Category Water

The rush to privatize water continues unencumbered, despite its unpopularity among residents worldwide who are affected by it. Countries faced with large debts are forced by the World Bank and IMF to privatize water. Water deregulation is a common demand…

From Oligopoly Watch: New federal regulations in the US seem likely to trigger the rapid oligopolization of the US water utility market. That’s according to a story in The New York Times ("It Doesn’t Mix With Oil, and the Market…

How multinationals are taking control of a public resource Canadian Broadcasting produced this comprehensive 5-part series in 2003 on water privatization. Check it out. Water, like air, is a necessity of human life. It is also, according to Fortune magazine,…

Environmental issues scarcely make the top of the news unless a disaster occurs, such as Hurricane Stan, or unless a homicide claims an activist, such as Parota Dam opponent Tomás Cruz Zamora. So it is not surprising that the Mexican…