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In 1993, the World Bank published a Policy Paper, titled, "Water Resources Management." The intent of the water management laid out in the Policy Paper, is to gain control of humanity by gaining control of the water.
The following Analysis of the World Bank's Policy Paper was written by a friend of Rumor Mill News. This is the first time it has been released on the Internet. It was scanned, using an OCR program. It has been proofed many times. Hopefully, all the mistakes were caught.
This is an extremely important article -- please send it far and wide --
Rayelan
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An Analysis
of
THE WORLD BANK* WATER POLICY
*(International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) which
was originally set up to rebuild Europe after the devastation of
World War II.
Why does the World Bank have its hands in everybody's business
and personal life around the world?
Remember George Orwell's warning when reading any document:
"You can read people's intentions by their use of the language. If
the words are so long and fuzzy that we cannot understand what is
being said, or if we can surmise that they are saying nothing at all . .
. . . we can be fairly sum the speaker is trying to swindle us!"
Well folks. . the international elitists are calling for what they say is a
new approach to how they manage your water. In fact their plan
calls for managing your water, your land, and you!
The WORLD BANK "claims" that their overall objective is to
reduce poverty. Now that's very interesting. Why is the WORLD
BANK involved in "social engineering"?
In fact, all of the WORLD BANK programs are involved in
redistribution of land, resources and wealth! It would appear that the
wonderful folks at the WORLD BANK are ignoring the truism --
"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day ... teach him how to fish
and he will learn to feed himself."
Of course if their real objective is to starve all of us, they're on the
right track to:
Land starvation, Resources starvation, and Wealth starvation!
Who does the WORLD BANK blame for all this poverty and
starvation? Why, all the current governments of course.
The WORLD BANK specifically points out the total
mismanagement of water by all the governments. Explaining of
course that the BANK is destined to be the savior of the water. . All
the water ... Everywhere!
The WORLD BANK will use "Estimated Opportunity
Costs"(EOC)* to set the price for water!
*The WORLD BANK defines EOC as"the value of goods or
services forgone, including goods and services, when a scarce
resource is used for one purpose instead of for its next best
alternative use"
How's that for a mouthful of fuzzy words? .... Heed George
Orwell's warning!
The WORLD BANK "claims" that all the current. governments
have the following faults:
1 . Mis-allocate and waste water. [page 9]
2. Permit damage to the environment due to weak and distorted
policies.
3. Neglect financial accountability. [page27]
4. Neglect user participation.
5. Charge too low a price for water. (They aren't charging for
"Estimated Opportunity Costs.")
6. Ineffective delivery of water to users, especially the poor.
[page 12]
7. Operate under centralized structure.
The WORLD BANK then makes the following proclamations:
1 . Water is essential for life. (Now here's a bold statement of the
obvious!)
2. Water has an Economic Value and is recognized as an Economic
Good. (p. 24]
3. Water is a scarce natural resource. [page 21]
(I believe the old saying is: "Figures don't lie but LIARS figure." i.e.
using half truths.)
Get ready for all kind of "fees" regarding water ...
Especially since the WORLD BANK will be certain to charge a
"high enough proper" price for water. (And you thought Perrier was
expensive!)
1. SOCIAL FEES: Those who have worked hard to better
themselves will have to come up with subsidies for the poor.
[pages 15, 72]
2 BENEFIT TAXES: If you receive any benefit whatsoever
from your land, you will be taxed on that "benefit." [page 85]
3. POLLUTION CHARGES: You will be charged a pollution tax
for any pollution on your land. [page 16]
[The poop left by your pet on your land is going to cost you big
time!]
The WORLD BANK wants to terminate, (with extreme prejudice),
the federal structure in all countries. The WORLD BANK will not
permit sovereign states within a "Federal Structure" to have any
authority over the water. The WORLD BANK plans to do this by
replacing all country and state political boundaries with geographical
RIVER BASINS BOUNDARIES. [page 28,71]
The WORLD BANK plan calls for the transfer by contract of all
water jurisdiction by governments to Private Corporations and "User
Associations" These corporations and user associations will of
course be mandated to meet all WORLD BANK regulations and
prohibitions. [page 11]
[These "Private" entities will operate at the River Basin level. States
will NOT have any control. Please note that a "river basin" includes
all surface and underground water flowing into a common area.
They simply march from the wetlands, up the river, up the
streams, to the headwaters which are typically runoff or springs.
This includes any water in the ground along the way, and any land
which would allow water to run into the river basin "area". By the
way, the WORLD BANK requires an environmental impact and
assessment of the entire river basin system. The "river basin"
organizations will be assisted by the Global Environmental Facility
in collaboration with UNDP, the United Nations Development
Program.] [page 14,19]
These WORLD BANK contracts will comply with each country's
national objectives which are of course the objectives of the
WORLD BANK. The WORLD BANK "objectives" are stipulated
in the water project loan agreements for country. The WORLD
BANK water projects loans clearly spell out that--
"In acceptance of the monies of the WORLD BANK, the countries
MUST participate in the international initiatives": i.e. United
Nation's Conventions, Treaties, Agreements, and they MUST
implement the WORLD BANK Policies on WATER and LAND
USE!!!!!! [page 13]
The WORLD BANK Water Resources Management Program is
structured similar to a Medieval Feudal system. The WORLD
BANK is at the top of the pyramid as the Lord and Master dictating
how the water will be used through "Demand Management."
Demand Management consists of:
1. Price-based incentives to enforce low water usage. (How's that
for a fancy way to say raise the price to whatever level it takes to
achieve the WORLD BANK goals.)
2. Water Rationing.
3. Water restrictions on specific usage. (Determined by the
WORLD BANK of course).
Beijing, China is given as an example:
1. Quotas on water consumption
2. Fines on excessive water use
As outrageous as the following may sound, it is a quote by David
Rockefeller:
"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously
succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated
administration, but also in fostering high moral and community of
purpose. The SOCIAL EXPERIMENT in China under Chairman
Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in
human history."
[Quote after visiting Mao Tse-Tung. . . ."From a China Traveler,"
New York Times August 10, 1973]
Please read David Rockefeller's quote once more just to get a
glimpse into the distorted mind of a true elitist. One wonders how
the dead or jailed victims of Tiananmen Square would evaluate
Chairman Mao's Social Experiment?
The Framework for the WORLD BANK Water Resource
Management is consistent with two documents.
1. The 1992 Dublin, Ireland statement from the International
Conference on Water and the Environment (UN). [page 10]
This insidious but "friendly sounding" document has four guiding
principles:
A. The Holistic approach tying social and economic development
with Protection of Natural Ecosystems including Land and Water
LINKAGES across catchment areas or groundwater aquifers.
B. Use of a "participatory approach" with users, planners, and
policy-makers input. (Please be aware that they are talking about the
"consensus" method where the final decision has already been
decided by the "facilitator" and the participants only function is to
be led by the facilitator to say yes to the pre-determined "decision")
C. The women in each community are to be given the
"responsibility" for providing, managing, and safeguarding the water
according to the WORLD BANK policy. [page 16]
[The WORLD BANK is using the "empowerment of women" as
their carrot on a stick to entice the women of the world to go along
with the WORLD BANK scheme. The WORLD BANK is using
the standard Sun Tzu tactic of "divide and conquer." This can be
seen in many areas where a wedge is being driven between men and
women]
D. Water has an economic value and is an economic good. [How
much water would you use at $ 1.00 per gallon?] .... and if that's not
high enough to reduce your total water usage, the WORLD BANK
will raise the price to what ever it takes to reduce your water usage
to their preset level of 40 liters/person/day. That's 10.57
gallons/person/day for ALL water usage. (from Agenda 21, "Fresh
Water") "Full cost recovery" is mandated by the WORLD BANK to
properly compensate the "Water Agencies"
2. AGENDA 21 from the 1992 United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development (Earth Summit 11) is using the
guiding principle of Demand Management to control the use and
distribution of water by:
The use of Price, Volume Restrictions, and (Invasive) Regulations.
The WORLD BANK supports land use policies that restore and
"protect" the quality of ground water, E.D.I., the Economic
Development Institute division of the WORLD BANK, will train
and supply the planners, managers, technicians, and country policy
analysis. This of course means that "Resettlement of People" will be
required. [page 17]
[Although the WORLD BANK tries to soft peddle this feature of
their plan, it is occurring around the globe.]
The WORLD BANK works with the following U.N. Organizations
(page 22]
UNDP The UN Development Program.
RE: Water Resource Management
FAO Thee Food & Agricultural Organization.
RE: Sustainable Agriculture
WHO The World Health Organization
RE: Quality of Water
UNICF The UN International Children's Fund.
RE: Rural Communities
WMO The World Meteorological Organization.
RE: Hydro Assessment
UNESCO The UN Educational, Scientific & Cultural Org
RE: Protected Land
UNEP The UN Environmental Program
RE: Protected Ecosystems
UNDESD The UN Dept. of Economic & Social Development
RE: Its Science, Technology, Energy,
Environment, and Natural Resources Division formulates policies
and projects including RURAL WATER SUPPLY, RIVER
BASINS, POLLUTION CONTROL, and hosts the Intersecretariat
Group for water resources.
The largest users of water ----
Agriculture 69% (Worldwide) [page 26]
Agriculture 80% (Third World Countries)
Industry 23%
Household 8%
The WORLD BANK states that Agriculture uses too much water.
They also claim that cattle (in fact all gazing animals), are the
leading cause of desertification. i.e. turning the land into a desert!
[Now this is the largest load of cow pie I've heard in a long time.
The "cubicle freaks" who live in the dark bowels of the WORLD
BANK and come up with nonsense like this have obviously never
been past the city limits. Cow manure is fertilizer. The land grows
better with fertilizer. People in the city are more than happy to bring
home several bags of this "fertilizer" for their home lawns, flower &
vegetable gardens.]
The WORLD BANK claims that farmers & ranchers do not pay
enough for water. The most water intensive crops are alfalfa, rice,
sugarcane, and corn for silage (livestock feed). [page 301
The WORLD BANK feels that farmers & ranchers should be
charged 300% to 500% more!
In addition, the WORLD BANK states that when water is diverted
upstream for irrigation and other uses, downstream areas that
support "sensitive water dependent ecosystems, including wetlands,
become less able to fulfill these valuable biodiversity functions.
[page 34]
[That's right folks, all you humans are in the way of the grand plan
of the WORLD BANK]
The WORLD BANK calls for the DE-CENTRALIZATION of
water management. They claim that the problem is that each
different water use is managed by a separate department i.e.
irrigation, municipal, power & transportation. Then, in classic
"fuzzy" worded language, they call for ecological, social, and
economic water system policy & regulations to be dictated by the
WORLD BANK. [page 27] [Gee, that sure sounds like
centralized management to me!]
The WORLD BANK claims that it is difficult to solve water
problems when state or local governments have authority over the
water. [page 28] [Those darn constitutional folks are always getting
in the way of a tyrant on the march.]
The WORLD BANK feels it would be a lot easier to achieve its
goals if a national water agency following the WORLD BANK plan
were to run the water policy through lower levels of government,
community organizations, private sector units and NGO's. [page
28,30]
I know its hard to wade through the fuzzy language but here we go
again.... [page 42]
Per the WORLD BANK; within a decentralized central system,
adequate charges ($) would endow the WORLD BANK water
entities with operational and financial ($) independence. [It's real
easy folks, we pay the water entity for Whatever water they will sell
us at whatever price they choose. They operate in collaboration with
the IUCN with complete impunity.... On January 18, 1996, by
Executive Order # 12986, President Clinton gave diplomatic
immunity to IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature and Natural Resources, and its umbrella land & water
organizations..... CAN YOU SPELL TYRANNY ?]
The WORLD BANK wants Institutional Reform. [page 14, 44]
They want to ensure that their rules and regulations are coordinated
and ENFORCED! They state that historical private and local water
rights need to be brought into compliance. [In other words, the
WORLD BANK doesn't believe that you know how to use your
water properly]
The WORLD BANK states that the rights to water need to be
clearly defined, with due concern shown for the interests of
indigenous people, the poor, and other disadvantaged groups. [Now
that's more fuzzy, snake-tongue talk. Our wonderful Secretary of
the Interior Bruce Babbett tried to buy the water rights of the Ute
Indian Nation for $272 Million! Fortunately the Indians learned
their lesson after the beads-for-land-deal. The Ute Indians just said
NO!]
The WORLD BANK then goes on to say that they need to be in
charge of the water because otherwise, bad people might try to form
a water monopoly! [And exactly what would you call what the
WORLD BANK is trying to do .... ?] Then the WORLD BANK
goes on to repeat that the "River Basin Organizations" need to have
"dictatorial" water policy power!
The WORLD BANK points to the French Water System which has
been in place for 25 years. There are 6 river basin financial agencies
which collect fees, implement policy, and make grants and loans.
The 1st fee is based on the amount of water use . The 2nd fee is
based on the level of pollution at each point source. The regulation
& enforcement is done by National Ministries. [page 46] [This is
supposed to be an example of de-centralization???]
Water is rated according to its "usage value". [Page 31, 48]
Highest Value Water Usage: Wetlands, Ecosystems, River Fisheries,
Deltas [page34]
High Value Water Usage: Domestic, Industrial [page 48]
Low Value Water Usage: Agriculture [page 31]
Of course the WORLD BANK determines what is high or low
value water usage. In order to save water for the wetlands, the
WORLD BANK suggests that people, [just us common folks of
course], drink processed toilet & sewer water. The WORLD BANK
euphemistically refers to this activity as "water reuse in various
economic activities." [page73]
The WORLD BANK states that they have increased their focus on
issues such as poverty alleviation, resettlement, and women's roles in
development. [page 131]
[This sure is a massive departure from their initial stated role as
rebuilder of war damaged Europe. Again, their actual name is
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND
DEVELOPMENT]
The WORLD BANK, using their standard "smoke & mirrors"
technique, is promoting women's traditional role in securing water,
and their potential role in "educational training" and informed
participation in planning development projects. [page 62]
[Remember the "retraining" camps in Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam,
and China.]
On page 121 of the WORLD BANK water policy manual they state
that their policy is to be open about its activities. [This is totally
inconsistent with their actual policy. One is faced with the no
admittance statement "FORBIDDEN" when trying to retrieve the
WORLD BANK water policy manual on their internet site. After
reading their water policy manual I understand why!]
In order to create the illusion that the local or federal government is
in charge of the water, the WORLD BANK Water Policy has a
section entitled:
"The Case for Government Involvement in Water Management"
[Page 28] In regards to River Basins, the WORLD BANK states
that 7 The uses of H2O within a river basin or aquifer are
interdependent. Pollution by one user affects others in the basin,
especially located downstream. All users of H2O are to agree to the
'rules of the game' (i.e. User Associations). "
[At first glance this sounds like it makes sense. i.e. everybody
working together to have clean water etc. However, remember that,
the WORLD BANK creates the rules. And like the satirical version
of the "Golden Rule" motto "He who has the gold, makes the
rules."
In this case, "He who has the water makes the rules", and rules your
life ... That is unless you've discovered a way to get along without
water!]
"If the land owners will not join a User Association, then the
government WILL impose REGULATIONS, TAXES, or BOTH.
This would improve the social value of H20 resources"
In other words,
The WORLD BANK will use the government as its POLICE FORCE!
(Once again, remember George Orwell's warning)
The following is a quote by Carl Bloice, a close friend of Mikhail
Gorbachev, and a leading U.S. Communist. He was the Associate
Editor and Moscow correspondent for the People's Daily World.
"The Environmental Movement promises to bring greater numbers
into our orbit than the 'Peace Movement' ever did."
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To obtain a copy of the insidious World Bank Water Policy:
The World Bank"Water Policy Paper" 1993 International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development /THE WORLD BANK
1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433 U.S.A.
First printing September 1993 Third printing August 1995
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN
0-8213-2636-8ISSN 1014-8124
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