Hi Patrick.

--- Patrick Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In SA, they've finally stopped the practice of
shutting off whole
sections
of (black) townships when a large proportion of
residents don't pay
bills,
but they still do for apartment houses. And that's in
a country with a
centre-left regime and a constitutional right to
water. Last year, 1.3
million people were disconnected from water because of
non-payment,
even the
state's chief water bureaucrat recently admitted.
---

Wow. A water Chubais. If they did that in Russia, they
would have mass opposition rallies. The very idea of
paying bills is a novelty here. What are water costs
like in South Africa? Water is free here (two things
Russia is not short off -- ater and land).



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