Privatizing Water

A combination of increasing demand and a new global marketplace is raising questions about water supplies here and abroad. As the resource becomes more precious, the jury’s still out on whether access to water should be treated as a right or a commodity. Laura talks with Ruth Caplan, co-chair of the Campaign on Corporate Globalization and Positive Alternatives for the Alliance for Democracy www.thealliancefordemocracy.org and Jerry Taylor, director of Natural Resource Studies at the Cato Institute www.cato.org.