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Saturday, June 10, 2006 ------------------------- - Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink,
- How to weatherproof your investments as the hurricane
seasons looms on the horizon,
- A return to coal, the flailing dollar, all the week's
markets and plenty more...
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by Joel Bowman Parched would be an understatement to describe how I feel
after my Saturday morning Brooklyn Bridge run just now. I
haven't been for a few weeks and my poor legs are certainly
in a world of hurt. Fortunately for me, I live in a country
where I can swing by the store on the way back and pick up
a bottle of water. More people than you think do not enjoy
such a privilege. Water is the single most important resource on the earth.
It is also the most undervalued resource on Earth. That's
why a few little known water stocks posses potential for
savvy investors. Over the last century, water usage on a
global level has increased six-fold - twice the rate of
population growth over the same period...and demand is not
about to wane. Water has been mismanaged for so long that
shortages around the world are reaching alarming levels and
both the public and the private sector are beginning to pay
attention. Although 70% of the world's surface is covered by water,
only 2.5% of it is potable, and most of that is trapped in
the polar caps and far beneath the earth's surface.
According to the World Health Organization, less than 1% of
the world's freshwater, or 0.007% of all the water on
Earth, is readily available for human consumption. The world's most valuable resource, water is vital for
sustaining virtually all forms of life. Aside from
immediate consumption, it is a critical component in
agriculture, industry, sterilization, sanitization and
countless other applications. Agriculture alone accounts
for 70% of all water consumption. Allocate a further 22%
for industry and only 8% is left for direct human
consumption. According to the United Nations World Water Development
Report, population growth is expected to demand 55% more
food by the year 2030. That leaves a rapidly expanding
global population left to share a seriously dwindling
supply of a resource it cannot survive without. 
One need not look far to find the extreme effects of water
shortage already being experienced around the world. Almost one fifth the global population – about 1.2 billion
people – are currently without access to safe drinking
water and almost half the world's population lack adequate
purification systems. This shortage is mostly concentrated
in developing countries where residents pay an average of
12 times more per liter of water than developed nations
that derive their water from municipal systems. According
to the UN and the World Health Organization, 80% of
diseases in developing nations stem from consumption of and
exposure to, unsafe water. This contaminated water kills
more than 25,000 people each day! Compare this to
approximately 20,000 cancer deaths per day and the
discrepancy between public awareness about the two. The
2005 tsunami natural disaster claimed over 200,000 lives
throughout the Asia-Indian region. The number of fatalities
caused by the global water shortage is equivalent to such a
tsunami striking every eight days. The UN estimates that in less than 25 years, if present
water consumption trends continue, 5 billion people will be
living in areas where it will be impossible or difficult to
meet basic water needs for sanitation, cooking and
drinking. In 1998, 31 countries faced chronic freshwater shortages.
By the year 2025, however, 48 countries are expected to
face shortages, affecting nearly 3 billion people - 35% of
the world's projected population. Clearly, this is a crisis that deserves the utmost
attention. Faced with an inexorable and intractable demand,
this most precious of resources is set to attract big
investment dollars in the coming years.
[P.S.Chris Mayer of Capital & Crisis and your very
own senior Rude editor, Eric Fry, are putting the finishing
touches on the long awaited Water Report. They have scoured
the globe looking for the savviest ways that you can invest
in, the coming water crisis. Having read the draft, I can
tell you that this is pretty exciting stuff. Water shortage
is not a problem that will abate with time, but, as with
all trends, the first in will get the cream off the top.
Watch this space to find out how you can get in early and
snap up some of the most exciting investments of the future.
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And the Week's Rude Reading...
Hurricane Hedging
By Kevin Kerr
Hurricanes destroy almost everything in their path...except
call options on commodity futures. The connection between hurricanes and commodity options
isn't precise or automatic, of course. But the "ill wind"
of a category-4 hurricane often blows some good toward
futures markets like natural gas, orange juice and sugar.
Last year's disastrous Gulf Coast storms triggered huge
price spikes in several commodity markets.
Wheat, and Other Sexy Investments
By Dan Denning
"Why is it that the Asian central bankers continue to
support the dollar, the American economy, and the huge
American structural deficits?" I recently asked Dr. Marc
Faber, editor of The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. "Don't
they have better places to invest their money, like their
own economies, for example?"
The Newest Old Thing, Part II
By Dan Denning
Coal is plentiful...Coal is cheap...Coal is dirty.
Select the one attribute that does not conform with the
other two. If you selected "coal is dirty," you chose the correct
response. But what if coal were cleaner? It would still be
plentiful, of course. But it probably wouldn't be as cheap.
That's the reason we like coal. A new generation of "clean-
coal" technologies could increase demand for this filthy
fossil fuel, thereby causing its price to rise...perhaps
dramatically.
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get a chance to MAKE MONEY in the process. This 5 step program is how... www.isecureonline.com/Reports/DRI/EDRIG606 ------------------------- [Joel's End Note: Fortunately for my girlfriend, living in
this country means I can also indulge in a (very quick)
shower before she arrives soon. As always, please direct
all comments and bothers to your partially re-hydrated
editor here at aussiejoel@the-rude-awakening.com Enjoy your weekend and we'll be back on Monday with your
regular Rude musings. Cheers, JOEL ------------------------- 
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