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Profiteering from water : Comments
By Bruce Haigh, published 30/4/2008It is the right of all citizens to have access to a life sustaining supply of potable water so how will trading in water and water licences achieve this?
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"Any analysis of the effect of climate change on governance must lead to the conclusion that the era of the privatisation of assets of public benefit and necessity is over. Scarcity and shortage will require the intervention of government to maintain a reasonable quality of life and evenly balanced productivity."
We simply are not seeing these powerful arguments in the public debate on water policy. They need to be out there, in the national public interest.