* Privatization of water supplies began in England in 1989 under Margaret Thatcher; in the ten years that followed, nearly 10 billion went in profits to the new water companies. * Today, two giant corporations, Veolia and Suez, control 80% of the international private water market and have some 300 million customers. * Protests have broken out in developing country after country - Bolivia, Argentina, Ghana, South Africa. The water giants are switching...