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The Water Profiteers
Hightower, Jim | September 2, 2002 issue

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The article discusses the transnational conglomerates that have influenced the privatization of the water delivery systems in the U.S. Water profiteers in the U.S. and worldwide are using politicians, campaign contributions and bribery to seize control of water delivery systems. Profiteers are trying to bring market efficiency to the distribution of scarce water. Corporations are hoping to establish a monopoly on water distribution. In relation to this, international corporations have been exploring ways to get a billion-dollar contract to privatize the water and sewage systems in New Orleans.

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WATER -- Distribution; PRIVATIZATION; WATER-supply; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; WATER-supply engineering; UNITED States
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