Links

Background

• Center for Policy Alternatives: Privatizing Public Services
• Center for Public Integrity:
  • Low Rates, Needed Repairs Lure ‘Big Water’ to Uncle Sam’s Plumbing
  • The Water Barons
• Public Citizen:
  • Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program: Water for All
  • Double Trouble: Thames Water and OMI – two companies Stockton could do without
  • Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Water Privatization
• Smart Voter: Measure F: Private Utilities: City of Stockton

Publications

• Arrandale, Tom. “Foreign Faucet.” Governing. June 2003.
• Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on Privatization of Water Services in the United States and the National Research Council. “Privatization of Water Services in the United States: An Assessment of Issues and Experience.” Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002.
• Gleick, Peter H., Gary Wolff, Elizabeth L. Chalecki, and Rachel Reyes. “The New Economy of Water: The Risks and Benefits of Globalization and Privatization of Fresh Water.” Oakland, California: Pacific Institute, February 2002.
• “Global Water Grab: How Corporations Are Planning to Take Control of Local Water Services.” Ottawa, Ontario: Polaris Institute, January 2003.
• “Guidance on the Privatization of Federally Funded Wastewater Treatment Works.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, August 2000.

Organizations

• Bluegrass FLOW (For Local Ownership of Water)
• Indiana Alliance for Democracy
• Public Citizen: California State Office: Water for All