"… logy.In 1998, local councils had begun taking steps to commercialize their waterworks by forcing residents to pay the full cost of drinking water. But many …"

"… ize their waterworks by forcing residents to pay the full cost of drinking water. But many of the millions of people living in the tin-roof slums of the re …"

"… on couldn't afford the rates. Cut off at the tap, they were forced to find water in streams, ponds and lakes polluted with manure and human waste. By Janua …"

"… r as Johannesburg, 300 miles away.Making people pay the full cost of their water "was the direct cause of the cholera epidemic," David Hemson, a social sci …"

"… r children went hungry in the last year.Their biggest problem, however, is water. Not because of a shortage, but because they can't afford it.It was in thi …"

"… in this stricken community in 1999 that South Africa initiated one of five water privatization programs as part of a government policy aimed at making peop …"

"… ment policy aimed at making people pay for the full cost of having running water in their homes. The South Africans call it "total cost recovery."Unlike ma …"

"… s, where residents pay only a fraction of the total cost of having running water in their homes, the idea behind "total cost recovery" — the brainchild o …"

"… Nov. 8, a 20-inch pipe burst, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into the streets, closing businesses, snarling traffic and flooding the un …"

"… g the underground, where cars floated in garages.Then in Chicago, a broken water main created a 43-foot sinkhole that swallowed several cars as millions of …"

"… d a 43-foot sinkhole that swallowed several cars as millions of gallons of water gushed onto streets near busy Lake Shore Drive on the city's North side.Fi …"

"… y's North side.Finally on Nov. 10, near San Francisco, a pipe that carries water to 2.4 million people burst, shooting a 100-foot geyser into the air. A sh …"

"… years, Indianapolis water Company, a private utility, owned the water that flowed from the taps of the city's 1.6 million residents.Except for a …"

"… residents.Except for a summertime blue-green algae problem that fouled the water in parts of the city, the water was pretty good. But in 2000, the company' …"

"… e blue-green algae problem that fouled the water in parts of the city, the water was pretty good. But in 2000, the company's parent, NiSource, decided to s …"

"… n industry newsletter."It was important to the political management of the water system," he said. "At the end of the day, you don't want people calling yo …"

"… Fifteen months after Adelaide signed a contract turning over its waterworks to a private consortium controlled by Thames water and  …"

"… The smell plagued Adelaide for much of a three-month period in 1997. While water company and government officials attributed the intense rotten egg stench …"

"… independent investigator tracked it to the largest of Adelaide's four wastewater treatment plants, at Bolivar, 11 miles north of the city. Once identi …"

"… nvestigation, funded by the government and led by University of Queensland water treatment expert Ken Hartley, found that weather conditions at the time of …"

"… tted with small homes, chicken coops and fields of corn and mango trees. A water-soaked road leads to a gated entrance.When two News21 reporters visited in …"

"… corporating daily cleansing and sanitation of the dump tank – a basin of water in which fruit is cleaned before packing – and the use of squeegees inst …"

"… aned before packing – and the use of squeegees instead of brooms to push water into drains.The farm in Guatemala has not been a source of problems for De …"

"… ontamination, according to the alert, was likely irrigation of fields with water contaminated with sewage, processing produce with Salmonella-contaminated …"

"… ting in 1952, the power company began mixing a toxic form of chromium with water to prevent rust at a new pipeline pumping station in Hinkley, a remote des …"

"… by a single school and a general store. PG&E dumped the chromium-laced water into a pond. Lately there had been reports of problems with the neighbors …"

"… of problems with the neighbors’ wells. PG&E had just drawn greenish water from one well and discovered high levels of chromium. Now, retired farmer …"

"… later wrote in longhand, “he was satisfied but still concerned about his water.” Speth died of stomach cancer in 1974. It wasn’t until Dec. 7, 1987 …"