WataugaWatch: Privatizing Municipal Water Supplies in NC

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Privatizing Municipal Water Supplies in NC

Aqua North Carolina, a private company that got its hooks into Cary, NC's water system, is now charging over $400 per month for some residential customers. They're just getting started.

Aqua North Carolina reportedly targets "troubled" municipal systems, promising efficiency, responsiveness, and naturally, good water, and so far they're not delivering on any of those ... just higher bills.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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