Who Should Control Our Water?

Because water is so abundant–it rains from the sky, it collects in the earth–it feels like it should be free. The United Nations even recognized water as a human right in 2010. "It’s not like shoes," Saskia Solar, a spokeswoman at Berlin’s water authority, told me. "Water is something fundamental to our existence." But delivering safe water comes at a cost, and the fight over who should bear that cost has transformed water–and the merits and shortcomings of privatizing it–into an ideological battleground.

by Renuka Rayasam

Full Story: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/12/who-should-be-in-charge-of-delivering-water.html

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