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Christopher Gasson looks at the resurgence of private sector involvement in water.

If the anti-private water lobby has achieved anything over the past five years, it has been the eradication of the word “privatisation” from the water industry lexicon. Even Veolia, the private water industry’s leader, seems to have dissociated itself entirely from the word. We are told instead to use phrases like “public-private partnership” and “private sector participation”, ideally in ...

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