Cholera and the age of the water barons By Bill Marsden February 3, 2003 Promoting privatization By The Int’l Consortium of Investigative Journalists February 3, 2003 ADELAIDE, Australia — Fifteen months after Adelaide signed a contract turning over its waterworks to a private consortium controlled by Thames Water and Vivendi, the city was engulfed in […]
Category: The Water Barons
The explosive growth of three private water utility companies raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations. In Europe and North America, analysts predict that within the next 15 years these companies will control 65 percent to 75 percent of what are now public waterworks.