News for today's 2018

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEili9KFQ-Ulk6Qq3NzdZjYy8C0S6CB4-WqF_GbILs07htNCcQzgxxjpO7zvqpgrdjtKOyl8wJsbAGT7hpRiQ7qLwGAxNFJaIc7fUuZd_0_iJoBqsb7hvD_2yMjOiASxWyYgrWBubAzVq_Dc/s1600/phpThumb_generated_thumbnail.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEili9KFQ-Ulk6Qq3NzdZjYy8C0S6CB4-WqF_GbILs07htNCcQzgxxjpO7zvqpgrdjtKOyl8wJsbAGT7hpRiQ7qLwGAxNFJaIc7fUuZd_0_iJoBqsb7hvD_2yMjOiASxWyYgrWBubAzVq_Dc/s400/phpThumb_generated_thumbnail.jpeg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Once the markets pick up on water commodities we can </span></span></strong><b style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="normal1"><span style="color: white;">brace ourselves, the minute we turn on the water tap we will be billed as if filling our car at the filling-station ..................  </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><strong>Investing in Water: The Most Profitable Investment of the 21st Century</strong></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /><span class="normal1"><span style="color: cyan;">by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist, The Oxford Club </span> </span><br /><span class="normal1"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">  </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></u></strong><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><u><b>Editors Note</b></u>: Oxford Club Advisory Panelist and IPO expert Louis Basenese constantly monitors the world's fastest-growing industries. Below, Louis details the fundamental forces at work driving one of today's hottest growth opportunities…</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /><span class="normal1">Right now, there's one commodity that sells at gas stations for almost twice the price of gasoline - and U.S. consumers never complain about it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">In fact, this precious resource we often take for granted is in critical shortage in more than 80 countries worldwide. And it will forever be in high demand, as every living being's survival depends on it.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Of course, the commodity I'm talking about is water. And the effects of its shortage are of major concern…</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Nearly 40% of the world's population does not have access to clean water. And this problem is not going away anytime soon.  It's actually getting worse…</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Less than 2% of the world's water store is fresh water - to quench the thirst of 6 billion people. And according to the International Food Policy Research Institute, by 2020, an additional 2 billion people will be competing for this shrinking resource.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">But the problem isn't 14 years from now; the problem is now. Below, we'll review why investing in water</span></span><em><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></em><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> is turning out to be the most profitable investment of the 21st century. But first, let's look at the problem…</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">At this moment, clean, safe water is scarce across the globe. Fortunately, several players in the private sector are working hard to solve this problem. And for investors, this industry provides perhaps the most profitable opportunities of the 21st century.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Two Catalysts: Global Warming And Population Growth</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Water is the single-largest health problem in the entire world.  According to SIWI.org, 90% of the 5,000 daily child deaths are related to some sort of diarrhea-related disease.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And torrid population growth is not only stressing water use, it's causing massive pollution and depleting the largest aquifers on the planet. Unstable politics of water-poor communities, states and countries is triggering heated tensions - and in some cases, all-out wars.  And global warming is drying up lakes, eroding shorelines and depleting rivers.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Consider the following:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />  <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Within 50 years, more than      half of the global population will be living with water shortages.       They will affect 4 billion people by 2050.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The Dead Sea has dropped more      than 66 feet in the past 100 years and is now losing about 3 feet each      year.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">     </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Lake Chad in Africa is now      1/20 the size it was 35 years ago.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Water-borne diseases kill one      child every 8 seconds.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">According to the National Academy of Sciences, Mother Earth is now the hottest it's been for at least 400 years. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">More specifically, over the last 100 years the surface temperature of the Earth has risen 1 degree Fahrenheit.  And while that doesn't sound like too much, it's enough to wreak havoc on eco-systems, erode shorelines, dry aquifers and cause massive water shortages all over the world. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">According to the IPCC, if global warming is not stopped, the earth could heat up another 3 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century.  Time magazine points out that, "Mount Kilimanjaro has lost 75% of its ice cap…" Moreover, it could completely lose ALL of its ice by 2020. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The result is less inland snow, a reduced amount of fresh river water, drying aquifers, and intense strain on any ecosystem relying on irrigation. With entire regions becoming unsuitable for crop production, both food and water will need to be transported into the water-deprived nations, dramatically hindering their ability to contribute to world GDP.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="color: yellow;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And the world's fast-growing population isn't helping the situation…</span></strong></div><br />  <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxWJXTGi7hRd9VG91NvgF_eTEk-rRp2QJLsw_qHLS_c2xsBDBdIuQokcFfxlGteqN7BOiU5GmJUpGnKMIT2bWPFiGtabrQQ3AFuv0PVIuQcpxZHzrmt4u2djYCnQGS-NMVadrSKzrepW_p/s1600/is_your_water_contaminated.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxWJXTGi7hRd9VG91NvgF_eTEk-rRp2QJLsw_qHLS_c2xsBDBdIuQokcFfxlGteqN7BOiU5GmJUpGnKMIT2bWPFiGtabrQQ3AFuv0PVIuQcpxZHzrmt4u2djYCnQGS-NMVadrSKzrepW_p/s320/is_your_water_contaminated.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">From the beginning of time through the middle of the 1900s, the global population grew at a steady - but not alarming - rate.  Now, it's multiplying exponentially.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">There are just over 6.1 billion people on the planet right now, but by 2050, census officials predict there could be as many as 9 billion people on Earth.  And more demand for water simply means that the already under-supplied resource will become scarcer in the years to come.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The World Bank points out that global demand for water is doubling every 21 years.  And, at present, 1 billion people on the planet don't have access to safe water.  "In Latin America alone, about 15% of the population - roughly 76 million people - lack safe water, and 116 million don't have access to sanitation services."</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">So how do we solve this water crisis?</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Opportunity in Water Investing Is "Dripping" From This Shortage</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The answer lies in the private sector - companies working night and day to solve the world's water woes.  The global water industry has been heating up for several decades, and the story's certainly not new.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Many savvy investors have already recognized that investing in water stocks <a href="http://www.investmentu.com/IUEL/2007/20070418.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></a>is simply the investment of a lifetime.  Some have already locked in huge profits over the past few years.  Here are just a few examples of water investment successes:</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Investors who put $10,000      dollars in Consolidated Water (Nasdaq: CWCO) in 2000 banked a cool      $71,061.43 by February of 2006.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Water has to be moved, as      well… and the lucky few who invested $10,000 in the IPO of American      Commercial Lines (Nasdaq: ACLI) in the early part of 2005 would have made      more than 310% by May of 2006.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></li></ul><span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And these profits are just the beginning of what could be the greatest investment of the 21st century. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />  <span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Think of it this way: Bottled water sells for roughly $1.50 a liter at the gas station right now, while gasoline sells for around $3 a gallon.  With 3.78 liters in a gallon, bottled water would be selling for $5.67 a gallon - almost twice the price of gasoline. And water companies don't have to build expensive oil wells and refining plants that are toxic and environmentally unfriendly. The overall cost to bring water to market is, in many cases, lower.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />  <span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">In the end, investing in water stocks is a smart play all around for those seeking constant, stable returns.  Global Summit Management (SGM) reports that from 2000 to 2005, water utility stocks returned 134.57%, while the S&P 500 clocked in at a mere 2.74%.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />  <span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And those who invested in water stocks for a 10-year period were even happier.  The stocks banked 446.01% from 1995 to 2005, versus 9.06% in the S&P.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />  <strong style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Conclusion on Water</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />  <span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The world needs safe, clean drinking water and acceptable sanitation levels. Demand is outstripping supply. And several smart companies are solving the problem, which bodes well for investing in water for long-term gains.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />  <span class="normal1"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Good investing,</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />

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