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The promising water market is shaping up to be the world's next casino. The financial giants are already fighting to seize this new "blue gold". Freezing investigation into the next speculative bubble.
Global warming, pollution, demographic pressure, extension of agricultural areas: everywhere in the world, the demand for water explodes and the supply becomes scarce. By 2050, one in four people will live in a country affected by shortages. After gold and oil, "blue gold", the most coveted resource on the planet, is fueling the appetites of financial giants, who are betting on its rising value, a source of staggering profits. Today, banks and investment funds - Goldman Sachs, HSBC, UBS, Allianz, Deutsche Bank or BNP - are working to create promising markets in this sector and to speculate, strangely, with the support of 'Environmental NGOs. Those who buy water "to return it to nature", seeing in this new liberal order a means of protecting the environment. In Australia, the hottest continent on the planet, this commodification of water has already forced bankrupt farmers into industrial agriculture, and California imitates this model. Faced with this formidable offensive, launched in Great Britain as early as Thatcher, citizen resistance is organizing to defend the right to water for all and sanctuarize this limited vital resource, on which 10 billion people on Earth will depend on the horizon. 2050.
The price of life
From Australia to Europe and the United States, this investigation deciphers for the first time the threats of the freezing revolution underway for people and the planet. Nourished by testimonies from the field, the film also shows the fight, at the same time political, economic and environmental, that the apostles of the financialization of fresh water are fighting against and those, ordinary citizens or European cities, who resist this drift, considering its access as a universal right, moreover recognized by the UN in 2010. While the battle for free access is already lost, the cynicism of the players of this new world casino, with a carnivorous smile, makes one shudder, one of them letting go: "It is not because water is life that it should not have a price."
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