#waterprivatization — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #waterprivatization, aggregated by home.social.
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“Island where it constantly rains is experiencing another drought”
by Laura and Normal Island News on Substack
“When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success.
It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements were delivered through efficiency savings, such as not building any reservoirs since 1992 and forgetting about silly ideas like sewage treatment. Thanks to neoliberalism, turds are now a common sight at our beaches and marine life is not”
https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/island-where-it-constantly-rains
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Drought #WaterPrivatization #ShareholderValue #NeoLiberalism #Thatcher
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OnlineFirst - "Privatizing water in the Atacama Desert and the resurgence of Atacameño indigeneity" by Manuel Prieto:
#Chile #AtacamaDesert #waterprivatization #Atacameñopeople #indigeneity
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486231187799
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💢 STOP AUX MÉGA-BASSINES
Tribunes paysan•nes et scientifiques pour comprendre l'action #NoBassaran #StopWaterGrabbing #BassinesNonMerci #StopMegaBassines💦 http://www.confederationpaysanne.fr/actu.php?id=12943
💦 https://reporterre.net/Paysans-nous-sommes-resolument-contre-les-megabassines
#Water #Eau #WaterPrivatization @berliner_wassertisch @Associazione_Rurale_Italiana @xrcologne @XRNamur @GRAIN @miramap @Medor_mag