Making Water From Thin Air


	Making Water From Thin Air

Wisco

12-7-2008 11:23 AM

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Wisco says:

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of corporate types out there who aren't going to like this news. Water is expected to be for the 21st century what oil was for the 20th, so you can imagine that a village-worth of water for 300 bucks is throwing a monkeywrench into a lot of long-range planners long-range plans.

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12-7-2008 11:53 AM

BobbyRutan

Water traded as a commodity. One of the worst aspects of capitalism.

Good for the inventors as long as someone doesn't scoop up the patents and lock it away for eternity.

12-8-2008 6:44 PM

zizzy

The New Economy of Water

One of History’s Great Atrocities: The Corporate Theft of the Public’s Natural Right to Water

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