From public to private to ... mutual? Restructuring water supply governance in England and Wales

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Privatisation Results: Private Sector Participation in Water Services After 15 Years (2006, background): “Some have argued that there will be a need to ‘remunicipalise’ the water services (Bakker, 2003; Robbins, 2003).”
Crisis and continuity of capitalist society-nature relationships: The imperial mode of living and the limits to environmental governance (2013, background): “In contrast, the regulation approach has been applied, for example, by critical geographers in order to investigate sustainability issues in urban and regional development (Gibbs and Jonas, 2000), to understand the socio-environmental contradictions posed by copper mining and processing (Bridge, 200”
Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales (2005, background): “Yet while consumers' bills increased rapidly (and above inflation) through the 1990s, water companies' share prices outperformed the market, and water companies reported increasing rates of profit and paid dividends to their shareholders well above the average paid to stock market investors ( Figure”
Successful adaptation to climate change across scales (2005, background): “Further, they can change from public to private andback again over time (see Bakker, 2003 on the UK water industry, for example).”