Heya Everyone
As many of you might not know, i was a little involved in politics in the past, doing some volunteer work, demonstrating and causing riots
and a little while ago an important and interesting topic to me peaked my interest. The water privatization that is which i consindered a given
human right for everyone is about to make its way into the private sector in more and more countries ...
The uk already has the water privatization, france in some way, some parts of portugal as well but from what i've heard with drastic increasing of the prices ... so there are good and bad examples so far but how will it continue ?
Will that increase or decrease the quality ? How much will we need to pay for water later on or is it even becoming a luxury ?
That is mainly a topic concering the new initiative of the EU attepting to privatize the water but everyone is welcome to share their opinions and thoughts !
I can only speak for myself, not trying to put up any propaganda but i heavily disagree with the attept to privatize water, it might be true that we tend to be very wasteful with it but it still is a given right and necessarity for living and the sheer idea to put it into private hands does displease me a lot. Of course there are a lot of things to be taken into consinderation, the increasing use of water, the still immense amount that is wasted or the filitering/renewing that needs work but i really wonder if that would change in privatization since there always happens to be corruption, favoritism and the drive for profit... will the price for water increase like the one for oil and electricity or how would they intend to make their profit ?
Just to clarify, i do not say that current system is a still working solution overall, there are changes to be made without question but from whom ?
Every citizen should have the given right to make use of water, without any kind of favorism and that not even just in Europe. What would happen if the water quality depends on the pay and could the supplying still be guranteed ? Will water even become a reason for war or will humanity find a better solution in the future?
I'm looking forward to your opinions, thoughts and ideas guys and girls
Here is a link with informations for people that are not familiar with the topic
www.right2water.eu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization
kisses cheya