Spain: The battle over water
August 19, 2013Advertisement
By the end of the year, about 60 percent of water utility management will be partly or entirely in private hands, making Spain the forerunner in water privatization within Europe. Some experts are already calling it a “water bubble”, and communities that are still trying to sell their water utilities are no longer able to obain top price. Now some communities are trying to regain public control over their water supply.