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After Water Privatization In This Pennsylvania City, The Poor Pay the Price
Almost a quarter of Coatesville’s population live below the poverty line – yet residents spend more than $100 each month for water, feeding the coffers of the private Pennsylvania-American Water Co.
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There’s Nothing Heroic about Stealing Water from the Commons
The case of a water hoarder in Oregon reveals a lot about the perils of viewing water as a private commodity.
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Justice Must Flow: Economic Democracy and the Water Commons
The water crisis has nothing to do with the actual availability of water – the culprit is local communities’ inability to control their wealth, their common resources and their institutions of lending and credit.
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People Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs From New Jersey to Detroit to Portland
New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment or approval.
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Deep Questions Arise Over Portland's Corporate Water Takeover
Portland residents are up in arms about what they believe is a cronyism-driven plan to kill the elegant, gravity-fed, open water reservoir system that has reliably served their city safe, clean drinking water for more than 100 years.
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Tens of Thousands Surround Irish Dáil in Protest over Water Charges
Tens of thousands of demonstrators opposed to the introduction of water charges in Ireland surrounded the country’s parliament bringing Dublin to a near standstill.
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Ireland Rises: Fed Up with Austerity, Nation Mobilizes Against Water Costs
Mass countrywide protests on Human Rights Day aim to prevent what is seen as double taxation on water for an already cash-strapped populace.
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Ebb and Flow of Privatized Water – From Buenos Aires to Atlanta, From Mozambique to France
Private water companies’ duty to their customers nearly always gets superseded by their duty to reward shareholders.
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Two Detroits, Separate and Unequal: A Journey Across a City Divided
The foreclosure crisis of this century, fueled by racially discriminatory predatory lending, forced hundreds of thousands of residents out of the city.
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Water Protests Rock Ireland As People Reject New Charges to Basic Necessity
Almost 100 separate demonstrations were staged in towns and cities on Saturday, over new water charges introduced last month.
