A Sweet Deal for Sugar Creek
The following letter appeared in the Kansas City Star. There is a proposal to sell the Sugar Creek water and...
The Salad Days in Sugar Creek
The Kansas City suburb of Sugar Creek is considering selling off its water system to Missouri American Water. The proposal...
Good Ideas Done Poorly in Jefferson and Perry Counties
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. As systems evolve and become more complex over...
St. Louis Should Privatize Its Water System
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. You have probably heard about all of the large...
Eureka Water Privatization Is a Very Good Thing
The Post-Dispatch had a very long story about the just-finalized sale of Eureka’s (an outer suburb of St. Louis) municipal...
St. Joseph Should Privatize Its Sewer System
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Joseph News-Press. The usual problems with water in St. Joseph, Missouri...
Arnold Residents Vote to Privatize Sewer System
Yesterday, the residents of Arnold voted to privatize their wastewater system by an overwhelming margin (70 percent of voters approved). While some...
Wastewater Privatization: Case Studies
As Arnold residents prepare to decide whether to sell wastewater facilities in their city to Missouri American Water, they should...
Arnold Wastewater Privatization: Don’t Waste the Opportunity
There’s “gold in them thar hills,” to quote a popular expression, which dates back to Mark Twain and the California...
Arnold Wastewater Privatization: The Policy Breakdown
As Arnold residents prepare to decide on whether to sell the city’s wastewater facilities to Missouri American Water for $13.2...
Chicago Thinks About Privatizing Its Water System
According to a little-known website, the Drudge Report, Chicago is considering privatizing its water utility. This would follow on the...
Who Doesn’t Want to Tour a Water Treatment Plant on the Coldest Day in Decades?
I want to quickly thank Bradley Brown and Robert Fuerman of Missouri-American Water for taking me on a tour of...
