"When I was in Haiti, a 19-year-old American in military fatigues showed up with boxes of latex gloves. His heart was in the right place, but he didn’t really know what he was doing and had a nervous breakdown after picking up an amputated leg when he was asked to clean a hospital’s waste-strewn yard. He went home the next day
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Oxfam did a report on some of these problems back in 2005. Here's my favorite part: For example, in Ghana $100m of World Bank assistance was withheld because the government failed to privatise municipal water. The UK followed suit, withholding £7m of its own aid, and leaving two million urban Ghanaians waiting for clean water.
Now if you figure out exactly what forcing a country to privatize its water system has to do with aid, let me know. Municipal water seems to work okay for us here in Canada.
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Water is the oil of the third world.
I like my water clean and publicly owned.
But that's me, a crazy liberal....
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