vital war, reason: water control

Global Water Wars: Privatization and fracking "human right" to "affordability" of water privatization flap does not solve the global thirst, but commodified. We must dare to go beyond the primitive and vulgar "market" to deal a blow to citizen helm and, above all, a humanist, that transcends water as a "right of survivorship".

The international analyst and blogger Telesur Alfredo Jalife presents on Thursday his book The Global Water Wars: Privatization and Fracking, a story that sends a humanistic message to the growing threat of US transnational that . Seeking to seize the vital fluid
"The water can not be seen as a financial cost, we are not talking about oil, but vital liquid.

Water should be treated as a right of survival ", so displays the Mexican analyst, of Lebanese origin, specializing in international relations, economics, geopolitics and globalization. Khalife said exclusively for the website Telesur, which at the present time the water is of a global war.

"While in the twentieth century was the oil, water XXI century". "If we let the multinationals take over the water, tomorrow we will charge the right to breathe" , summoned specialist writer 13 other books. Khalife said the current situation is precarious and not only mercantilist matter, but of survival.

"America is taking advantage of the water crisis that is recorded from North Africa to Central Asia where the most vulnerable countries are Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan .

In Mexico, for example, we have the worst scenario for the country, but the best for the US "Privatization The issue of water privatization has led to an increase of 400 percent on average worldwide.

Jalife explains that there are two approaches to shovel the situation of water crisis: the humanistic and the market. "The focus of the market we are currently experiencing in Mexico." In eastern Mexico City there are about 15 million inhabitants and is the area most affected by their settlements and the presence of multinationals that seek to charge up the uptake of rainwater. "Here we have a citizens' revolt, because we are talking about big business, because there are three that are driving transnational privatization together with the World Bank, who are seeing that water is the white gold of the century ", he said. fracking

Regarding the hydraulic fracturing with the US pierces the ground to extract the shale gas highlighted the large amounts of water and there is again needed, as in Monterrey Mexican border with the US Mexico is the third global power in terms of shale gas reserves, second Argentina and China first.

It is for this reason that Washington seeks to take over this natural source of seeking to divert a river to bring water to the area. "This is the fracking, the hinge two privatizations, oil and water."

Warning that this will not stop, Wall Street needs to be a predator to support the stock market, he pointed