Pros And Cons Of Water Privatization

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Water should not be privatized because privatization leads to rate increases, privatization undermines water quality, and reduces local control and public rights. Water privatization is when water is chosen to be private property which will cost, or the water will be for public use and will not cost. If it's private the companies will clean the water, and if it's public then the consumer must clean the water itself.

Water Should not be privatized because it leads to a rate increase. Among the more unseeingly aspects of handling water, rather than a basic human need. The poor are often denied access because they don’t have the money to take care or collect their own water. Even if they do choose to collect their own water, the water still

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