With horrendously low wages, mothers must sometimes face terrible choices between food, water or medicine for their children. Water privatization quadrupled the price of water in Bolivia and led to great social protests. Already women spend an estimated 40,000,000 hours every year hauling water from distant and polluted sources. As water prices rise, women are forced to ration water, or substitute unsanitary water for clean water. Unclean water is a leading cause of child mortality and illness in developing countries.
Women are the major primary healthcare providers for their families.
The International Finance Center of the World Bank makes no pretenses about its purpose. They show corporations how to privatize water, electricity, land profitably. Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught.