Spooked by indications that a private company is seeking to operate Baltimore’s water system, the City Council is set tonight to pass a measure to keep the region’s water and sewer operations public.
“Water privatization is simply unethical, immoral and dangerous,” says Rianna Eckel, an organizer for Food & Water Watch, a group that has urged Council members to make Baltimore what she calls “a public water hero.”
Mayor Catherine Pugh says she supports the charter amendment, which has drawn support from municipal unions concerned about lost public-sector jobs and ministers worried about the impact of rising water rates on the elderly and poor.
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