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Liquid Assets: Enron's Dip into Water Business Highlights Pitfalls of Privatization demonstrates how Enron’s brief tenure in the water business highlights the many risks of water privatization: poor contract performance, political corruption and influence peddling, environmental violations, prospects of water commodification, and uncertainty about the financial stability of private contractors.

Published:: 2002
Number of Pages:: 26
Download this Document:: PDF file

This report was originally produced by the Water for All Campaign of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program. In November 2005, this campaign moved to Food & Water Watch, which is reproducing this report with Public Citizen’s permission.

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