Pros And Cons Of Privatization Of Water

Suggestions: If private companies are able to buy water from “underdeveloped" countries like it is nothing, are the developed countries like Canada at risk too? I bring this up because Canada is also in a lot of debt, to be exact $616,135,876,004.58 CAD in debt; It is scary to think that Canada will also fall into the pressure of paying this debt off, and have no choice but sell some of their water supply. Therefore, a solution to prevent the privatization of water and look at it as a human right, needs to be considered. There was a law that was presented in Canada called Bill C-267; Essentially, it was a bill to enable the federal government, along with the provinces, to become part of the process of making water in Canada a public trust (Parliament, 2012). More specifically, it is a bill that would keep water in its natural basin thereby preventing large diversions of water from one basin to another in Canada and, by extension, outside of Canada (Parliament, 2012). However, the bill was rejected as of March 14, 2012. Re-opening this law and having a similar law around the world, will make it harder for private companies to privatizer public water. This law will also give humans their right to fresh, clean, and affordable water. …show more content…
Making the issue more public, will allow people to come together as a society, and help those suffering from water privatization, or not fall into the trap of selling their own water supply. By showing the aftermath of countries like Bolivia, one will realize how much destruction the privatization of water was doing then good for the people of