When Maine lawmakers tried to tighten regulations on large-scale access to water, the brand’s little-known parent company set out to rewrite the rules.
With little relief in sight, a crisis has emerged: The struggled to access a fundamental requirement for life has driven people to frustration and even acts of desperation.
When a large lagoon in central Chile dried up, climate change seemed the likeliest culprit. But researchers found a more insidious threat: systematic privatization of water. Could a new constitution change all that?
