stackyFACTSIn 1999, the Bolivian government signed a corporate contract giving a private consortium exclusive rights to the water supply of Cochabamba. This mathematically insane mandate included strictly prohibiting impoverished residents from collecting free rainwater in buckets on their own roofs.
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