The Corporate Control of Water Takes an Unexpected Twist

By Jon Keesecker, AlterNet. Posted September 9, 2008.

In one U.S. city, a mayor is putting the city's water systems up for
sale in exchange for money for eduction.

During an otherwise unexceptional State of the City address in
February 2008, Mayor Donald Plusquellic put before the residents of
Akron, Ohio, a proposal to sell the city's sewer system. The
still-nascent plan, news even to some in the mayor's administration,
involved handing over the city's system to a private company in return
to for a roughly $200 million fee.

In the United States, about 85 percent of people on community water
systems get their water from a publicly owned utility. But in recent
years, as federal funding for water infrastructure has fallen,
corporations have tried to buy up or privately manage more and more
municipal water systems. And the result for communities has been
higher rates and lower services.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

You will be charged to bathe landru , so no real economic impact to your
personal budget...

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:20:33 -0600, tumbler wrote:

I'll send my waste water your way so you drink after I'm nice and clean.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

You're a sick filthy partisan puppy, go flush yourself.

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:46:09 -0600, tumbler wrote:

Right, and send the water for you to drink, Sam.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

Right away please.

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