Haha, you make a very good point, @creativemary. If you're referring to the buying up of resevoirs across the world by the ususal suspects. They're already billionaires. It's not about profit so much as it is control and a "global" effort to increase the power of existing monopolies, or near-monopolies. Once they knock off all the medium and small-business competitors, all the money goes to them. This is just one of the many benefits these people have worked into the scam.