from Hacker News

Billions of pounds are sucked out of England’s water system

by vladharbuz on 6/29/23, 1:43 PM with 2 comments

• by bell-cot on 6/29/23, 2:01 PM

  Um, yeah. If you compare an honest, well-managed public-owned basic utility to one which is run by "greed is the one true God" capitalists - obviously it's gonna be night vs. day.

  But the former required an honest, competent government. Wikipedia has a quick summary of the privatization of England's formerly-public water & sewer systems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatisation_in_England...

• by 1letterunixname on 6/29/23, 2:23 PM

  Privatization and deregulation trickledown Reganomics / vampire capitalism come home to roost.