Schorr, David B. “The First Water-Privatization Debate: Colorado water Corporations in the Gilded Age,” Ecology Law Quarterly 33, no. 2 (2006): 313-361.
http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.mnsu.edu. (Accessed February 8th, 2011). \
This article discusses many legal issues surrounding public versus private ownership of water; however, most of this discussion pertains directly to issues in Colorado in the late 1800’s, which makes this source less valuable for the purpose of my thesis. The article discusses the law as primarily serving the wealthy and includes this borrowed quote from Andrew Jackson:
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes…when the laws undertake…to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means for securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice to their government”
The article also includes an overview of how the past can relate to the present in terms of water-privatization debates. That part specifically may be useful to my thesis, as well as the above quote.
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