Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:58:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dustin Pickering <dowotjon-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: RE: Bolivia


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Who believes this garbage?

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===="Baby, they'd soon plate your chains with gold, 
encrust your shackles with diamonds and drape your cage with
velvet curtains before they'd be able to tell you you're 
free with a straight face.
- G. Macaulay

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From: "Apps, Gail" <gapps-AT-bechtel.com>
To: 'Dustin Pickering' <dowotjon-AT-yahoo.com>
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Subject: RE: Bolivia
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:42:20 -0700
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In response to your note about Cochabamba, we provide the following
statement issued Friday, April 14, by International Water Ltd., a water
development company owned by Bechtel Enterprises and Edison S.p.A.  Edison,
an affiliate of Group Montedison, is Italy's largest private energy services
company.  Aguas del Tunari, mentioned below, is the IWL-led consortium that
negotiated the Cochabamba water concession. If you have further questions or
comments, please contact IWL's London headquarters at (44-171) 766-5100.
Alternatively, you may send e-mail to mail-AT-iwltd.com 

We are saddened by the violence that has occurred in Bolivia this past week.

We are also dismayed by the fact that much of the blame is falsely centered
on the government's plan to raise water rates in Cochabamba, when in fact, a
number of other water, social and political issues are the root causes of
this civil unrest.  Several of these factors have all led to the tensions on
display throughout the country:

*	proposed water legislation (unrelated to the Aguas del Tunari
concession) that requires farmers and others to obtain permits for water
extraction
*	unemployment and other economic difficulties facing Bolivian
citizens
*	a government crackdown on coca-leaf production
*	and police protests over salaries.

We have recently been involved in urgent discussions with local leaders to
determine an appropriate resolution to the water shortage problems facing
the Cochabamba region.  Currently more than 40% of the region's citizens
have no direct access to water resources.  We were invited by the government
to participate in a privatization program to develop long-term solutions to
provide safe and affordable water and wastewater services.  During the past
several months we have been part of a number of meetings with government and
community leaders to identify acceptable options to ease the transition from
public to private management.  We remained flexible in our approach and we
are therefore extremely disappointed that the government has now terminated
our contract without valid reasons.  Nonetheless we hope that arrangements
will now be put in place to ensure that safe water and wastewater services
can once again provided to the people of Cochabamba without further
disruption.

International Water
14 April 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dustin Pickering [SMTP:dowotjon-AT-yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:42 AM
> To:	BecWWW, Northame
> Subject:	Bolivia
> 
> Bolivians have made it very clear that they wish for
> the water to be owned by Bolivians.  There is a good
> reason for this: they cannot afford the water if the
> prices are doubled by your company.  The protests have
> cost many Bolivians their lives because martial law
> has been declared and the military is killing its own
> people.  I feel it is your duty to return the water to
> the Bolivians so they can drink without worry of
> unreasonable costs.
> Thank you,
> 
> Dustin Pickering
> 
> ====> "Baby, they'd soon plate your chains with gold, 
> encrust your shackles with diamonds and drape your cage with
> velvet curtains before they'd be able to tell you you're 
> free with a straight face.
> - G. Macaulay
> 
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