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The water industry should be taken into public ownership
THE We Own It campaigners and their SplashMob supporters are to be congratulated on making waves today, on the 29th anniversary of water privatisation in England and Wales.
Their protest in London kept the spotlight on the scandal that is England’s all-for-profit water and sewage industry.
Scottish and Welsh consumers can be forgiven for not travelling to join the mobilisation but, then, they are fortunate enough to live in the only two nations of Britain where water is in social ownership.
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