In my water campaigning I have tried to avoid politics. Politicians should not be driving decisions on the implementation of public services.
But, they have been in the UK, where privatisation by a Tory government in the early nineties set up the laws used to support the corrupt water companies now wreaking havoc.

The public's current view of privatisation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050475925004841

"...decades-old policies of privatization are viewed widely as having underperfomed... "

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