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06/09/09 Gaithersburg, Maryland Water troubles cost the president of Madagascar his job. But in a twist, it was water troubles in South Korea that did him in. Daewoo, a big South Korean conglomerate, worried about how it would increase food supplies, given its water-stressed homeland. So it signed a deal with Madagascar to lease half of its arable land to grow crops to ship back home to South Korea.

When the people of Madagascar heard about the deal, they were very unhappy. The new president of Madagascar wasted no time and scotched the deal. It’s just another step along the road to water becoming a strategic asset, just like oil. Another episode in an unfolding series called the global water crisis.

Water is one of four areas that look most attractive to me in a big-picture sense. I remember them with an acronym I’ve created: WAGE. It stands for Water, Agriculture, Gold and Energy.

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Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer studied finance at the University of Maryland, graduating magna cum laude. He went on to earn his MBA while embarking on a decade-long career in corporate banking. Chris is the editor of Capital and Crisis and Mayer’s Special Situations , a monthly report that unearths unique and unconventional opportunities in smaller-cap stocks. In 2008, Chris authored Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider .

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4 Responses

  1. Pravesh said

    I just wonder why such a fixation about Gold! Every story does not have to start and end with Gold.

    on June 10, 2009.
  2. inHouston said

    Gold…if everyone is doing it then it must be wrong. Right?

    on June 10, 2009.
  3. yum yum we are doomed said

    no sh*t. can’t drink gold or silver or oil – guess you could drink oil but that probably is real bad for your cholesterol…

    on June 11, 2009.
  4. Robbo said

    Chris,

    Other than buying land, what is another way to invest in the water portion of your recommended portfolio?

    on June 11, 2009.

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