The Pros And Cons Of Water Privatization

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“...consider that less than 2.5 percent of the world’s water is fresh. That vital resource is threatened by pollution,… recent studies show” (Clayton 2004). With this limited amount of water, the amount of pollution humans produce must decrease. We need all of the clean water we can get and polluting the water is only making it less accessible. One year, fifteen million children under the age of five died from not having access to clean water. This is a crisis and the most important issue concerning the water is pollution because people aren’t always aware their water is polluted and pollution is a huge factor in both scarcity and water privatization companies.
Pollution adds to water scarcity and gives the need for companies to privatize water. “⅓ of China’s major rivers and 62% of it’s groundwater (is) contaminated… at this moment we haven’t seen a turning point.” (Holtz 2015). Usually, things don’t get any better until people realize that something is wrong. China is having this problem because their water sources are being polluted without …show more content…
In ‘Flow’, one group of people relayed that sometimes the water came from the pump, and sometimes it didn’t. They said long lines formed to wait for the water to come, and when it did it was often discolored with pollution. While this is terrible, they have failed to consider that pollution is the cause of privatization, and therefore the root of the problem. In ‘Flow’, another community, this one in Bolivia, had a water company forced on them because their water source was so polluted by blood from a slaughterhouse upstream and from normal waste flowing in. If this pollution didn’t happen, then the aftereffects, such as the overcharging companies and water war that broke out, would be less likely to happen. The company was only forced on them because of the dangerous level of pollution in their
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