As climate change, droughts, population growth and pollution create global water shortages, water joins the rank of gold and oil as a commodity to be traded on Wall Street. Though the international community recognizes water access as an essential human right, hedge fund managers and public water agencies are poised to begin profiting off water scarcity, which experts say will worsen in the coming years in the U.S. as well as other countries. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/water-new-wall-street-commodity