Topic > The hidden sides of water wars - 1014

In 1995, the vice president of the World Bank, Ismail Serageldin, said: “If the wars of this century were fought for oil, the wars of the next century would be fought on the water.” Unfortunately, the water war had already begun and he, among many others, is a major part of it. This war is specifically about the privatization of water in the poorest countries and is dominated by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the WTO, the G7 countries and the large water companies. They are capable of making themselves the victims and the poor the villains in the eyes of the public. On top of that they leave those they take in unable to go back or resist. As long as the war over water continues, these great powers will see this as an opportunity to make money and will not allow anyone to interfere with their plans, even if they have to trample on them to make themselves look good. To hide any trace of greed, great powers will always look for a way to make them look like heroes. In the late 1990s the International Monetary Fund worked with large water companies to “minimize poverty.” But this was not the case and the opposite happened. These large companies install high-tech systems such as the card systems in Orange Farm, Africa, which must be loaded with money to get water. These people who had nothing could not pay such taxes. It has left many people helpless despite their empty words of kindness. US President Lyondon Johnson once said in 1966: "It should be clear that we are in a race to disaster. Either the world's water needs will be met, or the inevitable will result in mass starvation, mass epidemics and mass poverty greater than anything we know today." With these words he launched the "Water for Peace" program... middle of the paper... to privatize their water. By choosing to survive many things are lost, including their culture and traditions. In India, people used to give free water to people on the streets, but now that the water is owned they are not willing to give up their good. Their water conservation and harvesting strategies have also been lost. For this reason, even if the water company returned control to the citizens, they would not be able to maintain the source. Water is sacred, without water there is no life. Companies have understood this and are taking advantage of those who cannot protect themselves. They trample these kinds of people to get up and in the process corner them and let them die. They will never stop their money project as long as the water market is prosperous, no matter how many countries and people they have to go through..