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As Daniel Fisher (USussex) points out, our problems with the Water Utilities stem from three wider aspects of most (if not all) forms of public-private 'partnership':

1. a focus on costs builds in a 'need' to reduce service quality & provision;

2. paying the fine for breaking service commitments is mostly cheaper than retaining/keeping to such commitments;

3. the beneficiaries focussed on are investors (shareholders) not users....

all pretty simple really!

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https://theconversation.com/what-public-private-partnership-scandals-can-tell-us-about-wrongdoing-in-the-water-industry-249218