Thursday, November 19, 2009

How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply

By Yasha Levine, AlterNet
Posted on November 19, 2009, Printed on November 19, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/144020/

A group of water oligarchs in California have engineered a disastrous deregulation and privatization scheme. And they've pulled in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without causing much public outrage. The amount of power and control they wield over California's most precious resource, water, should shock and frighten us -- and it would, if more people were aware of it. But here is the scary thing: They are plotting to gain an even larger share of California's increasingly-scarce, over-tapped water supply, which will surely lead to shortages, higher prices and untold destruction to California's environment.

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