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Article

17 Aug 2005

Author:
Ronald Bailey, Reason magazine [USA]

Water Is a Human Right: How privatization gets water to the poor

In his excellent new short monograph, Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis (2005), Swedish analyst Fredrik Segerfeldt makes the case that water privatization can go a long way toward quenching the thirst of the poor...Segerfeldt shows that even imperfect privatization efforts have already successfully connected millions of poor people to relatively inexpensive water where government-funded efforts have failed. [refers to Bechtel]