[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:30:09 +0000, VAXman- wrote:

> Water and sewer are not city owned in my town.  The town forced wells
> off about 20 years ago so that their cronies could pipe cess in and out
> of our homes.  I haven't had a drink from my own kitchen tap in 20
> years.  It's just too foul smelling and over chlorinated and over
> fluoridated for human consumption.  It even smells foul when showering.

That's a sore point here.  The place I lived in in the late 1980s / early 
1990s had a city owned water authority which was something of a 
showpiece.  The city fathers had had the foresight to build a large dam 
thirty odd miles away during a recession, providing some much needed work 
and guaranteeing a good water supply for a thirsty textile industry.  
They even made money out of by products from the main sewage plant, and 
had regular public tours of the place because they were so proud of it.

When privatisation came along many of the resources were sold off for 
property development, and that city was threatened with having stand 
pipes in the streets.  The new company were shipping water from that 
city's dams by tanker to a neighbouring city (which was suffering because 
they had closed down many of the artesian wells which supplied it).

The public as former owners of those resources didn't see any money come 
their way from the privatisation.  The French water companies bought 
large chunks of the newly privatised UK water companies, which didn't go 
down too well either. ;-)

In that particular case, I don't think that privatisation was such a good 
move.

-- 
Paul Sture