Elizabeth Douglass

Towns Sell Their Public Water Systems – and Often Regret it

by Sofia Cerda Campero | Jan 16, 2018 | 0 comments

Will the United States continue to be a country where people can turn on the tap and assume the water that comes out is safe and affordable? In this, the first major report in InquireFirst’s long-term drinking water project, we begin answering that question by...

Towns sell their public water systems — and come to regret it

by Joaquin Torres | Aug 1, 2017 | 0 comments

LAKE STATION, Ind. —This hard-luck town just south of Chicago is weighing a decision confronting many small and midsize cities with shrinking populations and chronic budget deficits: whether to sell the public water system to a for-profit corporation. Lake Station...