{"id":978,"date":"2006-12-04T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=978"},"modified":"2006-12-04T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:27:56","slug":"water-privatization-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/12\/04\/water-privatization-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Privatization in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2006_12_04_katlan.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2006_12_04_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/gallery.hd.org\/_tn\/std\/natural-science\/_more1998\/_more01\/water-drops-1-AJHD.jpg\" alt=\"water\" \/><em>GUEST: Victoria Katlan, an organizer with Food and Water Watch<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new report by Food and Water Watch, entitled &#8220;The Future of American Water,&#8221; profiles the RWE subsidiary American Water. RWE is a giant German owned corporation that purchased the company, American Water in 2003. It&#8217;s CEO Harry Roels made a commitment that RWE would be a long-term partner with the communities his corporation serves. Less than three years later, RWE is selling American Water, leaving communities in 27 U.S. states and 3 Canadian provinces in the dark about the future of their water utilities. This comes after the company made nearly $150 million through often drastic rate increases. So far, RWE and American Water executives have refused to negotiate with elected officials and citizens. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\">www.foodandwaterwatch.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Victoria Katlan, an organizer with Food and Water Watch A new report by Food and Water Watch, entitled &#8220;The Future of American Water,&#8221; profiles the RWE subsidiary American Water. RWE is a giant German owned corporation that purchased the company, American Water in 2003. It&#8217;s CEO Harry Roels made a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}