Huge wrote:
On 2008-08-11, johannes wrote:

Bazzer Smith wrote:
and execute the water companies executives.
These criminals have incrceased the price of water faster than
the price of energy despite it falling out of the air.
Untrue. Water has to be found, cleaned up to an increasingly high
standard, piped, pumped and stored. Water companies are also responsible
for clean bathing water at beaches, for removing and treating sewage;
the sewage is longer flushed out in the sea, it all has to be treated.
Look it up instead of saying that it just comes out of the sky.

The water companies are also having to make up for decades of chronic
underfunding while they were State owned. Essentially, we got stitched up by the
State who exported the problem to the private sector.

Exactly.

"Should we increase taxes to fund the water boards?"

" er..no. People dont like taxes".

"Oh well., privatise them and they can pay more water rates instead!"

"Done deal".