thanks to HW (Poppy) Bush, much of the U.S. water is owned by Germany

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" Lisa " <mail4me1951

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[DitzisDumpster] thanks to HW (Poppy) Bush, much of the U.S.

water is owned by Germany

 

thanks to HW (Poppy) Bush, much of the nations water is owned by

another country?? Namely Germany since 2001, and now it's for sale

again.........

 

 

What states?

 

 

_http://www.awwa.org/sections/_ (http://www.awwa.org/sections/)

 

 

_http://www.awwa.org/Sections/seccont.cfm_

 

(http://www.awwa.org/Sections/seccont.cfm)

 

 

 

AMERICAN WATER WORKS IS FOR SALE - AGAIN

 

Joyce Morrison

 

April 18, 2006

 

NewsWithViews.com

 

RWE AG, a German owned utility company purchased the American Water

Works in

 

2001 for 7.6 billion. The American Water Works was founded in 1886 and

 

serves 1,300 communities in 23 states from the East Coast to the West

Coast.

 

RWE now has AWW up for sale and U.S. Mayors are saying " we want

control of

 

our own water. "

 

At the time RWE purchased AWW, California questioned if regulators could

 

hold multinational utilities to state and local laws under

international trade

 

agreements?

 

RWE/ Thames Water, which is a subsidiary located in England, promised

that

 

the customers would not have to pay for the $7.6 billion cost of

buying AWW.

 

They told those concerned this debt would be paid off through a

60-year growth

 

strategy. However, some areas have been protesting AWW's unusually

high rate

 

increases and declining maintenance.

 

Illinois has been a leader in taking back local control of the water.

Other

 

states are joining the battle. Tennessee and Kentucky are loudly voicing

 

their desire to take their water systems back under local control.

 

Mayor Laurel Prussing of Urbana, IL spoke out at RWE's annual shareholder

 

meeting in Essen Germany on April 13. Prussing told the group, " Our

experience

 

in Illinois has taught us that we need local control of our water

systems. We

 

are willing to pay a fair price, and we believe investors will

benefit more

 

from selling to us than by wasting money on a political war while

neglecting

 

much-needed maintenance. "

 

April 5, a water system legislation bill passed both houses in Illinois.

 

This legislation will help Champaign, Urbana, Pekin and other

Illinois towns

 

acquire their local water systems by the use of eminent domain

without having to

 

go through the Illinois Commerce Commission.

 

This bill will give local municipalities the opportunity to own their own

 

water systems without the approval of the ICC.

 

Bollingbrook, Homer Glen and Plainfield in Illinois are exploring a joint

 

purchase of their communities' water utility according to _Food and

Water

 

Watch_

 

(http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/publications/reports/rwe-thames-water-a-corpor\

ate-profile)

.. A letter of intent has been signed by the mayors of the

 

three cities regarding their concerns about Illinois American Water

Work's

 

service and billing practices.

 

Questions are being raised whether RWE will sell their AWW assets

piecemeal

 

or as a whole. How will this sale effect contracts such as the one

with the

 

US Department of Defense for the privatization of utilities of Fort

Bragg,

 

North Carolina?

 

RWE is a huge energy company owning more than 640 subsidiaries in 120

 

countries. Reports are they want to focus on energy which is their

primary

 

industry.

 

Germany is not the only foreign nation to own water in the United States.

 

France also owns a number of local water systems.

 

There is growing concern regarding the infrastructure of the United

States

 

being sold to foreign countries. Chicago became the first U.S. government

 

entity to lease a toll way to private investors. Last year the city

negotiated a

 

deal with a 99 year contract on the 7.8 mile Chicago Skyway with a

 

Spanish-Australian group for $1.83 billion.

 

Negotiations have been under way for Indiana to sign a lease with the

same

 

Spanish-Australia partnership to operate the 157 mile toll road known

as the " Main Street of the Midwest. " This strip runs along the

state's northern

 

border and is strategic for linking the East Coast to Chicago.

 

Where should the United States draw the line on privatization? Are we

 

selling our security with our infrastructure?

 

Privatization of our… " roads, tunnels, bridges, electricity supply

 

facilities, mass transit, rail transportation, airports, ports,

waterways, water

 

supply facilities… " was legalized when President George H. W. Bush signed

 

Executive Order 12803, April 30, 1992. Private buyers were assumed to

be " American "

 

but now we know any corporation or any country can buy America and

 

apparently some in government as well, according to Nick Ivanovich in

his article,

 

Exporting Security.

 

We have become conditioned to the global marketing concept. Our

children are

 

told they are " global citizens, " and we are responsible for the global

 

environment, global economy and global equity. Finally, we discover

we are no

 

longer a sovereign nation as we ride the slippery slope to globalism.

 

We find ourselves facing an oil crisis because of our dependency on

foreign

 

nations. There is an obvious effort to push farmers off the land and

import

 

our food from foreign countries. Will we find ourselves facing the

same situation with our water?

 

 

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on

the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We

know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that

we know about living.

-- General Omar Bradley

 

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