Cholera and the age of the water barons

By Bill Marsden

Cholera turned out to be a chronicle of death foretold by blind ideology

Promoting privatization

ICIJ research showed that privatization is playing an ever-increasing role in bank lending policies

Water and power: The French connection

By Julio Godoy

The French government has taken a protectionist approach to the water business
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Metered to death

By Jacques Pauw

How a water experiment in South Africa caused riots and a cholera epidemic

Water and politics in the fall of Suharto

By Andreas Harsono

Thames and Suez executives abandoned their posts with only 3 days of water treatment chemicals

Low rates, needed repairs lure 'big water' to Uncle Sam's plumbing

By Erika Hobbs

Low rates, needed repairs lure 'big water' to Uncle Sam's plumbing

Excerpts from this story referencing "Water privatization":

"… George W. Bush to serve on his National Infrastructure Advisory Committee.Water privatization, which has gained momentum in the rest of the world over the last decade, …"

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The big pong down under

By Bill Birnbauer

Less than two years after turning control over to a privatized firm, Adelaide took on a certain stench