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It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

Stock photo of dam via Getty Images. This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug 31, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. An under-the-radar report by ...

"Water is — and always should be — a public good. Cutting corners and endangering the public to deliver profits for a private corporation is the height of greed and disregard for the people’s ...

A month after winter storms wreaked havoc across the U.S. South, Jackson, Mississippi is still in the midst of a major crisis. As of March 5, thousands of residents continued to lack water service, ...

Aqua America — a supporter of the bill — is in talks to buy the Bucks County sewer system for more than $1 billion. (Tyger Williams/The Philadelphia Inquirer) This story originally appeared on ...

Failing water systems have plagued cities across the country for decades. But a lack of willingness to invest in our nation’s infrastructure has made such crises inevitable. It’s no accident that over ...

The financial impact of COVID-19 has been devastating for public water operators around the world. Millions of households and businesses have not been able to pay their water bills due to lost income, ...

When Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves announced in mid-September that the state was lifting its weeks-long boil order for Jackson, it sounded like a declaration of victory: “We have restored clean ...