For-profit Water, Federal Cuts, and Climate Crisis are ‘Supercharging Water Rate Hikes’

Maya Yang in The Guardian:

Corporate-owned utilities charged the average household $823 a year, compared with $494 for publicly owned systems – a difference of $329, or 67%. Corporate systems accounted for just 11% of the 500 systems the study analyzed but represented 44% of the 25 most expensive systems. The study added that 70% of the top 10 were owned by for-profit corporations.

Capitalism eats everything.