Water Makes Money
Most people don't realize the value of the important things in life until they're no longer available. Good water is one of those things. A human being is 70% water. He has to keep refilling, otherwise he's dead after about 3 days. That's why water, as an essential basic foodstuff, has always been a publicly administered commodity. And throughout the world today more than 80% of all water supplies are still administered by public authorities. For good reasons: drinking water and waste water are always a local monopoly. Nowhere in the world does water from various competing suppliers flow through the public network of pipelines. A market is unimaginable. He who privatises this essential service all the same, replaces a public monopoly with a private one.