Water futures set to join likes of gold and oil and trade on Wall Street for first time ever

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6. Sure - and he put his money where his mouth was

You'll recall that Jenna Bush used her front post at UNICEF in '06 to buy 300,000 acres of land in Paraguay's hot, remote north - otherwise nearly worthless scrubland but for the fact it sat on the world's 3rd largest fresh water aquifer, the Guaraní.

Bush pal and all-purpose fascist financier Sun Myung Moon owned another 300,000 acres next door - as did the Bush-run Carlyle Group.

Dubya even had a massive air base - whose existence was denied for years - built just next door. A base with virtually zero geopolitical value - but for its straddling all that aquifer acreage.

Its existence has also been linked to a rash of child disappearances in the area, as well as prostitution and other crimes (of which Paraguay has enough as it is).

Not to make light of it - but all this reminds me a little of the 1985 Michael Caine comedy, Water.

In it, U.K. and U.S. interests jostle for control of a mineral water spring - accidentally discovered in a small Caribbean island, and found to be of exceptional quality.

Would that it were something so relatively minor.