Water: frontier markets and cosmopolitan activism

摘要: Water is for many people an intuitive ‘last bastion’ against privatisation. The notion of profiting from the distribution something so vital raises political hackles and upbraids moral sensitivities. Thus activists describe new technological devices such as restriction valves weapons mass destruction (these are inserted into systems those whose water bills unpaid, making it take twenty minutes to fill a glass water). Yet we also know that this sense outrage changes over time. degree private sector involvement in services waxes wanes: both UK US was extensively involved nineteenth century, then public provision dominated most twentieth with turning back privatisation again recent years. However, while supply currently relatively accepted UK, remains issue