Water isn’t just another thing we buy and sell. It’s the baseline for life, a human right that shows up in every sector—farming, energy, manufacturing. Yet, quietly and not so quietly, the control over water is moving from public agencies to private corporations. And that shift is anything but a neutral policy tweak. It rearranges
Who Really Owns the Tap? Unpacking Water Privatization When a municipal water system crumbles, the autopsy usually rattles off technical failures: busted pipes from another era, treatment plants that can’t keep up, a balance sheet drowning in red ink. But water has never been just an infrastructure problem. It’s a battleground. A fight over who
Water as a Commodity, Not a Right Water privatization is rarely just about water. It is a political and economic project that reshuffles control over a life-sustaining resource—who gets to profit from its distribution, and who picks up the tab when things go wrong. For Dr. Samara Patel, the real question isn’t whether private capital
