Everything You Need to Know About Water Privatization

[Ichingcarpenter]

Today we proudly launch Getting serious with Waterblogged.info: Water Privatization a page of web resources related to the question of whether small groups of people should be permitted to own and control the elixir of life and disseminate it to the rest of the globe for their personal gain. Obviously, we don't think so, but we feel compelled -- like the wimpy-assed, fair-minded liberals we are -- to present resources supporting both sides of the argument.

Below are more links to water privatization resources than you can shake a water-divining rod at. This will be regularly updated. No, really, it will.

Water Privatization - Fact Pack

A "fact pack" from the State Environmental Resource Center (meaning a resource for all states) is a good a place to start as any to get basic information about the history of and prospects for water privatization in the U.S. (It hasn't been updated since 2004, but most of the info is still useful.)

Pacific Institute: Topics - Water Privatization

Pacific Institute: Topics - Water Privatization California-based think tank provides timely and common-sense analysis. Typical of their approach, they take a middle-of-the-road, grant-funding-agency-friendly approach to privatization.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/77335/
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[PDJane]

1. Privatizing something needed for the good of the commons

Is just plain damn dumb. It will be badly maintained, poorly filtered and expensive all around...more making money from a commodity that should never be sold.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Its a world wide scam by major companies.

Many communities here in California are fighting it
this is just a good resource.

[sam sarrha]

5. foreign owned companies, lots of them french.. going to screw us bad, in El Paso the water is so bad

people buy filtered water for $1 a 5 gal bottle from kiosks along the road.. in each neighborhood.

the tap water would make you puke.. when we left the prices were going up, it cost $125 dollars a month to watter a lawn ~30 x 20 feet.. if you used more than the allocated on your bill it cost you, $18 a cubic foot.. i believe a french company bought them out

[panader0]

2. I have my own well.

300 feet deep and sweet tasting, mineral rich water. No one will take it from me. I paid to have it drilled 30 years ago, and own the water rights according to my deed.

[Kali]

4. Water: the next Oil

[alfredo]

6. We lost our fight against the water speculator RWE. We are now paying

dearly. Before they took over I was paying $19 a month for water. Now I am paying $60 a month.

[malaise]

7. Thanks for this n/t