Privatization is creating an artificial water shortage

Privatization is creating a water shortage, says Butalat. “As it is, according to the concessionaires’ own performance reports, almost 300,000 people in their service areas are already without 24-hour water supply even before the current supply issues began early this month. That is the ‘normal’ situation for these people under the regime of privatized water. The actual figures could be higher, as government regulators do not seem to verify—or do not have the capacity to check—the performance of the concessionaires.”