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Thursday, February 18th, 2016

Making big bucks off water: Private, for-profit water companies charge 58% more than the government, report finds

Author:     Ben Norton
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Wednesday, Feb 17, 2016 07:43 AM PST
Link: Making big bucks off water: Private, for-profit water companies charge 58% more than the government, report finds
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The Flint Water Plant tower is seen, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 in Flint, Mich. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday defended how his office responded to an email flagging a potential link between a surge in Legionnaires' disease and Flint's water, saying an aide asked for further investigation but a state agency did not bring forward the issue again. Credit: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

The Flint Water Plant tower is seen, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 in Flint, Mich. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday defended how his office responded to an email flagging a potential link between a surge in Legionnaires’ disease and Flint’s water, saying an aide asked for further investigation but a state agency did not bring forward the issue again. Credit: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

The most affordable water systems in the U.S. are publicly owned and operated by the government, an exhaustive study reveals. At the same time, for-profit private water companies charge 58 percent more than publicly owned ones. (emphasis added)

Food & Water Watch, a non-governmental consumer rights organization based in D.C., comprehensively surveyed […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 8:30 am

    Living in Pa., and having a garden, I have paid as much as $300 for one month during the July-August part of the season and our yearly total is well over $1000, so these figures make me wonder where all that money goes. We don’t even have water that I can drink unless we run it through a filter. It is getting too expensive to live for some of us older folks.