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Pros And Cons Of Water Privatization

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Imagine having to pay for water to shower, drink, wash your hands with etc. Bolivia was a country that was subjected to the privatization of water and they responded negatively. The citizens of Bolivia weren't avid about handing their fresh clean drinking water over to foreign corporations. “On January 10 the citizens of El Alto took to the streets en masse to demand that their water system, privatized in 1997 under World Bank pressure, be returned to public hands.” Three days later the president cancelled the water concession. Bolivia didn’t decide to privatize their own water they were forced. “In 2002 the Bank declared the El Alto-La Paz water privatization as having "achieved positive results."When the people of El Alto took to the streets
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