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Bring water back into public ownership
We all lose as water companies fail again, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
Water tap
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IT WAS recently revealed that London could face a “mass water shortage” by 2040 if urgent action isn’t taken to fix pipes.
For those of us who opposed Thatcher and the Tories’ privatisation drive, including water, initiated in 1989, and the love affair of all governments with privatisation and linked policies such as PFI and outsourcing ever since, this news may not have come as a surprise.
But the continued failures of privatised water companies just keep on coming.
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