<div dir="ltr"><b>Jersey concerns over water privatization. Water pirates won't just wash away.</b> Beth<br><br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Melanie Jones</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@watchdog.net">info@watchdog.net</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:03 AM<br>Subject: Thanks for signing 'New Jersey politicians want to make water privatization even easier.'<br>To: <a href="mailto:storyteller2069@yahoo.com">storyteller2069@yahoo.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p><b>New Jersey politicians want to make water privatization even easier.</b></p>
<span><p>A bill awaiting the signature of New Jersey's governor would make it easier for cities to<a href="http://http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/23/new-jersey-poised-pass-legislation-would-speed-water-privatization" target="_blank"> turn water management over to private corporations</a>, by <b>cutting the public out of the process</b>.</p><p>Until now, any efforts to privatize water services required a public vote. If this bill goes into effect, residents will have to collect enough signatures to <i>force</i> a public vote, and will have a limited time to do so.</p><p><b>New Jersey’s water needs public oversight because the state already has a miserable track record when it comes to water privatization. </b></p><p>Selling off public water operations has <a href="http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/PrivatizationInNewJersey.pdf" target="_blank">hiked water rates by an average of 64 percent in New Jersey, and has led to increased pollution.</a></p><span>Join us in calling on Governor Christie to protect public oversight of New Jersey’s water!<br><br></span></span><blockquote>PETITION TO GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: Veto the "Water Infrastructure Protection Act."</blockquote>
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