have the Water Barons made their first big move? Framing the issue?

[donsu]

this morning c-span had Jim Thebaut on pushing a docu movie called Running Dry

they want to put the movie on in every country of the world and in schools and will make a CD and dvd of it for sale.

it's about water being used up and water being polluted.

they are pushing conservation.

but, but, but - funding for it seems to be coming from a water baron.

are the water barons framing the problem?

Thebaut didn't have enough answers in my opinion.

seems like people were to conserve (so the corps. won't have to?).

Yes, we need to converse and take action about the world's water supply but this whole thing with Thebaut and Running Dry doesn't have a clean feel to it.

(what really should be out in every country is information about peak oil)

does anyone know about Thebaut and Running Dry?

[trotsky]

1. Sure sounds like something they'd pull.

"You can't trust public water! You MUST buy from us!"

Whip up the scare, profit on the fear. The standard M.O.

[skids]

2. Hrm...

One of the plot devices from last night's West Wing was a water conservation bill... coincidence?

[donsu]

3. interesting - they said they just put up a website today

nt

[liveoaktx]

4. Influencing public opinion for CHARGING for water

http://www.chroniclesgroup.org/

I saw a documentary on PBS last year, POV: Thirst http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/thirst/special_california.html , about a city in California,Stockton, that had given over water as a public utility to a water baron company. The mayor of that city sold the city out for kicks, the activists sued, and I think, lost.

The real question is-shouldn't water be PUBLIC as opposed to PRIVATELY owned?