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Mortgaging Milwaukee’s Future
2009-11-04
The City of Milwaukee faces a serious fiscal predicament. Its budget deficit could top $100 million by 2010, and laws restrict its ability to raise taxes to help offset the shortfall. In 2008, with this conundrum in mind, a public official proposed leasing the Milwaukee Water Works to generate a new revenue source. The city needs an alternative to service cuts and fee hikes, but water privatization is an inadequate and possibly expensive option.
Unmeasured Danger: America’s Hidden Groundwater Crisis
2009-07-21
Farmers in the western United States are drilling ever deeper to water their crops. Mainers are concerned with lowered water levels in their wells when water bottlers come to town. Arizonans see the Santa Cruz River withering away. In communities around the country, these citizens are all seeing the effects of a decline in one of our most crucial but least understood natural resources: groundwater.
Sustaining Our Water Future
2009-06-04
The Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) is developing a new program to improve water supply reliability. MMWD staff has identified a theoretical water supply deficit of 6,700 afy by the year 2025. A range of alternatives are being considered to address the projected supply deficit. The alternatives include increased water conservation, improved reservoir management, increased water recycling, importing additional Russian River water and constructing a desalination facility.
Water Privatization Threatens Workers, Consumers and Local Economies
2009-05-19
Our country’s good public operators have kept water safe and affordable for most households, but despite their successes, they are coming under attack.
Dried Up, Sold Out
2009-03-10
Dried Up, Sold Out: How the World Bank’s Push for Private Water Harms the Poor – Most people in the United States are accustomed to turning on the faucet and seeing safe and healthful water stream forth. But take a trip into the developing world, and one often finds that the tap is dry. Indeed, literally billions of people in developing countries have no access to water and sewer services. And for those who do, the quality ranges from poor to downright dangerous.
Money Down the Drain
2009-02-24
Greedy multinational corporations are after your water. If you don’t stop them, it could cost you a lot of money. Privateers may be creeping around your town hall. Your town is sitting on a gold mine: your water supply. Corporate executives know this and may be trying to weasel control of YOUR water from your city or town.
Desalination: An Ocean of Problems
2009-02-03
As local, state and federal governments in the United States increasingly fear drought and water shortages, private corporations are marketing ocean desalination as the solution. They promise that reverse osmosis technology can turn the ocean into a reliable source of drinking water by removing the salt from seawater. While they offer their product for two to four times the cost of other water sources, they fail to advertise the toxic chemicals, marine life damage, carbon emissions and other social and environmental ills that come along with it.
All Bottled Up: Nestlé’s Pursuit of Community Water
2009-01-12
Inside Food & Water Watch's report, All Bottled Up: Nestlé’s Pursuit of Community Water, find information about: Nestlé, profits, groundwater, purity, health and safety, Arrowhead, PureLife, Calistoga, Deer Park, Zephyrhills, Poland Spring, Ozarka, Perrier; Wells, Maine; McCloud, California; the Dells, Wisconsin; Shapleigh, Maine; aquifer; Mary Taylor; Jamilla El-Shafei; plastic bottles, plastic pollution, trash, landfills, toxic gas and ash
Free Your Event from Bottled Water
2008-12-18
A Practical Guide to Take Back the Tap at Your Next Event and Avoid the Waste, Expense and Environmental Problems with Bottled Water
American Water
2008-12-01
RWE’s short, uneasy U.S. experiment is a cautionary tale for all concerned — water companies, regulators, elected officials and citizens alike. The American Water experience raises the question: Should a resource so essential to life be controlled by multinational, for-profit corporations, or safeguarded by the public with strong local oversight and accountability measures?
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- Mortgaging Milwaukee’s Future — The City of Milwaukee faces a serious fiscal predi ...
- Unmeasured Danger: America’s Hidden Groundwater Crisis — Farmers in the western United States are drilling ...
- Sustaining Our Water Future — The Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD) is devel ...
- Water Privatization Threatens Workers, Consumers and Local Economies — Our country’s good public operators have kept wa ...
- Dried Up, Sold Out — Dried Up, Sold Out: How the World Bank’s Push fo ...