Deck 4: Missing From the News Ben H Bagdikian

Question 1

Private water management companies have been found to provide consistently high quality service at low cost.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the privatization of water services.

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

Why have several countries and U.S. cities decided to cancel their contracts with private companies that provide water services?

Answer 3

not answered

Question 4

What is meant by privatization? Has it been successful with regard to cities' and countries' water services? Why or why not?

Question 5

The federal agency responsible for overseeing/ensuring the nations' water supply is:

A) the U.S. Department of the Interior.
B) the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
C) the National Institutes of Health.
D) the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Question 6

Multinational corporations control water systems for 27 percent of the world's population.

Question 7

United Water in Atlanta has been charged with:

A) violating federal drinking water standards.
B) maintenance problems.
C) allowing collection rates of unpaid water bills to drop.
D) all of the above

Question 8

Increasingly, U.S. cities and counties are hiring private companies to manage their water works.

Question 9

More than 1 billion people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water.

Question 10

Atlanta's City Council votes in 1998 to privatize its waterworks because it was facing a budget crisis and it was believed that a private company could provide better service at lower cost than a public utility.

Question 11

Around the world, cities that have privatized their waterworks have encountered problems with:

A) lapses in service.
B) soaring costs.
C) corruption.
D) all of the above