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Defending the internal water empire

By The Int'l Consortium of Investigative Journalists

They may talk free-market privatization abroad, but internally France closely guards its own borders against foreign water companies

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"… to the modelGood or bad, SuperShuttle is not alone in its business model. Franchising is a growing sector. It added jobs three-and-a-half times as fast as the o …"