tv Lords Of Water Al Jazeera March 15, 2023 4:00am-5:01am AST
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all the salience of the world's biggest gambler, losing to him the billions of dollars the year one on 18th, investigate the thread gambling addiction. one out 0 is a wave of sentiment around the world. people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voice is not heard because that is not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover the big stories and we report from the big events to going on. but we also tell a story that people generally don't have a voice. i remember another child, my dad, we never be afraid to put your hand and ask a question. and i think that's what obviously we're really done. we ask the questions, the people who should be accountable, and also we get people to give their views of what's going on. ah, i'm carry johnston, harring, doha. the top store is now on al jazeera. the u. s. has condemned what he calls
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a reckless maneuver by russian woe play that brought down one of its surveillance drains over the black sea. the pentagon insists the drone was over international waters and pose no threat. russia denies its jets came into contact with the aircraft. his incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. u. s. air forces in europe air force is africa, routinely fly aircraft throughout europe, over sovereign territory, and throughout international airspace and coordination with applicable host nation and international laws. we come see the crimea is that part of russia. united states does not recognize the status and of course its contribution. but does it mean that it's necessary to provoke russian navy or russian air force on this issue? we have to be very cautious regarding our actions. my county has more now from washington d. c. it sounded a bit more like justification, then a denial we have heard from the russian fontaine,
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ministry that denied that the incident took place saying that the drone went down under its own paula. but there we heard from the russian ambassador implying that it was justified the russian action because the drone was too close to what he defines as russian territory, which is the crimean coast. however, on the recall though, the russian foreign ministry statement still stands this rejected by the united states, which has shop being criticized. the incident in the air we heard from the national security liason officer at the white house saying that president biden was informed shortly after the incident happened. repeating the words that we heard from the pentagon, as a reckless and unprofessional place in pakistan, are locked in attend standoff with supporters of former prime minister him on con justice. outside his linda who are trying to prevent his in rest, con, was ousted as needed last year, is facing charges including corruption, which he says needs to motivate the death toll from tropical cyclone freddy in
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malawi, by some beacon, not a gasket has risen to 220, the storm hit southern africa for 2nd time, the month last weekend. these 290 of the dead were in malawi. it's declared a state of emergency following devastating floods and landslides. us president joe biden has issued an executive order, tightening background checks on firearms. he made announcement in monterey park, california whenever people was shot dead to june, a new year celebration in january to day. i'm announcing another executive order. no accelerating, intensify this work to shade more lives more quickly. first was executive order helps keep firearms out of dangerous hands. as i continue to call on congress to require background checks for all firearms sale, i need my executive director. my attorney general would
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take every lawful action possible, possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation or markets in the us have stabilized after volatile a couple of days caused by the collapse of 2 major banks of the weekend investors have been reassured by slowing inflation that could take some pressure off banks. as economists expect the federal reserve to suspend its repeated interest rate hikes. us tech joint matter has announced another huge round of redundancies, cutting $10000.00 jobs matter which owns facebook, instagram, and what's up previously laid off. 11000 employees in november forecasters, a warning of catastrophic floods in parts of california hit my series of storms, emergency crews, and that flooded ton of barrow in the central coast region are trying to repair damage. flood defense is on a swollen river,
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or an $8000.00 people had to be evacuated from the area. in china is reopening its borders to international tourists. for the 1st time since the coven pandemic broke out 3 years ago. not, not beijing declared victory over a recent search in the virus. as all the headlines use continues herron al jazeera after lords of water. oh i show you something he can go kitchen, which is not going to hook up the account. so what you did with the rising no, with the crop. how the u. k. london, 39 degrees breaking the july record call. it says of the guns for love and i
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got to be back with the girl that you may legally 30 that they are not school 50 years to do me. i don't as soon as the summer 2019 in europe illustrated the urgency, 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 happening again from nearly to get by water was farmers and destroyed while others might adapt to climate change. reco breaking the way in today 70
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percent of the pure water that is used to a human consumption. it has become the most coveted resource on the planet. all me try not doing anything that requires water to die and say, hey, you won't be wearing any clothes. why be using your might all the time. you might be driving in a car might be living in a house, will be having breakfast, will be having lunch, be having dinner, water, and 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,
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water falls from the sky, therefore it should be fray. whenever i hear that i always say, diamond occur in nature and they are not free. it's a financial product like any other financial product coming like around $195.00. just at the beginning of this quarter financial revolution, the blue gold rush has begun. can anyone stop it? the hill or 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 a with financial pressure on human mobilization. rising. the battle over water has already begun who will come out on top?
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the planet, the people or the markets london, the 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 privatized socialists. oh, i'd water in a better deal than life, an ally ward i want to privatization,
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i believe we'll go very successfully. indeed. what happened was the entire system, the inter physical system, as well as the concession. we're sold to the private companies. every drop of water in the place is private commodity. one of the 1st things, some of the calculus did was to start closing off would supply to people. he hadn't paid the bills the number of people who have had that water cut off for failing to pay their bills has almost trebled in a year. one company, for example, disconnected 11000 customers. as far as the company was concerned,
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they could stay disconnected if they didn't pay their bills, they didn't get any water out of the. so why is your car by no, nicola going on? you have to come up with times. you think you'll have to make this journey that during the day just come down again. well, probably not bought. i mean, you go to here, you gotta do cookie. we didn't even have to care for this during the war time. i said to myself, it's disgusting. from the milk in perspective, that 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
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. fine. 10 years later, law is pause. 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. on the contrary, in the early 2, thousands, a new generation of traders and the world of water, namely private equity fund. for valve cio funds, they are hungry and completely unaccountable. they may be tons 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 and say you have a lot of international vestos people who may never have been to a water plant in yorkshire, tall or maybe never been to yorkshire. their fathers is wonderful. business truly
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said links, you don't need to know anything about water and you don't need to care anything about the water. the new owners arrived from canada, hong kong i'm a lazy in london, thames water distribution authority that covers 20 percent of the country is bought by the australian based mcquarrie, families. i was aware of mccore, i mean they were quite a famous institution in australia, whether it be 9 or 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 that they and but corey world 1st private equity companies to say,
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these are good places to believe. one of the simple reasons for that is if you observe there is and is going to be population growth. if this population grows, this can remove water thing drunk. david hall is the man who reveal this water scanning 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 of financial capitalism. ah, we ended up to closing the a belts. $2.00,
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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 paying themselves were very high. a very regular to these companies were perfect cash machines. they still are, they still are everybody believes correctly that we are being swindled by the water filters walk david whole study than did was it said, is this really how you think that essential services we should be ex, loitered, i think, is the best way by financial interests so aggressively the
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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. mcquarry says it had just over $13000000000.00 of debt. 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 affect him unless cry. oh, the funny thing is that you case experience with privatization is no one else in the developed world. done it, it's a one off. and sometimes you have to ask yourself why
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i use today of 80 percent of britons would like to go back to a time when water was a common public and essentially free resource. but this concept is slipping away. ah well sit through another 24 hours, the big dream hate overnighted. bailey dipped below 30 degrees in many parts of the state. the temperature is soaring in the mid high during the day the shopping license. it remained extremely hot. today with
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temperatures 10 to 16 degrees above average. strengthening australia on the front line of climate change. 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 boat doesn't, is a dairy farmer who lives in new south wales, one of the drives regions in the country. for many months now, his reserves have been empty. the only solution for feeding his animals is to buy
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extra water on the private market logo. you know did i surround just for my cale and it cost me close to half a $1000000.00 for 12 months of water. $500000.00. can you afford that aid would put a great deal a strain on us if we, if we did it a great deal, a strike right . like we now a farm and the last 3 months is already spent. $1000000.00 on board with a storm could come straight to mar and why, but all at tape. so it's, there spent the money, but still a game of on whether,
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whether it's going to work or not. ah, which jolla base became the cows? i'll i go sweep for the water to grow crops for the chaos. ah, we can afford. i real lot a grinding, they're getting very little or no grain at all at the moment. they say they're producing 50 percent less than what they should be for these tommy it's just survival might trying survive. keep as going and i'm trying it out. the other end of it with
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me with blue sky is me my some mites and helping each other out. but now it's like dog eat dog world as am i speaking with, with the water policy. ah, water has become like, ah, 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.
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say i could touch it. i can have my fade 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 millions of liters to customers. those who can pay people are just taking water from us. and it's, it's taking a lot exciting our food from, if i will, all is why we, we doing it is, i feel next year the river's a full and the we don't have to go back on to that. i've been market to buy water again. what will happen, what not, we die, you miles apply russian relinquish to
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combat water shortages. the australian government has chosen to ration it each year . it allocates a quota to the major water consumers, farmers, industrialists and cities. this is calculated based on activity existing reserves and weather forecasts. along with this new law called the water act watermark, it's have been created where anyone can come and purchase additional rights or sell some of the this is want to give you a co as the market is changing a bit, a couple of ways, a 20 my same trading really happening around that 400. i labeled $495.00 anyway. the margin hiding from water fund. thanks. hate look forward to hearing from you. in just 10 years,
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the water business has become the new el dorado, the turnover of $2000000000.00 a year. morning. yeah, i am not a talk. first thing i want to find is the world's leading more to stock 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. so i'd like to say that i'm a pioneer in the world. i was always a gotten that order the garden. well since i saw your money we had the transfer. ah, he's only got me, i think. yeah. yeah. i will reset that again. and remind you about adrian valencia that we secured that so many transfer. $250.00 megs
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plus decide prices are to die around the $500.00 per mega. later all per 1000000 leaders you've got it is i think it's take what? $500.00. i was that 300 year eyes or 350 year eyes for 1000000 litres of water. i'd say it's pretty shape 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 more in this new world, every drop comes water is no longer a natural resource, but a commodity ah,
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in the world of water markets, the key players of the agricultural industry, as is 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. that owns a mass, cultivated and exported all over the world in relation to the amount of water used . this is their most profitable crop.
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on this phone, brendan barry has the title of water management. this is a new area of expertise that that some would colony not they're not quite ready. if you grab the i, b and b, but the title news isn't even viable. but the non parella, the real number of these other not bigger and that, but they may sell on that property with sanity ordered the easiest to market and whatnot. the total 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
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water market in this area. the she has gone from about $320.00 per meg alada to over $700.00 per megawatt hour. and that's in a period of a round 5 months. and that will price doubled across. but that's how it works. or. ready too often eat of canister is portrayed through the prism of war. but there were
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calls or reckless maneuver by russian war play, brought down one of its surveillance threatens over the black sea. the pentagon insists the drone was over international waters. russia denies its jets, came into contact with the aircraft. this incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional. u. s. air forces in europe air force is africa, routinely fly aircraft throughout europe, over sovereign territory and throughout international airspace in coordination with applicable host nation and international laws. we come see the crimea is a part of a russia united states does not recognize the status and of course its contribution . but does it mean that it's necessary to provo rushing, navy or russian air force on this issue? we have to be very cautious regarding our actions. police and pakistan are locked in a tense standoff with supporters of former prime minister sharon con. protest is outside his head. no, we're trying to prevent his of rest. con was out to this lead last year is facing
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charges including corruption, which he says off basically motivated the death toll from tropical cyclone freddy in, malawi, mozambique, and madagascar has risen to $220.00. the storm hits southern africa for 2nd time. the month last weekend least a 190 of the dead were in malawi. it's declared a state of emergency following devastating floods and lance lice. u. s. president joe biden has issued an executive order, tightening background checks on firearms. he made the announcement in monterey park, california, where 11 people was shot dead during luna new year celebration in january the u. s . tech john matter has announced another huge round of redundancies, cutting $10000.00 jobs matter which owns facebook. instagram, on what south privacy laid off. 11000 employees in november. other tech firms have also had thousands of jobs in recent months. and signer is reopening its borders to
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international tourists for the 1st time since the covered pandemic broke out 3 years ago. last month, beijing declared victory over recent surgeon. the virus, a booster tourism sector should help rekindle the economy that suffer the shut down last year. but those are the headlines and these continues here now to sierra after the words of water as water management, 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'll do that and we can drive a greater profit into the business,
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and that's what we're ultimately here for is to deliver a profit for the shareholders. those are the things that are interesting or useful he manages his stock with the help of a specialized broker, lex batter's. he to embodies the new generation businessman looking to exploit water. for them. drought means good business worth warmerston here to serve you any interest in leasing it out. i don't think there's thousands of regulators 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's sort of great and fee market minutes. we have a balance between here with terry. but that's, that's,
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that's because of where we are and there's not that much war around. so paypal are for you freely skiddish. frustrating my for so i look, i think there dairies in such a, such as state down there, you know, the number of heads getting sold of them i'm, it's quite ridiculous yet that for 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 not going to be not going to be difficult. i'm sure you guys to i don't know. how did it go? i want one kid. i know i wanted to talk to them on thursday. we're not gonna be hard. i
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gorda with 50 i 910, a big party border. it was quoted, a 5. why behind i a no 1000 i under for that one on the little one. you just don't milk and then you find yourself again. it is. yeah, but that much. you never been noticed over the want a 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
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going every day with me or the end of an era. i've been in this district off, so i've had to leave more than 10 kilometers from where our ship a special dog. ah, a, i don't know what i wanted to know. if you look at your cash flies for the last 12 months and 4 years ago and you realize you're spending more and more in water
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and then jenny, shit to me and we can't keep going on like this. so that conversation wasn't very noise. so ah, 3 more dishes in the in the st. and stomped out there as very emotional it's been like, it's probably not as much emotion as lighter on when. when showing calles, i can tell you who i mother is and who are a grandmother and right grandma well i tell me you get ivr upset or you need to be on i when that right now, 550. it does not. you know, initially the creation of water markets was welcomed by farmers. her big agricultural players saw it as an effective way to buy water whilst others plan to supplement that income by selling their surplus. we're interested in what else can
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we go? oh, good day. right? but 10 years later, the market had become ruthless. something good. they all went great time at 315. a lot of like there's lots of people that don't understand the watermark. i don't understand the watermark just lucy k followed all the tong is the star of what's happening. and i don't think a lot of us know what's happening in the watermark. alicia boeing. you don't wanna look at the watermark cuz lots of forms that i need the pressure especially if you're looking for watering to think, oh, all gardens will good. an ocean keeps going up. ah, south astronomy is on extreme. lewis has searing temperatures, good emergency crews, on notice, and authorities ready to answer any major process. reco it's failed to day and more said to tumble to morrow with adelaide. full cons to heat. 45 degrees,
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nudging the hottest. i am re code for the city. the c face won't, it won't be entity control any my delayed himself east, australia, the driest city on the driest continent on the planet. ah, adelaide sans as a think tank. it's here at the university. but the idea of water trading was conceived and in some years he might get 0 water. so they said nobody could take any money orders, so you're going to have to find a way to share what what happened very quickly as a result of work. and i did all started doing. i said, well, what we need to do is to unbundled the system and take a license and you set up a bank like accounting system and let everybody tried at low cost. and to do that
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in all the regulations. i wanna, mike young, is the founding father of the australian water markets. one, a renowned economist, he attended hobbit university and has advised the united nations. this is the man writing the new history of bought. a scarcity is really there. so water scarcity is part of the future. the, well, the global predictions are that by 2050, more than half the world 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 as it possibly can. so we make money and feed ourselves well. and that leads to the interest in water markets and drive
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a revolution with the revolution started by mike young has turn climate change into a market. folks with fascinating see how sophisticated our water markets account if this ryan forecast in a week's time, the price of water will go down, because fine was no, 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 out a with i think the reason why you're 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
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a better place to live in. come and enjoy a mike young has 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. going more to become scarce, hasn't become scarcer than somebody has to stop using and what markets do is they discover and reveal the most appropriate people to pull out of agriculture as it is for making cas, as it is for lots of things we live in a competitive, well,
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me market mature spot market, 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 we're all in the guy, the mike money. ready mike, living out of just trying to order worst. we're just interested in getting more of the might by water to make a living, not just making living by buying and selling water. the system was put in for the families 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 that amendment. they skeins going around the world, took encouraged versus the boys to the trying water market. with these returns that they say buying huge amounts of water and they might engage money out of
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what are becoming the new was to red and gold. it is a if, if he can make a 24 percent return on your investment or better, or wouldn't you try and do it? ah, it was melvin's day in 5 years. temperature, heat $42.00 degrees over the city. high 42 point 913530 degrees need not melvin. get new loads of water live in the city of melbourne. the
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business capital. they are bankers, insurance, pension and investment fund managers. and they are gradually taking control of this b go lou 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 pharmacy, sometimes these people have water barons or water bandits because they controlling water that many times they can afford as an owner of expensive water reserves. david williams sprints his water to thomas as others would rent
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land in the future, is looking bright. me, if we got an i 1000000000 population and the chinese want more food and the indonesians what most food and indians, what will food and i 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 the how you get that water, how you price it, how you allocate it, and how you regulate it. with a being a basis boiling water, it's getting back to the guys of the landlord and the pay the farm and we want to survival cy into it. we're gonna have to buy the water. what lane loads, dame,
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the water is wet. back to the middle. i just with in in the name of fighting global warming, the loads of water have made an agreement with the environmentalists roll, a portion of lake and river water is now protected. it fits the ecosystem and is kept out of the market. all this lines is 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
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the 4th time in 2 months where we've had that high temperature climate change is happening and it's happening now and it is impacting on the levels of water usage and the water that's being returned to the system. the river is 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 it's really worth billions of dollars. the value of water in australia is worth even billions more, sorry, if we want to make sure that the river is kept alive. if we want to make sure there's water there for the future,
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we have to engage in that process. that of course for a proper market for, for water buying and trading has estrella got it right yet ny. we dined and we might be the test case. we haven't got it a 100 percent. right. mm. oh . water was the last remaining natural resource to have escape training. i. ready ready but i was trailer, just blown the final whistle the time has come from maximum profitability and the creation o 9. ready to speak on behalf of my people in the office just land in
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this water. ready water. ready for me and my people. ready a part of we are. ready ready a part of our story out creation stories today is different australia as implemented. what are market? yeah. how do you look in that? we don't like it very much. we don't like it at all. i was watching her to find out everyone else with
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shelley trading. what does it filling you damned up making sure that you got your she making sure that no one else take yours. part of the 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 can't bring the money through
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key to the producers of this program, asked mcquarry group to be interviewed, but they declined. so al jazeera asked mcclory to respond to statements made about them in the program. mcquarrie replied to say that they took their role in economic and community infrastructure very seriously. with that in the time that fund was a shareholder. tmz whoa to 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
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and had been approved by the u. k. water services regulator off what they concluded by saying the 10s, 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 last stage in the financial, i zation of would the launch of 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.
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ah, is water the next oil? we set it up as a question and then mostly dismissed it. that questions not going to go away. we're 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 them all of what about the guy that can't afford it? that guy still needs water. o in europe, the fight against the financial ization of water is fuel by the refuse to accept any sort of privatizing a global war to rush his accelerate, 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 this gold, it's called. it's called 2
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news news. news. news. news. news. here's her headlines for the america as good disuse, so we've got our 11th atmospheric river slamming into the u. s. states have california and you know for the southern sierra nevada, our average snow pack is about 2 to 300 percent above normal. so that gives you an indication of just how much precipitation we've seen. here's our nor'easter from maine's and nasa to sits, i think, for places like boston, it's going to dump about 20 to 40 centimeters of snow blizzard conditions here. and consider those winds about
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a 100 kilometers per hour. so that's just going to toss that snow around and give white out conditions for the u. s. south clear conditions, light wind. so that means during the overnight, the early hours, we've got flash freeze alerts in place. now it'll take you back to the west coast of canada through the northern plains. actually this swath of snow here likely to generate about 5 to 10 centimeters of snow. over that, nor sir we are talking about, it's dropping down rain to the bahamas cuba right through the you could have peninsula, but from mexico city to panama city. so can like a wet pitcher, and we've had a land slide in the house and brazil's amazonia state, and there is still more rain falling over top of this area in time for the river plate. some storms are cooling the atmosphere. here's the month of the dale 30 degrees on wednesday. ah, the, from the al jazeera london broadcast and test to people in thoughtful conversation
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