In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.
Privatization is always a disaster, but Americans have been conditioned to believe that corporations are models of efficiency.
Corporations are incentivized to make money...period.
Look what happened when railroads, medicine, nursing homes, etc were privatized Look at the disaster the government faces because it outsourced technological development to an erratic and unhinged billionaire.
A functioning Congress and every Democratically-run state legislature should force a streamlining of the absurdly burdensome government bureaucracy. That's the answer, not trusting a corporate entity where profit is the only metric.
Nestle's corporation has been buying up municipal water rights worldwide for over 40 years. Companies like American Water are fronts/shell entities being used in the US for these purchases. The Flint Michigan disaster was one of them. If you dig around a bit more you'll find a nationwide pattern of water privitization by one corporation through it's subsidiaries. Water ownership is big money and power.
Clean water should not be a for-profit enterprise. Everyone deserves access to clean water. Sewer should also not be a for-profit enterprise as any municipalities must deal with sewer to have a city. But, you keep switching between wastewater (sewer) and water in your article, which makes it a bit confusing. Profit should not be the sole arbiter and judge of whether our society is good.
Privatization is always a disaster, but Americans have been conditioned to believe that corporations are models of efficiency.
Corporations are incentivized to make money...period.
Look what happened when railroads, medicine, nursing homes, etc were privatized Look at the disaster the government faces because it outsourced technological development to an erratic and unhinged billionaire.
A functioning Congress and every Democratically-run state legislature should force a streamlining of the absurdly burdensome government bureaucracy. That's the answer, not trusting a corporate entity where profit is the only metric.
Nestle's corporation has been buying up municipal water rights worldwide for over 40 years. Companies like American Water are fronts/shell entities being used in the US for these purchases. The Flint Michigan disaster was one of them. If you dig around a bit more you'll find a nationwide pattern of water privitization by one corporation through it's subsidiaries. Water ownership is big money and power.
Clean water should not be a for-profit enterprise. Everyone deserves access to clean water. Sewer should also not be a for-profit enterprise as any municipalities must deal with sewer to have a city. But, you keep switching between wastewater (sewer) and water in your article, which makes it a bit confusing. Profit should not be the sole arbiter and judge of whether our society is good.
I can't think of a worse idea than privatizing water -- or privatizing almost anything, for that matter.