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Hosed: Big water is starting to look like big oil

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A brief discussion regarding the privatization of water supply whether to be done or not is presented. Supporters argue that public utilities in developing countries cannot always provide access to clean water while opponents of water privatization feel that clean water is a basic human right and should not be commodified by money-minded multinationals.

Author: Razdan, Anjula
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2005
Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Management dynamics, Utilities Programs-Total Govt, Management, Public utilities, Privatization, Privatization (Business), Company business management, Company business planning, Municipal water supply

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Beyond romance

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Nine types of intimacy in the everyday life that goes beyond romance are described. These include coffee-shop connections, circle of friends, co-worker confidants, bumper-sticker bonding, the new homosociality, the mother-nanny relationship, animal kinship, object relations, cyber fan clubs.

Author: Razdan, Anjula
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2004
Evaluation, Interpersonal relations, Intimacy (Psychology), Intimacy

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Learning from the right

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Van Jones is an activist who admires the ability of conservatives to reach everyday people. Jones says the right has been doing a good job of building up their mass-media capabilities, their capacity to mobilize and their grassroots organizations.

Author: Razdan, Anjula
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2003
Political organizations, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Political/non-profit organization software, Aims and objectives, Political ideologies, Jones, Van

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