Editor’s Note: The following open letter has been signed by 218 organizations. To view a PDF of the letter and a list of the organizations that signed it, click here. Dear Majority Leader Schumer, ...

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It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

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Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets are bending the knee—but not Common Dreams. We will ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of ...

"Water is — and always should be — a public good. Cutting corners and endangering the public to deliver profits for a private corporation is the height of greed and disregard for the people’s ...

A water main break shoots water into the air in the Banksville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where the Pennsylvania American Water Company is the service provider. (Morgan Timms / Pittsburgh ...

Stock photo of dam via Getty Images. This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug 31, 2023. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. An under-the-radar report by ...