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    He keeps talking about something called :- World Water Funds
    Any ideas how they can make money with water?????
    Mike

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    Re: Jim Rickards

    Won't make any money around here in NE Tennessee! Nearly 40 inches of rain so far this year. If climate change plays out, we are expected to get around 20 more inches of rain a year on top of the 50 inches we average.

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      Re: Jim Rickards

      I do some more looking today...

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        Re: Jim Rickards

        Some desalination technologies might be investible. I would imagine that it would be better to invest in technologies rather than infrastructure. One of the bigger issues with privatization of infrastructure is that ultimately it could be nationalized anyhow, so even if you were rather right you could still end up being instantly wrong.

        And even when the governments are aligned with privatization, the people may not be
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests

        For those who like to give, there is always http://www.charitywater.org/ which has brought clean drinking water to millions of people & costs ~ $20 per person they help.

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          Re: Jim Rickards

          In the US, all of the Midwest States (Corn & Soy) as well as the Southwest States (Fresh Veggies) are going dry...I've been looking for someone to start something for years, perhaps bringing down water by pipeline from Canada or the Great Lakes. No one is doing much yet, but there are people looking to start.

          http://www.nrdc.org/water/management...es-project.asp

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