Category Water

Everyone who buys a house in Denver’s growing suburbs pays a hidden price for water. That first twist of the faucet in a new suburban home costs as much as $24,424 – more than twice the amount charged in any…

The battle to keep water non-privatized is worldwide. And it’s always large banks, especially The World Bank and their allies, who want to force countries to privatize. From the Philippines Sun Star I believe, and so as the majority of…

Yet another example of the worldwide stuggle to keep water public. The award of the contract to Vtiens International, a Dutch company and Rand Water from South Africa to manage Ghana Water Company was a trade-off between the government and…

This is one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen as to why water privatization is a terrible idea. Champions of privatization want to do is to take all the assets of the government and give them to private corporations to…

From PBS The world is poised on the brink of epochal changes in how water is stored, used, and valued. Will these changes provide clean water to the billions of people who need it? Or save the child who dies…