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New Greedbane is live — and this one should piss you off.

While families in the West watch their wells run dry, billionaires like Stephen Schwarzman are turning water into a private asset class — a commodity — something to hoard, flip, and profit from during a drought.

They’re filling fantasy lakes behind $100M estates during restrictions.

They’re bottling water from national forests during historic shortages.

They’re buying entire aquifers just to sit on them like dragons on treasure.

They’re building a Wall Street casino where hedge funds bet on your thirst.

Meanwhile the public is told to “shorten your showers.”

This issue breaks down exactly how they’re doing it — who’s getting rich, who’s getting screwed, and why America is running out of water faster than anyone wants to admit.

If you want the mask ripped off the Water Lords, read this one.

The Water Lords
Nov 24
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