By DEE AYROSO
Tags: water shortage
Privatization is creating an artificial water shortage
Focusing on just Manila Water diverts the issue away from privatization as the central issue in, and underlying reason behind, the artificial shortage. As such, it also has the effect of absolving government of responsibility when in fact, the biggest accountability in all this lies with government for abandoning its duty to ensure water for the people.
Benjie Oliveros | No Honeymoon in a Crisis
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com MANILA — President Benigno Aquino III was quoted last week complaining that he is not being given a “honeymoon” by the media as criticisms are starting to come his way. The very first executive order of his administration received flak for being legally inappropriate; the conflicts of interest in his…