With Italy the latest country withdrawing from the World Bank's Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, the agency setup to privatise water in third world countries how long will Benn continue to defend this obscene practice?
Britain now contributes more than half the funds aimed at making water a commodity to the poorest people in the world and last year a damming report found that foreign water companies are spending millions on propoganda to persuade people in the poorest countries of the virtues of selling off their water supplies to western companies. Since the start of the programme very little has been spent structurally improving water facilities however in many countries prices have soared and access decreased.
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