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Luca Rinaldi WRITES:
Dear Laura, I can tell you about the European directive on water privatization, Ronchi probably refers to the notorious "Bolkestein directive", under which, if the Italian deputies do their job, they would be aware and beat in the face of all the majority, because no one in that directive force anyone to privatize the water: the story Community obligation is sand in the eye. Let me return to a post on my blog for more information about the numbers of the deal 'WATER'.
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After the first step, the Ronchi Decree (a hornet's nest of rules in one law all thrown from motorway concessions, competitiveness of food products to the privatization of water), cash in trust and will become law. The water will go to private management. Why were those decisions and how this time the chiefs have mocked the people?
There are at least three reasons that show how the rule is, first and second of place, unless in the interests of all citizens. The rule concerning the privatization of water has been incorporated within this Ordinance Community obligations, but in reality there is no European standard requiring Italy to privatize water, not even the Bolkestein directive (see page 50) on privatization and liberalization, as a rule, just Article 1 those areas that are of public interest. The decree provides that presented a series of local public services, such as water, are passed on to the market, then regarded as goods of economic importance and rights of citizens.
Even today the presence of individuals in the water sector is strong, but the municipalities can participate in the management by joint-stock companies wholly public, but within two years, with the new rules, this can no longer be necessary to entrust the management and fully to private enterprises or joint stock company, in which private shareholders holding at least 40% of the capital. If the public provides access to the resource for all, at least in the case of water, not for individuals that make the logic of profit their forte.
Over the past seven years have seen a surge in water charges by 47%, according to estimates by ISTAT, soaring higher in those municipalities where water privatization has already started. It is said that privatization would lead individuals to invest in the renewal of the water system, sewerage and sewage treatment, losing 1 / 3 's water during transport. To do this requires an investment by 60miliardi euro. We are confident that this privatization will automatically see the investment in renewing the water supply?
No, because the same Italian experience shows that where the management water is private problems out there, so much so that in countries where this happens, people should cook with bottled water, or lie at seven in the morning with the bath water that flows from the taps, with bills to dizziness, as the inhabitants of Ceccano, province of Frosinone. Exactly bills dizziness and poor water quality, despite the private management face dominates the beginning of 2008. 1500 complaints about 7000 inhabitants, just to cite one example still in small scale.
Consumer associations denounced the possibility to raise rates as much as 30%, which would see increases in a single decade (2000-2010) more than half the cost of a primary good and the right citizen. Moreover, the business at stake is about 6miliardi euro, as an opportunity to think about leaving so greedy?
If Italy approves privatization, there is to say that a) you arrive very late b) wherever it was tested the idea was abandoned. Examples? In Paris, after 25 years the water has returned to public, even in Montpellier and other common French, just to reiterate that the model in the private sector has not to be done for the Alps. Germany has blocked the privatization, while in Belgium the chapter is almost closed for some time, while in Sweden, after a suggestion so do not talk about it anymore. In the Netherlands, even in September 2004 the parliament decided, by law, to prevent any form of water privatization. The only areas of privatization remain Britain and some Eastern European countries.
Why all these have backtracked on privatization? Perhaps the answer is to be found in the costs: it costs more to keep it that privatizing public. So why privatize? We are in Italy baby, and the lobby ready to bleed the citizens are always alert, to do something to convince the good of the country, continue to do something for their pockets.
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Luca Rinaldi
http://lucarinaldi.blogspot.com
November 21, 2009 17:38
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 COMMON GOOD WATER
PUBLISH THE LETTER OF ALEX Zanotelli alone explains all the blindness of those who still struggling to understand the value of water and made it a mere political exercise!
Naples, November 19, 2009
privatized water
"Damn you ...."
I can not use another expression for those who voted for the privatization of water, which was used by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, against of the rich: "Woe to you who are rich. ..." Damn
those who voted for the commodification of water.
We will continue to shout that water is life, water is sacred, water is a basic human right.
It 's the most crushing defeat of the policy. E 'stravittoria of the economic-financial potentates, the international lobby. And 'the victory of the policy of privatization, business, business.
is at the expense sis 'water', today the most precious asset of humanity, which will be increasingly scarce, both for climate change, and an increase in population. That the privatization of water is a choice that will paid a high price from the underprivileged classes of that country (bills by 30-40% more, at least), but mainly from the impoverished of the world. If today 50 million a year die from starvation and related diseases, 100 million will die of thirst tomorrow. Which of the three billion people living today with less than two dollars a day, will pay for water? "We are
for life, water is life, source of life. And we are sure that theirs is only a Pyrrhic victory. For this reason we ask everyone to turn this 'defeat' in a renewed commitment to water, for life, for democracy. We are confident that this parliamentary vote will be a "boomerang" for those who have voted.
Our first is an appeal to the people, to every man and woman of good will. We have to start from below, from ordinary people, by the municipalities.
Thus, we ask:
-CITIZENS of protest against the Ronchi Decree, by sending e-mail to their parliamentary
-creating groups in defense of water as locally at the regional level;
-form themselves into cooperatives to manage their water.
municipalities to hold councils
-single issue in defense of water;
-state water common good, 'no economic significance';
-SPECIAL PUBLIC COMPANY make the right choice.
THE NEW LAW DOES NOT PREVENT THE TOWNS CHOOSE THE PATH OF THE TOTAL PUBLIC COMPANY SPECIAL MUNICIPAL the so-called.
TO ATO-ATO to 64 (optimal territorial areas), now assigned to Spa in total public capital to transform itself into special agencies, managed with the participation of citizens.
REGIONS
-challenging the constitutionality of the new law as did the Puglia Region;
-pass laws on regional governance of water.
-unions to decide on the privatization of water;
-mobilize and mobilize citizens against the commodification of water.
ITALIAN BISHOPS of
-proclaim water a basic human right in the wake of the recent encyclical of Benedict XVI, which speaks of 'access to water as a universal right of all human beings, without distinction or discrimination "(27);
-protest as CEI (Italian Episcopal Conference) against the decree Ronchi.
COMMUNITY TO 'CHRISTIAN-
to inform their faithful on the water issue;
- organize in defense of water.
parties to
- to express very clearly their position on the management of 'water-
to propose a parliamentary debate on the law of popular initiative against the privatization of water, signed by over 400,000 citizens. Water is
blue gold of the twenty-first century. Together with the air, water is the most precious asset of humanity. We want to cry now more than ever what we yelled in many squares and theaters in this country: "The air and water are absolutely essential to the basic goods and the lives of all living beings from birth and become the natural rights untouchables-are words of Archbishop Emeritus of Messina, G. Mattock. The water belongs to everyone and no one can be allowed to appropriate it to derive illicit profit, and therefore requests that continue to be run exclusively by the municipalities organized into public companies, which have always been the duty of ensuring the distribution at the lowest cost possible. "
Alex Zanotelli
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