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How Does Water Privatization Affect Poor

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This article acts as a continuation of the research done by the author while conducting fieldwork in South Africa pertaining to the ways that water privatization has affected poor, South African women. The piece examines the transition from the apartheid regime to the election of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1994. Women and girls living in poverty are intimately linked to water, as the article notes, and this relationship is explored as the author considers the ways in which privatization has impacted their lives physically, mentally, and emotionally. The article allows the reader to examine the role that international institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization, played in South

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