Here’s where the neoliberals come to steal your water.

Think I’m exaggerating? Read the article.

This is the first push – at least in the Western world – for water to be privatized. It is couched now in innocuous language like “free water for the users who value it more” but what it means is that water systems will be privatized and the prices will be raised to unaffordability for many Americans.

Else, why would it spend half the article or more talking about consumer use of water, when that is only 10% of total water use? The rest is all agriculture or industry.

To be fair the article does spend time discussing agricultural uses of water which are by far the largest, but spending time talking about domestic water use is sort of like worrying about the cruise ship’s bridge windows being broken while an iceberg tears a jagged gash in the hull.

In other words, reducing consumer demand to zero will barely make a dent.

As I said, what this article is really all about the coming push to privatize water and then extract rents from that effort. This is the propaganda vanguard for that push.

Just as happened with charter schools. And prisons. And so many more things in America and the world.

It’s coming, and it’s probably inevitable.