British Government Seeking to Exploit African Water Supplies

Africa has been struggling to gain control over their natural resources for decades. However, corporate interests have kept the nation at war with each other and the US through the instillation of AFRICOM.

This is a country rich in resources that appeal to the global Elite. Under the cloak of AFRICOM, the US government’s agenda is controlling the rich resources in central Africa. 

This area contains enormous deposits of diamonds, cobalt, copper, uranium, magnesium and tin. Over $1 billion dollars of gold is mined each year. This is a prize the global Elite do not want to miss out on.

And now, a discovery in Africa has proved to be yet another natural resource the global Elite can attempt to usurp for themselves.

While 300 million Africans do not have access to safe drinking water, scientists have discovered underground aquifers of water in Africa that are 100 times the amount found on the surface of the continent.

Researchers for the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the University of London have uncovered this resource; and have written a paper in the Environmental Research Letters journal. The created a detailed map of the underground water.

Helen Bonsor, a co-author of the paper, said, “The amount of storage in those basins is equivalent to 75m thickness of water across that area – it’s a huge amount.”

The researchers have designated many countries as a “water source” with untapped potentials of enormous reserves of underground water.

Dr. Alan MacDonald of the BGS and lead author of the study told the BBC: “High-yielding boreholes should not be developed without a thorough understanding of the local groundwater conditions. Appropriately sited and developed boreholes for low yielding rural water supply and hand pumps are likely to be successful.”

Andrew Mitchell, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for International Development is delighted by this find. “This is an important discovery. This research, which the British Government has funded, could have a profound effect on some of the world’s poorest people.”

This discovery could become the largest attempt at water privatization . Water resources worldwide have succumbed to privatization, turning life’s most essential molecule into a global commodity.

Corporations like Coca-Cola and Nestle, through third party corporations True Alaska, have taken excessive amounts of water from water-starved communities, only to bottle it and sell it back to them. Once these corporations purchase the mineral rights to land they own, they turn their privately-owned “city water” into bottled Dasani. The price consumers pay is equivalent to 1000 times its worth.

These multi-national corporations do not care about preserving human rights. They are concerned about profits.

In the 1990’s, the World Bank required numerous impoverished countries (like Africa) to privatize their water supplies as a condition of economic assistance.

This looming possibility makes the discovery from the BGS a threat.

Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food and Water Watch, a non-profit anti-privatization group, said that private utility is a monopoly. Private owners usually neglect the water conversation and environmental regulations in favor for profits.

Ultimately, since water is a necessity for life, it becomes a control over the populations with limited access to it.

Africa could most likely find itself in yet another battle over its natural resources.

This may explain why countries like the US are becoming increasingly hostile toward Africa’s sovereign right to their resources.

By Susanne Posel@OccupyCorporatism.com

The Africa Oasis Project is a concerted effort to provide clean, adequate water for the people of Africa. Many times the answer to this dilemma is just below their feet, but finding and extracting the water is complex and costly. AOP is helping to dig deep or shallow wells in water-challenged communities, while also teaching people how to collect rainwater and other methods of storing water supplies. African leaders are also being trained by AOP on how to care for their wells, about sanitation and personal hygiene, and about irrigation, sewage management, and drought measures.