Who is driving water privatization?
The 2030 Water Resources Group (2030 WRG) has more than 1,000 partners worldwide, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, Nestle, Unilever, etc. According to a report by the human rights organization "Fahamu," the 2030 WRG contributes to driving forward "systemic change." What critics say amounts to this: through privatization, people are literally having their water taken away from under their feet. The groundwater level is sinking to unreachable depths for farmers and local residents in some regions due to pumping operations.
People who see the UN-recognized human right to water seriously threatened by these processes point out that this is an example of efforts by water corporations to interfere in legitimate, democratic water policy. "The Water Resources Group is in a conflict of interest with the World Bank's goal of reducing poverty. Furthermore, it pursues an approach to water management that is incompatible with the human right to water as recognized by the United Nations," according to a statement from the human rights organization Fahamu.
Peter Brabeck made Nestle's water bottle division the largest in the world as Nestle's chief executive, was chairman of the "2030 Water Resource Group" which is officially supported by Nestle, and today he is, after Klaus Schwab, the second most important man at the World Economic Forum (WEF), probably the most influential gathering of international business elites that civilization has ever seen.
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