ABSTRACT
During the 1990s, new technologies were developed for transporting bulk water supplies to market through water bags and bottled water, as well as pipelines, supertankers, and canals. Pipelines, of course, have long been used for irrigation purposes in agriculture. But now new pipeline technologies are being developed for bulk transfers of water on a cross-continental basis. In Turkey, government and corporations are also turning to pipeline corridors as a means of transporting bulk water supplies to markets. A number of grand canal schemes have been devised to reroute natural river systems in order to deliver huge supplies of water from Canada to the US Coke's entry into the bottled water market came after a prolonged internal debate. In fact, it is more likely that transnational corporations rather than national governments will seize control of fresh water supplies around the world and that they will set the stage for a future global water cartel.
