Editor’s Note: The following open letter has been signed by 218 organizations. To view a PDF of the letter and a list of the organizations that signed it, click here. Dear Majority Leader Schumer, ...

Pennsylvania has become a battleground in the fight against water privatization. A victory in Bucks County lights the way toward many more. Pennsylvania has become a battleground in the fight against ...

A water main break shoots water into the air in the Banksville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where the Pennsylvania American Water Company is the service provider. (Morgan Timms / Pittsburgh ...

It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

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Stock photo of dam via Getty Images. This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug 31, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. An under-the-radar report by ...

"Water is — and always should be — a public good. Cutting corners and endangering the public to deliver profits for a private corporation is the height of greed and disregard for the people’s ...

A proposed deal to sell Manalapan’s water system to Veolia would put the town’s water in the hands of a scandal-ridden for-profit company. A proposed deal to sell Manalapan’s water system to Veolia ...

When Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves announced in mid-September that the state was lifting its weeks-long boil order for Jackson, it sounded like a declaration of victory: “We have restored clean ...

A sign for the Rock Spring Water Company, which serves about 500 properties in rural Ferguson Township. This story was produced by the State College regional bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, ...