How will the needs of water systems be met, if private enterprise is not the answer?
Kaufman: It doesn’t mean there isn’t a role for the private sector in reverse osmosis [a high-tech, extremely effective method of filtering], and research for all the kinds of things we are going to need to make sure there’s plenty of clean, safe drinking water for people. Communities just don’t want to see actual management and control and billing going to giant multinational firms, whether they are based abroad or in the U.S. It’s clear that people looking for shorter-term profits are really not good for this resource we all need, and people will fight that. Snitow: You’ve got very serious forces on both sides of this. There is this visceral opposition at the grassroots to takeover of local water supplies. On other hand, you have a firesale of public assets all over the United States. You’ve got an alliance between fairly conservative business people and some liberals who believe we need a cash infusion and are willing to sell things that people on the grassroots think cannot be sold
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