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Article

21 Mar 2006

Author:
BBC

Government 'must meet water need'

Governments, not private firms, must take responsibility for getting water to their people, a new report argues. "Private companies only invest where they can make a profit, not where there is the greatest need," Peter Hardstaff of the World Development Movement says. The organisation has launched the report, Pipe Dreams, on the eve of the United Nations' World Water Day...Their findings differ sharply from those of the Sustainable Development Network, which published a book last week urging government deregulation.