No doubt water will be on the blocks soon.

[rurallib]

Then I think we are officially a third world country.

[alfredo]

1. That's already happened to us in lexington Ky. RWE from Germany

owns our water.

[Lasher]

3. German company bought our water system here in West Virginia too.

I'm glad I have access to a spring and a well on my property just in case I want to fall back on them.

[alfredo]

4. You part of American Water Works? If you are they are for sale.

The top candidates are investment bankers in Australia, the countries of Qatar, and China.

[Lasher]

5. West Virginia American Water Company

American Water was founded in 1886 as the American Water Works & Guarantee Company and reorganized in 1947 as American Water Works Company, Inc. On January 10, 2003 the company was acquired by RWE, was renamed "American Water," and became a part of RWE's water division.

http://www.illinoisamerican.com/awpr1/wvaw/about_american_water/index.html

We used to have American Water Works Company until we were begat by Germany's RWE 4 years ago. Then the company was renamed just plain ol' American Water Company. Is RWE selling this system or are there remaining American Water Works Company operations elsewhere that are on the block?

[alfredo]

6. They've already sold Thames water, and want to get out of

the water business. We wanted to buy our particular water company, but they refused to sell to us. We put it up to a vote, but they pumped three million into defeating the referendum. They played really dirty with us. They used intimidation and sabotage to win. They would have their thugs follow us, video tape us and block access to our meetings.

[Lasher]

7. Wow, that's interesting!

Sounds like you're with a governmental agency, and not a private company, that was trying to buy the water system back. Is that right? Why were they so determined that they would not sell to you?

[alfredo]

8. Political and they wanted to sell the whole thing, not

piece by piece.

[Kellyiswise]

2. When you look at who is buying, the US will really be owned by foreign nations

from the local districts on up to entire cities. We can't support ourselves and the great war machine at the same time. Instead of investing in our own states and cities and helping the people that live in them we spend 40 billion a day for this Iraq war.

[thingfisher]

9. We are also a part of the globalization plan.

How can nations fullfil their obligations to its citizens while selling off its own infrastructure to foreign investors? This is truly the working out of a corporate owned world system. Nation-states are going the way of city-states. We are evolving or devolving into a homgenized planetary population controlled by those who own the very structures of life support.
The investment bankers are licking their chops and coul;d care less about the consequences of it all. They will be fulfilling their purpose and getting rich along the way.