Bush Family Buy Up Guarani Aquifer
Bush family
Mexico
water supply
Published in La Jornada (Mexico) on 10 June 2015 by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme [link to original]
Translated from Spanish by Jenny Westwell. Edited by Alison Lacey.
Posted on June 18, 2015.
Jo-Shing Yang, the environmental consultant dedicated to investigating the Wall Street megabanks’ efforts to buy up global water resources, has turned his attention to the nepotistic Bush family dynasty, whose purchases of 121,407 hectares of land just happen to be located on part of the Guarani Aquifer System. The groundwater reservoir is the largest [renewable freshwater] resource in the world, with an expanse of more than 1.2 million square kilometers and a volume of 40,000 cubic kilometers of water.
http://watchingamerica.com/WA/2015/06/18/bush-family-buy-up-guarani-aquifer/