Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd

92. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: the case for social ownership

06.23.2019 - By CheerfulPlay

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Hello! England is the only country in the world to have a fully privatised water system. Is it time to bring water back into public hands? We talk to Celia Blauel, Deputy Mayor of Paris, about how the city returned its water system to municipal ownership. Then academic David Hall and Anna Birley from the Coop Party talk us through the problems of the water industry and what the alternative would look like.

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