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In reply to the discussion: Water privatization by the richest rich is happening now ("hydraulic empire") incl. the Bush family [View all]alfredo
(60,077 posts)We don't even have local tech service or billing. Their campaign featured "local" workers who would profit from them buying the water company. They also implied our big bad government was too corrupt and too stupid to run our own affairs.
They sold us on the idea of increased water security for times of drought. What they did was build a pipeline from the same pool. That was the most expensive of two options. The other was to tap into an existing pipeline from the Ohio river. That would have been much cheaper and more secure.
The water company wins from making us pay for the pipeline and water plant, and the new infrastructure makes the company more valuable on paper.
It used to be the taxes used to be on the water bill. Now it is not, so the city has to go through the expense of billing us separately for the taxes. That makes the water bill appear smaller, and local government look bad for "increasing" our taxes.