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Tapping the Market: Privatizing the World's Water Supply
August 28, 2002
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The World Bank predicts that two-thirds of the world¹s population will not have enough fresh drinking water by the year 2025. Instead of protecting existing supplies, promoting conservation or helping vulnerable populations, many governments are turning to private companies to fix their water woes. Private companies, often large transnational corporations, are looking to cash in. On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at water privatization in South Africa, Ghana, Bolivia, and the United States.
Featuring:
John Nyagbe, Third World Network Africa; Trevor Ngwane, Anti-Privatization Forum; Sara Grusky, Public Citizen; Virginia Setshedi, Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee; Oscar Olivera, Coalition in Defense of Water and Life; Rodney Smith, J and M Water Development LCC; David Bollier, author of "Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of our Common Wealth;" and Hiroshi Kanno, Concerned Citizens of Newport.
For more information:
Third World Network Africa
twnafrica@ghana.com
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
215 Pennsylvania Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20003
Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, AIDC
P.O. Box 12943
Mowbray 7705, South Africa
virginia@aidc.org.za
Coalition in Defense of Water and Life
Fax: 591-4-450-3530
fabrilco@supernet.com
David Bollier
Author of "Silent Theft,"
413-259-2009
www.silenttheft.com
IFG
415-561-7650
www.ifg.org
Concerned Citizens of Newport
608-253-7266; fax: 608-253-4028; ccn@saveamericaswater.com
www.saveamericaswater.com/ccn/
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
231-972-8856
www.savemiwater.org