Municipal Water Should Never Be Privatized

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Aqua Pennsylvania looks to increase suburban water bills by 17% for up to 490,000 customers "Aqua Pennsylvania, one of the region’s largest water companies, has filed a rate case petition with the state Public Utility Commission to increase water bills for customers by 17% and wastewater bills by 33%. More than 490,000 customers could be affected."

Basic municipal water should never be allowed to become privatized. If water isn't a basic function of any local government I question why even have a local government?

Water isn't a option. It's  the most basic life sustaining element humans need to survive. It should be at the very top of the list local governments be forced to provide. It's ironic some local governments don't want to get involved supplying it. But they'll be right there doing a company's bidding, rendering a home uninhabitable, if someone doesn't pay the bills to a large commercial corporation.

Talk about a mafia like shakedown. Government in cahoots with a commercial company.

The way I see this it does not serve the local taxpayers best interests by pawning off what should be government's responsibility. Instead citizens are forced to deal with a for-profit publicly-traded corporation beholden to it's shareholders.