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Pros And Cons Of Water Privatization

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The human right to water has become a full blown global campaign. According to Karen Bakker, Founding Director of the Program on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, “many anti-privatization activists have forced their activities on this campaign, framing ‘water as a human right’ as a means of ethically refuting and practically constraining privatization.” After the protests and victory of Cochabomba, Bolivia in 2000 the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) stopped using the word “privatization” and instead use words such as “decentralization”,”concessions” or “Private sector participation” (upside down world). This was government's attempt of disguising the privatization …show more content…

IFI requires El Salvador’s government to open water management to private investment “as a condition for receiving loan money,which is usually destined toward infrastructure repair or new construction.” (upside down world.) El Salvador is country fill with gang related crimes and is in much poverty so these loans are usually their only opinion. According to LaDawn Haglund, the El Salvadoran government felt that maintaining ANDA and not switching to Private corporations would be bad because it would be difficult to maintain the “high levels of growth needed to reduce widespread poverty, particularly in the rural area.” Then, on top of the structural adjustment loans, Matthias Finger and Jeremy Allouche shares how the Administracion Nacional de Acueductos (ANDA), meaning “National Water and Sewerage Administration.” has its own faults convincing the government to switch to privatization in their book Water Privatisation, Trans-national Corporations and the Re-regulation of the Water

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LCBO Privatization The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is a provincial crown corporation in Ontario, Canada that controls the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages in Ontario. It was established in nineteen-twenty-seven to sell liquor, wine and beer through a chain of retail stores. As of 2013 The Liquor Control Board of Ontario operates eight-hundred-fifty-three retail locations and has more than three-thousand-five-hundred employees. The privatization of the Liquor Control Board would mean to transfer the government owned business to the private sector with the objective of achieving greater economic efficiency and government revenues.

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This is beneficial as Water Aid can help support these countries all the time in different countries at once and provide clean water, toilets and sanitation. The business ownership of Water Aid is a ‘Private Limited Company by guarantee without share capital use of Limited exemption’. This means the company has limited liability which protects it from tax exemption. However, it cannot raise funds through the sale of shares. Water Aid’s purpose is to supply fresh drinking water to everywhere by 2030.

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The text allows for the reader to understand what the water crisis is, and how it is impacting our daily lives. The text also gives the reader multiple different examples of water control in the United States. But, because of all the corporate greed, corporations are ruining our natural resource of water by creating it into a commodity and selling it. This book gives great insight on how corrupt the government can be when they want to make a cheap buck. Again, “Water is a necessity of life that touches everyone in their own homes” (Snitow and Kaufman, 1) water is a right to all humans, not a commodity for business

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The bankers touted the oil industries as if they would bring about massive revenue growth that would be realized directly into the economy instead, it lead to inaccessible potable water and highly priced water. In 2004, Ecuador, as obligated, transferred ownership of its largest water system to foreign operators, then British Petroleum would receive oil concession, building their own pipeline over the Andes (Prescription for cashing on poverty, 2002). Furthermore, the World Bank and the IMF exploited the already poor country by price-gouging oil and firing 120,000 workers so Ecuador could meet its debt obligations which resulted, and not to the surprise, in Ecuadorians protesting the mandates. So when the promised change and transformation of Ecuador’s economy never happened, its people were forced to deal with detrimental impositions. Any gains made by the policy would eventually be reversed, how can a country be better of its own people can't afford water because of profit-seeking multinationals appropriating resources necessary to sustain life just to make a little more

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That can easily be compared to the 1500’s when the Spaniards came and settled in the Americas. The indigenous people do not have a choice; they are forced into hard labor, ill treatment, and persecution. The water that they are trying to save and keep symbolizes their life’s. If they take away their water, then they will also be taking their rights, like the Spaniards did with the indigenous people years ago. The same is unfolding in Bolivia with protests across the country, but those do little to nothing to help.

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This article acts as a continuation of the research done by the author while conducting fieldwork in South Africa pertaining to the ways that water privatization has affected poor, South African women. The piece examines the transition from the apartheid regime to the election of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1994. Women and girls living in poverty are intimately linked to water, as the article notes, and this relationship is explored as the author considers the ways in which privatization has impacted their lives physically, mentally, and emotionally. The article allows the reader to examine the role that international institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization, played in South

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The combination between having both private and public health care systems in Ontario will not only benefit the citizens of Canada, but the economy as well. The privatization aspect initiates a well-structured approach, which all in all could work with the public sector to ensure efficiency and sustainability within the system. By incorporating the privatization of heath care it would ensure shorter wait times, improved doctor and patient communication and ensure a smoother process. In terms of support, the government could invest towards private hospitals and ensure they function in an efficient manner for those attracted towards that concept. For instance, in the article The Costs and Benefits of Privatization: An Incomplete Contracts Approach,

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