Re: looming water scarcity

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:34 18/12/00 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote:
> I mentioned several times during our
> earlier discussions about energy
> shortages that water would be an even
> more severe problem in future.  Now
> achieve foreign policy honchos are
> coming to support me.
>
> 2015 Outlook: Enough Food, Scarce Water,
> Porous Borders
> By ELAINE SCIOLINO New York Times 18
> December 2000
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/18/world/18THRE.html?pagewanted=all
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> The 70-page report is one result of an unusual 15-month collaboration
> between the National Intelligence Council, a sort of analytical think tank
> of senior intelligence officials that works alongside the C.I.A., and
> dozens of outside scientific, diplomatic and corporate experts. It is not
> a traditional intelligence report based on classical intelligence sources
> and methods.


How subtly do the friends of the CIA discuss the struggle for monopoly
capitalist control of this scarce global resource, and the interaction
between "legitimate" profits of private companies and state interests?

Presumably it is fine when a Latin American state mortgages control of its
water supply to foreign capital, levying water dues on the population to
pay for interest on the finance capital, but the USA as a state, has other
perspectives.

How smoothly does the report deal with these  contradictions?



Chris Burford

London