Tag: utilities
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Los Angeles will shut off water and power for nonessential businesses that refuse to close
LOS ANGELES ( KTLA ) – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti opened his daily briefing Tuesday recognizing what may have been the first teenage COVID-19 death in L.A. County and went on to announce actions against nonessential businesses that don’t close and a new portal for recruiting medics. He reminded young people that the virus…
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Water shut-offs pose safety risks during coronavirus pandemic
Imagine this, if you will. You’re a young dad. Three children, 3, 5 and 7. They’re not in school or daycare because the schools and daycare centers in your state have been closed down because of COVID-19, a coronavirus that spreads from person to person and that has already infected more than 140,000 people and…
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Household water and energy bills soar 30% in four years
Despite general inflation running between 1.8% and a maximum of 4% per year since 2015, the cost of some of the core utilities has skyrocketed in that time, disproportionately impacting poorer households, including single parent families. According to the September 2019 Money Statistics produced by The Money Charity, UK households spent £111.27 million per day…
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New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks Buying the World’s Water
This article was first published on December 21, 2012 by Market Oracle and Global Research A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace. Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such…
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Why are Texas’ smaller utilities not cleaning up drinking water?
Several recent national studies have found dozens of public utilities in Texas that supply tens of thousands of people with drinking water that contains illegal levels of radiation, lead and arsenic. So how concerned should Texans be when they turn on the tap? For those who live in urban areas, not very. But the studies…
