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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1144155060.996734.276510@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,   
   Maria  writes   
      
   >Dr. Sunil wrote:   
   >> Maria wrote:   
   >> > hwake@freeispshares.co.uk wrote:   
   >> > > banana wrote:   
      
      
      
   >> How can an ISLAND NATION suffer water shortages? Don't the water   
   >> companies know about desalination?   
   >   
   >Ooer that's a bit modern! They don't even know about repairing pipes   
   >that were put in 100 years ago!   
      
   They know about taking profits though. As in, 'smash and grab'.   
      
   Remember what happened in the city of Auckland in New Zealand in 1998,   
   after electricity was privatised. Much of the city was blacked out for   
   TWO MONTHS.   
      
   Don't think the taps drying up in parts of the UK, for the same reason,   
   isn't a possibility. It is!   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)