TARA LOHAN, ALTERNET - The Bush administration is helping multinationals
buy U.S. municipal water systems, putting our most important resource in
the hands of corporations with no public accountability. All across the
United States, municipal water systems are being bought up by
multinational corporations, turning one of our last remaining public
commons and our most vital resource into a commodity.
The road to privatization is being paved by our own government. The Bush
administration is actively working to loosen the hold that cities and
towns have over public water, enabling corporations to own the very
thing we depend on for survival. The effects of the federal government's
actions are being felt all the way down to Conference of Mayors, which
has become a "feeding frenzy" for corporations looking to make sure that
nothing is left in the public's hands, including clean, affordable
water. . . In 1990, 50 million people worldwide got their water
services from private companies, but by 2002 it was 300 million and
growing.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50994/
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buy U.S. municipal water systems, putting our most important resource in
the hands of corporations with no public accountability. All across the
United States, municipal water systems are being bought up by
multinational corporations, turning one of our last remaining public
commons and our most vital resource into a commodity.
The road to privatization is being paved by our own government. The Bush
administration is actively working to loosen the hold that cities and
towns have over public water, enabling corporations to own the very
thing we depend on for survival. The effects of the federal government's
actions are being felt all the way down to Conference of Mayors, which
has become a "feeding frenzy" for corporations looking to make sure that
nothing is left in the public's hands, including clean, affordable
water. . . In 1990, 50 million people worldwide got their water
services from private companies, but by 2002 it was 300 million and
growing.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50994/
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