Around the world, privatisation has resulted in unnecessarily high price rises and a failure to deliver water to the world’s poorest people.

In Argentina’s Tucuman province, state-run water services have been sold to French company Vivendi, and water rates have doubled.

In 1998, five of Chile’s 13 regional water companies were privatised, and in the four years following privatisation the private water companies’ water rates rose by 40% – twice the rate of increase of the public companies.

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