lose it pretty losing to prove it in losing the other be the tickle them.
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have all you have a comment on want to lose you can just get. to prison for stealing the fuel so far more. of them. law and called woman ideal the law. made it all weapons out police. for chris want to film one of the holes like the. economy coming out. will he stick it. in almost all in movies. like others also.
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yes i'm a otoh there will be. how long will the european fortress be able to withstand the financial market pressure. in 2012 a petition called right to water i'm asked nearly 2000000 signatures a 1st for your. protesters demanding the border be given special status. to. be europe yet it essentially said if it really changes the way we discuss about the border in europe it helped create in a movement and the whole. idea that water should be considers a human right. before all the documents from the european commission were starting
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to enter the us market make any shamus they were always pushing for early release. now and this is not something that you can easily do in a public way. so the official answer from the european commission was of course we support a human right to water and that happens now in rio in legislation. what is the problem to recognize a human right to what are i mean it's a right big of made by the e.u. it's something that is for the life. of the only problem is the business and profit . the right to water petition has so far halted the ambitions of finance years around europe. but it
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remains a fragile victory. there are 2 paths and i don't know who's going to win this it's either water is a commodity and it's going to be put on the open market for sale or it's not it's going to be understood to be a human right you can't have it both ways it's time to choose now which path we're going to. make. i totally get that it was a different place and it's changing and it's changing fast. in the back of. his own i think also made in the 2 to one successful. and all should see the fuss ma'am to be. a sin level they call this shoulder viewpoints on the situation salt. water
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scarcity climate china is a windfall for our business yes it is is that a bad thing well i suppose tom told. ah obvious sign didn't do it so i type on this model table just talking to mike huge amount of money out of. him or i got up to sell you sol to get the ball would have to be out of some on. who live. today the fate of water is still undecided when originally over 4000000000 years ago water arrived on this earth from space and has since survived all manner of catastrophes. but it is now being
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threatened by the men who dream of turning rivers in to go. as if nature was nothing but a giant supermarket.

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