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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Milwaukee Water Works Privatization Feels Like A Done Deal
You read between the lines of this comprehensive piece, and you don't see a strong voice in City Hall slowing down the water privatization deal-making.
Once the consultant gets hired, and that person or firm puts the deal together, it's done.
I saw this over at the K-POW forum and wonder if this is true and if so shouldn't it have a negative impact on the argument in favor of privatization: "During the Steering & Rules Committee meeting on Nov. 19, 2008, the Superintendent of the Milwaukee Water Works, Carrie Lewis, admitted that if the Water Works maintained a fund balance equivalent of two years of operating expenses, then any revenue over this amount could be funneled into the City's general operating funds. "
And I have been disappointed -- but not surprised, sadly -- by the lack of coverage in the Journal-Sentinel of the many ways that privatization has contributed to the current global water crisis.
I saw this over at the K-POW forum and wonder if this is true and if so shouldn't it have a negative impact on the argument in favor of privatization:
ReplyDelete"During the Steering & Rules
Committee meeting on Nov. 19, 2008, the Superintendent of the Milwaukee Water
Works, Carrie Lewis, admitted that if the Water Works maintained a fund balance
equivalent of two years of operating expenses, then any revenue over this amount
could be funneled into the City's general operating funds. "
Water privatization is very scary to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have been disappointed -- but not surprised, sadly -- by the lack of coverage in the Journal-Sentinel of the many ways that privatization has contributed to the current global water crisis.