Wall Street Mega-Banks Are Buying Up The World’s Water
A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.
Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, Philippines’ Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology companies all over the world.
The second disturbing trend is that while the new water barons are buying up water all over the world, governments are moving fast to limit citizens’ ability to become water self-sufficient (as evidenced by the well-publicized Gary Harrington’s case in Oregon, in which the state criminalized the collection of rainwater in three ponds located on his private land, by convicting him on nine counts and sentencing him for 30 days in jail). Let’s put this criminalization in perspective:
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens owned more water rights than any other individuals in America, with rights over enough of the Ogallala Aquifer to drain approximately 200,000 acre-feet (or 65 billion gallons of water) a year. But ordinary citizen Gary Harrington cannot collect rainwater runoff on 170 acres of his private land.
https://www.popularresistance.org/wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/
Beware when you buy property, it was just mineral rights, now its water, greed has no boundaries.
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This is The Republican Way, Inc.
We will all be consuming corporate GMO-glyphosate food-like 'product'
and begging for thimbles of corporate 'purified' water-like fluid.
And we WILL pay to 'like' it. Or else.
They own San Pellegrino, the only commercial mineral water I like. 
When I found that out, I got a SodaStream and a Brita pitcher. Now I make as much as I want, and it's cheaper (and doesn't line Nestle's pockets)!
Three separate articles on cities with fouled water today in North America alone, and a continuing but completely and TOTALLY hushed up incident happening rather locally.
Three times is enemy action.
I'm sure the self-sufficiency thing is no big deal. Venezuelans, for one, sure do know the power of trusting their government to take care of food supplies! 
I wouldn't give it a second thought.
It was when junior was in office. At the time it was said to be the largest individual water holdings in history and a major tipoff of the coming water wars.
Poor kids being born today are going to have to learn to fight the oligarchy for the barest necessities. 
