Developing countries subcontract water delivery to profit-driven outsiders

Evidence

Faced with large populations and lacking the infrastructures to deliver fresh water, some developing countries are subcontracting this function to outsiders whose primary motive is to make a profit on their investment (Mann, 2007). The poor may be priced out of a vital “commodity” they cannot forgo. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2526

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Which countries and which water-privatization deals is Mann (2007) describing? Worth chasing for a concrete case.
  • corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2526