With hindsight, Joel, water should have set alarm bells ringing. Before the Giglobubu, wealthy people paid
$15 per liter for Cape Grim bottled water from Tasmania, at a time when the Asian Development Bank estimated that 700 million people in Asia lacked access to clean water. Investment banks even started to invent securities betting that water shortages would arise. Even so, when the Water Wars started, the world wasn't prepared
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