Chapter 1073 Advance! international brigade
Zelman eloquently talked about a long period of conjectures about water strategy. After he finished speaking, the conference room had an in-depth discussion on the conjectures put forward by the Freshwater Group.
It is hard to say whether the water strategy will become a reality. This is a double-edged sword that hurts both the enemy and the self. However, there is no doubt that the idea of a water strategy will be raised in some countries.
During the Cold War, the arms race between the two camps has pushed the theory of military science and technology to a level that can destroy the earth hundreds of millions of times. Space and supernatural powers have been researched, and they can be seen and touched, and they are inseparable every day. How can we turn a blind eye to the open fresh water.
Thousands of years ago, water attack and poisoning the enemy's drinking water sources were already important means to control the enemy. Today, modern people's methods are only more diverse and imaginative than ancient people's.
Regardless of whether the water strategy will come true, the earth's water resources are not optimistic, and what Zellman said about foreign investment in water companies is actually emerging and happening.
At present, the drinking water problem of the domestic public is not optimistic. Only cities have achieved water supply from water plants. In vast rural areas, water supply is mainly achieved through self-built deep wells and water towers built by village collectives, or drinking water from self-dug wells, streams, and ponds.
In the city, tap water usually has a problem of insufficient water pressure. As long as you live in a higher place, sucking the faucet is often necessary. However, residents living in high-rise buildings often curse the downstairs residents for using water all the time. The experience of the faucet not releasing water.
In rural areas, there is a problem that is not very concerned, that is, the excessive exploitation of groundwater has caused a series of hazards, and the second is sanitation problems. Almost every household will have a water tank, one is for water storage, and the other is for water storage. For precipitation, open the lid of the water tank and take a look inside. Generally, red nematodes can be seen, and sometimes leeches can also be seen.
Children are often told by their parents not to drink unboiled water, which will cause diarrhea.
The investment scale of water engineering is large and the payback period is long. Due to the vast geographical area and large population, domestic water resource allocation is overwhelming for the municipal government, both in terms of personnel and funds. It is a better plan for water companies to cultivate large-scale cross-regional water groups through mergers and acquisitions, overall acquisitions, cross-shareholdings and other forms.
Therefore, last year, the French general water company entered the country and took a stake in a water plant in Tianlong, which opened a new chapter for foreign capital to enter the domestic water supply field. Another French company, Suez, has also been eyeing it and is ready to enter at any time.
[General Water Company, which will be renamed Vivendi in the later period, is the parent company of Blizzard and Ubisoft. Around 2000, it spun off its water supply and waste cleaning business and other public facilities services into Vivendi Environment, and later changed its name to Weili Elegant environment. ×× Veolia Water Services Co., Ltd., is the signboard with white letters on a blue background familiar? This paragraph is off-topic, from God's perspective, Nanyi doesn't know. ]
It is hard to say whether the general water company has other purposes besides purely commercial interests when it enters the country. From the perspective of commercial interests, the income from investing in water plants is still good.
For Nan’s who need to make risky portfolio investments and try to avoid the collective collapse of their investments, the large investment scale and long payback period are not a big disadvantage, as long as the target country’s policy continuity is good and within the cost recovery period , There will be no two-level reversal of the policy, and the funds can be invested.
The best business in this world is a monopoly business. As long as a certain field is monopolized, the service quality can reach the bottom limit, the profit can touch the upper limit, and the frogs can be boiled in warm water. Continuously carry out show operations, the price keeps moving, and it will become an S for a while, and it will become a B for a while.
Small steps up to 20 cents, down to a big price cut of 2 cents, as long as the show operation fools consumers into fools, the money is huge, and at the end of the day, consumers will sing "Thank you Lennon" in chorus with tears in their eyes.
There is no capital that would dislike monopoly business. In order to obtain monopoly benefits, capital will be almost crazy. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the wind of free economy was blown from Britain and the United States to the world. Free economic theory emphasizes that efficiency is the core of the economy, and the best way to maximize efficiency is to make it market-oriented and privatized.
In the mid-1980s, the privatization trend in Europe was out of control, and soon became the mainstream of the world.
A guy named Michael Hudson once said: "The liberalization that the United States is pushing is not to promote real innovation or development, and its interest is not in creating new wealth, but in the name of liberalization to take over the third world already Some people’s wealth, such as resources, real estate, or the monopoly of public services such as water, electricity, and transportation, in order to make huge profits.”
If it weren't for someone behind this guy, Nanyi would have sent someone to warn him not to meddle in his own business.
Liberalization is not only a feast for capital, but also a feast for the realization of power for the power aristocrats of some countries. Families that are showing signs of decline and whose power is no longer possible to pass on from generation to generation can take this opportunity to continue in certain fields. Under the premise of wearing the cloak of publicization, the deeply hidden power realization type privatization is carried out.
Under the wind of liberalization, a new idea was born, that is, everything can be sold as a commodity, even some aspects of human life that were considered sacrosanct in the past, such as health, the right to education, culture and tradition, Genetic codes and seeds, and even natural resources including air and water, can be treated as commodities.
The wave of liberalization can blow to the water sector. It is hard to say whether it has been affected by "new ideas", but what is certain is that it must have been affected by the World Bank.
The World Bank has always been an active promoter of water privatization. Economists supported by the World Bank have put forward a scientific and rigorous statement: the root cause of the water crisis in the world today is that water is too cheap, almost equal to free, and water is wasted in large quantities by people. It is only necessary to let the water price reflect the cost to make people cherish water, which must be regulated through the market mechanism.
"Liberal" economists also used this to tailor a set of economic liberal policies for monopoly capital, which was named "Washington Consensus" by a man named John Williamson. This consensus has been favored by the International Monetary Fund, which has been serving as a voluntary promoter, sparing no effort to promote it to countries all over the world.
Seeing that the "international" was alone and alone, the World Bank hummed "Forward!" "International Column", holding a photo of Marina Ginesta in her hand, holding hands with the International Monetary Fund to echo, and has never stopped promoting privatization and marketization.
In the meeting room, Nanyi and his group retreated for a while. They were not in a hurry to discuss how fresh water investment should invest in the water sector. Instead, they discussed "should drinking water be regarded as a human right or just a human need" .
If it is only human needs, it is best to be met by the market and private enterprises. Eighty years ago, "people-oriented" was already one of the important purposes of Nan's, and meeting "all the needs of people" has always been what Nan's strives for Of course, the small matter of drinking water is also included.
A bit messy, and only so far.