WaterMicron™ 

March 13, 2012

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

With pure drinking water exponentially becoming the most precious commodity on our earth, then it is time we take a look at new technologies that move our sights beyond that of the bottle.

The bottle water industry has recently crossed the threshold of over 80 Billion United States Dollars worldwide as the largest selling beverage on this planet; although we never thought in our youth bottling water as a mainstay of our present existence would be the norm.   Bottom line is that there is less than 3% pure water on our planet that is captured in the ground.  Although our oceans are filled with billions of cubic feet of water, still the most abundant source comes from our air.  

At WaterMicron™ we know that trillions of liters of pure fresh drinking water in the sky that is virtually invisible to us humans on the ground.  Oh yes, we see lots of water when it rains, but that is only a small amount that is really there for the taking.  WaterMicron™ has the technology, machines and infrastructure to allow virtually any person on this planet to enjoy pure fresh drinking water, without the need of bottles, wells, and elaborate filtration methods for their municipal supply to give us the life sustaining sustenance we all deserve.

WaterMicron™  is the next paradigm in Franchising

™Talk of the franchising business and the first thing that comes to your mind is all those fast food chains scattered everywhere in your town. However, that’s not the only industry that uses franchising to enhance the availability and distribution of their products, you will find similar setups in fashion and garments, IT services, Salons, education sector, etc. Franchising is a type of collaboration between franchisor and franchisee, where franchisee gets the name, product (already successful or some newly launched product with huge prospects), techniques and training while the franchisor gets the opportunity to quickly grow as a brand throughout the cities or even nationwide. Franchising is quite a unique business model for both parties and we at WaterMicron™ endeavor to take a different approach than the typical franchise genre. We want our franchisee’s to be “fractional owners” of WaterMicron™, therefore profit sharing with all of the franchisees and authorized resellers worldwide.

Franchising as a Business opportunity

At first glance, franchising looks like an ideal business opportunity if you have got the money and basic business management skills. You can instantly get a hot running product, so you don’t need to bother about the manufacturing or marketing stuff. You can also benefit from the experience and expertise of franchisor. In short, it is a ready-made business, all you need to do is to invest some capital and select an appropriate spot for franchise, and you are all set for a jump start. You don’t need to arrange for raw materials, set up manufacturing plants or go around spending big amounts on marketing, as the franchisor (WaterMicron™) will be taking care of these aspects. Therefore when considering a WaterMicron™ franchise we take a more personal or “hands on” approach than our franchise competitors.

At WaterMicron Technologies we offer the following to our Franchisee’s:

Advise on the best storefront operation/location to maximize your exposure and product interest.

1. 1. Full advertising support with graphics tailored made for your particular client base and demographic region.
2. 2. Your own website that allows you to communicate with other WaterMicron™ Franchisee’s.
3. 3. Integrated inventory control and merchant bank facilities.
4. 4. 24 hour technical support and onsite training for servicing.
5. 5. Quarterly incentives for top sales producers.
6. 6. Less than USD$ 50,000 in total franchise and stocking fees.

A bi annual dividend paid to all Franchisee’s based on total volume of all aggregate sales worldwide.

Our unwavering famous 5 year International Warranty.

When you become a WaterMicron™ franchise owner, you don’t just get a business that performs out-of-the-box, you get a solid, pre-existing customer base that we assist in developing in your chosen region, too. Customers of a franchise WaterMicron™ store don’t distinguish between different water filter or dispensing companies – to them, every location is a beacon for the purest water they can get on this earth…with the love and service they learn to trust. You can rely on the rapport that your WaterMicron™ franchise itself has fostered with your customers, and reap the rewards of eager customers in the form of immediate and sustained revenue. As the owner of a WaterMicron™ franchise you won’t have to worry about time and money building a business that’s normally requires you to establish a customer base; your customers will be lining up to patronize your WaterMicron™ store as soon as you open it.

Why the almost instant success your WaterMicron™ franchise will provide? People today are tired of making frequent trips to the supermarkets stocking up on plastic bottled water, or relying on municipal filtration systems that need regular maintenance. Your customers will continually thank you for providing the purest, safest and best tasting drinking water that they extract from the air they breathe in the comfort of their own homes… What could be a greater gift or contribution to life?

© 2012 WaterMicron Technologies, All rights reserved 

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Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years, more than twice the rate of human population growth. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people already lack access to fresh drinking water. If current trends persist, by 2025 the demand for fresh water is expected to rise by 56 percent more than the amount of water that is currently available.

Multinational corporations recognize these trends and are trying to monopolize water supplies around the world. Monsanto, Bechtel, and other global multinationals are seeking control of world water systems and supplies.

The World Bank recently adopted a policy of water privatization and full-cost water pricing. This policy is causing great distress in many Third World countries, which fear that their citizens will not be able to afford for-profit water. Grassroots resistance to the privatization of water emerges as companies expand profit taking. San Francisco’s Bechtel Enterprises was contracted to manage the water system in Cochabamba, Bolivia, after the World Bank required Bolivia to privatize. When Bechtel pushed up the price of water, the entire city went on a general strike. The military killed a seventeen-year-old boy and arrested the water rights leaders. But after four months of unrest the
Bolivian government forced Bechtel out of Cochambamba.

Bechtel Group Inc., a corporation with a long history of environmental abuses, now contracts with the city of San Francisco to upgrade the city’s water system. Bechtel employees are working side by side with government workers in a privatization move that activists fear will lead to an eventual take-over of San Francisco’s water system.

Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy group, states, "Governments around the world must act now to declare water a fundamental human right and prevent efforts to privatize, export, and sell for profit a substance essential to all life." Research has shown that selling water on the open market only delivers it to wealthy cities and individuals.

Governments are signing away their control over domestic water supplies by participating in trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and in institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). These agreements give transnational corporations the unprecedented right to the water of signatory companies.

Water-related conflicts are springing up around the globe. Malaysia, for example, owns half of Singapore’s water and, in 1997, threatened to cut off its water supply after Singapore criticized Malaysia’s government policies.

Monsanto plans to earn revenues of $420 million and a net income of $63 million by 2008 from its water business in India and Mexico. Monsanto estimates that water will become a multibillion-dollar market in the coming decades.

Update by Maude Barlow

This story is of vital importance to the earth and all humanity. The finite sources of freshwater (less than one half of one per cent of the world's total water stock) are being diverted, depleted, and polluted so fast that, by the year 2025, two-thirds of the world's population will be living in a state of serious water deprivation. Yet governments are handing responsibility of this precious resource over to giant transnational corporations who, in collusion with the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, seek to commodify and privatize the world's water and put it on the open market for sale to the highest bidder.

Millions of the world's citizens are being deprived of this fundamental human right, and vast ecological damage is being wrought as massive industry claims water once used to sustain communities and replenish nature.

Recently, a civil society movement has been created to wrest control of water back from profit-making forces and claim it for people and nature. Called the Blue Planet Project, this movement is an alliance of farmers, environmentalists, Indigenous Peoples, public sector workers, and urban activists who forced the issue of water as a human right at the March 2000 World Water Forum in the Hague. The Project is holding the first global citizens' summit on water in Vancouver in July 2001. One major project has been support of the water activists in Cochabamba, Bolivia, who, led by union leader Oscar Olivera, forced the giant engineering company Bechtel to leave the
country and stopped a World Bank–imposed privatization scheme that more than doubled the price of water to the local people.

The mainstream press has been reluctant to tell this story. Our fight in Canada started with concern over the potential of bulk water exports sought by some politicians and corporations. Water is included in both NAFTA and the WTO as a tradable good; once the tap is turned on, corporate rights to water are immediately established. But our mainstream press generally supports economic globalization and these trade agreements and will permit only selective reporting on opposition positions. Blue Gold, my paper on the commoditization of water published by the IFG in 1999, has been printed in several languages and sold all over the world but has been ignored by the North American media.

The story of the destruction of the world's remaining freshwater sources is one of the most pressing of our time; there is simply no way to overstate the nature of this crisis. And yet when the mainstream media report on it–which is not nearly often enough or in sufficient depth–they seldom ask the most crucial question of all. Who owns water? We say the earth, all species and all future generations. Many in power have another answer. It is time for this debate.