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UN Officials Call Detroit’s Mass Water Shutoffs "Human Rights Violation"
Out of her $672 monthly disability check, Rochelle McCaskill spends $600 rent – leaving her unable to pay the city’s water bills, which have skyrocketed to more than twice the national average.
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How Crony Capitalism and Deregulation Poisoned Toledo's Water
Like other water-related crises this year in West Virginia and Detroit, the poisoning of Toledo's water is tied to corruption at the highest levels of state government by corporate special interests.
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How Corporations Are Creating a Life-Threatening Water Shortage
Nestlé is draining America's vital groundwater resources at a stunning rate – with 29 water bottling facilities across North America, it pocketed $4 billion in revenue from bottled water sales in 2012 alone.
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Detroit's Water Shutoffs – And a Rising Resistance Movement
A few days after thousands marched on downtown Detroit last weekend, the city suspended mass water shutoffs for 15 days – leaving more than 15,000 households already disconnected.
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National Call To Action In Detroit: Link Arms To Stop the Water Shutoffs
The aggressive foreclosures and water shut-offs are a deliberate scheme to shock the population, drive long-time residents out of the city center, seize property and gentrify downtown Detroit and the waterfront.
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Opening the Taps: Detroit’s Fight for Public Water Is Also the Nation’s
The solution to Detroit's water crisis isn't privatization – which has a terrible track record in the U.S. and around the world – but a more equitable water policy that looks out for all citizens.
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Detroit Water Crisis Escalates, and UN Declares Violation of Human Rights
Demanding that Detroit restore water to all residents and end the shutoffs, the People’s Water Board has called water a human right and a part of the commons – "held in the public trust free of privatization."
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Will New Federal Law Lead to Privatization of U.S. City Water Systems?
Much of America’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs attention, but critics worry that a new funding bill could be a pipeline to government-subsidized privatization.
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8 Ways Privatization has Failed America
The myth that privatization of public services benefits most Americans is an outright lie.
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Nestle's CEO Says Water Is Not a Human Right
Raking in $35 billion in annual profits from water bottle sales alone is not enough for Nestle—its Chairman wants corporations to own every last drop of water on the planet.
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