tv Lords Of Water Al Jazeera March 11, 2023 4:00am-5:01am AST
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you never had guessed it was right smack in the middle of winter. look around, people are dressed like it's spring or summer. wait, hold on. where is the snow ever seen new york in february like this? never a new reality. perhaps with new yorkers. first enjoying the warm weather, but now beginning to ask themselves, will it ever snow this year? because this isn't normal, they probably don't even need to be wearing this jacket right now because it's mid february and it's supposed to be cold. but it's not ah, hello, i'm barren jordan joe, how the quick reminder, the top stories here on al jazeera, iran and saudi arabia had a great to re establish diplomatic relations and reopened the embassies it follow 7 years of tensions after we had broke off ties with terror on the deal was broken by
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china in beijing this week, and the hush and as more from the radiant capitol. the context is that of the timing is a bit surprising at what in general, the whole region seemed to be welcoming this move mainly the out up countries in the and the region welcoming this move. because any think that the escalating and approach more between saudi arabia and iran will have its own impact on the whole region. well, the white house, as the deal is a positive step. we welcome any efforts to help and the war in yemen and de escalate tensions in the middle east region. that is one of the reasons why the president, you saw him travel in over the summer a to, to have those conversations, de escalation and diplomacy together with deterrents are key pillars of the policy that the president, the president biden, to put out outlined during his it his visit in july,
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the u. k. has agreed to pay france more than $570000000.00 over the next 3 years. in an attempt to cut the number of asylum seekers crossing the english channel in small boats, funding will go towards a new detention center and more border forces. rescue teams of save nearly 50 migrants found stranded in a boat off the coast of spain can areolas the group included 3 pregnant women and 6 children. last year, more than 15000 migrants crossed by boat from africa to the canary islands in germany. elisia gunman who killed 7 adults and an unborn baby at a job was witnesses, whole was a former member of the religious group. authorities say he shot himself dead as police entered the building. in the northern city of hamburg. at least 44 people have been killed in an attack, an eastern democratic republic of congo. the military says a village in north keyboard province was targeted by fight, as he believed to be from uganda, roof, columbia, government and ill. and rebels of agreed to start negotiating
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a truce. the breakthrough came during the 2nd round of peace, talked in mexico city on friday. columbia's president gustavo petro has vowed to stop ostriches. regulators in california have shut down silicon valley bank at marks. the 2nd largest failure of a bank and u. s. history. sb be catered mainly to tech startups and venture capital firms. there are recent developments. they concern a few banks that i'm monitoring very carefully. and when banks experience financial losses, it is in should be a matter of concern to palestinians have been killed on friday as violence continues to flare up in the occupied west bank. meanwhile, the funeral has been held for a 16 year old boy shocked by israeli forces. more than 200 palestinians have been killed by israeli forces in the past year. several runners in the palestine american have on the late al jazeera germ, issuing an ugly members of her family and star from the bethlehem municipality run
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and t shirt showing a picture. sharina was shot and killed by an israeli soldier in may. last year. fiji its former leader frank, find him a rama has been released on bail. he pleaded not guilty to a charge. he abused his palace by minister. this week he resigned from parliament after temporary suspension for insulting. the president north korea's leader has ordered the military to intensify drills what he calls a real war. kim jong soon made the demand, as he oversaw the launch of missiles alongside his daughter, the u. s. and south korea are preparing for joint military drills next week. at least 6 people have died after heavy rains and flooding in northern peru cycle home jak, who has left a train of destruction non displaced hundreds of families since making landfill early this week. landslide warnings have been issued in almost 600 districts and areas in the u. s. have been issued with flash flood warnings. heavy rain across the west coast resulted in flood waters that surrounded homes and california
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evacuation orders and severe weather alerts remain in place until sunday in affected areas. those are the headlines that he's continues. he and al jazeera after loads of water. stay tuned. thanks so much bye for now. i shall see something he can see quicker golf kitchen. much better to hook up the account so she didn't know my little rising nor with the cross out of london. 39 degrees, breaking the july record of the guns in denying that i've got with folks look good. it'll be legal and that they are not going to do me. no,
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i don't. as soon as the summer 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 dark. located don't have anything from yet to get by water with farmers and crops destroyed while others might adapt to climate records breaking the way in today. 70 percent of the earth pure water is used to a human consumption. it has become the most coveted resource on the planet. roll me
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try not doing anything that requires water to die and say, hey, go me, you won't be wearing any clothes you might be using. you might all fine. you might be driving in a car. might be living in a house, we might be having breakfast, will be having lunch, be having dinner, water in everything that we do. me to save humanity. wall street want to start a revolution. make water profitable and create more markets just like oil mark. water falls from the sky, therefore it should be fray. whenever i hear that, i always say, diamonds occur in nature and they are not free. it's
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a financial product like any other financial product. coming late around $195.00 later than just at the beginning of do some water financial revolution. the blue gold rush has begun. can anyone to human right to water means that it's not a charity. it's an issue. this is the issue of our time. this is the crisis of our time with financial pressure on human mobilization. rising. the battle over water has already begun who will come out on the planet? people mocking
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london financial capital of europe. here is where the relationship between water and finance 1st began 30 years ago. at the time, it was simply a question of commending the virtues of privatization. it was margaret thatcher, prime minister at the time ward, who championed the cause many by the time i wore tie in a better deal than national i ward. i say him, i believe we'll go very successfully. indeed. what happened was the entire system, the inter physical system as well as the concession was sold to the private come to
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live every ciocca water in the plates is a private commodity. one of the 1st thing some of the companies did, was to start crossing off. would supply to people who hadn't paid their bills. the number of people who've had that water cut off for failing to pay their bills has almost trebled in a year. one company, for example, disconnected 11000 customers. and as far as the company was concerned, they can stay disconnected if they didn't pay their bills, they didn't get any war. so i was, i always just come back. no, nicola gotten on the you have to come up with
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you think you'll have to make this journey that during the day just come down again . well, probably another bought i mean, you go to here, you go to do some cooking. we didn't even have to care for this during the war time. i said to myself, it's disgusting but from the milk perspective, but doesn't bursa the market can care less if people die of cholera, really, that's not their job. that job is making money and we've done that very well fine, 10 years later law is past that prohibits companies from cutting off the water supply to those who haven't paid that. but this is not enough to deter the finances.
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on the contrary, in the early 2, thousands, a new generation of traders and the world of water, namely private equity for valve fund. they are hungry and completely unaccountable. they may be funds which have a 10 year life and they therefore they need to get their returns over that decade that they will be the owners. and then they need to find a new owner and say you have a lot of international vestos people who may never have been to a water plant in yorkshire at all, or maybe never been to yorkshire. their fathers is wonderful. business truly said links, you don't need to know anything about water and you don't need to care anything about also the new owners arrived from canada, hong kong i'm
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a lazy in london, thames water. the distribution authority that covers 20 percent of the country is bought by the australian based mcquarrie, families i was aware of mccory, i mean, they were quite a famous institution in australia where they've been, they know something, i think they were called the millionaire factory. because so many people who worked at mccory became very rich as a result of the bonuses. and but corey world, 1st, private equity companies to say these a good place is to be one of the simple reasons for that is if you observe there is and is going to be population growth. if this population growth, this can be more water thing drunk.
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david hall is the man who reveal this war to scandal. in 2017, he published a study which he detailed 30 years of abusive practices. rising bills, soaring dividends to shareholders. and tax evasion. a caricature, a financial capitalist ah, we ended up to closing for a belts. $2.00, billions pills per year was being taken out of the system by private capital. no main reason for that was that the dividends. they were planning themselves were very high. a very regular so these companies were perfect cash machines. they
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still are, they still are everybody believes correctly that we are being swindled by the water filters. what david whole study than did was it said, is this really how you think that essential services we should be exploited? i think is the best way by financial interests. so aggressively. the australia based mcquarrie funnels was a shareholder in terms water for just over 10 years. when it sold its fun share in the company. march 2017 mcquerry says had just over $13000000000.00 of debt.
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somebody at that point will have to repay all those borrowing. well, if any one source of money in the whole water industry, and that is the customer and when the customer has to repay the borrowing that will affect the charges they have to pay. and of course, the owners will never return the dividends they've taken out. those have just gone i think they take a view that this is a victimless crime. ah. if anything, we've got you case experience we will to privatization is no one else in the developed world. has done it, it's a one off. and sometimes you have to ask yourself, why's today of 80 percent of brittany would like to go back to a time when wharton was a common public and essentially free resource. but this concept
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is slipping away joins and swell to through another 24 hours of extreme hayes. ivan, i had, bailey dipped below 30 degrees in many parts of the state, with temperatures soaring into the mid to high forces during the day with catastrophic ranges. right, and as it remains extremely hot through the south 8th today, with temperatures 10 to 16 degrees above average, drinking normally australia on the front line of climate change.
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here, drought is a part of everyday life. in this parched country, australians are getting closer and closer to tomorrow's world. a world where water is a scarce and expensive resource but there is a dairy farmer who lives in new south wales, one of the drowns regions in the country for many months now, his reserves have been empty. the only solution for feeding his animals is to buy extra water on the private market. go said i to rand just for my cale. and it cost me close to half
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a $1000000.00 for 12 months of water. $500000.00. can you afford that aid would put a great deal of strain on us if we, if we did it a great deal, a strike like we now a farm and the last 3 months is already spent 1000000 dollars on board up 2 weeks. a storm could come straight to mar and wipe it all at tape. so it's, there spent the money but still a game on whether it, whether it's going to work on off switch high and our base became how's a law goes with her before the board are to grow crops to the chaos. ah,
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we can't afford. i real lot, greiner. yeah. they're getting very little or no grain at all at the moment. say they're producing 50 percent less than what they should be for these tommy. it's just survival might trying survive. keep at me as going and i'm trying get out the other end of it with me with blue sky is me, is my for my and helping each other, but now it's like dog eat dog world at the my with with the water policy
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or it will become like it is bought and sold with a single click thanks to mobile phones and an application connected to the market available 24 hours a day. it's price changes day, depending on supply and demand. mm say i could touch it. i can have my fate in it, but i can't even not, they still got that money once the transaction is approved. irrigation channel valves open automatically and pour out
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millions of liters to customers. those who can pay people are just taking water from us. and it's, it's taking a lot, it's taking our food from anti bully. why we, we doing it is high cli next year. the rivers are full and the we don't have to go back on to that. i've been market to buy water again. will what happen? what not? we die. miles apply russian. we left to combat water shortages. the australian government has chosen to ration each year . it allocates a quota to the major water consumers, farmers,
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industrialists and cities. this is calculated based on activity existing reserves and weather forecasts. along with this new called the water act watermark, it's have been created where anyone can come and purchase additional rise or sell some of the this is one of your co as martha is changing a bit. i the last couple ways at the bottom is michael jordan. 120, my st. trading really having arana waldron. i live on $495.00. my way to margin. they hiding from water font. thanks. hey, look forward to hearing from you in just 10 years, the water business has become the new el dorado. the turnover of $2000000000.00 a year. morning. yeah, i am 9 o'clock. first thing you want to find is the world's leading more to stock
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exchange. i was here because it will, they worked with the mega liter, a unit of measurement equivalent to 1000000 liters. some of my tame, he called me at the watermark at pioneer. i'd like to say that i'm a pawnee or in the world. i'm a boy. well, since that he's only got the i think the right fit and that again and, and remind one megabyte that we secure that. so many transfer $250.00 megs plus prices to die around the $500.00 per mega later on. mean latest, you've got expense is i think it's take what
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$500.00. i was that 300 year eyes and ran a 50 year eyes for 1000000 litres of water. i'd say it's pretty cheap. and when you look at it from that perspective, isn't it a good thing that way, a finally putting a value on this resource, because in putting a value on it, we're gonna respect that mall. in this new world, every drop comes water is no longer a natural resource, but a commodity ah, in the world of water markets, the key players of the agricultural industry,
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as it's the case with webster, the country's largest producer about the directors of this company are among the richest water owners at the head of a reserve with more than $200000000.00 their arms a mass cultivated and exported all over the world in relation to the amount of water used. this is their most profitable crop. on this phone, brendan barry has the title of water management. this is a new area of expertise
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that that would colony not quite ready. if you've got a big yeah, they'd be up in a tight a bible. but the unknown parabola, the real number of these other not bigger and that they may sell them on that property with saudi origin, the easiest to market and what not. the title value of their water is, is more valuable than all the land we hauled. the plant and equipment or the last stock that we hold the water market in this area. this she has gone from about $320.00 per mega leda to i've a $700.00 per megalia. and that's in a period of
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or the ash m as more from tara. the context is there that the timing is a bit surprising. what in general, the whole region seemed to be welcoming this moves mainly the arab countries in the, in the region where it welcoming this move. because i think that the escalating and the approach more between saudi arabia and iran will have its own impact on the whole region. the u. k. has agreed to pay france more than a $570000000.00 over the next 3 years in an attempt to cut the numbers of asylum seekers. crossing the english channel and small boats. funding will go towards a new detention center and more border forces. rescue teams have saved nearly 50 migrants found stranded in a boat of the coast of spain's canary islands. the group included 3 pregnant women and 6 children last year, more than 15000 my guns caused by boat from africa to the canary islands. in
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germany, police say a gunman who killed 7 adults and an unborn baby at a jehovah witnesses, who was a former member of the religious group. authorities say he shot himself dead as police entered the building in the northern city of hamburg. at least 44 people have been killed in an attack in eastern democratic republic of congo. the military says a village in north keeble province was targeted by fighters, believe to be from uganda in columbia, as government and alien rebels of agreed to start negotiating. a truce breakthrough came during the 2nd round of peace talks in mexico city on friday, colombians president, gustavo petro, has about to stop hostilities. regulators in california have shut down silicon valley bank at march, the 2nd largest failure of a bank and us history. s v be catered mainly to tech startups and venture capital until palestinians have been killed on friday as violence continues to flare up the occupied west bank. meanwhile,
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a funeral has been held for 16 year old boy shot flies when he forces more than 200 palestinians have been killed by israel forces in the past year. those are the headlines that he's continues here now to 0 after loads of water station. thanks to watching as water manager, brendan is more of a trader than a farmer. a big stack of grind has a value that's money. water is no different in that sense. in our business we want to use our water efficiently because if we do that and we can draw of grider profit into the business and that's what we're ultimately here for is to deliver a profit to the shareholders. those are the things that are interesting
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he manages his stock with the help of a specialized broker, lex betters. he to embodies the new generation businessman looking to exploit water for them. drought means good business will mention to you. i was not interested in leasing it out. i don't think there's thousands of mega ladies on the market at the moment. up here in the market doesn't seem to be terribly logical. at the moment. in our view, it says, sort of grade and fee markets. there's a balance between the 2, but it says that so that's because of where we are and there's not that much war around, so pay off really, really skiddish frustrating or so
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look, i think i'm dairies and such and such as state down there. you know, the number of heads getting sold of them. i what's quite ridiculous that from what i'm hearing, basically every dairy farms on the market. so if you did want to do something down there, i think is acquiring lands don't going to be not going to be difficult say were caused by well, bought 110. i don't wanna go to one of those. so they're going to be on thursday. i got you all right. i got it. oh lord, it 50. i got it. yeah. i i
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not a 110 a lot. yeah. you know what, what he got a 100 hunting party at border. it was quoted a bar behind. i don't know why. it was a good feeling. no 1000. i don't know for that one. i don't know what the little one much. you just don't milken and do you find yourself? i'm doing my job. that much you never been noticed over the water crisis and soaring prices forced david on into bankruptcy. he has had to sell the family dairy phone and now joins the long list of victims of the water markets going up with
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or some kind of an arrow pointing this district office. i believe more than 10 kilometers from where our ship it special dash a lot. i don't know a if you look at the cash flies for the last 12 months and 4 years ago and you realize you're spending more and more waters and then jenny, shit to me and we can't keep going on lot this. so that conversation was very noisy, ah, 3 more dishes in the in the sink and stomped out there as
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very marginal it's be lot. it's probably not as much emotion as lighter on when we are showing chaos. i can tell you who her mother is and who are grandmother, right? grandma so they tell me you get ivr upset. you know, we are now in the right damp. 100 is that, you know, initially the creation of water markets was welcomed by farmers. big agricultural players saw it as an effective way to buy water whilst others plan to supplement that income by selling their surplus or if it did, what else to go? well, good day, right. but 10 years later the market had become ruthless. so good. they all went 3
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time at 315 a lot. right. there's lots of people that don't understand the watermark. i don't understand the watermark. just lisha k followed all the tong is the start of what's happening. and i don't think a lot of us know what's happening in the watermark. alicia, boy, you don't wanna look at the watermark cuz lots of forms that i need to purchase. yeah. especially if you're looking for water, you think all all garden. ready logan o bushel keeps going off. oh, the strain is on extreme. the lewis has searing temperatures, put emergency crews on notice, and authorities ready to answer any major process. reco it's filled today and more said to tumble to morrow with adelaide full cons to he'd $45.00 degrees, nudging the hottest. i am wrinkled for the city to see a face won't. it won't be able to control any length. adelaide himself. east australia. the driest city on the driest continent on the planet
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ah, adelaide sans as a think tank. it's here at the university. but the idea of water trading was conceived and in some use he might get 0 water. so they said nobody could take anymore water, so you're going to have to find a way to share what, what happened very quickly. as a result worked and i did all started. i said, well, what we need to do is to unbundle the system and take a license. and you set up a bank like accounting system. it'll let everybody tried at low cost. and to do that in all the regulations, i wanna, mike young, is the founding father of the australian water markets. a renowned economist. he
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attended harvard university and has advised the united nations. this is the man writing the new history of water. boy scarcity is really, they've said water scarcity is part of the future. the well, the global predictions of it by 2050, more than half the will, will be living with limited water resources. and abundance is a thing of the past. water needs to be managed in a very precious wife in a way that drives innovation that makes sure our water goes to the best use is it possibly can. so we make money and feed ourselves well. and that led to the interest in water markets and drive a revolution. the
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revolution started by mike young as turn climate change into a market fold. fascinating, see how sophisticated our water markets if become. if this ryan forecast in a week's time, the price of water will go down because families now they won't have to irrigate. if it's going to be really hot for the next fortnight. in the price of water it goes off with with i think the reason why you really come to a university is to make the world a better place to live in. so i teach a course on how to my world a better place to live in. come and enjoy a my
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just opened up water markets to all farmers, small savers. and above all, professional investors. a now a days everybody can buy water on the stock market for consumption. or simply for speculation. when water becomes scarce and hasn't become scarcer than somebody has to stop using what markets do, is they discover and reveal the most appropriate people to pull out of agriculture as it is from making tough as it is for lots of things we live in a competitive world me, markets mature,
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spot market scott derivative markets for water options for what's new intelligence and information systems. we're building artificial intelligence and machine learning or as far as rolling the game to mike money. ready mike, leaving out of just trying water worst. we're just interested in getting more of the mike by water to mike living, not just making living by buying and showing water the system was putting for the farmers to create well for the, for the economy. but it's been taken from the farmers now who's making the money
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water purchased at the market price has drained the australian countryside. only the agricultural giants have the means to compete with the investors who are pouncing on this new rule material. in at the moment they skeins going around the world, took encouraged versus the boys to these trying go to market with these returns that they say by a huge amounts of water, and they might engage money out of it. what are the coming the new was to read and gold. it is a if if he can make
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a 25 percent return on your investment obeta or would neutron do it? ah, it has melvin's hot day in 5 years. temperature is heat. 42.3 degrees. olivia, i 42.9. 1. i want to stay in 5 years. change 30 degrees need not melvin. didn't get new loads of water live in the city of melbourne. the business capital they are bankers, insurance, pension and investment fund managers. and they are gradually taking control of this
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blue go it. and i need to, i let you know, would i land, would i consider it? yes, but i'm not a farmer. i'm an investment banker. how much did you invest? not much might be $20000000.00 the price of what has doubled. but in the next 10 years it will double again, because of intensive agriculture. there's a lot of discontent between the farmers and the people who are controlling the water. and so the thomas sometimes look at these people is water barons or water, bandits because they controlling water that many times i can afford me as an owner of expensive water reserves. david williams, friends, his water, thomas, as others would rent land in the future is looking bright. if
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we go to 9000000000 population and the chinese food and the indonesians what most food and indians, what more food and they can afford to pay for it. then we need to find more intensive ways of growing food. that means more water that's going to lead you smack bang in there, how you get that water, how you price it, how you allocate it, and how you regulate it. with a being a baseball and it's getting back to the old days of the landlord and the family. and if we want to survival sy into it, we're going to have to buy the water. what the landlord's name, the water is wet back to the middle. i just live in in the name of fighting global
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warming in the law of water have made an agreement with the environmentalists role in a portion of lake and river water is now protected. it fits the ecosystem and is kept out of the market. all this lines brought about the large majority vote in favor of waterfall. as i'm talking here today, we're about to have 7 days in a row here in adelaide above 37 degrees celsius. that is the 4th time in 2 months where we've had that high temperature climate change is happening and it's happening now and it's impacting on the levels of water usage
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and the water that's being returned to the system. the rivers struggling. and so we had to start putting a value on it, environmental organizations, and now taking advantage of the market to buy water and return it to nature the agriculture industry and certainly worth billions of dollars. the value of water in australia is worth even billions more, sorry, if we want to make sure this, the river is kept alive. if you want to make sure there's water there for the future, we have to engage in that process. that of course, for a proper market for, for water buying and trading has
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a strongly got it right yet ny. we dined, and we might be the test case. i haven't got it. a 100 percent right. ah, water was the last remaining natural resource to have escaped training. ready but australia has just blown the final whistle the time has come from maximum profitability and the creation of well will i'm not. ready i speak on behalf of my people in the off of just land in this water. ready water. ready for me and my people. ready which are
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shelly trading. what does it filling you damned up making sure that you got your ca making sure that no one else take yours. potter with me madness. most of it agreed. * * * * * * * greedy people. * * * they want the water bottles all went up. * and they sell it to somebody else money. 6 you can eat it kind of money. thing with water is like the range in our body.
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the producers of this program asked mcquarry group to be interviewed, but they declined. so al jazeera asked mcquarrie to respond to statements made about them in the program, who mccore replied to say that they took their role in economic and community infrastructure very seriously. that in the time that fund was a shareholder, tmz. walter had made $14700000000.00 of capital investment. and that this had allowed tim's water to reduce leakage. and to keep bills at a low level, they went on to say that the investment had been financed by profits and borrowing and had been approved by the u. k. war to services regulator off what they
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concluded by saying the terms walter had paid an average dividend to shareholders of 11 percent of capital expenditure. but in 2021 awful lot gave the go ahead from a quarry to return to the u. k. privatized water sector, and run another company, southern water. ah, the la stage in the financial, i zation of what? the launch from a stock market index to bet on. won't prices buy nasdaq, a stock exchange, specialize in technology. this is the 1st time that water has been reduced to an algorithm. is water. the next oil? we set it off as a question and then mostly dismissed it. that questions not going to go away. we're
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just probably not ready for it yet. there is no alternative to pricing water properly and making people realize that every time to take a sip of water, there is an opportunity cost and they feel within the wallet. what about the guy that can't afford it? that guy still needs water? oh, and your he, the fight against the financial ization of water is fueled by the refuse to accept any sort of privatizing the global water rush is accelerating. privatization, competition profit. 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 gold in school, it's too cold. we war to scarcity has become a major global issue. the demand is going right up and the supply is going straight
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down, turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit. just because it's life doesn't mean it cannot be priced. what about the guy that can afford it? that guy told me the water out there examining essential financial and environmental impact of water privatization loads of water on al jazeera. ah, ah, ah, ah. hello everyone. here's her headlines for the americas fillmore rain falling in california on saturday. part of the problem here is that rain is falling over top
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of the snow. got rapid snow melts, and that also means that the risk of flooding is there right across the state. that energy is moving through the rockies coming out on the other side as snow. certainly we've seen number of systems wind up through the upper midwest, another one there again. so let's go for a closer look for the canadian side of things regina under a snowfall warning up to 20 centimeters and certainly could see some blizzard conditions through the northern plains. now south of this is falling as rain. we got that warm feet of air off the gulf, so houston $2930.00 degrees. but there is some of those showers for arkansas and missouri st. louis 8 degrees. the top temperature for you on saturday. central america. fairly quiet, but we do have this run of rain right along the border with coast to recon panama. got my eye on that and still some more torrential downpours in the forecasts for the western side of ecuador right through to the amazon basin. let's go south of this round the river plate region. we're turning those temperatures up actually from central argentina to the river plate, montevideo, 35,
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the top temperature for you. enjoy your weekend. we'll see you soon. ah, the in the pool rhinos implied is what poached to new extinction. now the army enjoys and community groups that brought them back from the brain or one on one east investigate on al jazeera ah, saudi arabia and iran agreed to restore diplomatic ties up to 7 years of tension and a deal that china helped to broke up. ah
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