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Eau de victory.(WATER)(Brief article)
Water privatization has been high on the globalizers' agenda for the last decade. But privatizers haven't all found it easy to get their way. Vibrant campaigns by residents, trade unionists and environmental activists have been so successful--and privatization experiments so disastrous-that a push towards the de-privatization of water services is gathering a head of steam. A new website--www.remunicipalisation.org--highlights and celebrates the growing trend of returning failing privately managed water services to public management, which is manifesting itself in parts of South America, North America and Africa.
It's even happening in France, which is arguably the heartland of privatized water services: the Mayor of Paris recently announced that the city would be returning services to public management from 2009. Increased tariffs and a failure ...
- SUEZ TO LEAVE SANTA FE BUT IS STILL IN NEGOTIATION FOR BUENOS AIRES.
- Newspaper article from: Europe Environment July 15, 2005 700+ words
...Aquas Provinciales de Santa Fe water services with two local Argentinian companies, while negotiations on the Buenos Aires service continue. The agreement...Argentinas, water provider in Buenos Aires, are "completely unbundled...
- WATER SERVICES: SUEZ AND ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT AT ODDS OVER INVESTMENT.
- Newspaper article from: Europe Environment February 26, 2004 700+ words
...Argentine press reports that the Government would like to see Aguas Argentinas, the company responsible for water services and sewers in Buenos Aires, invest 242 million Pesos (Euro 65 million) in 2004. Suez has meanwhile confirmed that it is ready...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Welsch, Chris August 26, 2001 700+ words
...feeling you can dance.' " A native of Buenos Aires, and a proud Argentinian, told this...me again!" Walking the streets of Buenos Aires, that streak of hubris is evident...avenues speak of empire. The dance of Buenos Aires, naturally then, is the sexy, outrageous...
- Buenos Aires City.(Capital Federal)
- Argentina Travel Companion Leitner, Gerry January 1, 2000 700+ words
...very shaky initial foundation in 1536, Buenos Aires has grown into a remarkable cosmopolitan...Capital Federal 3 million; with greater Buenos Aires included the total is 9 million [telephone...011) Altitude: Sea level The city of Buenos Aires, the eighth largest city in the western...
- Golf courses.(Pampa Provinces: Buenos Aires)
- Argentina Travel Companion Leitner, Gerry January 1, 2000 700+ words
The towns listed here are in the greater Buenos Aires area. Some of these locations are virtually suburbs of the city of Buenos Aires although situated in Buenos Aires Province; they are recognizable by the telephone code...
- ARGENTINA: FOREIGN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FLOCK TO BUENOS AIRES.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service November 16, 2007 700+ words
By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov. 15, 2007...are enrolling in the University of Buenos Aires, one of Latin America's most...and October, the University of Buenos Aires Web site was visited nearly half...
- crobar Goes Worldwide with the Opening of crobar Buenos Aires in Argentina.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 14, 2005 700+ words
...move toward global nightlife domination BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire...16th, 2005 opening of the 4th club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The South American expansion...New York its 2nd hot year, and crobar Buenos Aires becomes the first international location...
- Buenos Aires: Duplicar el subterraneo.(Ciudad y Metrópoli)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) June 10, 2002 700+ words
...problemas de trfico Argentina corresponsal BUENOS AIRES/ En el marco de la ms severa crisis...recuerde Argentina, la Ciudad Autnoma de Buenos Aires mantiene en marcha un proyecto para...perifricos de la ciudad y los interconecte. Buenos Aires tiene cinco lneas de Metro, cuatro...
