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UK: Water meters may be forced on millions
This summer may be Britain's worst drought for thirty years, and hose-pipe bans and standpipes are already being discussed.
Sound similar to the news stories every year around this time? Well not quite.
1989-2001 UK water privatisation
UK Water privatisation - a briefing
February 2001
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NI: Water privatisation delayed until 2007
Government plans to implement water charges and privatise the Water Service in Northern Ireland has been put back again, this time to April 2007.
Ineptitude, opposition and a desire to dissipate growing resistance may all play their part in the further delay.
The most damaging aspect of this announcement is that it becomes harder to focus attention on the issue and build effective resistance.
On tap at the WTO: Private water
The focus of the Hong Kong round for rich western nations is to squeeze every drop of money they can by privatising public services. When it comes to water systems, that can be deadly.
Hong Kong – Activists gathered here say that no issue highlights the tension between the human values they advocate and the economic logic of the legion of corporate globalizers that have descended on this city more clearly than water.
