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Posted Tuesday, September 10, 2024
5mo
INFJ
WATER PRIVATISATION
Should WATER supply be managed by the PRIVATE sector or the STATE? - Elaborate your arguments below. - If you have "mixed approach" please provide examples of where this strategy has been successful. #philosophy #politics #economy #humanrights #thoughts #question01
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Mixed Approach
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Vartan
5mo
INTJ
Capricorn
Private sector has a better ability to maintain the quality. As much as it feels like it should be public we do not pay for water, we pay for its cleanliness and quality. And experience showed that the state doesn't do a better job with that. At least in my countries. (edited)
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Thomas
5mo
INTP
Libra
Mixed would provide the most competition which would inevitably keep things improving. If the public sector controls your water alone there is little incentive to improve on the status quo, likewise with fully privatized water you have profit over people which incentivizes companies to cut costs when it inconveniences them and to monopolize so as to keep competition down. Having a basic public sector that keeps a standard up forces companies to compete with a basic level of quality that the public sector provides and to put forth a better product (or at least cheaper) than the public sector can therefore driving up competition which in turn creates a better product. It also keeps companies honest because if the public sector is able to provide a better quality water supply than the private sector can provide the private sector will die off. likewise the public sector is incentivized to maintain water distribution at adequate levels with higher and higher minimum standards thereby ensuring that water is clean and tastes better. Of course all of that is an ideal, knowing my government there would be backroom deals that hurt everyone but a small minority so 🤷
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Lewis
5mo
INTJ
Gemini
You may want to look what has happened in the UK. In the last thirty years private firms have not looked after the infrastructure or built or maintained what is needed. Instead the private equity vultures have diverted money and used the profit to pay out billions in dividends and bonuses. This year brixam had to have the water shut off for several months due to cryptosporiodiosis causing illnesses. The company gave £250 to the people affected and paid out £191million in dividends. It is a system flawed and doesn't work. Every single water system in the UK has traces of harmful bacteria and raw sewage and our coasts have been poisoned. And now we are facing a massive hike in bills so the companies can fix what they neglected. Privatisation of essentials does not work.
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Gypsy
5mo
ENTJ
Scorpio
Good question.
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Josh
4mo
INTP
Virgo
Water supply can be managed by both the state or the private sector. In both cases water is a goods and the services delivering clean water is a service. In some places there is scarcity of water, and water needs to be privatized by necessity to avoid waste and for it to be managed successfully. In some places water is abundant. It is a collective good which does not need to be regulated. For a variety of reasons (like pollution, droughts, war, disease...) water can become scarce even in areas where water normally would be plentiful. It doesn't matter if the system is private or public, the price and cost of water and associated services will rise and fall according to how scarce it is. In effect, although many people have the opposite opinion, it has been proven time and time again that states fail at providing goods and services. While private markets find a way. It's not a topic of debate. Therefore to choose anything but a private or mixed system is ignorant and dangerous to people's well-being. Because then at the very least there will be an option. I would argue that it is better to have a private system, because if the goods or services were mismanaged, or the customers and users were exploited. There would be a greater opportunity for competition, and they would be able to find better solutions. Where it is possible, we should prefer a private system even when it does not benefit, convenience or flatter us personally. Because we should not be greedy by taking advantage of others by forcing them to pay for our use, we should not encourage waste, and we should not imagine ourselves to be superior people for contributing to these things. There are many other ways to genuinely help people who are in need which does not just make us feel better, but they do not endanger or exploit other people.
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