Comments for In other countries, water is flowing into public hands at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://lakeconews.com Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:06:35 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4835/919/#comment-5934 Why not use the water we pump up to Cal-Pine Geysers, its all most to the Title 22 drinking standerd. Just in the Clearlake Oaks area, they pump 500,000 gallons a day up the hill. We could take that water and use it in Ag use. So many other areas around the USA use treated waste water for AG use. Instead of a rate increase , lets try selling the waste water. - Dogman Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:26:14 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4835/919/#comment-5932 I think people do not realize what can happen when you allow private corporations to take over. You are, whether you like it or not, at their mercy, when you sell your necessary natural resources to a corporation. All you need to do is look at what happened in Bolivia when the Bechtel Corporation privatized and monopolized the water system to see how absolutely corrupt a private system can get. Bechtel was even even charging them for collecting rain water. Sad but true. Maybe, it is too late for us but I can\'t blame and have to admire people who are attempting to take a stand against companies who are making necessities into commodities. I like it how Dr. Shiva puts it, she simply asks the question as to why we should be forced to follow laws and pay a price for anything that nature gives for free. It is a question even Ghandi asked, as he stood up for the taxation of salt (an essential natural element which was free to the people of India until the British Government realized they could make a buck off of it). It is a question I think needs to be asked more often. - purplegirl Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:11:26 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/4835/919/#comment-5927 IMHO public water systems are better managed than private water systems (as long as they aren\'t managed by politicians and other idiots with personal agendas). Not-for-profit water systems are better for the public. It isn\'t as if rates haven\'t increased for not-for-profit water systems. The difference is that the finances of the not-for-profit water systems are far more transparent than for-profit water systems. That being said, we must ask the question as to WHO is going to pony up the cash to purchase any of the private water systems in Lake County? It isn\'t as if the companies who currently own the water systems are simply going to hand them over. The writer of the article referenced many third-world countries as examples of water systems being brought back into the hands of the state. Those countries may simply \"nationalize\" any company - we don\'t do that in the U.S. - yellowwing Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:37:42 +0100