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To anyone arguing for the privatization of water, and invoke history, need to do research upon it.
Bolivia, 2000, president sold off water rights to a private company... resulting in 3x increase in cost/gal. Citizens that could no longer afford to drink, let alone bath regularly, started mass riots and protests. Said company started illegally invading properties looking for any type of water reclamation or rainfall capture devices, cutting off ALL water for those found with any device.
Ghana has a split of government and privatized water resource areas, some are government and some are privately owned. It should surprise no one that government areas are an average of $.10/cubic meter, private are an average of $1/cu m.
Hell just look at the parking meter rates in Chicago after the city government sold it off (regardless of the amount of corruption, it holds).
Come on guys... this isn't a left-right thing. ALL citizens need affordable access to clean water.
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