Talk:Cochabamba Water War

message: I removed wholly-owned from the phrase " International Waters Limited (IWL) of London (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bechtel Corporation" because at the time 50% of the company was owned by Edison. Also, Aguas de Tunari was not solely operated by IWL but I did not edit that.
http://www.bechtel.com/newsarticles/162.asp
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/bolivia/txt/2000/0410water_privatization_contract.txt
Jimmyj 00:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Subsidary of Bechtel

message: I was under the impression that the water company was given control not only of the municipal water system, but all water, including rain water (streams, rivers) so that people were forced to buy water from the company. That is what made the Declaration of rights so significant: 2) Water is a fundamental human right and a public trust to be guarded by all levels of government, therefore, it should not be commodified, privatized or traded for commercial purposes.. Is this true, was all water (even water in streams and rain) privitized in Cochabamba? -- Stbalbach 03:32, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Privatize water

message: This page should be linked on the following pages in the specific section I linked here. I dont know how to...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel_Corporation#1980s_and_beyond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia#Social_Crisis_and_the_nationalization_of_hydrocarbon_resources_.282001-2005.29
:Has been done.--Patrick (talk) 22:40, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page should be linked from... 

message: As the first poster stated "where are the citations". All of this seems to be written from word of mouth (though I am not saying it is entirely inaccurate). Considering the recent changes in Bolivia, I think it is important to come back to this article and make it better. I will add some citations right now and fix up the text of the article when I have time. If anyone is interested in the events I would suggest you watch the "Bolivia-Leasing the Rain" video I added to the external links (you can watch it with Real Player). It was made in co-production between NOW and Frontline/World and accurately shows how the events occurred. Also, while I am doing this major revision I ask that people not just add information from external links which are not in anyway reputatble. I see it consistantly done in many Wikipedia articles, particulary those with radical left elements, where geocities, blogs, and random "leftist" sites are used and it really hurts the legitimacy of the article-Jersey Devil 22:26, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly.  This is absurdly POV.  Some citations, including the actual contract, are badly needed.  --Descendall 07:28, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually much of the article is copied verbatim from the New Yorker article. Thus there is a source, but inappropriately used, and often not cited appropriately. Fred Bauder 00:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This Article Needs a Major Revision

message: This article doesn't sound very NPOV to me.  Though it outlines the events in question - and I'm not necessarily claiming any of this is inaccurate - it also seems to be a little biased towards a free market or neoliberal view of these events, particularly by it's continued reference (maybe even deference?) to Fredrik Segerfeldt's book.  Since the book's author is associated with the Cato Institute, which is on the more extreme end of the neoliberal, libertarian scale when it comes to economic policy, shouldn't this be balanced by alternative views?  I wonder if Joseph Stiglitz, for example, has written on this issue.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.232.221.61  (talk • contribs) .
I added a pov sign.
--CyberAran 09:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The above concerns were already addressed. -- Stbalbach 18:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV?

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thread_title:  Dead link 

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thread_title:  Dead link 4 

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* http://www.bechtel.com/newsarticles/487.asp
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thread_title:  Dead link 5 

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thread_title:  Dead link 6 

message: The link you have is dead. I want to update it with this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/04/08/world/main181853.shtml
But I don't know how, so I will leave it to a proper editor.
And is that 'citation' for Quantum of Solace a trustworthy source? Sure doesn't look like it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.47.132.254 (talk) 17:44, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bolivia declares state of siege 

message: The infobox puts the number of casualties at 1, but it appears that they were way more (the text states that both protesters and police officers were killed during some of the riots). Also, the number of arrests made seems to be much higher than 20.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.126.135.229 (talk) 20:17, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Article and Infobox contradict each other

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