Profiting from People’s Lives: Metro Manila’s Water Privatization Saga
Author: Jubilee South, Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)
Nine years after the water distribution function of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) was auctioned off to private corporations, the Philippine government and Metro Manila’s water concessionaires have nothing to show but skyrocketing rates, unmet service obligations and heavier debt burdens. The article explains how the supposed model for private sector participation (PSP) or public-private partnership (PPP) in the global water industry has become a classic example of a water crisis solution that proves to be worse than the problem it purports to address.
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