We propose an article on the privatization of water supply.
What could lead to pockets of the city. Our minority group has always opposed such a perspective we hope that in this case the Government Maroni not make a misstep.
Water Privatization in Italy: scenario
Also in Italy a law has just set out the process of privatization of water: but what will it affect the daily lives of users? And what are the risks?
Facing the age-old issue of water privatization is necessary to state that all democratic governments, when faced with a public service that is not working properly, often resort to its sale to private entrepreneurs, with capital of which we can achieve a level of supply adequate.
This is obviously a last resort, to fall back on when the state is no longer able to take over the management of a service: it has already happened with telephony, energy and public transport - with mixed success.
Consider, then, the current situation of water resources and their distribution in Italian. In our country, particularly with hydrography varied and spread throughout the country, we can not say that lack potable water. 70% of this, however, is used to irrigate the fields: a use that would not be justified even under optimal conditions.
Italy, needless to say, is not this! Half the water present in water systems, on average, does not reach the faucet, but scattered in a myriad of loopholes that it is too expensive to repair: should fix all the leaks in a stretch, even using the proper precautions to prevent it form new ones.
With the privatization of water services the state has to face the necessary work to improve the water distribution throughout Italy: in 2020, it is estimated, it will take 30 to 40 thousand kilometers of pipelines, with an average of 3 or 4000 km per year. To do this it will take an exorbitant amount that the country, alone, can not possibly afford to pay.
The 2 / 3 of private capital under the new legislation should provide the lifeblood to give, finally, drinking water and current in all the houses in many areas (especially but not exclusively, in the South) Thousands of families are forced to live being able to use only a few hours of water a day, or with unreliable services.
But the privatization of water will solve these problems?
The hope, of course, even if other countries that have gone down this road - like France - are making a sharp reverse. The water, in fact, not a commercial product anywhere, but is the highest good: a day without water is to risk their lives, while many are, despite themselves, to survive a week without food. It should be, by its nature, a free good or at least the nominal cost: the cost of distribution should be borne by the state as ultimate guarantor of citizens' welfare.
found that, currently, our state is not possible to undertake this task and hope that privatization can be an alternative solution, we pause to reflect on what might happen, however. A spa and, by its nature, a group of people who must do business by trading goods and services: the interest of a company are not the customers, if not for reflection, but the shareholders and the turnover.
Each share of a private contractor must be done after careful evaluation of costs and benefits: improving the water network a sparsely populated, for example, may not be economically beneficial - unless you need to charge on your bill massively.
A waste - in a purely commercial perspective - might not be a disadvantage, because to fix a flaw in certain circumstances, it is more expensive than not doing anything. The examples are many, without considering the social power that a water system operator will acquire. I just hope that the privatization of water was actually conceived as the first step toward solving a long standing problem and not Italian as yet another act of a typically blame us.
Louis Perri - Green Magazine
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