Category: Water Sector
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
World Fresh Water Maps / Commodities / Water Sector
By: Richard_Shaw
Fresh water is a fixed quantity. Population and water usage per capita are rising quantities. When the demand exceeds supply, various forces come into play: allocation by price and affordability, efficiency changes, investment in desalination, legal disputes and at some point wars.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Water, an Endangered Global Resource / Commodities / Water Sector
By: Richard_Mills
Our groundwater is being used up at record rates and claims to ownership are becoming increasingly contentious. It won't be long before the first water war begins.
There's a lot of water on the planet we inhabit - an estimated 326 million trillion gallons or 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters.
That makes it hard to believe that there are somewhere between 780 million to one billion people without basic and reliable water supplies and that more than two billion people lack the requirements for basic sanitation.
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Friday, August 03, 2012
Investing in Water Stocks: Profit from the New "Water Market" / Companies / Water Sector
By: Money_Morning
Patrick Vail writes:
Investing in water stocks is about to become one of the hottest trends in 2012.
That's because the days of easy access to cheap commodities are drawing rapidly to a close. In the coming years, the prices of commodities are going to skyrocket - thanks to exponential growth.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
The World's Safest Stocks On Track for Near 10 Percent Annual Earnings Growth / Companies / Water Sector
By: Roger_Conrad
No natural resource is as vital to human life as water. But that doesn’t mean it’s always a profitable investment.
Time and again, water investors have been tripped up by myriad factors, from changing weather patterns to volatile politics. Growing populations and industry degrade watersheds, wetlands, rivers, lakes and other areas critical to safe drinking water supplies.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Investing in Water Stocks: Three Names to Buy Right Now / Companies / Water Sector
By: Money_Morning
Patrick Vail writes:
You've no doubt heard about the building scarcity of water. It's the reason savvy shareholders have been busy investing in water stocks.
Here's why.
Water may be everywhere but only 3% of it is fresh or suitable for drinking. Two-thirds of that is locked in glaciers and polar icecaps, which means less than 1% of the world's fresh water is available for human use.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Multi-Billion Dollar Water Services Industry / Companies / Water Sector
By: Keith_Schaefer
There is a multi-billion dollar water industry forming before investors’ eyes in the oil patch.It’s a huge opportunity for some great capital gains — but changing regulations, and a very attentive mainstream audience questioning business practises which have been in effect for decades, will will make it choppy water for investors.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Dividend-Paying Water Company Stocks Bound to Make a Splash / Companies / Water Sector
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
When it comes to commodities, attention typically focuses on gold and oil. But there's only one commodity that humans truly cannot live without - water.
Water covers nearly three-fourths of the Earth's surface, but 97.5% of that is undrinkable seawater, and 70% of what remains is frozen in glaciers.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
The Geopolitics of Water in the Nile River Basin / Politics / Water Sector
By: Global_Research
Prof. Majeed A. Rahman writes: In Africa, access to water is one of the most critical aspects of human survival. Today, about one third of the total population lack access to water. Constituting 300 million people and about 313 million people lack proper sanitation. (World Water Council 2006). As result, many riparian countries surrounding the Nile river basin have expressed direct stake in the water resources hitherto seldom expressed in the past. In this paper, I argue that due to the lack of consensus over the use of the Nile basin regarding whether or not “water sharing” or “benefit sharing” has a tendency to escalate the situation in to transboundary conflict involving emerging dominant states such as the tension between Ethiopia-Egypt over the Nile river basin. At the same time, this paper further contributes to the Collier- Hoeffler conflict model in order to analyze the transboundary challenges, and Egypt’s position as the hegemonic power in the horn of Africa contested by Ethiopia. Collier- Hoeffler model is used to predict the occurrence of conflicts as a result of empirical economic variables in African states given the sporadic civil strife in many parts of Africa. In order to simplify my argument and analysis, I focused on Ethiopia and Egypt to explicate the extent of water crisis in the North Eastern part of Africa.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Fresh Water Ecological Overshoot / Commodities / Water Sector
By: Richard_Mills
For most of human history we've been consuming resources at a rate lower than what the planet was able to regenerate.
Unfortunately we have crossed a critical threshold. The demand we are now placing on our planets resources appears to have begun to outpace the rate at which nature can replenish them.
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Investing in Water: How to Profit From the World's Most Precious Commodity / Commodities / Water Sector
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
2010 was the year of the commodity. Gold prices soared, copper hit record highs, oil again marched towards $100 a barrel, and many agricultural products doubled in value.
Yet hardly a word was spoken about the world's most precious commodity - water.
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Sunday, October 03, 2010
Doomsday for 30 Million Americans, Who Will Have to Move by 2013 / Companies / Water Sector
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: Earlier this week, the rain hammered down for two days straight here in Pennsylvania. But remarkably, rivers, streams and lakes haven’t risen one iota.
And my son, Noah, hasn’t had to mow the lawn in over a month (something he’s not entirely unhappy about.)
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Peak Oil? Why not Peak Water / Commodities / Water Sector
By: William_Bowles
Peak Oil? Why not Peak Water, after all, water is much more crucial to life than oil ever will be and it's being consumed in vast quantities by the same economic system that chows oil?
In fact, water is a far more potent and relevant symbol of the way capitalism chows the planet than is oil. Although it too is a finite resource, it also a renewable resource through the process of recycling, something that is done by nature in another of its amazing cycles that keep (kept?) the biosphere stable; what we call homeostasis where life, chemistry, physics and geology all meet. Water is thus far more symbolic of the irrationality of capitalist production than is oil, where even a renewable resource is consumed by capitalism.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Profit From the Global Thirst for Clean Water / Stock-Markets / Water Sector
By: Tony_Sagami
About the same time I was traipsing around Singapore last month, around 14,000 of the world’s top business, academic, and government experts from 85 countries gathered in Singapore to learn the newest water-technology developments at the Singapore International Water Week 2010 conference.
The global economy may be filled with uncertainly, but the world’s thirst for water is growing like mad. FACT: A total of $2.8 BILLION worth of water infrastructure deals were concluded at the Singapore conference.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Central Asia's Most Precious Resource is Water, Not Oil / Commodities / Water Sector
By: OilPrice_Com
In every drop of water there is a grain of gold." - Aral proverb
Since the 1991 collapse of the USSR, foreign investors have looked at the former Soviet space as a land rich in underdeveloped resources waiting for Western technology and finance to bring to the world market. Gold from Kyrgyzstan, uranium and oil from Kazakhstan, oil and natural gas from Azerbaijan - all have begun to make their way to the global market, generating rich profits for both their owners and developers.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Global Fresh Water Crisis, Peak Water / Politics / Water Sector
By: James_Quinn
“It should be obvious from simple arithmetic that population growth is on a direct collision course with increasingly scarce resources.”
Jeremy Grantham
The notion of peak water probably sounds crazy to most people. The earth is 70% covered by water. The water cycle replenishes water on a continuous basis. The global warming enthusiasts tell us that glaciers are melting and oceans are rising. This should make water more plentiful.
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
The Worst Global Crisis of All Time / Politics / Water Sector
By: Money_and_Markets
Larry Edelson writes: No, I'm not talking about the global financial crisis. Nor am I talking about the AIG disaster … Citibank's failure … the collapse of GM or Ford. I'm not even referring to the Dow's recent plunge to below 7,000.
Don't get me wrong: I am not minimizing the financial crisis that's affecting people all over the world.
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Monday, February 09, 2009
Fresh Water Investing: California Drought Reveals the “New Oil” / Commodities / Water Sector
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: A few weeks ago, during a particularly bad cold snap, we had a pipe freeze underneath our 200-year-old farmhouse, causing us to go without water for a few days. I eventually managed to unfreeze the pipe, but there was no question it was disruptive for a busy household of four. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
PowerShares Water ETF on the Rise / Companies / Water Sector
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Based on the pattern that has developed since the January spike low at 16.90, the PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio ETF (AMEX: PHO) is heading for the top of its price channels into the vicinity of 21.50/70 prior to the completion of the current upleg off of the 3/17 pivot low (18.11). If rice is in short supply, what about water? I don't know if access to fresh water will be a problem next week or in another 15 years, but that day is approaching. In any case, for my purposes right here, right now, I am looking for 21.50.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Water The Ultimate Liquid Asset / Commodities / Water Sector
By: Money_and_Markets
Sean Brodrick writes: Two centuries ago, people in New England were harvesting a resource for practically nothing and selling it at a fat profit in such distant locales as Calcutta, Martinique and Havana.
As the wheel of history turns around, it may be time to start harvesting and selling that resource again.
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